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An ACTOR PERFORMS
by Mel Shapiro. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1997 Harcourt Brace College Trade Paperback, first printing. Problem: shelf wear in the form of a diagonal crease both front and back top covers. Interior clean & tight. Remainder mark. Content: Integrating text analysis and techniques for using actor's experience and imagination to approach performance gives this first-edition text unique relevance. Equally useful to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of acting, it addresses problems common to all actors: understanding the text, finding it a viable interpretation, dealing with the language of the play, and using one's body and mind and imagination to create a fully realized performance. Mel Shapiro is a director, playwright, and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also directed Tony award winning plays on Broadway. [1 copy available]
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ALBEE: Two books/4 Plays: THE SAND BOX; THE DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH; THE AMERICAN DREAM; THE ZOO STORY
by Edward Albee. Condition: Both books were printed by Signet Books in the 1960s and both are used with heavy tanning to the interior page edges. Content: Complete stage plays of all 4 plays. [1 set available]
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AMERICAN SET DESIGN
by Arnold Aronson. Foreword by Harold Prince. B&W stage diagrams, photos, & decorations. Condition: NEW 1995 Theatre Communications soft cover [10.7 x 8.4 x 0.5, 192 Pages], third printing. Content: This book provides a look at the careers and personal viewpoints of these important artists: John Lee Beatty, John Conklin, Karl Eigsti, Ralph Funicello, Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, Eugene Lee, Ming Cho Lee, Santo Loquasto, David Mitchell, Douglas Schmidt, and Robin Wagner. A designer-by-designer production chronology offers easy reference to the entire spectrum of their work in theatre, opera and dance. [1 copy available]
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THE ART OF DIRECTING
by John W. Kirk & Ralph A. Bellas. B&W stage diagrams & decorations. Condition: Gently pre-read 1985 Wadsworth Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: "Conflict is the essence of drama." As the authors develope this premise, and then apply it to every stge of the production process, they provide a guide to increased power and efficiency in the art of directing. [1 copy available]
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BORN YESTERDAY: A Comedy in Three Acts
by Garson Kanin. B&W Broadway production stills section & Judy Holliday on the cover. Condition: UNREAD 1973 Fireside hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), Book Club Edition. Light taning to white cover edges and spine. Interior clean & tight with NO tanning. Content: This is the story of the "ultra" dumb blonde who steps up to the challenge and becomes more than she dared to dream she could. Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall to see if he can soften her rough edges and make her more presentable in capital society. But Harry gets more than he bargained for as Billie absorbs Verall's lessons in U.S. history and not only comes to the realization that Harry is nothing but a two-bit, corrupt crook, but in the process also falls in love with her handsome tutor. Although there are two movies from this play, it is the 1950 version that is the best. Directed by George Cukor, the movie starred Judy Holliday (reprising her Broadway role), Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Howard St. John, Frank Otto, and Barbara Brown. Don't miss it! The updated 1993 movie version was directed by Luis Mandoki and starred Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Don Johnson, Edward Herrmann, Max Perlich, the great Fred Dalton Thompson, and Benjamin C. Bradlee. This version is perfectly fine - Griffith does a great job, well, they all do, but the chemistry between William Holden and Holliday was fantastic. [1 copy available]
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (The Play)
by Tennessee Williams. Condition: UNREAD c. 1990 Signet paperback, 42nd printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: "Cat" takes place on a Southern plantation, and deals with a wealthy, but very dysfunctional family. Williams creates stunning dialogue for his characters: Brick, the bitter, alcoholic ex-athlete; Brick's frustrated wife Margaret; "Big Daddy," the patriarch, who is dying of cancer; and the rest. Williams also establishes the plantation's original owners as a haunting presence through the lines of his characters. "Cat" is an explosive family drama about greed, secrets, guilt, alcoholism, and sexual frustration. Williams' characters are larger-than-life, and even grotesque, but Williams never loses a grasp on their essential humanity. An important book for those with a serious interest in American drama. This issue also contains a note by Tennessee Williams on changing the third act and it contains both the original and the Broadway version of this third act. The original Broadway cast included Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes (Miss Ellie), and Ben Gazzara. The movie edition starred Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, and Paul Newman. [1 copy available]
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CHIMPS (The Play)
