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MEATLOAF IN THE MOONLIGHT by David Gallic. Every family has skeletons in their closet. These skeletons are coming out to play. CLAP ON, CLAP OFF by Aiden Levy. A sexually frustrated adolescent tries to lose his virginity to his wholesome girlfriend when his grandmother leaves for a Mensa trip and entrusts him to water her plants. ANYONE, ANYWHERE by Amanda Fleming. Love can happen to anyone, anywhere. BABE, INC. by Rosemary Zibart. In the year 2108,...

The leading British writer-director of his generation, David Hare is also one of the most productive. The last two years have seen the outstanding success of two stage plays, The Secret Rapture and Racing Demon, and the release of two films, Paris by Night and Strapless.

Here's how to write salable plays, skits, monologues, or docu-dramas from life experiences, social issues, or current events. Write plays/skits using the technique of ethno-playography, which incorporates traditions, folklore, and ethnography into dramatizing real events. The sample play and monologues portray events as social issues. One true-life example for a skit is the scene in the sample play written from first-person point-of-view about a 1964...

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 possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.

Although he never left his native Kraków except for relatively short periods, Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland's greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century. Acropolis: the Wawel Plays, brings together four of Wyspiański's most important dramatic works in a new English translation by Charles S. Kraszewski. All of the plays center on Wawel Hill: the legendary seat of royal...

TED LANGE also known as the Brown Bard, personifies the Renaissance Man Theatre Award he received from the NAACP. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lange's career has gained worldwide recognition as a gifted actor of stage and screen, revered director, and prolific writer. Lange has penned twenty-five plays including a black viewpoint on the founding of our nation, The Footnote Historian's Trilogy: George Washington's Boy, The...

The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain. Uproarious, occasionally macabre and always compelling, Lally the Scut draws a line in the mud for Northern Ireland.They say the child was tempted down with toys and slices of teddy-bear ham.Abbie Spallen's Lally the Scut premiered at the MAC, Belfast, in a Tinderbox production in April 2015.

Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...

The crypt of Wawel Cathedral in Kraków is the Polish nation's greatest pantheon. Here lie the earthly remains of its storied kings and queens, and two of its greatest poets, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki. At the conclusion of his speech at Słowacki's reburial in 1927, Marshal Józef Piłsudski commanded the guard of honour: "In the name of the Republic, I direct you, gentlemen, to carry this sarcophagus into the royal crypt, for he who rests...

La obra de ficción de Guillermo Jiménez es prácticamente imposible de conseguir, el lector común o el estudioso de la literatura se enfrenta a esta carencia que ni la panacea de internet puede solucionar. Exceptuando un volumen que publicó la UNAM, otro par a cargo del Archivo Histórico de Zapotlán el Grande, por cierto con escasa o nula distribución en las librerías, y una novela corta en la web, sólo se puede constatar la existencia de...