Duo! : The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century Paperback / softback
Edited by Joyce Henry, Rebecca Dunn Jaroff, Bob Shuman
Part of the Applause Acting Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Spotlighting the best of Broadway Off-Broadway regional and experimental writings since 2000 EDuo!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st CenturyE offers bravura pieces for performance acting class and study.
Culled from the work of over 100 playwrights a veterans as well as up-and-coming talents a and encompassing the seminal issues of our time a from race to gender class to politics a this follow-up compendium to the popular edition of the 1990s is by turns comic or serious a and sometimes both a but always intensely human.
EDuo!E's satisfyingly complex characters are the obscure or famous young middle-aged and older.THTracy Letts confronts the aftermath of betrayal on a night too hot for sleep in EAugust: Osage CountyE; Karen Finley exposes sexual politics outside the Oval Office in EGeorge & MarthaE; Tom Stoppard investigates the difficulties of understanding Greek as well as the younger generation in ERock 'n' RollE; Lynn Nottage delineates gentility the fear of being alone and the passage of time in EIntimate ApparelE; Richard Greenberg weighs the costs of being godly or becoming merely human in the baseball-themed ETake Me OutE; and Tina Howe bends time showing the universal power of dramatic recognition across the ages in EWater MusicE.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:520 pages
- Publisher:Hal Leonard Corporation
- Publication Date:01/07/2009
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- ISBN:9781557837028
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:520 pages
- Publisher:Hal Leonard Corporation
- Publication Date:01/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781557837028
