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Twenty-First Century Musicals: From Stage to Screen
by George RodosthenousTwenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today’s cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical, challenging populist narratives and exploring underlying narratives and sub-texts in depth. Themes of national identity; race, class and gender; the ‘voice’ and ‘singing live’ on film; authenticity; camp sensibilities; and the celebration of failure are addressed in a series of questions including: How does the film adaptation provide a different viewing experience from the stage version? What themes are highlighted in the film adaptation? What does the new casting bring to the work? Do camera angles dictate a different reading from the stage version? What is lost/gained in the process of adaptation to film? Re-interpreting the contemporary film musical as a compelling art form, Twenty-First Century Musicals is a must-read for any student or scholar keen to broaden their understanding of musical performance.
Twilight of Jewish Philosophy
by Wright Dr Tamra WrightFirst Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Twilight: Los Angeles 1992
by Anna Deavere SmithAnna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
by Anna Deavere SmithAnna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.
Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Daisy MurrayThis volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature as anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, and chapbooks. The book contextualizes such dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions about twins in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. Garofalo demonstrates that, in this period, twin births were viewed as biologically aberrant and, because of this classification, authors frequently attempt to explain the phenomenon in ways which call into question the moral and constitutional standing of both the parents and the twins themselves. In line with current critical studies on pregnancy and the female body, discussions of twin births reveal a distrust of the mother and the processes surrounding twin conception; however, a corresponding suspicion of twins also emerges, which monstrous birth pamphlets exemplify. This book analyzes the representation of twins in early modern drama in light of this information, moving from tragedies through to comedies. This progression demonstrates how the dramatic potential inherent in the early modern understanding of twinship is capitalized on by playwrights, as negative ideas about twins can be seen transitioning into tragic and tragicomic depictions of twinship. However, by building toward a positive, comic representation of twins, the work additionally suggests an alternate interpretation of twinship in this period, which appreciates and celebrates twins because of their difference. The volume will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.
Twisted
by Joseph Jomo Pierre Charlotte Corbeil-ColemanGrowing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it’s no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the place she finds herself years later selling her body for drugs. Nancy is further from freedom than ever under the wings of Sikes, a drug dealer and pimp. When she meets Oliver, a seventeen-year-old who lands at Sikes’s feet after a life of foster care and shelters, the two find unlikely solace in each other. As text messages are exchanged by the instant, and truths are revealed, Nancy and Oliver form an unbreakable bond in order to write a new story together.
Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia: Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman
by Lurana Donnels O'MalleyCatherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership. Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society: religious hypocrisy, superstition and slander. The main character, Mrs. Pious, is a superficially religious old woman who resembles Moliere's Tartuffe. Catherine again sets her sights on superstition in The Siberian Shaman (1786), this time by satirizing shamanism as a deceitful profession which preys on the gullible. This play was part of a group of three plays usually known as Catherine's "anti-masonic" trilogy, written as a warning against the growing influence of the freemasons. In a comprehensive introduction, Lurana Donnels O'Malley relates the plays to Catherine's status and philosophy.
Two Gentlemen of Corona
by Jim GeoghanComedy / Characters: 5m, 1f / In this world-premiere comedy, it's 1963 and Joey and Carmine are low-level soldiers in the New York mob. Joey services juke boxes and vending machines...Carmine makes two runs a week to South Carolina for illegal cigarettes. But things are looking up for the pair. The 1964 World's Fair is just around the corner and these Two Gentlemen of Corona are plotting to help their boss, John, swindle thousands of foreign tourists. It looks like nothing can stand in their way...oh, except for the fact that Joey is falling in love with his boss's mistress! This comedy is the perfect light-hearted fare: refreshing and funny, with just a touch of heart. "Geoghan gives a sweetly retro twist to Gentlemen, keeping his comic archetypes so anchored in reality that they elicit sympathy as well as laughter." -Los Angeles Times "A comedy with hysterical lines, historical intrigue, and a happy ending for the young lovers." -EyeSpy LA
Two Into One
by Ray CooneyFarce / 5m, 5f, plus extras / 3 Interiors / Mr. Cooney is truly the leading contemporary practitioner of a great theatrical tradition the sex farce. Two Into One is about nothing more than the hilarious attempts of a Member of Parliament to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out of the way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed!
Two Minutes to Shine - Book 5
by Pamela SackettThe latest in the popular monologue series, these monologues run the gamut, from broken-hearted boyfriends, to job interviews gone wrong, to frustrated mothers and revengeful sisters. Includes monologues for men and women. Perfect for auditions.
Two Plays by Olga Mukhina (Russian Theatre Archive Ser. #Vol. 18)
by John FreedmanOlga Mukhina is one of the most talented, young playwrights in Russia. Born in Moscow in 1970, she has already garnered enviable praise from critics and audiences throughout Russia and Europe since her first play, Tanya-Tanya, was performed in 1996. Tanya-Tanya is an atmospheric, poetic tale that observes three couples at a suburban Moscow home who dance, drink champagne, kiss, fall in and out of love, and struggle with dignity and humor to keep some semblance of control over their lives. The parallels with Chekhovian drama are undeniable and clearly intended by the author. You, Mukhina's most recent work, is a love poem to her hometown of Moscow as well as a scathing attack on the apathy of people blindly wrapped up in their own happiness and sorrow.
