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Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre (Studies in Modern Drama #18)
by Thomas Fahy Kimball KingFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Peerless
by Jiehae ParkAsian-American Twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets "their" spot instead, they figure they've got only one option: kill him. A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth about the very ambitious and cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater
by Thomas BaumanIn 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T. Motts opened the Pekin Theater in Chicago. Dubbed the "Temple of Music," the Pekin became one of the country's most prestigious African American cultural institutions, renowned for its all-black stock company and school for actors, an orchestra able to play ragtime and opera with equal brilliance, and a repertoire of original musical comedies. A missing chapter in African American theatrical history, Bauman's saga presents how Motts used his entrepreneurial acumen to create a successful black-owned enterprise. Concentrating on institutional history, Bauman explores the Pekin's philosophy of hiring only African American staff, its embrace of multi-racial upper class audiences, and its ready assumption of roles as diverse as community center, social club, and fundraising instrument. The Pekin's prestige and profitability faltered after Motts' death in 1911 as his heirs lacked his savvy, and African American elites turned away from pure entertainment in favor of spiritual uplift. But, as Bauman shows, the theater had already opened the door to a new dynamic of both intra- and inter-racial theater-going and showed the ways a success, like the Pekin, had a positive economic and social impact on the surrounding community.
Pelong ya Ka (African Treasury Series #1)
by Sophonia Machabe MofokengPelong ya Ka, a collection of essays and sketches in Sotho was first published in 1962 in the Bantu Treasury Series imprint of Witwatersrand University Press. S. Machabe Mofokeng is regarded as one of the greatest essayist and dramatist in Southern Sotho. His first book, Senkatana (a play) was published in 1952.Pelong ya Ka comprises 20 essays which range from meditative, descriptive, and narrative to polemic style, with the tone of voice characterised by melancholy, humour, and satire. The essays span over a wide range of themes, as suggested by their titles, e.g. Pelo (The heart), Bodutu (‘Solitude’), Death (‘Lefu’), Nako (‘Time’), Pampiri (‘Paper’), Ho kganna mmotokara (‘Driving an automobile’), Sepetlele (‘Hospital’), Lenyalo (‘Matromony’), and Boqheku (‘Old age’). Nhlanhla Maake says of this collection “Mofokeng’s essays fuse simplicity with dept.” Pelong ya Ka is part of the African Treasury Series published by Wits University Press.
La pena de Bélgica
by Hugo Claus«Hugo Claus no necesitaba ningún maestro, él era un maestro.»CEES NOOTEBOOMAmbientada en Bélgica durante los últimos años del III Reich, esta novela narra la adolescencia de Louis Seynaeve, hijo de una familia pequeñoburguesa y ultraconservadora, orgullosa de su propia inanidad. Con el paso de los años, Louis, desencantado, abandona los mitos de la niñez y descubre la naturaleza hipócrita del mundo adulto. Obra de factura clásica y proporciones épicas, polémica, hilarante y cruda a partes iguales, La pena de Bélgica es uno de los mayores monumentos de la literatura europea.Traducción de M. C. Bartolomé Corrochano y P. J. van de Paverd
Pendragon
by Don NigroComedic Drama / 6m, 5f, with doubling / Unit Set / In this robust and compelling tale commissioned and produced by the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, John Rhys Pendragon is at Guernica during the Fascist bombing in 1937. His memories take him back to 1910 and conjure up Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, James J. Jeffries and Ernest Hemingway as the play pieces together his remarkable life, recalls his three lost loves and vividly portrays colorful characters he has interviewed. This unique American love story is part of the author's cycle the Pendragon Plays.
The Penguin Arthur Miller
by Lynn Nottage Arthur MillerTo celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America's greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a beautiful bespoke hardcover edition In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works held up a mirror to America and its shifting values. The Penguin Arthur Miller celebrates Miller's creative and intellectual legacy by bringing together the breadth of his plays, which span the decades from the 1930s to the new millennium. From his quiet debut, The Man Who Had All the Luck, and All My Sons, the follow-up that established him as a major talent, to career hallmarks like The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, and later works like Mr. Peters' Connections and Resurrection Blues, the range and courage of Miller's moral and artistic vision are here on full display.This lavish bespoke edition, specially produced to commemorate the Miller centennial, is a must-have for devotees of Miller's work. The Penguin Arthur Miller will ensure a permanent place on any bookshelf for the full span of Miller's extraordinary dramatic career.The Penguin Arthur Miller includes: The Man Who Had All the Luck, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, An Enemy of the People, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The Archbishop's Ceiling, The American Clock, Playing for Time, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters' Connections, and Resurrection Blues.From the Hardcover edition.
