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All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mummingby Henry H. GlassieISBN 0812211391 (0-8122-1139-1)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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An Anatomy of Dramaby Martin EsslinISBN 0809005506 (0-8090-0550-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Antigoneby Sophocles, Michael Townsend, Eugene Hannes FalkISBN 081020214X (0-8102-0214-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antigone'Book summary:This edition of the Antigone is based upon Gustav Wolff ssecond edition, Leipzig, 1873. In most cases where the text varies from his, the readings of theL aurentian Ms. (L) have been adopted in preference to those of inferior Mss. or to conjectures of Wolff and other editors. The reasons for these changes are given in the A ppendix, which it is hoped furnishes sufficient material for an intelligent appreciation of the most important problems in the textual criticism of the play. For the purpose of facilitating comparison, the rejected readings of Wolff are placed at the foot of the text. Through lack of such an aid as the Facsimile of theL aurentian Codex, now in course of preparation, it has been necessary to take the variants of theM ss. at second or third hand, chiefly from the edition of Campbell. The Commentary has been adapted to the needs of that large number of students who begin their study of Greek tragedy with this plaj .T he lyric parts have been arranged on the basis of the rhythmical scheme which has been borrowed from Schmidt sR hythmic and Metric, translated by Professor John Williams White. Material has been taken freely from the editions of Bellermann, Campbell, Nauck, Wecklein, and Dindorf. The editor takes pleasure in expressing his grateful obligations to his colleague. Professor Elisha Jones, for the use of critical apparatus; and to his pupil, Mr. Walter Miller, A.M., for generous sei-vice in verifying references. M. L. DOOGE. Unitebsitt of Michiqam, A ugust, 1884.
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Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentaryby Michael Henry Heim, Simon Karlinsky, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0810114607 (0-8101-1460-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Art Isn't Easy: The Achievement of Stephen Sondheimby Joanne Lesley GordonISBN 080931407X (0-8093-1407-X)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Playsby David BallISBN 0809311100 (0-8093-1110-0)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays'Book summary:This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.
Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.
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Ballet Shoesby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0808542508 (0-8085-4250-8)
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Beach Blanket Babylon: A Hats-Off Tribute to San Francisco's Most Extraordinary Musical Revueby Janet L. Roseman, Stephen J. SilverISBN 0811816990 (0-8118-1699-0)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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The Berlin Storiesby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0811200701 (0-8112-0070-1)
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The Bible as Dramaby Lawrence WaddyISBN 0809118750 (0-8091-1875-0)
Hardcover, Paulist Press
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Bingo & The Seaby Edward BondISBN 0809030306 (0-8090-3030-6)
Softcover, Hill and Wang
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Camille and Other Playsby S. S. StantonISBN 0809007061 (0-8090-0706-1)
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0808509551 (0-8085-0955-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Chicago: With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired Itby Thomas H. Pauly, Maurine WatkinsISBN 0809321297 (0-8093-2129-7)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Chronicle of Western Fashion: From Ancient Times to the Present Dayby John PeacockISBN 0810939533 (0-8109-3953-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Classic Noh Theatre of Japanby Ezra PoundISBN 081120152X (0-8112-0152-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Complete Make-Up Artist: Working in Film, Television and Theatreby Penny DelamarISBN 0810112582 (0-8101-1258-2)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Actsby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Willard R. TraskISBN 0812000609 (0-8120-0060-9)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Elektra: A Version by Ezra Pound and Rudd Flemingby Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming, Carey PerloffISBN 0811211142 (0-8112-1114-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moralby Max Frisch, Michael BullockISBN 0809012480 (0-8090-1248-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Gaumont: A Century of French Cinemaby Francois GarconISBN 0810925796 (0-8109-2579-6)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0808514202 (0-8085-1420-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Hard Timesby Heidi StillmanISBN 0810120380 (0-8101-2038-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Harlequin on the Moon: Commedia Dell'Arte and the Visual Artsby Lynne LawnerISBN 0810911949 (0-8109-1194-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Hollywood Musicalsby Ted SennettISBN 0810910756 (0-8109-1075-6)
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Cultureby Robert Clyde AllenISBN 0807843164 (0-8078-4316-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture'Book summary:Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular successand the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's rights campaigners.
Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer "lost" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body.
Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused. [via]
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The Hot L Baltimore: A Playby Lanford WilsonISBN 0809012308 (0-8090-1230-8)
Softcover, Hill and Wang
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How Theater Managers Manageby Theresa Collins, Tess CollinsISBN 0810846837 (0-8108-4683-7)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Iliad of Homerby Homer, Barbara Leonie PicardISBN 0809830329 (0-8098-3032-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer; A Play Freely Adapted on the Basis of the Documents by Heinar Kipphardt.by Heinar KipphardtISBN 0809012154 (0-8090-1215-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Indians: A Playby Arthur L. KopitISBN 0809012189 (0-8090-1218-9)
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Inside the Royal Court Theatre, 1956-1981: Artists Talkby Gresdna A. Doty, Billy J. HarbinISBN 0807115509 (0-8071-1550-9)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Judgment at Nurembergby Abby MannISBN 0811215261 (0-8112-1526-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Julie Taymor: Playing With Fireby Eileen Blumenthal, Julie Taymor, Antonio MondaISBN 0810930773 (0-8109-3077-3)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Julie Taymor, Playing With Fire: Theater Opera Filmby Eileen Blumenthal, Julie TaymorISBN 0810938790 (0-8109-3879-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julie Taymor, Playing With Fire: Theater Opera Film'Book summary:To a mainstream theater world startled by the design and staging brilliance of The Lion King, Julie Taymor seems to have landed like a meteor. But as this handsome coffee-table volume attests, she's been a master of masks and puppets for 20 years, spending most of that time creating idiosyncratic visions in fringe theaters. But all of the elements have been brewing: the mythic puppets in Way of Snow, grotesque masks in The King's Stag, and the human/animal connection in Juan Darien are all evidence of Taymor's talent. Consider Playing with Fire to be her playbook for future endeavors. [via]
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Kaspar and Other Playsby Peter HandkeISBN 0809015463 (0-8090-1546-3)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Peter Fish, Ken KeseyISBN 0812034333 (0-8120-3433-3)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Life of Monsieur De Moliereby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0811209563 (0-8112-0956-3)
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Lighting the Stage: Art and Practiceby Willard F. BellmanISBN 0810200406 (0-8102-0040-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div
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MacHiavelli's the Prince: Text and Commentaryby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0812005244 (0-8120-0524-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 0808519743 (0-8085-1974-3)
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Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance: The Compelling Imageby Sears A. EldredgeISBN 0810113651 (0-8101-1365-1)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatreby John EmighISBN 081221336X (0-8122-1336-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Master Teachers of Theatre: Observations on Teaching Theatre by Nine American Mastersby Burnet M. HobgoodISBN 0809314649 (0-8093-1464-9)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Medieval Mysteries, Moralities and Interludesby V.F. HopperISBN 0812001354 (0-8120-0135-4)
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0811200930 (0-8112-0093-0)
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The Member of the Wedding: A Playby Carson McCullersISBN 0811216551 (0-8112-1655-1)
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With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiance. Exhilarated by her naive conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie. Portrayed on stage and in the film versions by the great Ethel Waters, Bernice is an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith. [via]More editions of The Member of the Wedding: A Play:
Meyerhold on Theatreby Vsevolod çEmilöEvich MeæIerkholöDISBN 0809069253 (0-8090-6925-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Narrow Road to the Deep Northby Edward BondISBN 0809012197 (0-8090-1219-7)
Softcover, Hill and Wang
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Niccolo Machiavelli's the Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812035364 (0-8120-3536-4)
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Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Traditionby Arthur L. KopitISBN 0809012022 (0-8090-1202-2)
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Cooper EdensISBN 0811822974 (0-8118-2297-4)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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Pirandello: Playsby Luigi PirandelloISBN 0810116529 (0-8101-1652-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionescoby Toby ColeISBN 0809005298 (0-8090-0529-8)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 080959630X (0-8095-9630-X)
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Prince Friedrich of Homburgby Heinrich Von KleistISBN 0811206947 (0-8112-0694-7)
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Rallying Cries: Three Plays, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, the Recantation of Galileo Galilei, from the Memoirs of Pontius Pilateby Eric BentleyISBN 0810107430 (0-8101-0743-0)
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Restoration Promptbooksby Edward A. LanghansISBN 0809308851 (0-8093-0885-1)
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Rodgers & Hammersteinby Ethan MorddenISBN 0810929112 (0-8109-2911-2)
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Routinesby L. FerlinghettiISBN 0811214788 (0-8112-1478-8)
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The Scenographic Imaginationby Darwin Reid PayneISBN 0809318512 (0-8093-1851-2)
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Scriptwork: A Director's Approach to New Play Developmentby David Kahn, Donna BreedISBN 0809317591 (0-8093-1759-1)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Second City Almanac of Improvisationby Anne Libera, Second City IncISBN 0810118017 (0-8101-1801-7)
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Sejanus: His Fallby Ben Jonson, W. F. BoltonISBN 0809085240 (0-8090-8524-0)
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The Seven Ages of the Theatreby Richard SouthernISBN 0809005344 (0-8090-0534-4)
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Short Eyes: A Playby Miguel PineroISBN 0809012324 (0-8090-1232-4)
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The Show Biz Life: An Anecdotal History of Stage, Screen, and Televisionby Robert HendricksonISBN 0809230836 (0-8092-3083-6)
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Something Cloudy, Something Clearby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0811213102 (0-8112-1310-2)
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Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisionsby Stephen Sondheim, Mark Eden HorowitzISBN 0810844370 (0-8108-4437-0)
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The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movieby Julia Antopol HirschISBN 0809238373 (0-8092-3837-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie'Book summary:A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the beloved 1965 classic movie, "The Sound of Music"
When "The Sound of Music" was released in 1965 it took the world by storm, earning five Oscars (including Best Picture), and went on to command the number-one spot at the box office for five years running. For millions of people, the film is that rare combination of a powerful and moving story, first-rate music, and breathtaking scenery. The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie is a tribute to this beloved movie musical and a fascinating, behind-the-scene account of the creation of a Hollywood classic.
