Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Newly Published: Duo Scenes from 21st Century Theatre
Newly published, signaled by talkinbroadway.com:
Duo!
The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century
(Applause - Paperback Book)
$14.81 at Amazon.com
Editors Rebecca Dunn Jaroff, Bob Shuman, Joyce E. Henry. Spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000 ... pieces for performance, acting class, and study.
Culled from the work of more than 100 playwrights - including Tracy Letts confronts the aftermath of betrayal on a night too hot for sleep in August: Osage County; Karen Finley exposes sexual politics outside the Oval Office in George and Martha; Tom Stoppard investigates the difficulties of understanding Greek as well as the younger generation in Rock 'n' Roll; Lynn Nottage delineates gentility, the fear of being alone, and the passage of time in Intimate Apparel; Richard Greenberg weighs the costs of being godly or becoming merely human in the baseball-themed Take Me Out; and Tina Howe bends time, showing the universal power of dramatic recognition across the ages, in Water Music.
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