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The Lion in Winter: A Play
by James E. GoldmanThis superior drama charts a doomed love triangle backwards through time. More than a study in style this astonishing story is a passionate, mysterious play about memory, illusion and love.
Lions
by Vince MelocchiDramatic Comedy / 9m, 3f / Interior / It’s the 2007 NFL season and the Detroit Lions are on a winning streak — unfortunately out of work steelworker John Waite is not. With humor and humanity, playwright Vince Melocchi offers a glimpse into The Tenth Ward Club, where the patrons place their hopes on their team, and attempt to escape the creeping demise of their city and of their way of life. / "[Lions] is a drama that speaks directly to our country’s current state of affairs, which is to say it’s a play about unemployment, hardship and economic collapse. If that sounds like a depressing thematic lineup, the play itself is far from being a downer. 'Lions' takes an unsentimental look at a ravaged cross-section of present-day Detroit and tells a story of compassion in a cold climate....Melocchi’s play is a smart, humanistic...observation of working-class survivalism." - Los Angeles Times
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
by Liliana Gómez Lisa BlackmoreThis interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography and film, the chapters place diverse fluids and systems of flow in art historical, ecocritical and cultural analytical contexts. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, cultural studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities, ecocriticism, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and island studies.
The Liquid Plain (TCG Edition)
by Naomi Wallace"American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace's The Liquid Plain--by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed."--Time Out New YorkOn the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present collide and flow into the next generation. Acclaimed playwright Naomi Wallace's newest work brings to life a group of people whose stories have been erased from history. Told with lyricism and power, The Liquid Plain was awarded the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play. This sweeping historical saga has enjoyed acclaimed runs at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Signature Theatre in New York.Naomi Wallace is a playwright from Kentucky. Her plays, which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Hard Weather Boating Party , and The Liquid Plain. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), Joseph Kesselring Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Obie Award, Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New American Play, MacArthur Fellowship, and the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.
Lisístrata
by AristòfanesLisístrata es va estrenar l’any 411 a.C., en un moment crític per Atenes, cada cop més asfixiada per la guerra contra Esparta. Durant la llarga guerra del Peloponès, atenesos i espartans deixen de banda les seves llars i els seus deures familiars. Per posar fi a la situació, la bella Lisístrata cridarà les dones dels dos bàndols a una revolta sense precedents: una vaga de sexe que forci la reflexió dels soferts combatents. El doble missatge pacifista i feminista de Lisístrata -i el seu caràcter eventualment vodevilesc- ha fet que sigui l’obra d’Aristòfanes més representada, imitada i adaptada des de mitjan segle XIX ençà, no solament en el teatre de text, sinó també en el teatre musical, en l’òpera, en el cinema i en el còmic, arribant fins i tot a esdevenir una eina simbòlica de denúncia de conflictes armats contemporanis.
The List
by Jennifer Tremblay Shelley TeppermanShe keeps a tight list and doesn't let anything go unchecked, except for one important misplaced item: a favour to her neighbour. With this broken promise, a series of events unfolds that lead to her friend's death. Was the death preventable had the task been completed? A Governor General's Literary Award–winning play, The List is the riveting story of a woman haunted by internal regret when she fails to critically prioritize her world.
Listening for America: Inside The Great American Songbook From Gershwin To Sondheim
by Rob Kapilow“Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics to life through the songs and stories of eight of the twentieth century’s most treasured American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim. Hardly confi ning himself to celebrating what makes these catchy melodies so unforgettable, Kapilow delves deeply into how issues of race, immigration, sexuality, and appropriation intertwine in masterpieces like Show Boat and West Side Story. A book not just about musical theater but about America itself, Listening for America is equally for the devotee, the singer, the music student, or for anyone intrigued by how popular music has shaped the larger culture, and promises to be the ideal gift book for years to come.
Listening To Movies: The Film Lover's Guide To Film Music
by Fred KarlinThis text is a lay person's guide to the world of film music, from the silent era to the present day. Oscar-winning film composer Fred Karlin describes how music is written and recorded for the movies; who the composers are and how they work with film makers; and the music itself - what to listen for in a film score, and what makes one score better than another.
The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England
by Kathleen MillerThis book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague. This book examines the role of print and manuscript cultures on representations of the disease through micro-histories and case studies of writing from that time, interpreting the place of these media and the construction of authorship during the outbreak. The macabre history of plague in early modern England largely ended with the Great Plague of London, and the miscellany of plague writings that responded to the epidemic forms the subject of this book.
