Understanding PlaysUnderstanding Plays As Texts for Performance offers seventeen plays with critical commentaries that span the range of Western writing for the theatre from the Greeks to the post-moderns. This book introduces readers to dramatic writing as "pre-texts" for theatrical performance written not only to be read, but also to be performed by actors before audiences. |
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... followed , was written while he was a switchboard op- erator at the United Nations Plaza Hotel in mid- town Manhattan . The play was produced by a group of actors ( all working the same switchboard ) who formed a company called Heat ...
... followed , was written while he was a switchboard op- erator at the United Nations Plaza Hotel in mid- town Manhattan . The play was produced by a group of actors ( all working the same switchboard ) who formed a company called Heat ...
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... followed you . From work . I ... followed you here . ( Pause . ) LOUIS : You followed me . You probably saw me that day in the washroom and thought : there's a sweet guy , sensitive , cries for friends in trouble . JOE : Yes . LOUIS ...
... followed you . From work . I ... followed you here . ( Pause . ) LOUIS : You followed me . You probably saw me that day in the washroom and thought : there's a sweet guy , sensitive , cries for friends in trouble . JOE : Yes . LOUIS ...
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... followed by a SERVANT with baggage . ) MRS . SARTI : Well ! VIRGINIA : Oh ! Why didn't you write that you were coming ? LUDOVICO : I decided on the spur of the moment . I was over inspecting our vineyards at Buc- ciole . I couldn't keep ...
... followed by a SERVANT with baggage . ) MRS . SARTI : Well ! VIRGINIA : Oh ! Why didn't you write that you were coming ? LUDOVICO : I decided on the spur of the moment . I was over inspecting our vineyards at Buc- ciole . I couldn't keep ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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