Two Plays: House Arrest and Piano
by Anna Deavere SmithHouse Arrest describes the relations between a series of American presidents and their observers in and out of the press. Piano casts a gaze a century behind as she follows the tangled line of exploitation in Cuba at Spanish-American War.
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University)
by Sam Shepard Johnny DarkThis collection shares decades of correspondence between the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of his closest friends—including personal photos.One of America&’s leading dramatists, as well as an accomplished actor, screenwriter, and director, Sam Shepard&’s legacy includes immortal plays like True West and Buried Child, as well as memorable film roles, including his Academy Award-nominated performance in The Right Stuff. Though Shepard remained an intensely private man, he wrote candidly about his life and work in letters to his close friend Johnny Dark. His former father-in-law, Dark became a surrogate brother to Shepard, and even an artistic muse. Two Prospectors gathers nearly forty years of correspondence and transcribed conversations between them.In these letters, the men open themselves to each other with gripping honesty. Shepard&’s letters give us the deepest look we will ever get into his personal philosophy and creative process, while in Dark&’s letters we discover insights into Shepard&’s character that only an intimate friend could provide. The writers also reflect on the books and authors that stimulate their thinking, their relationships with women (including Shepard&’s anguished decision to leave his wife and son for actress Jessica Lange), personal struggles, and accumulating years. Illustrated with Dark&’s photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters, Two Prospectors is a compelling portrait of a complex friendship that anchored both lives for decades, a friendship also poignantly captured in Treva Wurmfeld&’s film, Shepard & Dark.
Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays
by Nilo CruzNilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys back to Cuba, even when the play is not set there. Cruz is a sensualist, a conjurer of mysterious voyages and luxuriant landscapes. He is a poetic chronicler, a documentarian of the presence of Latin people in American life. He conveys the strength and persistence of the Cuban spirit through a wholly dramatic imagination.This volume also includes the one-act play, Capriccio.Two Sisters and a Piano "Cruz's tightly constructed study of incarcerated sisters provides the spine for an authentic study of oppression that bends but never breaks the human spirit."--VarietyBeauty of the Father "He is that rare American scribe who embraces the role of stage poet and the legacy of Tennessee Williams."--The Seattle TimesHortensia and the Museum of Dreams "Cruz explores all kinds of loss . . . lost childhood, lost freedom, lost innocence. Yet he infused Hortensia with joy, with desire, with humor and hope and healing."--The Miami HeraldLorca in a Green Dress "Like Lorca, Cruz is a lyrical writer in whom the surreal is grounded in the musical world of the senses . . . it is fresh, wonderful and dazzling."--Mail Tribune (Oregon)Nilo Cruz is the author of many plays, including A Park in Our House, A Bicycle Country, Dancing on Her Knees, Night Train to Bolina and other works. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Alton Jones Award and the Kesselring Prize. Mr. Cruz is a professor at the Yale School of Drama. He resides in New York City and is a New Dramatists alumnus.
Two Trains Running: 1969 (Drama, Plume Ser.)
by August WilsonFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.
Two Wives and a Dead Guy
by Cynthia BoothComedy / 3m, 2f / Interior / Mr. Donald Howard Becton III, the successful globe-trotting businessman and millionaire, is deader than a pair of socks. And he is presently on display for the world to see at the Olson-Hines Funeral Home. His wife, the educated and well-pedigreed Eileen, visits, and puts on a good show to get that nervous, rat terrier of a junior funeral hall director in training, Mr. Hines, to leave her alone with the corpse. Unfortunately, Eileen has a problem. No, not the pyromaniac daughter nor the bedwetting son; no, no one can find Becton's will, not even his golf-obsessed lawyer knows where it is. Perhaps clues to the dilemma can be found on the corpse? But, before a proper search can be made, Veronica shows up, a gaudily painted, silicone enhanced "lady" who also claims to be Becton's wife. Let's just say that that is not what Eileen expected. The two immediately despise each other and eventually go at it to hilarious means, leaving behind a very perplexed Mr. Hines (and one very battered corpse) at play's end.
Two-Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances
by Jean O'Hara Waawaate Fobister Muriel Miguel Kent MonkmanWith a refreshing spin, the plays touch on topics of desire, identity, and community as they humorously tackle the colonial misunderstandings of Indigenous people. From a female trickster story centred on erotic lesbian tales to the farcical story about a new nation of Indigenous people called the Nation of Mischief, this collection creates a space to explore what it means to be queer and Indigenous.
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Politics
by Stephen GreenblattWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution. Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules—these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues—and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them—and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare’s work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today.
UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour
by Donna KazUN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour! follows the surprising 25 year journey of a young, New York City actress swept off her feet by a rising movie star who carries her to Malibu and back for a three-plus year love affair that is both fantastical and physically dangerous. When Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered in Brentwood she hears a bell go off, awakening her angry, activist spirit. Always an outsider, she takes one step further into invisibility and becomes a Guerrilla Girl, a feminist activist who never appears in public without wearing a rubber gorilla mask and who uses the name of a dead woman artist instead of her own. As a Guerrilla Girl, Aphra Behn creates comedic art and theater that blasts the blatant sexism of the theater world while proving feminists are funny at the same time.These two narratives-that of a young victim of domestic violence at the hands of a successful film actor and that of an artist so fed up with sexism in the theater world that she puts on a gorilla mask and takes the name of a dead woman artist to provoke change-have been lived by one woman. Donna Kaz offers her compelling firsthand account-illuminated by more than thirty behind-the-scenes photographs, stickers and posters -of her transition from a silent observer to an unapologetic activist.This is the memoir of a woman-turned-survivor-turned-radical-feminist who takes off her mask and, by merging her identities, reveals all.
UNA PARURE DI DIAMANTI MOLTO AMBITA
by Patrice Martinez Monica OzelloUna parure di diamanti può nascondere sordidi segreti, e questi non sono sempre sotto buoni auspici.. Spesso ritroviamo in una famiglia dei gioielli di "grande valore" che si tramandano da una generaazione all'altra. Ma in una casa borghese della bella Atene un regalo di valore inestimabile causerà non pochi tormenti al suo proprietario, un ricco commerciante ateniese. Una parure di diamanti può nascondere sordidi segreti, e questi non sempre sono sotto buoni auspici... "Una poarure di diamanti molto ambita" è un adattamento del libro di Partenio di Nicea "Le pene d'amore" numero 25: "Faillo"
Ubhuku Lwamanqe: UEB Contracted
by E J MhlangaLena yincwadi yomdlalo okusetshenziswe kuwo abalingiswa abazithola bebhekene nezinkinga nengcindezi kanye nezinselelo zempilo yobugebengu obuhleliwe okwenza balokhu bebisha kancane kancane emsingeni olubhuku lwamanqe ukuze ekugcineni kuzuze wona. Okuhlala obala ukuthi laba balingiswa basuka bengaboni ukuthi izinyosi zidla uju lwazo baphinde bakhohlwe ukuthi kalikho iqili elazikhotha emhlane kanti yonke imfihlo empilweni inendlela evela ngayo nangemuva kweminyakanyaka leso sigameko senzeka. Zifundele mfundi ukuze ukwazi ukuzihlaziyela ngezinqumo abazithathayo ezigcina ngakho ukubagqiba kumlindashoba wezingqinamba zempilo. Yibhuku eliqukethe: • Izidingo nezindlela ezilula zokuhlaziya umdlalo. • Umlando mpilo wombhali. • Imibuzo yokuhlolwa okumiselwe imigomo nezimpendulo ngokulandela izidingo ze-CAPS. • Ngumdlalo olungele amabanga emfundo aphakeme.
Ubhuku Lwamanqe: UEB Uncontracted
by E J MhlangaLena yincwadi yomdlalo okusetshenziswe kuwo abalingiswa abazithola bebhekene nezinkinga nengcindezi kanye nezinselelo zempilo yobugebengu obuhleliwe okwenza balokhu bebisha kancane kancane emsingeni olubhuku lwamanqe ukuze ekugcineni kuzuze wona. Okuhlala obala ukuthi laba balingiswa basuka bengaboni ukuthi izinyosi zidla uju lwazo baphinde bakhohlwe ukuthi kalikho iqili elazikhotha emhlane kanti yonke imfihlo empilweni inendlela evela ngayo nangemuva kweminyakanyaka leso sigameko senzeka. Zifundele mfundi ukuze ukwazi ukuzihlaziyela ngezinqumo abazithathayo ezigcina ngakho ukubagqiba kumlindashoba wezingqinamba zempilo. Yibhuku eliqukethe: • Izidingo nezindlela ezilula zokuhlaziya umdlalo. • Umlando mpilo wombhali. • Imibuzo yokuhlolwa okumiselwe imigomo nezimpendulo ngokulandela izidingo ze-CAPS. • Ngumdlalo olungele amabanga emfundo aphakeme.
Ubu Roi: Drame En Cinq Actes En Prose, Restitute En Son Integrite Tel Qu'il A Ete Representee Par Les Marionnettes Du Theatre De L'oeuvre Le 10 Decembre 1896, Avec La Musique De Claude Terrasse (Dover Thrift Editions Ser.)
by Alfred JarryWhen it first opened in Paris in late 1896, Ubu Roi immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references and surrealist style. Spectators rioted during the premiere (and final) performance and unrelenting controversy over the play's meaning followed. The quality and stunning impact of the work, however, was never questioned.Early drafts of the play were written by Jarry in his teens to ridicule one of his teachers. The farce was done in the form of stylized burlesque, satirizing the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. Ubu -- the cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character (the author's metaphor for modern man) -- anticipated characteristics of the Dada movement. In the 1920s, Dadaists and Surrealists championed the play, recognizing Ubu Roi as the first absurdist drama.