The best American short plays

著者

• Young, Glenn
• Parisi, Barbara
• Demastes, William W.
• Bray, John Patrick

書誌事項

The best American short plays

edited with an introduction by Glenn Young

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, c2006-

• 2001-2002 : cloth
• 2002-2003 : cloth
• 2003-2004 : cloth
• 2004-2005 : cloth
• 2005-2006 : cloth
• 2007-2008 : cloth
• 2008-2009 : cloth
• 2009-2010 : cloth
• 2010-2011 : cloth
• 2010-2011 : pbk
• 2011-2012 : cloth
• 2012-2013 : pbk
• 2013-2014 : pbk
• 2014-2015 : pbk
• 2015-2016 : pbk

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• The Best short plays. (1894/99)

  1899

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注記

Differs from other volumes in not having series title (BA40253140)

2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010 ed.: edited with an introduction by Barbara Parisi

2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 ed.: edited with an introduction by William W. Demastes

2014-2015 ed.: edited by William W. Demastes

2015-2016 ed.: edited by William W. Demastes and John Patrick Bray

Place of publication varies: Milwaukee, Wis

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

2012-2013 : pbk ISBN 9781480361744

内容説明

For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialise and civilise. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation: The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. But cold decrees are what prevent is from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.

巻冊次

2013-2014 : pbk ISBN 9781480395480

内容説明

For more than 70 years The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception it has identified cutting-edge playwrights a Tennessee Williams Edward Albee and others a who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.THEThe Best American Short Plays 2013-2014E takes a look at our changing times. Uncertain seems to be the watchword of today's world full of surprises shocks and even a few delights. Uncertainty brings with it fear and insecurity as well as nostalgic longing for the good old days but for some uncertainty means opportunity and along with it the prospect of change for the better. This volume explores various experiences of uncertainty and includes a series of nine plays gathered by Daniel Gallant entitled ENine Signs of the TimesE as well as short plays by Neil LaBute John Guare Laura Shaine Cunningham Daniel F. Levin Quincy Long Halley Feiffer Caridad Svich and Clay McLeod Chapman. This collection will be complemented by a range of plays from around the country by playwrights likewise observing and digesting the signs of the times. Together the plays of this volume work as a time capsule capturing the fears and longings of a world on the verge and in the midst of big changes hopefully for the better a but quite possibly for the worse.

巻冊次

2014-2015 : pbk ISBN 9781495046483

内容説明

For more than 70 years EThe Best American Short PlaysE has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams Edward Albee and others who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.THEThe Best American Short Plays 2014-2015E is the next installment from series editor William W. Demastes. This volume takes a look at the trinity Shakespeare coined as the lunatic the lover and the poet. The works in this volume explore whimsical imaginative humorous and romantic themes.THIn the introduction Demastes writes What really hits home in Shakespeare's plays is how he uses his own seething brain to put things onstage that cool reason will never be able to comprehend. He shows us that the world is more than facts and figures that humans are connected by more than a balance sheet and that life is more than biology. The wonderful short plays in this collection delve into the spectrum of emotions that bubble beneath cool reason and remind us about the some of the aspects that make life worth living for better or worse a the insanity the beauty the unbridled joy and the mystery.

巻冊次

2015-2016 : pbk ISBN 9781495065408

内容説明

Now in its seventh decade the annals of The Best American Short Plays series now boasts hundreds of groundbreaking one-acts and an alumni list the likes of which other anthologies can only dream. From luminaries like Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee to the brightest stars of today such as Murray Schisgal James Armstrong Billy Aronson Jules Tasca Neil LaBute and Daniel Gallant TBASP established itself as the standard bearer for its genre by presenting materials that offer a forthright annual reading of our nation's pulse. If EThe Best American Short Plays 2015-2016E co-edited by William Demastes and John Patrick Bray proves as portentous as its forebears suffice it to say that our hearts are pounding.THIn this volume DeMastes and Bray have assembled a collection of plays centered on the notion of Starting Over. Following the 2016 election cycle which turned centuries-old political mores and traditions on their heads many Americans a especially those in the theatre community ayfeel as though the incoming presidential administration and congress will require our nation to start anew. The feeling that we are beginning again (for better or for worse) has crept into the consciousness of this year's crop of writers. These playwrights individually and collectively demonstrate the vitality and necessity of the theatre as a space where we can ask questions about character and identity on both personal and national scales. Although answers aren't easily forthcoming the ensuing silences provides a vacuum of sorts a an ideal but ephemeral space where any citizen regardless of persuasion or belief can stop sit and think.

