Plays for Two is a unique anthology of twenty-eight terrific plays for two actors, by a mix of celebrated playwrights and cutting-edge new voices. It takes two to tango-or to perform a duet, fight a duel, or play ping-pong. The two-character play is dramatic confrontation stripped to its essence. These four full-length and twenty-four short plays feature pairs of every sort-strangers, rivals, parents and children, siblings, co-workers, friends, and lovers-swooning or sparring, meeting cute or parting ways. In a dizzying range of moods and styles, these two-handers offer the kind of meaty,…mehr
Plays for Two is a unique anthology of twenty-eight terrific plays for two actors, by a mix of celebrated playwrights and cutting-edge new voices. It takes two to tango-or to perform a duet, fight a duel, or play ping-pong. The two-character play is dramatic confrontation stripped to its essence. These four full-length and twenty-four short plays feature pairs of every sort-strangers, rivals, parents and children, siblings, co-workers, friends, and lovers-swooning or sparring, meeting cute or parting ways. In a dizzying range of moods and styles, these two-handers offer the kind of meaty, challenging roles actors love, while providing readers and audiences with the pleasures of watching the complex give-and-take dynamics of two keenly matched characters. Plays by: Billy Aronson, David Auburn, Pete Barry, Naveen Bahar Choudhury, Anthony Clarvoe, Steven Dietz, Halley Feiffer, Simon Fill, Frank Higgins, David Ives, Jacob Juntunen, Ean Miles Kessler, Neil LaBute, Eric Lane, Kitt Lavoie, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Mark Harvey Levine, Elizabeth Meriwether, Michael Mitnick, Daria Polatin, Marco Ramirez, Kelly Rhodes, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, Edwin Sanchez, Nina Shengold, Cori Thomas, Doug WrightHinweis: 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 Acknowledgements
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS David Ives, VENUS IN FURS Steven Dietz, SHOOTING STAR Frank Higgins, BLACK PEARL SINGS! Anthony Clarvoe, THE ART OF SACRIFICE SHORT PLAYS Elizabeth Meriwether, 90 DAYS Kitt Lavoie, BANK & TRUST Ean Miles Kessler, FUNNY VALENTINE Simon Fill, THE GIFT Michael Mitnick, HAIL CAESER! Pete Barry, HEARING AIR Mark Harvey Levine, THE KISS Eric Lane, LADY LIBERTY AND THE DONUT GIRL Paul Rudnick, MY HUSBAND Jacob Juntunen, SADDAM’S LIONS Naveen Bahar Choudhury, SKIN Doug Wright, WILDWOOD PARK Edwin Sánchez, BEA AND MAY Nina Shengold, DEEP JERSEY Kelly Rhodes, HEADS AND TAILS José Rivera, LESSON FOR UNACCUSTOMED BRIDE Daria Polatin, THAT FIRST FALL Cori Thomas, WAKING UP Marco Ramirez, 3:59 am: a drag race for two actors Jacqueline E. Lawton, FINALS, TOUCHDOWNS, AND BARREL KICKS Halley Feiffer, FRANK AMENDS Neil LaBute, STRANGE FRUIT David Auburn, AN UPSET Billy Aronson, NEGOTIATION
Contributors About the Editors Permissions and Acknowledgements
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS David Ives, VENUS IN FURS Steven Dietz, SHOOTING STAR Frank Higgins, BLACK PEARL SINGS! Anthony Clarvoe, THE ART OF SACRIFICE SHORT PLAYS Elizabeth Meriwether, 90 DAYS Kitt Lavoie, BANK & TRUST Ean Miles Kessler, FUNNY VALENTINE Simon Fill, THE GIFT Michael Mitnick, HAIL CAESER! Pete Barry, HEARING AIR Mark Harvey Levine, THE KISS Eric Lane, LADY LIBERTY AND THE DONUT GIRL Paul Rudnick, MY HUSBAND Jacob Juntunen, SADDAM’S LIONS Naveen Bahar Choudhury, SKIN Doug Wright, WILDWOOD PARK Edwin Sánchez, BEA AND MAY Nina Shengold, DEEP JERSEY Kelly Rhodes, HEADS AND TAILS José Rivera, LESSON FOR UNACCUSTOMED BRIDE Daria Polatin, THAT FIRST FALL Cori Thomas, WAKING UP Marco Ramirez, 3:59 am: a drag race for two actors Jacqueline E. Lawton, FINALS, TOUCHDOWNS, AND BARREL KICKS Halley Feiffer, FRANK AMENDS Neil LaBute, STRANGE FRUIT David Auburn, AN UPSET Billy Aronson, NEGOTIATION
Contributors About the Editors Permissions and Acknowledgements
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