Category: Plays

Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century, edited by director Jo Bonney, features the work of 42 solo artists spanning the century-from Beatrice Herford in 1869 to Dawn Akemi Saito in 1994. Each artists' work is introduced by a journalist, artist, critic, agent, producer or educator who is intimately familiar with the material and its links to other forms such as vaudeville, theatre, cabaret, music, standup comedy, poetry, the visual arts and dance. In Bonney's words, "This anthology documents a part of our literary/stage history and offers the ...
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Barnum: A Musical Suggested by the Life of P. T. Barnum

By: Bramble, Mark/Stewart, Michael

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oct-11

Seller ID: 163033

ISBN: 216947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Traditional Japanese Theater

By: Brazell, Karen

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Oct-13

Seller ID: 476855

ISBN: 231108729

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Threepenny Opera

By: Brecht, Bertolt

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Nov-10

Seller ID: 116153

ISBN: 1559702524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through its wry love story of Polly Peachum and Mack the Knife Macheath. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, it became a popular hit throughout the Western world.
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Caucasian Chalk Circle

By: Brecht, Bertolt

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 347922

ISBN: 039462372X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Three-Penny Opera

By: Brecht, Bertolt

Price: $3.00

Publisher: May-16

Seller ID: 439385

ISBN: 143105167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Good Woman of Setzuan

By: Bretch, Bertolt

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dec-13

Seller ID: 261477

ISBN: 394171098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov

By: Bulgakov, Mikhail

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 439403

ISBN: 253118859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Out From Under: Women on Sex and Death and Other Things

By: Champagne, Lenora

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Mar-14

Seller ID: 267732

ISBN: 1559360097

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Using elements of autobiography to address such issues as religion, sex, race, family and the struggle of women to move beyond their traditional roles in society, these women integrate aspects of ritual, monologue, music, visual arts and theatre in their performances as they help to forge a new literary and theatrical tradition.
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