Dramatic Shorts Volume 2

Dramatic Shorts is a collection of new theatrical writing allowing new playwrights to showcase their creative talents. It includes various monologues, duologues and short plays from around the world.

Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. A REAL CUSHY NUMBER: It's the night shift at a major hospital and the porters sip their hot tea and talk about life as they wait for a patient to die. ALL GOOD MEN: Party conference time - and the sudden death of the prime minister triggers a power struggle as young speech-writer Simon goes to war with ambitious minister Darius and sexy, ruthless power-broker Lady Bridgewater. LUVVIES: A failed playwright and a bit-part actress invite a young couple home for heavy drinking and ritual humiliation - but the tables could be turned! "Clever, well-written. The punchy, bitchy dialogue is great fun with an undercurrent of tragedy. It kept me hooked," said the Write Now Liverpool Drama Festival judge.

The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre world to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific period and begins with an insightful introduction sketching the historical and theatrical landscape of that period. Contextualization for each play is provided through a thorough account of the literary and dramatic background of the play along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided a glossary of terms used in the anthology to better equip students with a vocabulary for discussing the world of the stage.

The best all-around description of the short story was given by Stephen Vincent Benet: 'Something that can be read in an hour and remembered for a lifetime.' A Compilation of Shorts: Volume 2 is a work of fiction by Marilyn Keeton. For over some 60 years she has been writing short stories and novels. It is inspired by children, family members, moments in her life and profession. In it are stories of Science-Fiction, Drama, Sentimental, and a preview of her upcoming novel, Internet Romance. Marilyn has five children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandson. She paints with acrylics, writes novels in her spare time and has published 2 other books. Marilyn has been a Certified Graphologist for the past thirty years and parallels her professional life with her personal one. She lives under the tall pines, under the shadow of mighty volcanoes, and between Hatchet Mountain and Mt. Lassen.

"Provides opportunities for students to actively engage in a group context with drama elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies. Practical and written activities provide an opportunity for students to develop an ability to memorise, gain self and group management sills, increase drama literacy knowledge, and gain competency in drama. Many of the roles are neutrally gendered"--Back cover.

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.

Red Bull Theater - New York City's "most exciting classical theater"- for the first time ever offers a published collection featuring the best of its annual Short New Play Festival. This ongoing series features 10-minute plays of heightened language and classical themes by today's hottest writers, including commissions by established playwrights such as John Guare, David Ives, Regina Taylor, and Anne Washburn, and winning entries by writers such as Mike Anderson, Sam Lahne, Lynn Rosen, and Jen Silverman- all chosen from a competition that receives nearly 300 submissions each year. In the hands of great playwrights, the 10-minute play is a highly entertaining dramatic form. This collection offers the most delectable of these delightfully compact works - some downright silly, and others powerfully moving - from Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival.

Collection of letters and other memorabilia from Arthur C. Clarke, Paul Kurtz and others that Warren Allen Smith has collected over the years.