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BLACK COMEDY 9 PLAYS

THE STAGE PLAYS OF PADDY CHAYEFSKY

Here is the first-ever collection of classic comic sketches from the bawdy, rowdy world of our slum music halls! HabituÉs of Burlesque (and sons of habituÉs) will revel in the boisterous stock scenes and blackouts of this uniquely American form of popular entertainment. Features a foreword by Dick Martin.

This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.

Voices of Color is a trailblazing collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights. This major omnibus of contemporary American writing will serve as a primary resource for African American artists in search of their own voice for the stage. Actors and directors will now have access to a much larger spectrum of work in which to shine. Readers will be introduced to a rich, vibrant medley of work of the human spirit. And schools, colleges and libraries will, at last, have the book we all need to fully explore America''s potential for drama.

David Merrick is the most astonishing showman of our time.

THE CRAFTSMEN OF DIONYSUS

John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare''s texts; how the language is awakened colored emphasized sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare''s intended readers were his collaborators not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare''s natural habitat: the stage.

A documented screenplay of the Oliver Stone film complete with historical annotation with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer Tom Wicker Gerald R. Ford and many others.ÞÞ It''s a lesson in craft to watch ÊJFKÊ on video while reading along charting what got cut softened and rethought. äÊEntertainment WeeklyÊ

A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: The Author''s Voice San Antonio Sunset There is No John Garfield The Mask of Hiroshima Penguin Blues Haiku Chemical Reactions Dolores April Snow Trout and A Poster of the Cosmos.

Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland''s outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time.

RICHARD III: FOLIO TEXT

Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also spoke with directors actors and others who knew and worked with Davis and includes brief synopses of all of her theatrical films.ÞHere are some more examples of Bette''s wit to be found within these pages:Þ I''m the one who didn''t get the man which is the more interesting character on the screen but in real life sometimes I wish I could just have been the girl who got the man and kept him. I got four husbands and several lovers but I didn''t keep any of them. I was invited to the White House but no man stayed to share my white cottage. Þ My favorite actor with whom I never played professionally or personally was Laurence Olivier. I admired everything about him. He was a great actor and he was my dream man. Literally and figuratively. Larry was my fantasy lover the perfect man or at least I thought he would be. He was not only beautiful but intelligent.

35 B/W PHOTOS

When CLERKS opened at cinemas across the country in 1994, it took everyone, especially the film industry, by surprise. Filmed on a shoestring budget after hours at a convenience store, it was crude (in technique and language), realistic and, above all, hilarious. The movie''s nationwide success helped launch the indepedent film boom of the 1990s and catapulted its director, Kevin Smith, to full-fledged stardom. Smith''s work is explored in AN ASKEW VIEW, the first ever study of his films. John Kenneth Muir examines all of Smith''s movies. including MALLRATS, CHASING AMY, and the hugely controversial and variously interpreted DOGMA. Muir discusses Smith''s themes and obsessions in depth: his New Jersey boosterism, the cast of characters that pop in and out of all of his films, and the references to STAR WARS and other icons of pop culture. AN ASKEW VIEW is a fascinating and detailed history of the art of this visionary filmmaker, New Jersey''s favorite local-boy-makes-good since Bruce Springsteen.

SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC THE STORY OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN

Combine Kafka''s eerie vision with a soulless world run by computers and the result is this comic nightmare of a play. Strand''s play - revolving around a bug in the system - premiered at the Actor''s Theatre in Louisville Humana Festival, and has been produced by other theatres across the country.

35 scenes from Shakespeare are presented in newly-edited texts with notes which clarify meanings topical references puns ambiguities etc. A brief description of characters and situation prefaces each scene and is followed by a commentary which discusses its major acting challenges and opportunities. Each scene has been chosen for its independent life requiring only the simplest of stage properties and the barest of spaces.

STONES IN HIS POCKETS

Gloumov, (the protagonist) has not only become an eduring character on the Russian stage, but the abstract noun derived from his name, gloumovshchina (or gloumovism), has entered the language. As long as ambitious young men with brains and talent can most readily achieve success by selling themselves and betraying their better natures, gloumovism will thrive. Transitional societies have a special need of Gloumov to keep things moving - as well as to maintain equilibrium - since the actor-opportunist will further any cause, switch positions overnight, defend opposite sides of the same issue, and turn his coat with every wind until he almost becomes the coat. - from the Afterword by Daniel Gerould

BEFORE BRECHT

PLAYWRIGHT'S WORKBOOK

This play is the story of the novelist Stine, giving scenes from his life and his work; his work being the adaption of one of his books into a screenplay built around a fictional hero, an ex-cop named Stone.

STYLE: ACTING IN HIGH COMEDY

THE COMMERCIAL CTI THEATER INSTITUTE GUIDE TO PRODUCING PLAYS AND MUSICALS

Garry O'Connor, highly respected for his theatrical biographies, presents a richly drawn, fully dimensional portrait of the great actor Paul Scofield. He interviewed the intensely private Scofield himself, as well as many of the actors and directors he has worked with, including Simon Callow, Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre and Peter Hall. The result is a masterly biography that paints a revealing portrait of a man who, for the serious film and theatre-goer, is more of an icon than any other living actor.

ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE

Wild plots and quicksilver wit characterize the plays of Georges Feydeau. Called the greatest master of French comedy since Molière by admirers such as Kenneth Tynan, Feydeau reflects the lusty tradition of the French bedroom farce as well as the tough exorbitant humor later to find full expression in the theater of the absurd.