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Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version
by Dan GogginMusical . Characters: 1 male, 9 female, chorus, and extras . Unit Set . "Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version" is here! All the fun of the original "Nunsense" has been super-sized! If you're looking for a Large Cast Musical Comedy this award-winning show is the perfect choice. "Mega-Nunsense" starring the original five nuns features five new (male and female)characters including the never- before-seen infamous convent cook, Sister Julia, Child of God. In addition there is a large chorus of men, women and children. A new song ("One Last Hope") and two expanded dance numbers have been added as well as an optional guest spot for a local celebrity. "Nunsense", the winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Musical was called "A hail of fun and frolic" by the New York Times. And now it's bigger and better than ever! It would be a sin to pass up the opportunity to present it!
Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii
by Allan StrattonFarce comedy / 3m, 4f / One set / When Vivien Bliss, writer of Harlequin Romance novels, comes to spend a romantic weekend with respectably married school teacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a train of events which involves all the classic elements of farce confused identities, disguise, long lost relatives, ambushes, chases and glorious mayhem. How Vivien gets her new novel finished in the face of, behind the back of, in spite of and with the help of an advice columnist, a nosy reporter, a doctor in panty hose, an orphan with a cake and Helga the evil Russian physicist, is the story of this hilarious play.
The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic
by E. T. HoffmanOn Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for the children. While Fritz plays with the clock, Marie is taken aside and given another gift—a nutcracker. After Fritz grabs the nutcracker from Marie and breaks its jaw by cracking too many nuts, their playtime ends and they head off to bed. When the clock strikes twelve, magic makes its way into this enduring tale and an epic battle ensues. This timeless classic, featuring all-new full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist Arkady Roytman and abridged text by Gina Gold, is the perfect story to get anyone in the holiday spirit!
The Nutcracker
by Karen KainMisha and Marie are thrilled that Christmas is coming. It’s a frosty night, the neighbors are all invited, and Peter the stable boy is sweeping the barn in preparation for the dancing to come. But there’s a disappointment in store. Instead of the beautiful doll she’d hoped for, the only thing strange old Uncle Nikolai has for Marie is a wooden nutcracker. Marie thinks it’s a wonderful gift. Little does she know that it will lead her and her brother on the adventure of a lifetime.When Misha and Marie finally go to bed on Christmas Eve, they sleep fitfully and are beset by nightmares. In one particularly bad dream, they join forces — unusual for the squabbling children — and conquer an army that might harm the nutcracker. Their reward is splendid: they are swept to the realm of the Snow Queen for a night of wonders.James Kudelka, the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, is one of North America’s foremost dance artists. His vision of The Nutcracker is elegantly told by Karen Kain and beautifully rendered by artist Rajka Kupesic, herself a ballet dancer.
Nutrition for Dancers: Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips
by Liane Simmel Eva-Maria KraftDancers are top performance athletes on stage – to keep fit andhealthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dancetraining. Nutrition for Dancers provides the principles of nutritionfor dancers of all genres. Authors Liane Simmel and Eva-Maria Kraft clarify widespread nutritional mistakes and giveadvice on how a healthy diet can be incorporated into the everydaylife of dancers.
Nuts
by Tom ToporTom ToporFull Length, DramaCharacters: 6 male, 3 female. Interior Set. A Broadway hit, Nuts has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Set in a courtroom in New York's Bellevue Hospital, the story follows a high-priced call girl incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent "john". The State, represented by a court appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As testimony from experts, physicians and her parents unfolds, with her psyche and childhood dissected, she proves to the judge that she isn't "nuts" and stands legally sane at trial for manslaughter. . "[Has] the audience rooting for the good guys and hating the bad guys, as if the whole event was the most beautifully professional wrestling match you have ever seen. Nuts is a play that moves you ... you are in court watching a woman fight for what she believes is her total future."-New York Post
The Nuttalls
by Michael HealeyLiving in relative seclusion, Ev and Ec rely on the kindness of strangers as they struggle with their own internal and external problems. Ev not only suffers from agoraphobia, she believes she is dying from a fatal degenerative disease. Ec, who is obsessed with his eleventh toe (which he has named Toto), is grieving over his estranged fiancée who left him at the altar. Although Ev declares that hell hath no fury like a mother's love, the Nuttalls prove that sometimes family can be your worst enemy.
Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater
by Patricia HerreraThe Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café’s performances—poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama—have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and ’80s performeras and how they challenged the Café’s gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics.
