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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Morality Play 

Indiana

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Thinking and Working Theatrically

Playwriting in Process: Thinking and Working Theatrically is written to encourage new and experienced playwrights to build techniques for a greater range of creative expression in writing for the stage. The book uses exercises to guide playwrights towards thinking and working theatrically. The exercises help playwrights start or revise their work by providing alternate ways of thinking about their subject and their processes. New to the second edition: new exercises, a general updating such as the use of the internet, a new chapter for teachers and playwriting group leaders on using this book in class, and end-of-chapter "Call Out" exercises. Useful for playwrights at all levels.

Playwriting in Process

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The #classic Tennessee Williams script, with an introduction by Arthur Miller. #astreetcarnameddesire #drama #play #paperback #theatre #theater #americantheater
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Maryland

Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

A Streetcar Named Desire

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Anthology of the Afro-American in the Theatre

International Library of Afro-American Life and History

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California

Offers newly edited texts of five of the British playwright's works, including the great farcial comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.. Reissue.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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Cover is a little worn. Pages are yellowed. One solid spine crease. Otherwise, a very good copy. No writing, highlighting, rips. #paperback #voice #acting #theatre #theater #drama #performingarts #vocaltechnique #vocaltraining #actor 

North Carolina

Voice and the Performer

In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problems every performer faces onstage: breath and relaxation; vocal range and power; communication with other actors; singing and acting simultaneously; working on different sized stages and in both large and small auditoriums; approaching the vocal demands of different kinds of scripts. This is the final word on the actor's voice and it's destined to become the classic work on the subject for some time to come.

The Actor Speaks

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Art, music, drama/theater

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Ex-library 

The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of violence and stories of traitors advised by witches and wizards, echoing James's belief in a connection between treason and witchcraft.

In depicting a man who murders to become king, Macbeth teases us with huge questions. Is Macbeth tempted by fate, or by his or his wife's ambition? Why does their success turn to ashes?

Like other plays, Macbeth speaks to each generation. Its story was once seen as that of a hero who commits an evil act and pays an enormous price. Recently, it has been applied to nations that overreach themselves and to modern alienation. The line is blurred between Macbeth's evil and his opponents' good, and there are new attitudes toward both witchcraft and gender.

The edition includes:
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play's 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
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
-An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading

Essay by Susan Snyder

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

Macbeth (Folger's Edition, 1992)

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Virginia

Eight Plays with Critical Essays

(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca.

Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman

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Sam Shepard's outlandish, nightmarish, yet lyrical plays--The Tooth of Crime, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and dozens of others--have garnered him a Pulitzer Prize and a lasting reputation as one of America's greatest living playwrights. His charismatic performances in movies like Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, Country, and Thunderheart--as well as his screenplay for Paris, Texas--have made him an indelible presence in American film. Rock 'n' roller, rancher, and rodeo prizewinner, he has toured with Bob Dylan, hung out with the Rolling Stones, collaborated with Patti Smith, and raised a family with Jessica Lange. Yet throughout he has remained an enigmatic figure. In this acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Don Shewey explores the life and works of this American visionary, illuminating Shepard's unique success in straddling the divide between serious artist and pop-culture hero.

Sam Shepard

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From Formula to Form

Structure is how a play logically fits together and can be archived through formula or form. To understand the complexities of structuring with form, the beginning playwright must first learn the fundamentals of formula. Covering everything in the playwriting process from the initial concept through production, PLAYWRITING: FROM FORMULA TO FORM presents a workable method for anyone interested in the craft. Exercises and techniques are presented to help students master the fundamental principles of good playwriting, giving them the freedom to be creative. Chapters on film and television writing as well as how to market a finished script and to select an agent, provide "real world" information on surviving as a writer in today's market.

Playwriting

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Jack and Louisa book 2

Jack & Louisa Act 2

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New York

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for...

August Strindberg's classic naturalistic play Miss Julie was written in 1888, and first performed at Strindberg's experimental theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1889, despite being banned by the censor.

This English version, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish, is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series. The volume also includes Strindberg's Preface.