The Literary Language of Shakespeare
by S.S. HusseyProfessor Hussey looks at the vocabulary, syntax and register of Renaissance English, following this with a more detailed analysis of particular kinds of language in the plays such as prose, verse, rhetoric and the soliloquy. For this new edition, the text has been revised throughout with, in particular, a completely new chapter providing detailed readings of selected plays, illustrating the ways particular aspects of language can be studied in practice.
The Literary Manager's Toolkit: A Practical Guide for the Theatre (The Focal Press Toolkit Series)
by Sue HealyThe Literary Manager’s Toolkit is a clear and comprehensive guide to the role of the literary manager in theatre and beyond, focusing on the key skills, networks, and processes that underpin a successful career in this and associated roles. This book outlines the tasks and responsibilities of a literary manager in the selection, development, and production of new plays. In the first part, it outlines the how, when, and why of the literary manager’s main activities, equipping the reader with everything that they will need when approaching this role’s central challenges. The second part provides a selection of practical, accessible, and easy-to-follow materials and workshop suggestions for literary managers who will work with playwrights as they develop their creative writing and dramaturgy skills. This is the go-to resource for the working professional literary manager or dramaturg, and for students on dramaturgy courses in theatre degree programmes.
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing
by X. J. Kennedy Dana GioiaLiterature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Fifth AP Edition by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia.
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Fifth Edition
by Edgar V. Roberts Henry E. JacobsThis edition emphasizes research writing and critical approaches to literature. Including 60 stories, 388 poems, and 17 dramatic works, this book offers a balanced collection of works by male and female authors of different ethnic, political, economic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. In addition to carefully chosen literary selections, each chapter contains detailed information on and sample essays for writing about literature.
Literature and Drama: with special reference to Shakespeare and his contemporaries
by Stanley WellsFirst published in 1970. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise. It discusses the printing of plays and the limited attempts that have have been made to convey theatrical experience, taking as a particular example a masque by Ben Jonson. Finally, some of the problems created by the instability of theatrical art
Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Sofie KlugeGolden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern historians would consider counterfactual: a culture where imaginative historical prose, poetry and drama self-consciously rivalled the accounts of royal chroniclers and the dispatches of diplomatic envoys; a culture dominated by a notion of truth in which skilful construction of the argument and exemplarity took precedence over factual accuracy. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History investigates this grey area backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of Golden Age aesthetic-historical works which cannot be satisfactorily described as either works of literature or works of historiography but which belong in between these later strictly separate categories.
Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Alice EquestriFools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays full attention to the intellectual difference of fools, rather than just their performativity: what does their total, partial, or even pretended ‘irrationality’ entail in terms of non-standard psychology or behaviour, and others’ perception of them? Is it possible to offer a close contextualised examination of the meaning of folly in literature as a disability? And how did real people having intellectual disabilities in the Renaissance period influence the representation and subjectivity of literary fools? Alice Equestri answers these and other questions by investigating the wide range of significant connections between the characters and Renaissance legal and medical knowledge as presented in legal records, dictionaries, handbooks, and texts of medicine, natural philosophy, and physiognomy. Furthermore, by bringing early modern folly in closer dialogue with the burgeoning fields of disability studies and disability theory, this study considers multiple sides of the argument in the historical disability experience: intellectual disability as a variation in the person and as a difference which both society and the individual construct or respond to. Early modern literary fools’ characterisation then emerges as stemming from either a realistic or also from a symbolical or rhetorical representation of intellectual disability.
Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
by Ann Charters Samuel ChartersLiterature is a conversation -- between writers and other writers, and between writers and readers. In Literature and Its Writers, Ann and Samuel Charters complement a rich and varied selection of stories, poems, and plays with an unparalleled array of commentaries about that literature by the writers themselves. Such "writer talk" inspires students to respond as it models ways for them to enter the conversation. In the sixth edition, the Charters continue to entice students to join the conversation, with adventurous and intriguing new literary works, more detailed coverage of literary elements, and more help with reading and writing.