O Câncer do Amor
by Mohmmed Alsofi Thayller Weverton BarpSim!! O Amor é como um câncer, porque ele o prende a alguém e a imagem dele/dela fica presa em sua mente, além disso, essa pessoa se torna seu coração, quando ele/ela se sente feliz você se sente feliz e quando ele/ela se sente triste você se sente triste, nada mais importa, a não ser dar a ele/ela qualquer coisa que ele/ela precise, mesmo se essa coisa custe sua própria felicidade, sim, isso é o amor!!
O Florim Negro
by Marco Del Pasqua Sandra SantosUmberto é um médico milanês, agora, prestes a se aposentar. Por pura curiosidade, investiga sobre a origem do seu sobrenome e descobre uma distante origem nobre toscana. O seu ancestral gibelino se refugiou em 1285 em um castelo em Siena com o bispo de Arezzo. Guglielmo, da família nobre Ubertini, instigou uma rebelião contra a cidade de Siena, que terminara meses depois, com um banho de sangue.O protagonista, fascinado pelas belezas do lugar, decide comprar uma casa nas vizinhanças do castelo, abandonado e inacessível por anos. Deixa Milão para se mudar e passar a velhice. Durante os trabalhos de restauração encontra, ao acaso, uma moeda antiga fiorentina, um florim de cobre, também chamado de florim negro, e Cesira, uma clarividente, percebeu que a moeda pertencia a um personagem muito importante: Dante Alighieri, e fora perdida em circunstâncias tumultuadas e dramáticas.O romance narra a história de Riccardo, um soldado de infantaria fiorentino, que ficara ao lado do jovem cavaleiro Dante Alighieri durante o terrível cerco ao castelo. A história do jovem Riccardo, no século XIII, se cruza com a de Umberto até os dias de hoje, para ambos, os eventos que acontecem naquele castelo mudarão a vida para sempre.Umberto, como Riccardo séculos antes, descobrirá o amor naquele mesmo lugar.Dois protagonistas de épocas diferentes, um paralelo entre eles, que desafiam o desconhecido, descobrindo novas e inesperadas paixões. Uma história aventurosa de homens, armas e amor, que se entrelaça entre a Idade Média e os dias atuais.
An O. Henry Christmas (Musical)
by Peter EkstromTwo one-act musicals / 2m, 2f or 3m, 3f / Simple set / Two heart-warming one-act musicals based on the classic O. Henry stories capture the true spirit of giving ( The Gift of the Magi and The Last Leaf ). This holiday favorite is set in turn-of-the-century New York City.
O iphihletšeng?: UEB Contracted
by Lesiba MaphosoO iphihletšeng? Mma o hlokofetše ge ke fetša marematlou, tate a gana go nkiša sekolong, fela ka fetša ke ile ntle le yena ... tate o rekišitše dikgomo mola ka gae a re bolaiša dikgakgaripane, megwapa ya dikgomo tšago ota ya go bola le moratha, fela re a fepega ... kgaetšedi le mogadibo ga ba šome, fela tate o rekelwa sellathekeng ... kgaetšedi o utswa dikgomo mola dikgomo tša tate di fela, fela lehodu la tšona ga se yena ... Yo mongwe o dira mošomo wo mobotse ka gare ga nyaganyaga ye, ka fao o swanelwa ke go lebogwa, fela motho yoo ga a itšweletše ... O iphihletšeng? “Motswako wa maikemišetšo le leratorato ka gare ga bongame le tshegišo, di ngwadilwe ka maatlakgogedi a go dira gore o phetle letlakala ka letlakala go fihla ka la mafelelo.” Vicky Seja Moletja - Mogaši wa dipapadi wa Thobela FM, o realo ka diteng tša tiragatšo ya Lesiba Maphoso.
O iphihletšeng?: UEB Uncontracted
by Lesiba MaphosoO iphihletšeng? Mma o hlokofetše ge ke fetša marematlou, tate a gana go nkiša sekolong, fela ka fetša ke ile ntle le yena ... tate o rekišitše dikgomo mola ka gae a re bolaiša dikgakgaripane, megwapa ya dikgomo tšago ota ya go bola le moratha, fela re a fepega ... kgaetšedi le mogadibo ga ba šome, fela tate o rekelwa sellathekeng ... kgaetšedi o utswa dikgomo mola dikgomo tša tate di fela, fela lehodu la tšona ga se yena ... Yo mongwe o dira mošomo wo mobotse ka gare ga nyaganyaga ye, ka fao o swanelwa ke go lebogwa, fela motho yoo ga a itšweletše ... O iphihletšeng? “Motswako wa maikemišetšo le leratorato ka gare ga bongame le tshegišo, di ngwadilwe ka maatlakgogedi a go dira gore o phetle letlakala ka letlakala go fihla ka la mafelelo.” Vicky Seja Moletja - Mogaši wa dipapadi wa Thobela FM, o realo ka diteng tša tiragatšo ya Lesiba Maphoso.
