May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · Plays
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Other desert cities : a play in two acts
April 29, 2013
Baitz, Jon Robin, 1961-
New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2011.
vii, 65 p. ; 21 cm.
"A ... play about a family coming to terms with long held secrets. When a once-promising novelist returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir--a book that focuses on the politically explosive and tragic death of her antiwar-activist brother. With her parents trying to cling to their Reaganesque social status, the family is torn apart and must come to grips with its painful past."--P. [4] of cover.
In the body of the world : a memoir
April 16, 2013
Ensler, Eve, 1953-
New York, NY : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
xiii, 221 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
Scans -- Divided -- The beginning of the end, or In your liver -- Dr. Deb, or Congocancer -- Somnolence -- Cancer town -- Dr. Handsome -- What we don't know going into surgery -- This is where you will cross the Uji River -- Questions -- Uterus = hysteria -- Falling, or Congo stigmata -- Lu -- Here's what's gone -- The stoma -- How'd I get it? -- Circumambulating -- Ice chips -- Patient -- The rupture/the Gulf spill -- Becoming someone else -- Beware of getting the best -- Stages/5.2b -- Infusion suite -- Arts and crafts -- The room with a tree -- A buzz cut -- Getting port -- The chemo isn't for you -- Tara, Kali, and Sue -- Crowd chemo -- The obstruction, or How tree saved me -- I was that girl who was supposed to be dead, or How pot saved me later -- Riding the lion -- Chemo day five -- On the couch next to me -- I love your hair, or The last time i saw my mother -- It was a beach, I think -- Shit -- Rada -- Death and Tami Taylor -- A burning meditation on love -- My mother dies -- De-ported -- Live by the vagina, die by the vagina -- Farting for Cindy -- It wasn't a foreboding -- Congo incontinent -- Leaking -- She will live -- Sue -- Joy -- Mother -- Second wind -- In the body of the world.
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.
Living with Shakespeare : essays by writers, actors, and directors
April 15, 2013
xxviii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes index.
A little monkey business / Bill Willingham -- Speaking Shakespeare / Sir Anthony Sher -- Teaching Shakespeare to actors / Camille Paglia -- The architecture of ideas / Sir Ben KIngsley -- King Lear in retrospect / Cicely Berry -- Method and madness / Tobias Menzies -- Character and conundrum / Rory Kinnear -- In know a hawk from a handsaw regardless of the weather, but that's pretty much it / Matt Sturges -- The sun god / James Earl Jones -- Othello in love / Eamonn Walker -- Othello: a play in black and white / Barry John -- Re-revising Shakespeare / Jess Winfield -- "I say it is the moon" / Brian Cox -- The question of Coriolanus / Ralph Fiennes -- Trial by theatre, or, Free-thinking in Julius Caesar / Richard Scholar -- Saying in The Merchant of Venice / Stanley Cavell -- Searching for Shylock / F. Murray Abraham -- Boldness be my friend / Fiasco Theater -- Killing Shakespeare and making my play / Karin Coonrod -- Playing Shakespeare at the Globe / Dominic Dromgoole -- Tolstoy and the Shakespearean gesture / Angus Fletcher -- The red scarf / J.D. McClatchy -- Spring imagery in Warwickshire / Germaine Greer -- What's in a name? or, Unnamed in the forest / James Prosek -- The sea change / David Farr -- Looking for Illyria / Alan Gordon -- Shakespeare's siblings / Eleanor Brown -- "A star danced" / Eve Best -- Two loves, or, The eternal triangle / Dame Harriet Walter -- Odd man out / Jane Smiley -- The living drama / Dame Margaret Drabble -- The tragedy of imagination in Antony and Cleopatra / Joyce Carol Oates -- War and love / Maxine Hong Kingston -- On the terrible and unexpected fate of the star-crossed lovers / Peter David -- Shakespeare and four-colour magic / Conor McCreery -- Rough magic / Julie Taymor -- My Own Private River / James Franco -- Enamoured with Shakespeare / Isabel Allende.
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? : a play
April 1, 2013
Albee, Edward, 1928-
New York : New American Library, c2005.
257 p. ; 21 cm.
"Revised by the author for the 2005 Broadway revival"--Cover.
Shakespeare saved my life : ten years in solitary with the bard
March 25, 2013
Bates, Laura.
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2013.
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
The Laramie project : ten years later
March 15, 2013
Kaufman, Moisés.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2012.
61 p. ; 20 cm.
"Developed by theTectonic Theater Project"--T.p. verso.
With the tenth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death approaching, Moisés started thinking about legacy, transformation and Jonas' question: what had come out of Matthew's murder? So we decided to return to Laramie to ask may of our original interviewees how their town had changed. This play is the result of those interviews.
The break of noon
March 15, 2013
LaBute, Neil.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2011.
48 p. : 20 cm.