巻冊次

2003-2004 : cloth ISBN 9781557836953

内容説明

This work is first rate! It is exciting to find this collection of truly short plays by truly accomplished playwrights ... ideal for school reading and workshop productions. aEKliattETHApplause is proud to continue to publish the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception EThe Best American Short PlaysE has identified new cutting edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers including Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Wendy Wasserstein Terrence McNally and David Mamet.THThis new volume includes John Guare's EWoman at a Threshold BeckoningE; John Ford Noonan's EThe Raunchy Dame in the Chinese RaincoatE Tina Howe's EWater MusicE; and Joe Pintauro's ETen-Dollar DrinksE.THThe subject matter of this 12-play collection with half of the plays by women is up to the minute: In Jules Tasca's EThe Death of BlissE a young Palestinian wife pleads with her husband not to become a suicide bomber. Melanie Marnich's EThe Right to RemainE was commissioned by Mixed Blood Theatre for its Bill of (W)Rights project designed to explore the state of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights at the beginning of 2004. Peter Maloney's ELeashE is set in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. And for variety's sake Deborah Brevoort's EBlue Moon Over MemphisE is a Noh Drama about Elvis Presley.THOther plays rounding out the collection include Jordan Harrison's EFit for FeetE; Mary Gallagher's EPerfectE; and Lavonne Mueller's EThe Wounded Do Not CryE the latter inspired by the life of Frances Slanger forgotten heroine of the Normandy invasion.THSusan Miller's EThe Grand DesignE was staged in Los Angeles at the Canon Theatre in an evening of original one act plays benefiting Cure Autism Now starring Lily Tomlin and Eric Stoltz It was also performed by Marsha Mason and Scott Cohen at Town Hall in New York City for Brave New World a marathon of plays commemorating 9/11. It was also a finalist for the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award.

巻冊次

2001-2002 : cloth ISBN 9781557837042

内容説明

This is the latest volume in the acclaimed series that, for more than 60 years, has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays. From its very first publication, "The Best Short Plays" series has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights that have gone on to become some of the most recognized names in theatre, from Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, to Terrence McNally and David Mamet. This new volume does not fail to live up to the standards of its predecessors, with plays including Joyce Carol Oates' "When I Was a Little Girl" and "My Mother Didn't Want Me", David Ives' "Lives of Saints", Will Scheffer's "Alien Boy", Neena Beber's "In Bed with Kafka/Kafka in My Bed", and Dmitry Lipkin and Tony Angeles' "Tightwad".

巻冊次

2002-2003 : cloth ISBN 9781557837196

内容説明

Applause is happy to bring you "The Best American Short Plays 2002-2003". Editor Glenn Young has selected the following 13 plays: "The Beauty Inside", by Catherine Filloux; "The D Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", by Laura Shaine Cunningham; "Brown", by Cherie Vogelstein; and "Everybody Else", by Scott Organ; "Two Monologues for an Actor and a Dog, Queenie, and My Wife, the Rabbit-Eater", by Murray Schisgal; "Reunions", by Billy Aronson; "Captain Abalone", by Adam Kraar; "The Changing of the Guard", by Amy Staats; "Hermaphrodite", by Annie G.; "Sada", by Bruce Levy; "5:15 Greyhound", by Le Wilhelm; and "The Beauty Inside" (one-act version), by Catherine Filloux.

巻冊次

2008-2009 : cloth ISBN 9781557837615

内容説明

Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception The EBest American Short PlaysE has identified new cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers including Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Wendy Wasserstein Terrence McNally and David Mamet.THThe complex and diverse plays that make up this collection reflect both personal concerns and social issues. The 2008-2009 edition includes EA Second of PleasureE by Neil LaBute; ESt. Francis Preaches to the BirdsE by David Ives; EThe Stormy Waters The Long Way HomeE by Carey Lovelace; EEarly MorningE by Eric Lane; ESistersE by Adam Kraar Maria Filimon and Tasnim Mansur; ELittle DuckE by Billy Aronson; EA Portrait of the Woman as a Young ArtistE by Meg Miroshnik; ESlapped ActressE by Emily Conbere; EThe Last Artist in NYCE by Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill; ETHE TRUE AUTHOR of the plays formerly attributed to Mister William Shakespeare REVEALED to the world for the first time by Miss Delia BaconE by James Armstrong; EThe Lovers and Others of Eugene O'NeillE by Marla Del Collins; EIIIE by Joe Salvatore; EPete & Joe at the Dew Drop InnE by Lewis Gardner; EDecades ApartE by Rick Pulos; E508E by Amy Herzog; and ENaked Old ManE by Murray Schisgal.

巻冊次

2009-2010 : cloth ISBN 9781557837639

内容説明

Theater / Contemporary Plays

巻冊次

2010-2011 : cloth ISBN 9781557838353

内容説明

Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to EThe Best American Short Plays of 1989E the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future. From its inception EThe Best American Short PlaysE has identified new cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers including Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Wendy Wasserstein David Mamet and Horton Foote. This volume Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor illustrates how well the short story play can grapple with the many dimensions of love. The selected plays present unique perspectives on the wide range of love's impact on our lives each giving a thoroughly modern twist to the idea that life would be so much easier (but also much less interesting) if we could only avoid love's mercurial influence.

巻冊次

2010-2011 : pbk ISBN 9781557838360

内容説明

Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to EThe Best American Short Plays of 1989E the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future. From its inception EThe Best American Short PlaysE has identified new cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers including Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Wendy Wasserstein David Mamet and Horton Foote. This volume Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor illustrates how well the short play can grapple with the many dimensions of love. The selected plays present unique perspectives on the wide range of love's impact on our lives each giving a thoroughly modern twist to the idea that life would be so much easier (but also much less interesting) if we could only avoid love's mercurial influence.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA8487788X
• ISBN:
  • 9781557837042
  • 9781557837196
  • 9781557836953
  • 9781557837110
  • 9781557837134
  • 9781557837509
  • 9781557837615
  • 9781557837639
  • 9781557838353
  • 9781557838360
  • 9781476877341
  • 9781480361744
  • 9781480395480
  • 9781495046483
  • 9781495065408
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: v.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 812.5408
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American drama -- 20th century