O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
by Amanda Eubanks WinklerIn the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered from bodily disorders (melancholics, madmen, and madwomen). While these theoretical correspondences seem straightforward, in theatrical practice the musical portrayals of disorderly characters were multivalent and often ambiguous.O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note focuses on the various ways that theatrical music represented disorderly subjects--those who presented either a direct or metaphorical threat to the health of the English kingdom in 17th-century England. Using theater music to examine narratives of social history, Winkler demonstrates how music reinscribed and often resisted conservative, political, religious, gender, and social ideologies.
O Machado
by Antonio Morcillo Lopez Angela R. BarbosaDois mecânicos peculiares numa qualquer garagem de uma qualquer cidade de Espanha, descobrem, no carro que consertam, algo que modificará as suas monótonas vidas e que lhes fará revelar o seu lado escuro. A violência é cada vez mais presente no nosso dia-a-dia, no nosso local de trabalho, nas nossas relações sociais e especialmente nos media. Pouco a pouco, eventos sérios, como um ataque terrorista, fazem parte do pão de cada dia, tornando-nos cada vez mais insensíveis. Esta obra pretende ser um espelho no qual o espectador se observa e reconhece o lado escuros que nenhum de nós está disposto a ver: De verdade que não seria capaz de matar alguém? Somos todos tão cívicos ao ponto de não cruzar a linha que nos torna também terroristas? Que culpa tem a media em tudo isto? Em que medida somos capazes de exercer esta violência en nós próprios? Publicado por Ñaque, 1998. Estreia no Auditório de Albacete, Espanha. Novembro 1996.
O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance
by Holly Hughes David Román“Fresh, funny, sad, and sexy . . . [A] diverse collection of good, honest, and soundly structured monologue writing” (David Drake, Obie Award–winning actor and playwright). O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep—from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. Tim Miller, one of the NEA 4, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. And Carmelita Tropicana, the “national songbird of Cuba,” makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana. “A funny, personal, powerful primer of identity, performance and politics. O Solo Homo is a must read.” —Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of How I Learned to Drive “Naked passion, fiery intellect and dissatisfaction with the status quo mark all good performance art. This collection embodies those elements at their best. Each piece makes you sit up and listen.” —Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories “O Solo Homo represents the most significant and vibrant cross-section of queer solo performance since the gospels. A must-have field guide for the amateur and professional alike. Ten thumbs up!” —The Five Lesbian Brothers
An Oak Tree
by Catherine LoveFirst Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances (Performance Philosophy)
by Jamila M. H. Mascat Gregor ModerWhat is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives – both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects.In researching the object of comedy, the contributions gathered here encounter comedy as a philosophical object: instead of approaching comedy as a genre, the book engages with it as a language, a medium, an artifice, a weapon, a puzzle or a trouble, a vocation and a repetition. Thus philosophy meets comedy at the intersection of various fields (e.g. psychoanalysis, film studies, cultural studies, and performance studies) –regions that comical practices and theories in fact already traverse.
Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States
by Paulette RichardsGiven that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry? This study approaches the question by looking at the whole performance complex surrounding African performing objects and examines the material culture of object performance. Object Performance in the Black Atlantic argues that since human beings can attribute private, personal meanings to objects obtained for personal use such as dolls, vessels, and quilts, the lines of material culture continuity between African and African American object performance run through objects that performed in ritual rather than theatrical capacity. Split into three parts, this book starts by outlining the spaces where the African American object performance complex persisted through the period of slavery. Part Two traces how African Americans began to reclaim object performance in the era of Jim Crow segregation and Part Three details how increased educational and economic opportunities along with new media technologies enabled African Americans to use performing objects as a powerful mode of resistance to the objectification of Black bodies. This is an essential study for any students of puppetry and material performance, and particularly those concerned with African American performance and performance in North America more broadly.
Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice: Perspectives on Activating the Actor
by Valerie Pye Hillary BucsObjectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice is the first book that compiles practical approaches of the best practices from a range of practitioners on the subject of working with Stanislavski’s "objectives," "obstacles," and "tactics." The book offers instructors and directors a variety of tools from leading acting teachers, who bring their own individual perspectives to the challenge of working with Stanislavski’s principles for today’s actors, in one volume. Each essay addresses its own theoretical and practical approach and offers concrete instructions for implementing new explorations both in the classroom and in the rehearsal studio. An excellent resource for acting and directing instructors at the university level, directing and theatre pedagogy students, high school/secondary theatre teachers, and community theatre leaders, Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice serves as a resource for lesson planning and exploration, and provides an encyclopedia of the best practices in the field today.
Objects as Actors
by Melissa MuellerObjects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items--theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception of Athenian tragedy. As Mueller shows, props such as weapons, textiles, and even letters were often fully integrated into a play's action. They could provoke surprising plot turns, elicit bold viewer reactions, and provide some of tragedy's most thrilling moments. Whether the sword of Sophocles's Ajax, the tapestry in Aeschylus's Agamemnon, or the tablet of Euripides's Hippolytus, props demanded attention as a means of uniting--or disrupting--time, space, and genre. Insightful and original, Objects as Actors offers a fresh perspective on the central tragic texts--and encourages us to rethink ancient theater as a whole.
Objekte, die die Welt bedeuten: Carl Niessen und der Denkraum der Theaterwissenschaft (Szene & Horizont. Theaterwissenschaftliche Studien #4)
by Nora ProbstDas Buch widmet sich in wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Perspektive den Anfängen der Theaterwissenschaft in Köln. Es untersucht die Wissenschaftspraktiken des Kölner Institutsgründers Carl Niessen (1890–1969), der das Fach als Forscher, Dozent, Sammler und Kurator über einen Zeitraum von rund 40 Jahren geprägt hat. Besonderes Augenmerk legt diese erste wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Monografie über Niessen auf dessen erweitertes Theaterverständnis, das den Bogen von rituellen Handlungen und cultural performances bis hin zu den Phänomenen des europäischen Gegenwartstheaters spannte. – Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist das Gebäude des im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstörten Theatermuseums am Salierring in Köln. Durch das virtuelle Abschreiten der Museumsräume werden die durch Niessen initiierten Praktiken der frühen Theaterforschung und -lehre kartografiert und vor dem Hintergrund der Fachentwicklung analysiert.
Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
by Mary Floyd-WilsonBelief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.
Odd
by Hal Corley2m, 2f / Drama / Unit Set / Anna Marie has raised her surly, contentious son Micah alone. Though Micah has long been pharmaceutically treated for his O.D.D. — Oppositional Defiance Disorder — she's desperate to introduce a paternal influence. Anna Marie hires Joe Eskin, an itinerant waiter with a vague past and take-no-prisoners tutoring style. Over one critical autumn Joe brings focus and structure to Micah's daily life. But as he opens incurious Micah's eyes to a world outside his sleepy New Jersey suburb, Joe ingratiates himself into the family and inadvertently stirs in Anna Marie dormant romantic longing. In a revelatory battle royal, Micah realizes that equally combative Joe is a kindred spirit — likely "O.D.D." himself. When Micah attracts the brilliant but volatile Ilona, Joe's Cyrano-like coaching to help Micah romance the older girl segues into near obsession. Though smitten Anna Marie remains oblivious, Ilona slowly realizes that Joe's emotional investment in Micah is invasive and threatening. During a Halloween trip into rain-drenched New York City, Ilona ends Joe's control by confronting him in front of Micah, with life-altering results. Exploring the challenges of teen isolation, single parenting, and our dependence on drug therapy as a panacea, ODD illuminates the terror and heartbreak that bind a unique quartet. / "The transformation of the fringe player to someone possibly acceptable by mainstream or even upper-class society, the man who breezes into town and energizes the young man with a disability, the man with troubles of his own who solves a family's troubles: These are classic human stories and ODD melds them well while bringing them to 2007…ODD asks who is broken — the people whose disorders are gaping, bleeding wounds, or the people weighed down by their life challenges…The winner of Premiere Stages' Play Festival, ODD is an important work at a time when befuddled parents want to fix their kids with a pill: better living through chemistry.” - Gannett/Home News Tribune
Odd Couple: A Comedy in Three Acts
by Neil SimonThis classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean-freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilarious results as The Odd Couple is born.