Penny Plain
by Ronnie BurkettHumanity is facing extinction, and Penny Plain, elderly and blind, can only sit and wait for the end. After a heartbreaking farewell from her dog, Geoffrey, who leaves to live as a man, Penny faces the inevitable by herself. But she isn't alone for long as a cast of characters, including a serial killer, a cross-dressing banker, and talking dogs barge into her boarding house in pursuit of last chances and an escape from the hostile world outside. With this steady invasion, Penny bears witness to the funny and chilling consequences as mother earth cleans house and reclaims her ground.
The Penultimate Problem Sherlock Holmes
by John NassiveraMystery Drama \ 6 m, 3 f \ Int. \ This play about the famous detective has Holmes venturing into the occult where, during a seance, he is warned that he is about to meet his maker. The play has Holmes, Waston and Prof. Moriarty meet their maker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wishes to end their existence literally with the final stroke of his pen. Holmes cannot accept the fact that he is the product of another's imagination, a mere pawn of another man's genius. Who is the creator and who the pawn becomes the central question as Holmes and the others threaten their creator with the death to which he has sentenced them. \ "A must for all the fans of Sherlock Holmes stories, the play contains startling twists and turns that keep the audience on the edge of their seats." The Resorter.
Peony Pavilion: Mudan Ting
by Tang Xianzu Cyril BirchThe Peony Pavilion is one of literature's most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama.
The Peony Pavilion: Mudan Ting
by Tang Xianzu Cyril Birch Catherine Crutchfield Swatek Xianzu TangThe celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of literature's most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle, earthy humor of this panoramic tale of romance and Chinese society. When Indiana University Press first published the text in 1981, it seemed doubtful that the work would ever be performed in its entirety again, but several spectacular and controversial productions have toured the world in recent years. For this second edition, which contains a fully revised text of the translation, Cyril Birch and Catherine Swatek reflect on contemporary performances of the play in light of its history.
The People Speak: A Performance Piece
by Howard ZinnTo celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's great People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Jeff Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Myla Pitt, Harris Yulin, and Andre Gregory.From that celebration, this book was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.
The People vs. Mona
by Patricia MillerMusical / 3m, 5f (Doubling) / Unit Set / The People vs. Mona revolves around Mona Mae Katt, who is accused of murdering her husband on their wedding night. The resulting trial brings out the worst and the funniest of the citizens in the tiny town of Tippo in this love story, murder mystery, courtroom shenanigans, fate-of-a-small-town-hinging-on-the-verdict musical.
Père nazi, fils juif
by Lázaro Droznes Julien SaunierCette fiction dramatique raconte l’incroyable histoire basée sur une histoire vraie du fils d’un officier Allemand de la Wehrmacht, décoré pour son courage pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, qui s’est convertit au judaïsme, qui abandonna l’Allemagne et partit en Israël pour se convertir en citoyen israélien. Sa participation dans la guerre du Liban, et sa confrontation avec les palestiniens le mènent au même croisement qu’a dû affronter son père ans auparavant. Il doit affronter le dilemme de tout soldat : tous les ordres sont-ils légaux, et doit-on tous les respecter ? Quelle est la limite de l’obéissance ? La discipline militaire dispense-t-elle le combattant de ses droits moraux et éthiques ? Toute la responsabilité appartient à personne la plus haute gradée de l’organisation militaire, ou la responsabilité est partagée avec les niveaux intermédiaires ? Cette histoire confirme ce que les grecs savaient déjà : personne ne peut éviter son propre destin. Peut-importe ce que l’ont fait, il nous retrouve toujours.
A Perfect Bowl of Pho
by Nam NguyenNam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What follows is pure meta musical, genre-bending through thousands of years of history, featuring rapping ancient kings, communist spies, dancing sharks and refugees, and awkward first dates in suburbia. However, Nam eventually finds himself caught between his different characters as each argues what pho (the food and the show) truly represents, and he struggles to find an answer that will satisfy everyone—in the end, isn’t this just a bunch of silly soup songs?