by Simon Block. Condition: UNREAD 998 Nick Hern Books soft cover, no printing given. Content: Mark and Stevie's relaxing Saturday afternoon grinds to a halt when two door-to-door salesmen make their way into the house with a sales pitch that becomes increasingly relentless as the day progresses. [1 copy available]
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CHINESE AMUSEMENT: The Lively Plays of Li Yu
by Eric Henry. Condition: UNREAD 1980 Archon Books hard cover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Pale tanning to white DJ edges. Content: From the DJ: Li Yu was born in 1611 and died in 1680 or shortly thereafter. He led a busy, turbulent, and productive life, during the course of which he became one of the principal literary figures of the early Ch'ing dynasty. One of the most versatile and inventive of all Chinese authors, Li Yu's work possesses a special buoyancy, ease, and humor. This book takes the reader into the mental life of seventeenth-century China by allowing him to participate in the jokes and fantasies, the yearnings and antagonisms, the skepticisms and enthusiasms, contained in the plays of Li Yu. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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DRINKS BEFORE DINNER (The Play)
by E. L. Doctorow. Paul Davis painting cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read c. 1979 Random House Book Club Edition, hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). DJ has tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: This is the first play by Doctorow. Reviewer: "This is a book for deep thinkers, looking for something creative and new. It's totally off the wall, and really should receive some recognition as a great book, which I don't think it has. Doctorow creates an air of philosophical depth at a New York City dinner party. It's intersting and strange, funny and sharp. This is really a book that people should start to read. It's a quick read, and one you can, and will want to pass off to friends". [1 copy available]
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THE EXECUTION: A Play
by Miranda Cambanis. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1975 Thorp Springs Press softcover playbook. No edition given. Name and date on top loose endpage. Light tag-removal mark top front cover. Content: Resistance time on a Greek island with armed soldiers pacing outside the villa - how it happened, how it affects the four people in the house. Is freedom worth the price? Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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EXIT THE KING: A Play
by Eugene Ionesco. Translated from the French by Donald Watson. B&W play stills illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1963 Evergreen/Grove Press Trade Paperback, first edition. Light tanning to white cover edges but none interior pages. B&W play stills from the 1962 first LA production with Louise Latham, Will Geer, et al. Content: This is a highly stylized, ritualistic death rite, depicting the final hours of the once-great Berenger I. In his throne room, surrounded by his two wives and a few other members of the decayed court, Berenger inexorably moves toward his death, first discovering, then rejecting, and finally accepting its inevitability. As the monarch dies, his kingdom dies with him. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF [Based on Sholom Aleichem's Stories] (The Play)
by Joseph Stein. Topol & cast movie cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read 1986 Pocket Books edition, 17th printing. Tny tear bottom front hinge, pale diagonal crease bottom back cover corner, light tanning to interior page edges. Content: The complete Broadway play - including lyrics. Absolute gem. Zero Mostel was wonderful. The movie version was very good, but . . . [1 copy available]
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE (The Play)
by Tennessee Williams. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Signet paperback, 17th printing. The cover has small edgewear & the first page has small shelfwear crease. Content: This is one of Williams' earliest, and in some respects his most timeless, of his scripts. No one can argue that it his most autobiographical, as it portrays a cloyingly suffocating matriarch, Amanda, and a younger sister, Laura, who are both interchangable characters for Williams' own little St Louis family. Actually, in real life, the outcome was much more tragic, as Williams' mother had a frontal lobotomy performed on his actual sister. One can see how Williams may have harbored some deep resentments towards his mother, and he spends most of his time getting even with her in this Euripidean play. Originally staged in Chicago in 1944. Paul Newman directed a version of this play for the movies which stars Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, and Karen Allen. [1 copy available]
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THE GOOD WOMAN OF SETZUAN (Revised) (The Play)
by Bertolt Brecht. Revised English version by Eric Bentley. Condition: UNREAD 1977 Grove Press/Black Cat paperback, reprint. Name inside front cover, tanning to white cover edges and interior pages. Content: The New York premiere in 1956 starred Uta Hagen, Zero Mostel, Gene Saks and was directed by Eric Bentley. One of Brecht's most popular plays. [1 copy available]
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THE ICEMAN COMETH (The Play)
