Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6664&N=3+4004&No=80 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114873 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677174 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=676594 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734608 Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Shebas lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Sheba becomes uneasy with Barbaras friendship. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbaras cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. Sheba chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677176 As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are likely to be called upon to perform one or more audition pieces - often a classical piece is specified. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particular performing skills and to the period of the play you are auditioning for. Which is where this volume of The Good Audition Guides comes in. Drawing on her enormous experience as a theatre director and in drama training - she has sat on the selection board of several leading drama schools - Marina Caldarone has chosen for this volume fifty monologues for female actors selected from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre. Each monologue is prefaced with a neat summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect and in your own unique way. The volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729826 At a boys grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher who sees history as entertainment; Mrs. Lintott, a traditionalist, who teaches history, not histrionics; and, a Headmaster obsessed with results. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693303 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734636 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649034 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651216 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=604779 One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barkers classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this adaptation. For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm from his aging father, discovers the embezzlement that has been keeping his relatives in a life of luxury, he must weigh the trappings of wealth and the imperative to preserve his familys good name against the better principles of his conscience. But moral righteousness turns to self-protection when he comes to understand fully the consequences of his inheritance.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620324 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634491 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561117 Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. Now the most extensively annotated edition of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffels on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. And in his introduction he provides religious and social contexts that increase the readers understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Macbeth is the playwrights most internalized drama.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749130 Explores the history of Chavez Ravine, the immigrant community that once existed on the site that is now Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620396 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=699996 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=581712 A collection of 111 original monologues, all about one minute long, to be used by male and female teenage actors in auditions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1174999 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620328 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634496 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=572580 More than a century since Chekhovs death, his artistic influence continues to be felt throughout literature and the theater, where many refer to him as the progenitor of modern drama. Why is it that as frequently as Chekhovs work is performed in the modern English-speaking theater, it is so often stuck in interpretations that are historically accurate but bereft of contemporary resonance and genuine passion? Why does his prose often sound stilted, precious, forced, and humorless? To anyone who has read him in the Russian, this is the furthest from a description of his language that anyone could imagine. In Russian, Chekhov is blunt, muscular, even coarse, simultaneously funny and sad because he is so uncomplicated. In these new translations of Chekhovs four greatest plays - Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard - the theatrical translator Curt Columbus recaptures the masters open-ended simplicity, at once colloquial and accurate. He endows these timeless dramas with dialogue that is faithful to the Russian original but attuned to contemporary audiences.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=568576 Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student on need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights. With 25 speeches for characters ranging in age from 20 to 65, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women contains a variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by an assembly of playwrights. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play together with character commentary as well as recommendations for accents and reference to first performance. Jane Edwards, Theater Editor at Time Out magazine, also provides a general introduction with helpful hints for the audition process.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584897 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561122 From the hilarious mischief of Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeares lyrical A Midsummer Nights Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love. Now the most extensively annotated edition of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffels on-page annotations offer help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. In his introduction, he explores the complexities of A Midsummer Nights Dream. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the plays extraordinary melange of characters.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594893 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561126 Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality. Despite many successful productions, his work has never before been widely available in print. The four plays in this collection represent Houstons full range of themes and styles, from Texas history fo African mythology, from farce to domestic drama. All four plays contain characters that actors can sink their teeth into, as well as themes and theatrical techniques of interest to the scholar and the teacher. Houstons is an important voice in theatre, available for the first time to a wide audience.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584894 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594832 The latest play from the author of The Weir, published alongside the premiere at the Royal Court Theatre and the Dublin Theatre Festival. Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. Johns wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps seeing her ghost. As John recovers with Ians help, Ian himself is going under with troubles of his own.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619130 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634935 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620351 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584991 The scope of this book extends far beyond New York, recognizing as it does the vitality and the innovative contributions of resident theaters throughout the country. The invaluable survey of the season around the United States includes the American Theatre Critics Associations Steinberg New Play Award and Citations, plus a directory of more than 300 new play productions and readings at resident theaters everywhere. As always this compendious book is illustrated with scores of photographs of productions in New York and around the United States.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=547545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=703449 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688519 The images of war. Snapshots from Abu Ghraib that depict atrocities committed in the name of freedom. Tabloid images of English soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner that are later revealed as fakes. And somewhere between England and America, between savagery and spin, lies the truth. The monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence, Guardians offers storytelling at its simplest - and its most complex. A disgraced American soldier tells her story. And a clever English journalist tells how he got his.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649060 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=636796 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=657198 Seven self-regarding critics assemble at a disused theatre in response to a mysterious invitation. Too late they discover its gruesome purpose as Edward Lionheart, an actor frenzied by a lifetime of sneering reviews, hacks his revengeful way through the bloody works of Shakespeare, assisted by a gang of murderous tramps. The laws of theatre supersede the laws of physics in this macabre exhibition of putty noses, Kensington gore and some very large acting indeed.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=637610 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=551455 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492921 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634519 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632605 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620910 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500735 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491017 The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble. The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and now the neighborhood residents are waiting for her proper return. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570393 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546386 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=514456 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=534124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=381152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543442 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521209 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516050 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521208 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521207 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492918 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=491019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550836 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=563395 Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh. The first direct translation into English from Quiche Maya, based on the original text, Rabinal Achi is the story of city-states, war, and nobility, of diplomacy, mysticism, and psychic journeys. Cawek of the Forest People has been captured by Man of Rabinal, who serves a ruler named Lord Five Thunder. Cawek is a renegade, a warrior who has inflicted much suffering on Rabinal. Yet he is also the son of the lord of the allied city of Quiche - a noble who once fought alongside Man of Rabinal. The drama presents the confronation between the two during the trial of Cawek, who defies his captors and proudly accepts death by beheading. Dennis Tedlocks translation is clear and vivid; more than that, it is rooted in an understanding of how the play is actually performed. Despite being banned for centuries by Spanish authorities, it survived in actual practice, and is still performed in the town of Rabinal today. Tedlocks photographs and diagrams accompany the text, capturing nuances not apparent in the dialogue alone. He also provides an introduction and commentary that explains the historical events compressed into the play, the Spanish influence on the Mayan dramatic tradition, and the cultural and religious world preserved in this remarkable play.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487699 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550838 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395011 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=482729 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487698 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451241 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=530118 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550840 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=501081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=450757 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=747042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=450756 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=488201 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536491 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423040 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=486560 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405302 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536484 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=440894 Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming women of fashion who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Annas help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Annas hapless Scottish parlor maid, Claires young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the womens futures at risk.--BOOK JACKET.