Miss Julie

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New Jersey

Macbeth: The DVD Edition includes everything you've come to expect from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare's plays -- facing-page explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, illustrations from the Folger archives -- combined here with a bonus DVD of a performance of Macbeth recorded before a rapt audience in the Folger's intimate Elizabethan Theatre. Conceived and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Aaron Posner, this acclaimed production showcases the inventive magic of Teller, who, with Posner, contributes a new foreword to this edition, writing about their vision of the play as a "supernatural horror thriller." Macbeth: The DVD Edition is the perfect volume for those encountering the play for the first time and for those finding brilliant new insights into a classic. THIS DVD EDITION INCLUDES: • DVD of the 2008 Folger Theatre/Two River Theater Company production -- with over 50 minutes of special features, including interviews with the directors, actors, designers, and scholars • Foreword by directors Teller and Aaron Posner on the staging of Macbeth • Freshly edited text based on the 1623 First Folio • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • A key to the play's famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language in Macbeth • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books • An essay by Susan Snyder that provides a modern perspective on the play

Macbeth

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Minnesota

Reinventing the Bard in Young Adult Literature

Identifies young adult novels with Shakespearean features, analyzes the Bard's major plays and the novels that are based on them, and discusses what life was like for young adults during Shakespeare's time.

Heirs to Shakespeare

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Florida

The RECEPTIONIST and the THUGS

The thugs -- Full length in one-act / Comedy / 2m, 6f / Interior -- A dark comedy about work, thunder, and the mysterious things that are happening on the 9th floor of a big law firm. When a group of temps try to discover the secrets that lurk in the hidden crevices of their workplace, they realize they would rather believe in gossip and rumors than face dangerous realities.

The Office Plays and The Drunken City

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Alaska

Lydia tires of Charles' philandering, Thomas discovers his true parentage, and each member of the Brett family learns the others' secrets

The Bretts

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The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch

The ebullient, troubled life of a Broadway legend who became a heroine to a younger generation Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch’s life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway’s great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City, where she studied alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame, to Hollywood and London, and across her later years, when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance, punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock. We explore the influential—and often fraught—collaborations she developed with Noël Coward, Tennessee Williams, and above all Stephen Sondheim, as well as her courageous yet flawed attempts to control a serious drinking problem. And we see the entertainer triumphing over personal turmoil with the development of her Tony Award–winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which established her as an emblem of spiky independence and Manhattan life for an entirely new generation of admirers. In Still Here, Alexandra Jacobs conveys the full force of Stritch’s sardonic wit and brassy charm while acknowledging her many dark complexities. Following years of meticulous research and interviews, this a portrait of a powerful, vulnerable, honest, and humorous figure who continues to reverberate in the public consciousness.

Still Here

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Jack and Louisa book 1

Jack & Louisa Act 1

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Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw’s powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature—part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic With Saint Joan, which distills many of the ideas Shaw had been exploring in earlier works on politics, religion, feminism, and creative evolution, he reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc, but unhappy with the way she had traditionally been depicted, Shaw wanted to remove “the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition.” He presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, and brave—a rebel and a woman for Shaw’s time and our own. This is the definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw’s Preface of 1924; the cast list of the first production of Saint Joan; a chronology; and the essay “On Playing Joan” by Imogen Stubbs.

Saint Joan

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Novel

Dear Evan Hansen Barnes and Noble Edition

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How to Run a Workshop for Theater, Education or Business

Using the experience of the authors in a variety of educational, business and theater settings, this book investigates the connection between practical theater work and drama theory, and its effect on the development and dynamic of any working group.

Barry Unsworth

Morality Play

Michael Wright

Playwriting in Process

Tennessee Williams; Arthur Miller (Introduction by)

A Streetcar Named Desire

Patterson

International Library of Afro-American Life and History

Oscar Wilde, Sylvan Barnet

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Patsy Rodenburg; Judi Dench (Foreword by)

The Actor Speaks

SparkNotes

Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare)

SparkNotes

The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare)

SparkNotes

Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

Macbeth (Folger's Edition, 1992)

Robert W. Corrigan (Editor); Hal Leonard Corp. Staff (Created by)

Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman

Don Shewey

Sam Shepard

William M. Downs; Lou Anne Wright

Playwriting

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Jack & Louisa Act 2

August Strindberg; Kenneth McLeish (Translator)

Miss Julie

William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

Macbeth

Megan Isaac

Heirs to Shakespeare

Adam Bock

The Office Plays and The Drunken City

Rosemary Anne Sisson

The Bretts

Alexandra Jacobs

Still Here

Andrew Keenan-Bolger & Kate Wetherland

Jack & Louisa Act 1

George Bernard Shaw; Dan H. Laurence (Editor); Imogen Stubbs (Introduction by)

Saint Joan

Val Emmich

Dear Evan Hansen Barnes and Noble Edition

Richard Hahlo; Peter Reynolds

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