by Eugene O'Neill. Jason Robards cover. Condition: UNREAD 1957 Vintage paperback edition, printing probably c. 1990. Tiny edgewear, name inside front cover, and light tanning to interior page edges. Content: Tragedy in four acts by Eugene O'neill, written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946. Considered by many to be his finest work, the drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair. O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a ragged collection of alcoholics in a rundown New York tavern-hotel run by Harry Hope. The saloon regulars numb themselves with whiskey and make grandiose plans, but they do nothing. They await the arrival of big-spending Theodore Hickman ("Hickey"), who forces his cronies to pursue their much-discussed plans, hoping that real failure will make them face reality. Hickey finally confesses that he killed his long-suffering wife just hours before he arrived at Harry's, and he turns himself in to the police. The others slip back into an alcoholic haze, clinging to their dreams once more. The Broadway play is on DVD starring Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, James Broderick. [1 copy available]
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The ILLUSTRATED STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE
by Exeter Books. B&W illustrations. Condition: Very good 1984 Exeter Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). Small "ding" on front cover edge is the only flaw. Content: This book contains all 37 plays; all 160 sonnets and poems; and over 450 illustrations (B&W of the era). The plays are printed in column format. (2 columns per page) This edition is economic, complete and handsome enough to put on your bookshelf. Wonderful book for Shakespeare lovers. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE (The Play)
by John Osborne. Nicol Williamson cover. Condition: UNREAD 1966 Grove Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Small edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: William Maitland is a 39-year-old London solicitor who has gazed into the broken mirror of his life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust - the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege. The 1968 movie was directed by Anthony Page and adapted to the screen by John Osborne. It starred Nicol Williamson, Eleanor Fazan, Jill Bennet, & Peter Sallis. [1 copy available]
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THE JEWISH WIFE And Other Short Plays
by Bertolt Brecht. Brecht photo cover. Translated by Eric Bentley. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Evergreen/Grove Press paperback, second printing. Remainder mark bottom spine. Content: Includes: The Jewish Wife; In Search of Justice; The Informer; The Elephant Calf; The Measures Taken; and The Exception and the Rule. [1 copy available]
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LIFE IS A DREAM [La Vida Es Sueno]
by Calderon. Translation from the Spanish by William Colford. Condition: UNREAD 1967 Barron's Educational Series soft cover, 13th printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: Spain's supreme philosophical drama explores the mysteries of human destiny and the illusory nature of existence. A king is suspicious of his son's role in an impending revolution. Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all-time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will. Includes an excellent new English translation, with an informative introduction and footnotes. [1 copy available]
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MARAT SADE: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade
by Peter Weiss. Translation by Geoffrey Skelton. Movie edition and cover art. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1967 Pocket paperback, no printing given. Light edgewear with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose. The 1967 movie of this play was directed by Peter Brook (who also wrote the Introduction) and starred Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson, Freddie Jones, and Clifford Rose. The play was the winner of the 1965-66 season New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Award. [1 copy available]
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A METHOD TO THEIR MADNESS: The History of the Actors Studio
by Foster Hirsch. B&W photos of Studio productions and "star" students, i.e., Wallach, Winters, Franciosa, Pachino, Burstyn, et al. Condition: NEW 2002 Da Capo Trade Paperback, first printing. New Afterword by the author. Content: he birthplace of the Method school of acting, the Actors Studio has had enormous influence on American drama over the years. Here Hirsch describes the Studio's founding and growth, focusing on its animating force, Lee Strasberg, who died in 1982. We learn of Strasberg's background, his autocratic ways, his technique, his contradictory feelings about celebrity. PW called this a "lively, gossipy, perceptive, sometimes scathing study." [1 copy available]
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MULTICULTURAL PLAYS FOR CHILDREN: Volume 1: Grades K - 3
