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Stella Adler
The Art of Acting
Inbunden, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
396 kr
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Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and …
Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors
From the Silent Era to 1965
Av Barry Monush
Häftad, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1042 kr
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For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library.In …
Jacob's Ladder
Häftad, 1990
202 kr
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From the hit movie directed by Adrian Lyne, this is the original script with over 100 photos. From Rubin's introduction: The script presented here is not my initial screenplay but the final draft completed just before shooting. While close to the original, some significant scenes have been changed …
Rage and Glory
The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott
Inbunden, 2008
379 kr
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George C. Scott (1927-1999) born in Wise, Virginia, created some of the 20th century's most memorable performances on stage and screen – the cunning prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, the manipulative gambler in The Hustler, the buffoonishly warmongering chief of staff in Dr. Strangelove, and, of …
Hiding in Plain Sight
The Secret Life of Raymond Burr
Häftad, 2009
232 kr
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Now in paperback, the complete story of the actor's career, including his secret gay life.Raymond Burr (1917-1993) was an enigma. A film noir regular known for his villainous roles in movies like Rear Window, he eventually became one of the most popular stars in television history as the lead actor …
Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam Shepard
Av Sam Shepard
Inbunden, 1984
414 kr
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The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand • Forensic and the Navigators • The Holy Ghostly • Back Bog Beast Bait • Shaved Splits • 4-H Club.
Before Brecht
Four German Plays
Av Eric Bentley
Inbunden, 1986
283 kr
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Collects influential plays by the distinguished German authors Carl Sternheim, Georg Buchner, Arthur Schnitzler, and Frank Wedekind
Acting on the Script
Av Bruce Miller
Häftad, 2014
283 kr
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Mastery of craft depends on repetition: the more opportunities student actors have to be guided through analyzing scripts, the more likely they are to develop a reliable process for making choices when the time comes to work independently. That's why Acting on the Script contains eight short plays, …
Celestina
Häftad, 2002
170 kr
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“As Greek tragedy ” says a Spanish writer, “was composed from the crumbs that fell from Homer's table, so the Spanish drama owed its earliest forms to La Celestina (1499).”Fernando de Rojas' tragi-comedy – which has also been called “a novel in dialogue” – runs to about three hundred pages in the …
Misanthrope and Other French Classics
Av Eric Bentley
Häftad, 1986
225 kr
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The complete play scripts to: The Misanthrope by Moliere, English version by Richard Wilbur; Phaedra by Racine, English version by Robert Lowell; The Cid by Corneille, English version by James Schevill; and Figaro's Marriage by Beaumarchais, English version by Jacques Barzun.
Servant of Two Masters
And Other Italian Classics
Av Eric Bentley
Häftad, 1986
196 kr
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An anthology of four classic Italian plays edited by Eric Bentley. Also includes directorial and technical notes. Includes the title work by Goldoni as well as The King Stag (Gozzi), The Mandrake (Machiavelli), Ruzzante Returns from the Wars (Beolco).
Theatre of Black Americans
A Collection of Critical Essays
Av Errol Hill
Häftad, 1987
251 kr
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From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch …
Savages/Shakespeare Wallah
Two Films by James Ivory
Av James Ivory
Häftad, 1986
97 kr
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Introductions, the motion picture treatments, credits and screenplays for these two movies by James Ivory.
La Guerre Est Finie
Häftad, 1986
97 kr
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The script to the 1966 film by Alain Resnais profiling the effect of the Spanish Civil War on the lives of a group of anti-Franco exiles living in France, and still actively working for the overthrow of the dictatorship. Called an incomparable thriller by some critics, it is also a beautiful love …
Scapin & Don Juan
The Actor's Moliere, Volume 3
Av Moliere
Häftad, 1988
122 kr
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In one of Molière's most popular plays, Scapin, that monarch of con men, puts his store of ingenuity to work, getting two lovesick young men married to the girls they pine for and, along the way, taking revenge on their grasping old fathers. Closed down after its first, highly successful run …
Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive
Three Plays (including The Water Hen}
Av Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Häftad, 1989
203 kr
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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 …
Medieval and Tudor Drama
Twenty-Four Plays
Av John Gassner
Häftad, 1987
316 kr
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The rich tapestry of medieval belief, morality, and manners, shines through this comprehensive anthology of the twenty-four major plays that bridge the dramatic worlds of medieval and Tudor England. Here are the plays that paved the way to the Renaissance and Shakespeare. In John Gassner's …
Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman
Six Plays
Häftad, 1987
251 kr
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Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century.– Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West, Chair, Dept. …
She Always Knew How: Mae West
A Personal Biography
Häftad, 2010
232 kr
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Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West (1893-1980) created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Convicted of obscenity, she was sentenced to ten days in prison. She went to jail a convict but emerged a star. Later, in Hollywood, she was the …
Broadway Musical Quiz Book
Häftad, 2010
225 kr
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The Broadway Musical Quiz Book includes nearly 80 quizzes on every aspect of the Broadway musical, including sections devoted to the careers of major Broadway stars, songwriters, directors, and producers, ranging from Ethel Merman to Stephen Sondheim. It also features thematic quizzes – such as …
Enraged Accompanist's Guide to the Perfect Audition
Av Andrew Gerle
Häftad, 2011
196 kr
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“I am your accompanist. You do not know me. I am the guy who sits behind the upright in the unflattering fluorescent light of the dance studio, a bottle of water on the floor, a half-eaten Power Bar on the bench, and your audition in my hands.”Award-winning New York theatre composer and pianist …
Seeds of Modern Drama
E-bok, 2000
214 kr
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Five great forces – Checkhov, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg and Zola – dramatists whose work define, embrace and transcend the trends and genres of the modern stage, meet here in this extraordinary exhibition of their sustained and sustaining power in today''s theatre. Includes Zola''s Therese …
Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman
Six Plays
E-bok, 2000
263 kr
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Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century. – Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West , Chair, …
Chekhov
The Major Plays
E-bok, 2006
269 kr
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Despite the abundant variety of Chekhov translations available in bookstores and libraries, American directors and actors have sought out these versions by Jean-Claude van Itallie to make them the most often performed renditions on the American stage today. This edition includes “The Seagull ” …
Bunny Bunny
Gilda Radner: a Sort of Love Story
Av Alan Zweibel
E-bok, 2000
166 kr
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In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he “merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head ” and, indeed, these …
Playwright's Workbook
E-bok, 2000
241 kr
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A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller • Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare • The solo performance piece: listening for stories • Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco • The point of absurdity: creating without …
Merchant of Venice
E-bok, 2001
144 kr
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Mark Rylance, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare''s Globe says: As an actor and director I use and recommend the Applause First Folio Editions. They are extremely actor-friendly and share the greatest thing to happen for Shakespearean actors at the end of this century, an annotated, unedited …
Solo!
The Best Monologues of the 80s - Women
Av Philippa Keil, Michael Earley
E-bok, 2000
172 kr
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This collection of 75 solo speeches and performance pieces for actors has been selected from the finest material being written today for theatre in America and England. Solo! presents dramatic monologues on the cutting edge. All selections include acting notes along with the quick and easy guide to …
Political Stages
Plays That Shaped a Century
Av Emily Mann
E-bok, 2002
247 kr
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Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and …
Complete Voice & Speech Workout
75 Exercises for Classroom and Studio Use
E-bok, 2002
418 kr
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Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them! One of the constants that any actor, director or theatre teacher needs is a strong vocal warmup. This valuable, first-of-its-kind resource contains 75 exercises for both solo and group work, contributed by some of the …