Perfect Crime: A Thriller in Two Acts
by Warren ManziThis cat and mouse thriller is one of Off Broadway's longest running hits. Margaret Thorne Brent, psychiatrist and author, has returned to America with her husband, also a psychiatrist, and settled in an affluent Connecticut community where at least one bizarre murder has taken place. Inspector James Ascher, the local cop, becomes obsessed with Margaret, her patients and their sitting room, where he believes the solution to the murder lies.
A Perfect Match
by Joan ForsterComedy / 1m, 1f / Interior / On a snowy evening Alison is waiting for a date arranged through a computer dating service. Unbeknownst to her, he is delayed by the weather. A television repair man who didn't show up when he was supposed to arrives, dressed for a party and just making one last call. Alison thinks he is her date and he is surprised and charmed by the reception he receives. He soon realizes that she is waiting for someone else and tries, with much difficulty, to tell her the truth.
Perfect Pie
by Judith ThompsonIn the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenagers' wild secret, slams into the present. When Patsy invites her old friend Francesca, now a glamourous actress, to her home in Marmora after a thirty-year absence the two women reunite with a certain amount of unease. As the day progresses, we learn how their friendship blossomed in their adolescence and how, on one fateful day, it all ended.
Perfect Set-Up
by Jack SherComedy / 1 m, 2 f / Interior / A public relations man has a lovely wife in Westchester and a girl friend in New York City. When he then discovers his wife is seeing another man, she says she's only practicing his theory of marital freedom. And so our man bounces back and forth between the two ladies. Finally, he returns, contrite, to his wife and learns she's never loved anyone but him. / "Funny,engaging, tender, even poignant." N.Y. World Telegram and Sun.
The Perfect Stage Crew: The Complete Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
by John KalutaHere is a must-have book for anyone producing a stage show without a Broadway-sized budget. Written by a technical theater veteran, The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common-and the most complex-stage performance problems, even for theaters with a lack of resources. An invaluable guide for middle and high school theaters, college theaters, and community theaters, The Perfect Stage Crew teaches readers how to:Stock, organize, and store the essential backstage suppliesConceptualize, design, and build setsManage a stage crew effectivelyPaint scenery and backdropsTest, design, and hang lightingOperate and repair sound equipmentSet cuesPromote your showThis expanded second edition covers up-to-date technology, including for use with recording, sound, and lighting. Chapters also cover such crucial topics as running technical rehearsals, gathering props, and creating and selling tickets. Theater groups that need to learn the nuts and bolts of putting a show together will discover how to turn backstage workers into The Perfect Stage Crew.Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
by John KalutaHere is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging lights, setting cues, and operating sound. They'll also find crucial guidance for generating publicity, preparing tickets, technical rehearsals, and more.
Perfect Timing
by Kristi KaneComedy / 4m, 4f / "Effervescent" would be the best adjective to describe this contemporary British drawing room comedy, written by a contemporary non British author. Set in the mad cap household of glamorous and neurotic art critic Cornelia Thorndike, her German maid and her splendidly sane secretary, the comedy bubbles along with a delicious assortment of intruders, passers by, droppers in and long and short term lovers, all of whom invariably bump into each other in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance
by Jon McKenzie'Performance' has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by 'performance'? In today's world it can refer to experimental art; productivity in the workplace; and the functionality of technological systems. Do these disparate fields bear any relation to each other?In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie asserts that there is a relationship cultural, organisational, and technological performance. In this theoretical tour de force McKenzie demonstrates that all three paradigms operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures to 'perform...or else'. This is an urgent and important intervention in contemporary critical thinking. It will profoundly shape our understanding of twenty-first century structures of power and knowledge.
Performance: A Critical Introduction
by Marvin CarlsonThis comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place since the book's original publication in 1996. Marvin Carlson guides the reader through the contested definition of performance as a theatrical activity and the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists, and cultural theorists. Topics covered include: *the evolution of performance art since the 1960s *the relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and current cultural studies *the recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and technology. With a fully updated bibliography and additional glossary of terms, students of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history will welcome this new version of a classic text.