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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and... (read more)

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Raisin in the Sun (95 Edition)
Raisin in the Sun (95 Edition)
by Lorraine Hansberry
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By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic... (read more)

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Brecht on Theatre : the Development of an Aesthetic (64 Edition)
Brecht on Theatre : the Development of an Aesthetic (64 Edition)
by Bertolt Brecht
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This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation... (read more)

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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
by Steven D. Katz
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A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies... (read more)

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Venus
Venus
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Using the metaphor of a carnival freak-show, Suzan-Lori Parks finds poetry and comedy, as well as drama and meaning, in one of the most embarrassing episodes in our collective history: the life of the Venus Hottentot, a South African woman who, due in... (read more)

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Musical : a Look At American Musical Theater (Rev 95 Edition)
Musical : a Look At American Musical Theater (Rev 95 Edition)
by Richard Kislan
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This revised and expanded edition of Kislan's acclaimed study of America's musical theater includes a new section on "Recent Musical Theater: Issues and Problems."... (read more)

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Topdog/Underdog
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks's latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, forettling a lifetime... (read more)

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Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style (7TH 10 Edition)
Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style (7TH 10 Edition)
by Francis Hodge
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Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play to working with actors and designers to bring it to life.  The authors emphasize that the role of the director is that of an artist-leader working... (read more)

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World of Theatre : Tradition and Innovation - Text Only (06 Edition)
World of Theatre : Tradition and Innovation - Text Only (06 Edition)
by Mira Felner
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The World of Theatre is the first introduction to theatre book to truly focus on diversity and globalism, integrating coverage of multicultural, international and experimental theatre throughout. Theatre is presented as a global and multicultural form... (read more)

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Seven Guitars (Plume Drama)
Seven Guitars (Plume Drama)
by August Wilson
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It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has... (read more)

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Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (95 Edition)
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (95 Edition)
by Eric Lott
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the... (read more)

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The Chickencoop Chinaman; And, the Year of the Dragon: Two Plays
The Chickencoop Chinaman; And, the Year of the Dragon: Two Plays
by Frank Chin
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Book of Plays: The Year of the Dragon barges through the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian American-the quiet, hardworking contented character who keeps to himself, rarely bothering the white community. It is not an 'easy' play. The language is... (read more)

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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
by Richard Drain
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"Twentieth Century Theatre" is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners-- directors, playwrights... (read more)

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Italian Comedy (66 Edition)
Italian Comedy (66 Edition)
by Pierre L. Duchartre
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Illustrated history of the beginnings, growth and influence of the commedia dell arte. Describes improvisations, staging, marks, scenarios, acting troupes, and origins.... (read more)

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Blues for Mister Charlie (95 Edition)
Blues for Mister Charlie (95 Edition)
by James Baldwin
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In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe... (read more)

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Rez Sisters : a Play in Two Acts (88 Edition)
Rez Sisters : a Play in Two Acts (88 Edition)
by Tomson Highway
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"Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award" This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the... (read more)

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Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts
Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts
by August Wilson
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Fences and The Piano Lesson   “The glow accompanying August Wilsons place in contemporary American theater is fixed.” – Toni Morrison   When Harold Loomis arrives at a black... (read more)

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The Art of Theatre: Then and Now
The Art of Theatre: Then and Now
by William Missouri Downs
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This invigorating new introductory text makes timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of Hollywood television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to, predates, and influences the... (read more)

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Fences: A Play
Fences: A Play
by August Wilson
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 The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical... (read more)

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Mountaintop (11 Edition)
Mountaintop (11 Edition)
by Katori Hall
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Winner of  the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2009, The Mountaintop is a historical-fantastical two-person play, set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where at 6.01 PM the following day—April 4, 1968—Martin Luther... (read more)

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