This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter. From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully loopy "Wanda's Visit" to Shel Silverstein's supremely twisted "The Best Daddy," there's something in here to make everyone laugh. There are plays for casts of all sizes, from monologues to large ensembles, with diverse and challenging roles…mehr
This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter. From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully loopy "Wanda's Visit" to Shel Silverstein's supremely twisted "The Best Daddy," there's something in here to make everyone laugh. There are plays for casts of all sizes, from monologues to large ensembles, with diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. Even the titles are funny: Mark O'Donnell's "There Shall Be No Bottom (a bad play for worse actors)," Elaine May's "The Way of All Fish," and Alan Ball's "Your Mother's Butt." A bonanza for theatergoers, performers, and comedy fans, Laugh Lines will bring down the house.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have been editing contemporary theater anthologies for more than twenty years. Eric Lane's award-winning plays have been published and performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China. Plays include Ride, Times of War, Heart of the City, Dancing on Checkers' Grave, and Filming O'Keeffe. Floating, a PlayPenn finalist, was workshopped at Raven Theatre. Eric's short plays are published in Best American Short Plays, Poems and Plays, and the Foreign Language Press (Beijing). He wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed; both films screened in more than forty cities worldwide. For TV's Ryan's Hope he received a Writers Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award, the La MaMa Playwright Award, and fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA, and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University, and artistic director of Orange Thoughts, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City. Nina Shengold's plays include Finger Foods, War at Home, Homesteaders, and Romeo/Juliet, and have been produced around the world. Her one-act No Shoulder was filmed by director Suzi Yoonessi, with Melissa Leo and Samantha Sloyan. Nina won a Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden; other teleplays include Blind Spot, with Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, and Unwed Father. Her books include the novel Clearcut; River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (with photographer Jennifer May), and a growing posse of pseudonymous books for young readers. A graduate of Wesleyan, she is currently teaching creative writing at Manhattanville College. Nina lives in New York's Hudson Valley, where she has been books editor of Chronogram magazine since 2004.
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Introduction Acknowledgments David Auburn: MISS YOU Alan Ball: YOUR MOTHER'S BUTT Gina Barnett: ALONE AT LAST! Glen Berger: THE GALLOWS MONOLOGUE —FROM SIDNEY RYAN'S —GUNPOWDER AND BLOOD David Cale: POODLES Eric Coble: TIES THAT BIND Sharon E. Cooper: MISTAKEN IDENTITY Laura Shaine Cunningham: OUTSOURCED Adrienne Dawes: HERITAGE, HER-I-TAGE, & HAIR-I-TAGE Steven Dietz: THE SPOT Paul Dooley & Winne Holzman: POST-ITS (Notes on a Marriage) Christopher Durang: WANDA'S VISIT Peter Hedges: THE VALERIE OF NOW Mikhail Horowitz: WE CANNOT KNOW —THE MIND OF GOD Seth Kramer: THE TARANTINO VARIATION Eric Lane: THE STATUE OF BOLÍVAR Warrent Light: MARS HAS NEVER BEEN THIS CLOSE Mark Harvey Levine: SURPRISE David Lindsay-Abaire: HOW WE TALK IN SOUTH BOSTON Steve Martin: THE ZIG-ZAG WOMAN Elaine May: THE WAY OF ALL FISH Mark O'Donnell: THERE SHALL BE NO BOTTOM (a bad play for worse actors) Jonathan Rand: CHECK, PLEASE Wayne Rawley: CONTROLLING INTEREST Jacquelyn Reingold: 2B (OR NOT 2B) Edwin Sánchez: POPS Nina Shengold: FORTY TO LIFE Shel Silverstein: THE BEST DADDY David Smilow: THE FLYING WOLIMSKIES RETURN Tommy Smith: STREAK Richard Strand: ROSA'S EULOGY Frederick Stroppel: CHOCOLATE Joyce Van Dyke: THE EARRING Daryl Watson: THE BLUEBERRY HILL ACCORD Lauren Wilson: WEDDING DUET Garth Wingfield: PLEASE HAVE A SEAT AND SOMEONE WILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY Contributors About the Editors Index Permissions and Acknowledgments
Introduction Acknowledgments David Auburn: MISS YOU Alan Ball: YOUR MOTHER'S BUTT Gina Barnett: ALONE AT LAST! Glen Berger: THE GALLOWS MONOLOGUE —FROM SIDNEY RYAN'S —GUNPOWDER AND BLOOD David Cale: POODLES Eric Coble: TIES THAT BIND Sharon E. Cooper: MISTAKEN IDENTITY Laura Shaine Cunningham: OUTSOURCED Adrienne Dawes: HERITAGE, HER-I-TAGE, & HAIR-I-TAGE Steven Dietz: THE SPOT Paul Dooley & Winne Holzman: POST-ITS (Notes on a Marriage) Christopher Durang: WANDA'S VISIT Peter Hedges: THE VALERIE OF NOW Mikhail Horowitz: WE CANNOT KNOW —THE MIND OF GOD Seth Kramer: THE TARANTINO VARIATION Eric Lane: THE STATUE OF BOLÍVAR Warrent Light: MARS HAS NEVER BEEN THIS CLOSE Mark Harvey Levine: SURPRISE David Lindsay-Abaire: HOW WE TALK IN SOUTH BOSTON Steve Martin: THE ZIG-ZAG WOMAN Elaine May: THE WAY OF ALL FISH Mark O'Donnell: THERE SHALL BE NO BOTTOM (a bad play for worse actors) Jonathan Rand: CHECK, PLEASE Wayne Rawley: CONTROLLING INTEREST Jacquelyn Reingold: 2B (OR NOT 2B) Edwin Sánchez: POPS Nina Shengold: FORTY TO LIFE Shel Silverstein: THE BEST DADDY David Smilow: THE FLYING WOLIMSKIES RETURN Tommy Smith: STREAK Richard Strand: ROSA'S EULOGY Frederick Stroppel: CHOCOLATE Joyce Van Dyke: THE EARRING Daryl Watson: THE BLUEBERRY HILL ACCORD Lauren Wilson: WEDDING DUET Garth Wingfield: PLEASE HAVE A SEAT AND SOMEONE WILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY Contributors About the Editors Index Permissions and Acknowledgments
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