The Cocktail Hour And Two Other Plays
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Author |
: Albert Ramsdell Gurney |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1029292515 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cocktail Hour, and Two Other Plays by : Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Author |
: Albert Ramsdell Gurney |
Publisher |
: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822202255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822202257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cocktail Hour by : Albert Ramsdell Gurney
THE STORY: The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family's house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them. His purpose is to obtain their permission to proceed with pr
Author |
: Albert Ramsdell Gurney |
Publisher |
: Plume Books |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105034380225 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cocktail Hour, and Two Other Plays by : Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Set in 1970s upstate New York. Playwright comes in conflict with elderly father when he writes play about his family. 2 acts, 2 men, 2 women, 1 interior.
Author |
: A. R. Gurney Jr. |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 1990-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780452265011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0452265010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Love Letters and Two Other Plays by : A. R. Gurney Jr.
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA In such critically acclaimed plays as The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A. R. Gurney has wittily captured the manners of upper-middle-class WASP America, but never as gracefully or with such dazzling economy as in Love Letters. Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written—and what is left unsaid—in their letters. A smash hit both off and on Broadway, Love Letters captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling that only Gurney can command. Two other, thematically related plays by Gurney, The Golden Age and What I Did Last Summer, are included, providing a trio of wry and affectionate paeans to love lost, found, and fleetingly glimpsed.
Author |
: Robert J. Andreach |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786492657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786492651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy by : Robert J. Andreach
The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women. There are five chapters beginning with Opposing Families (trilogies of, e.g., Lanford Wilson, Foote, Machado, and McCraney are examined). Carson, Rabe, and McLaughlin are among those in the Classical Reimaginings chapter while Coen, Berc, and Wolfe constitute the Medieval Reimaginings chapter. Van Itallie, Havis, Rapp, and Hwang, among others, create New Forms. LaBute, Fierstein, and Nelson, among others, create New Selves. The concluding chapter is devoted to Ruhl's Passion Play, which spans 400 years of theatre-creating from Elizabethan England to Hitler's Germany to the Reagan era in America.
Author |
: Alexandra Fuller |
Publisher |
: Simon & Schuster Limited |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 184983296X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781849832960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by : Alexandra Fuller
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesstells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned. They had everything, including two golden children - a girl and a boy. However, life became increasingly difficult and they moved to Rhodesia to work as farm managers. The previous farm manager had committed suicide. His ghost appeared at the foot of their bed and seemed to be trying to warn them of something. Shortly after this, one of their golden children died. Africa was no longer the playground of Nicola's childhood. They returned to England where the author was born before they returned to Rhodesia and to the civil war. The last part of the book sees the Fullers in their old age on a banana and fish farm in the Zambezi Valley. They had built their ramshackle dining room under the Tree of Forgetfulness. In local custom, this tree is the meeting place for villagers determined to resolve disputes. It is in the spirit of this Forgetfulness that Nicola finally forgot - but did not forgive - all her enemies including her daughter and the Apostle, a squatter who has taken up in her bananas with his seven wives and forty-nine children. Funny, tragic, terrifying, exotic and utterly unself-conscious, this is a story of survival and madness, love and war, passion and compassion.
Author |
: Theatre Aquarius Archives (University of Guelph) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:628203621 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cocktail Hour by : Theatre Aquarius Archives (University of Guelph)
Author |
: Arvid F. Sponberg |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2004-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135956011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135956014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis A.R. Gurney by : Arvid F. Sponberg
This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as well as essays by leading theater scholars on the range of Gurney's work.
Author |
: William Hutt fonds (University of Guelph) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:629692220 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cocktail Hour by : William Hutt fonds (University of Guelph)
Author |
: David Gessner |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2017-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735210578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735210578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ultimate Glory by : David Gessner
A story of obsession, glory, and the wild early days of Ultimate Frisbee. David Gessner devoted his twenties to a cultish sport called Ultimate Frisbee. Like his teammates and rivals, he trained for countless hours, sacrificing his body and potential career for a chance at fleeting glory without fortune or fame. His only goal: to win Nationals and go down in Ultimate history as one of the greatest athletes no one has ever heard of. With humor and raw honesty, Gessner explores what it means to devote one’s life to something that many consider ridiculous. Today, Ultimate is played by millions, but in the 1980s, it was an obscure sport with a (mostly) undeserved stoner reputation. Its early heroes were as scrappy as the sport they loved, driven by fierce competition, intense rivalries, epic parties, and the noble ideals of the Spirit of the Game. Ultimate Glory is a portrait of the artist as a young ruffian. Gessner shares the field and his seemingly insane obsession with a cast of closely knit, larger-than-life characters. As his sport grows up, so does he, and eventually he gives up chasing flying discs to pursue a career as a writer. But he never forgets his love for this misunderstood sport and the rare sense of purpose he attained as a member of its priesthood.