The Architecture of Drama: plot, character, theme, genre, and style
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The Dramatic Writer's Companion: tools to develop characters, cause scenes, and build stories
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Hearing Difference: the third ear in experimental, deaf, and multicultural theater
Making the Scene
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Scene Design and Stage Lighting
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Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen
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Telling Stories: a grand unifying theory of acting techniques
Theater As Life: wisdom drawn from great acting teacher and actors
Theater Games for Rehearsal
The Student Actor Prepares
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The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor’s journey. Each chapter includes acting principles, their importance to the process, and workbook entries for emotional work, script analysis, and applications to the study of theater. Topics cover a brief history of the art of acting and how the study of acting can be an advantage in numerous occupations; an actor’s discovery of emotional work; movement and mime practices for the actor; vocal practices for the actor; solo improvisational study; script analysis for the individual actor; rehearsal tips; monologue work; original solo work; audition information; working with an acting partner or in a production; acting resources; and research topics.nbsp;
William Shakespeare
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This volume in the Writers Lives series offers a reassessment of Shakespeare and his creative output from his earliest work through his 'mature' drama and the late plays, taking into account our current knowledge of Shakespeare's biography and consensus on key textual, critical and theatrical issues. William Baker offers a comprehensive but accessible introduction to Shakespeare's work and places it in the contexts of what is known of his life and activities. Avoiding speculation of a biographical, critical or textual nature, he focuses instead on an account of what is known of Shakespeare and his achievement at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays
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Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Even avid readers of Hurston's prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime--and some to public acclaim--they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston's dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a "real Negro theater" that embraces all the richness of black life.
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Richard II
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Naked Masks
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The Collected Plays of Neil Simon
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Galsworthy - Plays 5
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Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
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Seven Plays
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Ten Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre
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A Practical Guide for Translators
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One Act
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Five Plays
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Queer As Folk
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Richard Matheson's the Twilight Zone Scripts
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Children's Plays from Favorite Stories
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
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