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Book Description This collection includes plays by the most important ensemble theater companies working today: Roadside Theater (Whitesburg, Kentucky), Pregones Theater (Bronx, New York), Junebug Productions (New Orleans, Louisiana), Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania), A Traveling Jewish Theatre (San Francisco, California), Touchstone Theatre (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), The Carpetbag Theatre (Knoxville, Tennessee), the Dell'Arte Company (Blue Lake, California) and Goat Island Performance Group (Chicago, Illinois). All the plays embody the impassioned, courageous spirit that defines the American ensemble theater movement. Ferdinand Lewis is a performer, educator and journalist who lives in Los Angeles.

Joe Penhall

A collection of compelling, atmospheric plays by Britain's most critically and commercially successful contemporary young playwright. Includes his award-winning Some Voices and Pale Horse, both of which premiered at the Royal Court in London. Joe Penhall is a multi-award-winning playwright. His last play, Blue/Orange, won the Evening Standard Award, Olivier Award and Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 2001. He lives in London.

Van Dirk Fisher

Book Description Goodnight Lovin' Trail : At a truck stop diner in West Texas, two wounded strangers find redemption in each other's eyes while discussing a stolen guitar. And the beat plays on. Negotiating The Elusive Perfect One Night Stand : In a world of settling for Mister Right Now while looking for Mister Right, a young couple find that they may have gotten more than they bargained for. Destinations : What if you're married and the opportunity arises for you to have a causal affair, is it worth the consequences? Some people want to go there, but can they find their way back? Who Knew? : A young man prepares to meet his mother for the first time but doesn't realize how deeply the meeting will affect his fiance. The Harlequin Maneuver : A delightful comedy in which a man enters the romance novel he's been reading to gain some closure in his love life. The Decision : A man makes a decision after he...

Daniel Schwabauer

Book DescriptionAn exciting courtroom drama about an agnostic biology professor accused of teaching creationism.

Anthony James West

Book DescriptionThis major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each,covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, deals with doubtful identifications, describes the tests for inclusion, and presents details of missing copies.

William Shakespeare

Book Description Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Catherine Belsey The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to theworld's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet forShakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open tothe public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performancesand programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.

Harry Justin Elam

Book Description Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to...

Henry Fielding

Brent Carter

Book Description"Plays must play." This was my teacher's indictment of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She insisted that his play could never be staged. Why? Theatre is tougher than poetry. Hell, theatre is tougher than boot camp.

William Shakespeare