Through exclusive in-depth interviews with cast and crew, stills from the movie's most memorable scenes, snapshots from personal scrapbooks, and papers from the Fox Studios archives, Julia Hirsch re-crates the magic that is "The Sound of Music." Julie Andrews recounts some of her more humorous memories of the filming, from her "first kiss" with Christopher Plummer, when neither of them could stop laughing, to rushing up the mountain for the famous opening scene only to be continually knocked down by the downdraft from the cameraman's helicopter. The book reveals details both fans and film buffs will enjoy, such as the fact that Yul Brynner, Walter Matthau, and Sean Connery were all considered fro the role of the Captain (while teenagers Mia Farrow, Sharon Tate, and Richard Dreyfuss auditioned for juvenile roles) and that director/producer Robert Wise, already fielding calls from Fox's Dick Zanuck for being over budget, almost didn't finish the location shoot in Austria because it simply wouldn't stop raining.
But most of all, Hirsch captures the extraordinary camaraderie shared by everyone involved, a group whose friendships would last a lifetime. This engaging narrative is both an insider's guide to, and a delightful celebration of, a film that truly is "the happiest sound in all the world."
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Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stageby Konstantin StanislavskyISBN 0809005328 (0-8090-0532-8)
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Sweet Bird of Youthby WilliamsISBN 0811205967 (0-8112-0596-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sometime actor and full-time male hustler Chance Wayne returns to the Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud in an attempt to retrieve his lost innocence by reuniting with his high school girlfriend, Heavenly Finley. But Chance arrives there with his current employer, the drug-addicted, over-the- hill movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, who uses Chance, teaches him to use others, and doesn't intend to let him go. Chance learns that when he left St. Cloud years before, he left Heavenly with a crippling venereal disease. Heavenly's brother and her fatherthe powerful Boss Finley, a politician who has been responsible for local lynchingshave marked Chance as "a criminal degenerate" and plan to castrate him. Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this gritty and wrenching play also reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame by implicating small town injustice, systemic racism, and the depth of suffering that results from personal and public corruption. [via]More editions of Sweet Bird of Youth:
Talley's Follyby Langford WilsonISBN 0809012421 (0-8090-1242-1)
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Theater Game Fileby Viola SpolinISBN 0810140071 (0-8101-4007-1)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Theater in America: 200 Years of Plays, Players, and Productionsby Mary C. HendersonISBN 0810910845 (0-8109-1084-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Theater Of Essenceby Martin Esslin, Jan KottISBN 0810106647 (0-8101-0664-7)
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A Theater of Our Own: A History and A Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicagoby Richard Christiansen, Brian DennehyISBN 0810120410 (0-8101-2041-0)
Hardcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williamsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0811211363 (0-8112-1136-3)
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Battle of Angels the Glass Menagerie a Streetcar Named Desireby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0811211355 (0-8112-1135-5)
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Theory and Craft of the Scenographic Modelby Darwin Reid PayneISBN 0809311941 (0-8093-1194-1)
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Vasari on Theatreby Giorgio Vasari, Thomas A. PallenISBN 0809321610 (0-8093-2161-0)
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Victory Gardens Theater Presents Seven New Plays: From the Playwrights Ensembleby Richard Christiansen, Dennis ZacekISBN 0810123460 (0-8101-2346-0)
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Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Classroomby V. SpolinISBN 0810140047 (0-8101-4004-7)
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What Is Theatre?: Incorporating the Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1994-1967by Eric BentleyISBN 0809096951 (0-8090-9695-1)
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Where I Live: Selected Essaysby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0811207064 (0-8112-0706-4)
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Women Beware Womenby Thomas Middleton, Roma GillISBN 0809011166 (0-8090-1116-6)
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essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being
wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter. The
genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth century,
but Middleton can claim to have created it: Bianca, wife of a middling
commercial agent, arouses the lust of the Duke of Florence and becomes
his mistress, first secretly, then openly and finally, after her
husband has been seduced by the scheming Lady Livia and stabbed by
Livia's brother, the Duke's wife. Livia plots her revenge, and the play
ends with a banquet and a masque that are a triumph of black farce.
Middleton's powerful, psychologically complex female characters and his
clear-sighted analysis of misogyny are bound to impress today's
audiences, but it is the pervasive irony - cynicism, even - with which
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Woza Afrikaby Duma NdlovuISBN 0807611697 (0-8076-1169-7)
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Woza Afrika!: A Collection of South African Playsby Duma Ndlovu, Wole SoyinkaISBN 0807611700 (0-8076-1170-0)
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