This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You'll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and retirees in post-apocalyptic Siberia, alongside plays that unleash the humor in high school reunions, alien invasions, office cubicle farms, and even post-Katrina New Orleans. Perfect for actors, students, theater lovers, and comedy fans, Shorter, Faster, Funnier…mehr
This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You'll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and retirees in post-apocalyptic Siberia, alongside plays that unleash the humor in high school reunions, alien invasions, office cubicle farms, and even post-Katrina New Orleans. Perfect for actors, students, theater lovers, and comedy fans, Shorter, Faster, Funnier covers the spectrum of humor, from slyly witty to over-the-top outrageous. Rob Ackerman ● Billy Aronson ● John Augustine ● Pete Barry ● Dan Berkowitz ● Adam Bock ● Eric Coble ● Philip Dawkins ● Anton Dudley ● Christopher Durang ● Liz Ellison ● Halley Feiffer ● Peter Handy ● Jeffrey Hatcher ● Amy Herzog ● Mikhail Horowitz ● David Ives ● Caleen Sinnette Jennings ● Ean Miles Kessler ● Dan Kois ● Eric Lane ● Drew Larimore ● Warren Leight ● Mark Harvey Levine ● Elizabeth Meriwether ● Michael Mitnick ● Megan Mostyn-Brown ● Mark O'Donnell ● Nicole Quinn ● Wayne Rawley ● Theresa Rebeck ● Jacqueline Reingold ● Laura Shaine ● Nina Shengold ● Jane Shepard ● Edwin Sanchez ● Samara Siskind ● Daryl Watson ● Barbara Wiechmann ● Mary Louise Wilson ● Garth Wingfield ● Gary Winter ● Elizabeth Wong ● Dana YeatonHinweis: 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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THE ANNIVERSARY by Drew Larimore BAR MITZVAH BOY by Samara Siskin THE BLIZZARD by David Ives BROTHERLY LOVE by Ean Miles Kessler CHRISTMAS PRESENT by Amy Herzog THE CONTRACT by Theresa Rebeck CURTAIN RAISER by Eric Lane DOUBLE DATE by Nina Shengold ERNESTO THE MAGNIFICENT by Edwin Sánchez FRIENDSHIP by Peter Handy FUNERAL PARLOR by Christopher Durang GABRIELLE by Liz Ellison GETTING HOME by Anton Dudley H.R. by Eric Coble I LOVE NEIL LABUTE by Gary Winter LIFE WITHOUT SUBTEXT by Michael Mitnick LONG DISTANCE by Jane Shepard MARY JUST BROKE UP WITH THIS GUY by Garth Wingfield MEN IN HEAT by Dana Yeaton MERE VESSELS by Mikhail Horowitz MURDERERS (“Match Wits with Minka Lupino”) by Jeffrey Hatcher NINE POINT EIGHT METERS PER SECOND PER SECOND by Pete Barry NORM-ANON by Warren Leight NOTHING by Philip Dawkins PARTICLE BOARD by Elizabeth Meriwether PEOPLESPEAK by John Augustine THE RENTAL by Mark Harvey Levine REUNIONS by Billy Aronson RIPPER GIRL by Elizabeth Wong THE RUMOR by Dan Kois THE SCARY QUESTION by Wayne Rawley SANDCHAIR CANTATA by Nicole Quinn SNAP by Daryl Watson SOURPUSS by Dan Berkowitz THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STOPPING by Halley Feiffer 36 RUMSON ROAD by Barbara Wiechmann THREE GUYS AND A BRENDA by Adam Bock TIRADE by Mary Louise Wilson UNCOVERED by Caleen Sinnette Jennings A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY by Jacqueline Reingold THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE BLUETOOTH by Laura Shaine THE WOODS ARE FOR SUCKERS AND CHUMPS by Megan Mostyn-Brown YOU HAVE ARRIVED by Rob Ackerman YOU KNOW WHO ELSE I HATE? By Mark O’Donnell Contributors About the Editors Index by Cast Size
THE ANNIVERSARY by Drew Larimore BAR MITZVAH BOY by Samara Siskin THE BLIZZARD by David Ives BROTHERLY LOVE by Ean Miles Kessler CHRISTMAS PRESENT by Amy Herzog THE CONTRACT by Theresa Rebeck CURTAIN RAISER by Eric Lane DOUBLE DATE by Nina Shengold ERNESTO THE MAGNIFICENT by Edwin Sánchez FRIENDSHIP by Peter Handy FUNERAL PARLOR by Christopher Durang GABRIELLE by Liz Ellison GETTING HOME by Anton Dudley H.R. by Eric Coble I LOVE NEIL LABUTE by Gary Winter LIFE WITHOUT SUBTEXT by Michael Mitnick LONG DISTANCE by Jane Shepard MARY JUST BROKE UP WITH THIS GUY by Garth Wingfield MEN IN HEAT by Dana Yeaton MERE VESSELS by Mikhail Horowitz MURDERERS (“Match Wits with Minka Lupino”) by Jeffrey Hatcher NINE POINT EIGHT METERS PER SECOND PER SECOND by Pete Barry NORM-ANON by Warren Leight NOTHING by Philip Dawkins PARTICLE BOARD by Elizabeth Meriwether PEOPLESPEAK by John Augustine THE RENTAL by Mark Harvey Levine REUNIONS by Billy Aronson RIPPER GIRL by Elizabeth Wong THE RUMOR by Dan Kois THE SCARY QUESTION by Wayne Rawley SANDCHAIR CANTATA by Nicole Quinn SNAP by Daryl Watson SOURPUSS by Dan Berkowitz THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STOPPING by Halley Feiffer 36 RUMSON ROAD by Barbara Wiechmann THREE GUYS AND A BRENDA by Adam Bock TIRADE by Mary Louise Wilson UNCOVERED by Caleen Sinnette Jennings A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY by Jacqueline Reingold THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE BLUETOOTH by Laura Shaine THE WOODS ARE FOR SUCKERS AND CHUMPS by Megan Mostyn-Brown YOU HAVE ARRIVED by Rob Ackerman YOU KNOW WHO ELSE I HATE? By Mark O’Donnell Contributors About the Editors Index by Cast Size
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