by Pamela Gerke. Cover art by Irene Kelly. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Smith and Kraus hardcover (library binding - pictorial boards), second printing. This is an Ex-Library book with all markings, but it was never checked out. Interior clean & tight. Content: Scripts for 10 plays to be put on by or for primary-grade children, along with a valuable introduction featuring notes on how to go about using drama with young children and techniques for altering the plays for different groups and production conditions. Each script features background information on the story, rehearsal time, running time, cast size and gender, as well as appendixes for pronunciation of vocabulary, directions for construction of sets, props and costumes lists, and notes on the use of music and sound. The plays could well be used by secondary-school drama classes for performances for younger students as well as the younger children themselves. The selections were created from folktales from literary traditions (sources are cited in the bibliography). The Little Red Hen, Anansi, and Vasilisa appear, as well as variants of stories such as "The Bremen Town Musicians." The playwright has worked to keep these as authentic as possible. Vi Hilbert, an Upper Skagit elder, has written a preface attesting to the authenticity of the Skagit tale and to the value of drama for keeping storytelling traditions alive. This is a valuable collection for libraries doing programming with children. Plays from Liberia, France, China, Ireland, Italy, the US, & Mexico. [1 copy available]
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MR. PETERS' CONNECTIONS (Stage Play)
by Arthur Miller, the great! Peter Falk cover photo. Condition: NEW 1999 Penguin Books (Penguin Plays) Trade Paperback, third printing. Content: This play which debuted Off Broadway 1988 with Peter Falk in the title role, is Miller's strongest play in 30 years. Effectively using absurdist techniques, Miller places Mr. Peters, a retired pilot, in an abandoned bar, where he encounters his deceased brother, an ex-lover and the man he imagines she might have married had she lived, his daughter and her boyfriend, his wife, and a bag lady who, like most of the other characters, may be a figment of Peters's imagination. With all of them, he seeks connection and, if possible, an answer to the question, "What is the subject?" - or, indeed, whether we even need a subject any longer. These existential questions are old ones; Miller gives them stunning dramatic shape and force. [1 copy available]
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MY FAIR LADY (Musical Stage Play)
by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe. Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison movie art cover. Condition: Good+ 1958 Avon paperback edition, 17th printing. Diagonal crease top front cover with light tanning to page edges. Content: My Fair Lady is a musical play by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loewe, adapted from Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion." Reviewer: ""My Fair Lady" is one of the few musicals ever written that will be remembered years and years from now and for one very simple reason: every song is a masterpiece! It's not like the musicals of today that may have one or even two songs that stand out from the rest as a true work of art. This book gives you page after page of pure musical genius!" Includes the play and the words to the songs but NO "sheet music." [1 copy available]
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OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
by T. S. Eliot. Delightful B&W drawings by Edward Gorey. Condition: UNREAD 1982 Harcourt Brace hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 13th pritning. Content: The inspiration for the Broadway hit Cats, this collection of free-verse poems--very British and somewhat dated--describes the exploits and foibles of such felines as contrary and difficult Rum Tum Tugger and laid-back Old Deuteronomy. The tales of Mr. Mistoffelees the trickmaster, old Deuteronomy, a laid-back cat, Rum Tum Tugger, a contrary cat, and Macavity are all here in verse. [1 copy available]
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A PLACE AT THE TABLE (The Play)
by Simon Block. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Nick Hern Books soft cover, no printing given. Content: Adam, a writer is recruited for television by a novice script editor, who sees Adam not for his talents but for his the wheelchair he sits in. Simon Block's biting satire of ambition and political correctness is an examination of the lengths to which people will go, to secure a place at the table of power. [1 copy available]
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PLAY DIRECTING: Analysis, Communication and Style
by Francis Hodge. Detailed drawings and photos illustrate. Condition: Very Good 1975 Prentice Hall hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), fourth printing. While the book is in excellent condition, the DJ has edgewear and nicks. Content: How a director thinks and works - how he communicates with actors and designers - how he finds individual expression in play production. Older but still interesting and relevant. [1 copy available]
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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE ACTOR
by Melissa Bruder, Lee M. Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, & Scott Zigler. Condition: UNREAD 1986 Vintage Book soft cover, first edition, no printing given. Light edgewear. Content: Introduction by David Mamet. 6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. [1 copy available]
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THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER (The Play)