Literature in the Public Service
by Ceri SullivanHistorians and sociologists have been consistently - albeit gloomily - enthralled by Max Weber's model of the inevitable rise of the neurocrat. However, literary critics positively boast that writers, like academics, cannot 'do admin'. While Weber's thesis about the rise of the entrepreneur all fire, individuality, thrust is in tune with what we think literature is about, his thesis about the rise of the bureaucrat is not. Yet 'creative bureaucracy' is not only a euphemism for bending the rules. Literature in the Public Service shows how the public service makes its workers original, taking them beyond an individuated point of view to imagine the perfect public system. Creativity theorists too have swapped the model of solitary inspiration for a managed creative environment. John Milton, Anthony Trollope, and David Hare are examples of how authors work in and write about the public service, during its crisis moments. "
Little Boy Blue
by Paul ReakesIt’s the day of the grand fête in Merrydale, and Willard “Wiggles” Wigglesworth has brought his hot air balloon along to give rides to the townsfolk. Johnnie Blue has fallen in love with Susie Sidebottom, the Mayor’s daughter, but when the pair offend the evil witch Halloweena she is determined to exact revenge. Soon Johnnie and Susie, together with Wiggles and Bessie, Johnnie’s larger-than-life mother, find themselves a very long way from home. Little Boy Blue is a riotous pantomime showcasing Paul Reakes’s trademark winning combination of laughter, thrills, magic, music and dance.
The Little Girl with the Curl: An adaptation of a famous poem
by Francisco Blane Gerald Kelley Jeffrey B. FuerstSally was a good little girl sometimes, and not-so-good at other times.
A Little More Sin
by Parish ShermanAfter Sin's Mad Circle hits up the 61st street boys he comes out of the hospital hungrier than ever. Sin starts making money hand over fist, but his personal life is suffering badly. There's someone talking to the law, but Sin has no idea who it is. When he's about to hit Bolo off with some work, everything becomes clear. Bo is the rat. Sin leaves town of Oakland on a "state funded" vacation only to find out the boy Max who heads the 61st street mob and Bo are partners. Not only that, there's someone close to him running their mouth now. Will Sin be able to come back from this, or is the Mad Circle about to crumble? One things or sure, He's coming at someone's neck. Sit back Parish Sherman takes you on a non-stop ride through the gritty Oakland, California streets where everything ain't what is seems, and loyalty is tested it seems on the regular. One thing is for certain, life and death, is the same as loyalty and betrayal, and everybody that's on the opposing side better protect their chests, because The Mad Circles coming.
A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody
by Ron BernasComedy/Murder Mystery / 4m, 2f / Unit Set It's New Year's Eve at the Perry mansion, and Julia and Matthew Perry seem to have it all. But Matthew wants something more -- to be rid of his wife Julia so he can have some real fun! He resolves to murder Julia by the new year's end, and tells her so. She vows to stay alive, and tells him so. And so the game begins -- a hilarious year-long match of wits and the witless. While Julia cleverly dodges Matthew's devious murder attempts, the Perry friends and staff are dying off mysteriously. It seems Matthew is successful in murdering everyone but Julia. As the bodies are falling, dim-witted daughter Bunny contemplates calling off her wedding to unwitting Donald since all the intended gift-bearing guests are dying. Enter Detective Plotnik -- a Sam Spade reincarnation who suspects everyone, but hasn't a clue. That is, not until Donald stumbles upon Julia and gentlemanly butler Buttram in what Donald mistakenly perceives as a compromising situation. Donald jumps to the conclusion that Julia is the murderer -- trying to murder Matthew! A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody is an homage to the screwball comedies of the 30's and 40's. "A delightful surprise . . . an evening of fun just on the proper side of slapstick." - Lansing State Journal "Comedy packs laughs . . . a delightful play . . . a medley of laughs . . . the play has charm, and is really funny." - News-Herald, Southgate, MI Community Theatre Association of Michigan New Plays Competition Winner
Little One and Other Plays
by Hannah MoscovitchA chilling psychological thriller, Little One is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire—one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable—and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail-order bride. In Other People’s Children, wealthy young power couple Ben and Ilana hire Sati, a live-in nanny, to care for their baby daughter, but Sati ends up being more than a caretaker, exposing the fragility of Ben and Ilana's marriage. Is she filling the holes of their relationship, or widening cracks that will shatter their family? High school is hard, especially for Neyssa, who is not from a privileged family like her best friend Bijou. When the two get into a physical fight at school, they must confront what’s really bothering Neyssa. In This World looks at what friendship means to two teenage girls from vastly different social backgrounds, while dealing with racism, class, and reputation.
A Little Something for the Ducks
by Jean Lenox ToddieDramatic Comedy / 1m, 1f / Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Contest and the Princeton Players One Act Playwrighting Contest. This is a story of a zestful, youthful courtship. She is 68 and he is 79. They put their moves on each other in a minuet that is a joy to behold. Published with A Scent of Honeysuckle