by Liam O'Brien. B&W Broadway play stills illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read c. 1954 Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. The book is in excellent condition but the problem is the DJ - medium to large chip top cover edge and edgewear bottom edge. The illustrations (B&W stills) are from the 1953 Broadway play. Content: Before there was Big Love, there was Mr. Pennypacker. Reviewer: "In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed." The 1953 Broadway play starred Burgess Meredith (Pa Pennypacker), Martha Scott (Ma Pennypacker), the great Una Merkel (Aunt Pennypacker), and a host of child actors. The hilarious 1959 movie was directed by Henry Levin and starred the great Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Charles Coburn, Ron Ely (yes, Tarzan!), David Nelson (yes, Ricky's brother), Jill St. John, & wonderful character actor Richard Deacon. BTW, this play and the movie were based on a "real" Mr. Pennypacker - complete with "real" name. If you can find it on AMC or TCM, watch - you'll laugh. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ROALD DAHL'S CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: A Play
adapted by Richard George. B&W illustrations by Roald Dahl. Introduction by Dahl. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Trumpet soft cover, fourth printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: This is the play (obviously) created from Dahl's classic children's book. [1 copy available]
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RHESOS
by Euripides. Translated by Richard Emil Braun. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1992 Oxford Univ. Press soft cover, first printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion that the beginning of the play has been lost. In this exciting translation, Rhesos is no longer treated as a derivative Euripidean work, but rather as the tightly-knit tragedy of knowledge it really is. A drama in which profound problems of fate and free will come alive, Rhesos is also an exploration of the perversion of values that come as the result of war. Charged with a striking immediacy, this play is contemporary in the questions it raises, and eternal in its quest for truth. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
by Thomas Kyd. Edited by J. R. Mulryne. Condition: UNREAD 1985 A & G Black (London) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Light tanning to white cover edges. Interior clean, tight with no tanning. Content: This has to be one of the bloodiest and best plays in the English canon. Predating Hamlet, it tells the familiar story but with more vigour. Deservedly one of the most popular plays of its time, recalled and recognised through parody for years to come, this is the play that changed the course of English drama. The Spanish Tragedy (1592) was a remarkably popular Elizabethan revenge play. [1 copy available]
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THE STORY OF STARLIGHT THEATRE: The History of Kansas City's Delightful Musical Theatre Under the Stars
by Kathleen Hegarty Thorne. Loads of B&W photos illustrate. Wonderful DJ art depicting opening night of the theatre. Decorated end pages. Condition: Gently pre-read 1993 Generation Org./Lowell Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Decorated end pages. Content: Starlight Theatre is a magic place where an evening of musical theatre under the stars in Kansas City's Swope Park speaks so strongly of emotion that the audience is transformed by the presence of the creative experience. This book is filled with historical photos and provides a "behind the scenes" look at the real workings of the second largest outdoor theatre in the United States. A must for theatre goers everywhere. Unlike many other art forms, live outdoor theatre is a participatory experience, an event that the spectator helps to create. Every audience is unique because every set of circumstances that come together for an evening's performance is different. Yet the experience of an evening in Kansas City's hillside ampitheatre links millions of Midwesterners who have gone to the theatre in Swope Park and come away refreshed, insightful, and, often, amused. Starlight has become nationally known for its presentation of musical theatre. Light opera, operettas, and book musicals have enchanted audiences there for almost five decades. {If you ever have the opportunity to go to a Starlight performance, jump at it. In Dallas in the 50s we had Starlight Operettas at Fair Park. I still remember them all - 50 years later!) Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE STORM OVER THE DEPUTY: Essays and Articles About Hochhuth's Explosive Drama
edited by Eric Bentley. Condition: Gently pre-read (although no outward signs of such) 1964 Dell paperback, first printing. Interior clean with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: The Great debate that rocked the world. Millions of words have poured from pulpit and press, radio and television, in the impassioneed debate that has raged over Rolf Hochhuth's explosive drama, "The Deputy." The most thoughtful minds of our day have grappled with the burning issues raised by the play's charge of silence in the face of Evil. From this torrent of words, Eric Bently, noted critic...has selected the most important and enduring commentary, both pro and con, Catholic and non-Catholic, by many of the world's distinguished clergymen, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and critics. [An important debate in the 60s and today. "If you see an injustice and do nothing, you have condoned the injustice."] Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (The Play)
Book by James Lapine. Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. B&W photos of the cast & paintings. Jacket art by Fraver. Condition: UNREAD 1986 Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), Book Club Edition. Light tanning to the white cover edges. Content: This is a musical based on the life (what little is known of it) of Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) and his painting, " Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." At the time Seurat painted it, the island was a meeting place frequented primarily by the working class, although fashionable society apparently liked to pay it occasonal covert visits. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. "Sunday is itself a modernist creation, perhaps the first truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has produced ... a watershed event that demands nothing less than a retrospective, even revisionist, look at the development of the serious Broadway musical." Hmmmm. The musical starred the fabulous Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin with supporting roles by Brent Spiner (yes, TNG's "Data" can sing), Judith Moore, & Dana Ivy. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TECUMSEH! (A Play)
by Alan W. Eckert.Illustrations by Stage Setup Drawing. Condition: Very Good +. 1974 Little, Brown & Co. Trade Paperback. UNREAD, however there is a pale spine crease but not all the way down the spine, diagonal crease upper back cover. Interior very clean & tight. Content: Tecumseh! is a play in two acts of the life of the famous Shawnee warrior, Tecumseh and depicts his nearly successful efforts to draw all the tribes into a union to oppose and oust encroaching whites, his betrayal by his brother, which thwarted the plan and finally his death in the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812. Interesting! [1 copy available]
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UNDERSTANDING TODAY'S THEATRE (Second Edition)
by Edward A. Wright. Condition: UNREAD 1972 Prentice-Hall Trade Paperback, second edition. Tiny edgewear. Light tanning to page edges. Content: Wright views the theatre not only as a synthesis of the arts but as an art itself. In an analysis of the elements of all productions - from the classical to the theatre of the absurd - the author provides an inside look at the roles of the playwright, the diretor, the actors, and the technicians in creating an entertaiing work of art. [1 copy available]
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VOICE AND THE ACTOR
by Cicely Berry. Foreword by Peter Brock. B&W photos & diagrams illustrate. Condition: NEW 1991 MacMillan Trade Paperback, 7th printing. Content: This book covers everything actors need to know about controlling the voice, their most important instrument. It includes detailed, clear exercises and explanations on developing a natural stage voice, breathing, enunciation, and pitch and timbre, with special advice on difficult delivery problems. [1 copy available]
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WEST SIDE STORY (Literary Companion Series)
by Mary E. Williams (Editor). Movie still front cover. Condition: NEW 2001 Greenhaven Press Trade Paperback, no printing given, assuming first. Unfortunately, no pictures except the front cover movie still - Rita Morena and the dancers. Tiny edgewear bottom front corner tip - I dropped the book! Content: The book provides criticism and discussions of meaning, structure, and the historical content...as well as biographical information. It is organized in such a way that will give students a plethora of information in a largely accessible format. Each chapter heading is annotated, giving readers a chance to sample the content of the essays. Furthermore, each selection is introduced with background biographical data on the essay's author alongwith a summary of the content and the particular point of view represented. A reader-friendly and comprehensive resouce for students and teachers of world literature. Stated that the reading level is "Young Adult" - this is way over the head of most high school students. [1 copy available]
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The Pandemonium Theater Company Presents THE WONDERFUL ICE CREAM SUIT and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow
by Ray Bradbury. Condition: UNREAD, but far from perfect, 1972 Bantam paperback, second printing. Small edgewear with moderate tanning to page edges and inside covers. Small black "smudge" front cover that I can't seem to remove. Interior clean & tight. Content: This book contains 3 plays: The Veldt, In the Chicago Abyss, and The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit - all by Bradbury. The most famous is "Ice Cream Suit." Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true. The great 1998 movie was directed by Stuart Gordon from a screenplay by Bradbury. It starred Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales (great & underused), Edward James Olmos, Clifton Collins Jr., Gregory Sierra, Sid Caesar, Howard Morris, Liz Torres, and the hilarious Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (of the "John Wayne players"). Don't miss it. [1 copy available]
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