Amidst the chaos and horror of the worst office shooting in American history, John Smith sees the face of God. His modern-day revelation creates a maelstrom of disbelief among everyone he knows. A newcomer to faith, John urgently searches for a modern response to the age-old question, at what cost salvation?
Ten chimneys
March 15, 2013
Hatcher, Jeffrey, 1957-
New York : Dramatists Play Service, 2012.
65 p. ; 20 cm.
Summer, 1938. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the two most revered stars of the Broadway stage, have decided to perform Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull. But first they must retreat to "investigate" the play at Ten Chimneys, their sprawling Wisconsin estate, surrounded by actors, family and hangers-on. When a young actress named Uta Hagen arrives, a romantic triangle begins to mirror the events in Chekhov's play about passion and art. The result is a funny, poignant and revealing look at private lives that never really leave the stage.
Rebeck in an hour
February 19, 2013
Greene, Alexis.
Hanover, NH : In an Hour Books, 2010.
xv, 103 p. ; 19 cm.
"Introduction by Robert Brustein"--Cover.
Rebeck : in a minute -- Rebeck : his works -- Onstage with Rebeck : introducing colleagues and contemporaries of Theresa Rebeck -- Rebeck in an hour -- Dramatic moments from the major plays -- Rebeck : the reading room -- Awards : "And the winner is ..."
Nostalgia, my enemy : poems
January 21, 2013
Yūsuf, Saʻdī.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2012.
xii, 78 p. ; 23 cm.
Introduction / Sinan Antoon and Peter Money -- Prologue : On poetry -- Undead nature -- Still life -- A difficult variation -- O nostalgia: my enemy -- The pagan's prayer -- The concerns of a man, 2000 BC -- The evening the game was over -- Don't say -- A neighbor -- The barbarians' village -- I saw my father -- Cloves -- Making love -- Tonight I imitate Pasolini -- The sun that never comes -- Free Iraqis -- I will wait -- A secret entrance to Fortezza -- The night of the icy lake -- The glance -- Nature -- The days -- No play -- Four sections on place -- Fulfillment -- Observing -- Seasons (4) -- Conversation -- Hamlet's balcony -- The balcony of the poor house -- Andes butterflies -- An abandoned shore -- Imru' al-Qays' grandson -- Mustafa the Egyptian -- Rock-solid time -- The homeless man and the squirrel -- Chess -- Light hallucination -- The Irish rose -- New Orleans -- The wretched of the heavens -- December -- The last Communist goes to heaven -- Bees visit me -- Heavy time -- Evening by the lake -- A desperate poem -- A fawn behind the fence -- A spring downpour -- Listening.
"Saadi Youssef is considered one of the most important living Iraqi intellectuals and one of the country's greatest modern poets. From his exile in the suburbs of London, his writings have varied from angry invectives in essay forms attacking the US-led occupation of Iraq, to tender poems recollecting Iraq's shards from memory. His poetic eye peers into New Orleans after it is devastated by Hurricane Katrina; it observes a homeless man in New York speaking to a squirrel; it follows butterflies in Columbia [i.e. Colombia]. 'No more nostalgia,' Youssef has said. 'My country is everywhere'"--P. [4] of cover.
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
January 15, 2013
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011, c1992.
lxii, 301 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Originally published: c1992.
Provides the text of the play, accompanied by notes and an introduction.
Shakespeare's common prayers : the Book of common prayer and the Elizabethan age
December 13, 2012
Swift, Daniel, 1977-
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
289 p. : map, facsim. ; 22 cm.
A revel with the Puritans -- The only book in the world -- The form of solemnization of matrimony. For better, for worse ; Till death us depart -- The order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, or, Holy Communion. The quick and the dead ; A gap in our great feast -- The ministration of baptism to be used in the Church. Graceless sacraments ; Above all humane power -- Five or six words.
Miss Witherspoon ; and, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's wild Christmas binge : [two plays]
November 29, 2012
Durang, Christopher, 1949-
New York : Grove Press ; Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
xi, 157 p. ; 21 cm.
Miss Witherspoon -- Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge- When a sassy ghost once again attempts to shake Scrooge from his holiday humbug, the whole family-friendly affair is derailed by Mrs. Cratchit's drunken insistence on stepping out of her miserable, treacly role.
A Civil War Christmas : an American musical celebration
November 21, 2012
Vogel, Paula.
New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2012.
xiii, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes the complete text of the play, production history, along with various other essays and interviews.
A Civil War Christmas : an American musical celebration -- A conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin and Paula Vogel -- Music of the Civil War -- Singing soldiers -- Testimonies of the faithful -- Through the eyes of the poet -- An excerpt from Elizabeth Keckley's journal -- Excerpts from Walt Whitman's journal [Specimen days].
Dashing through the snow : a Christmas comedy in two acts
November 21, 2012
Jones, Jessie.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2011.
60 p. ; 20 cm.
"2M, 6W (doubling)"--P. [4] of cover.
It's four days before Christmas in the tiny town of Tinsel, Texas, and a colorful parade of eccentric guests arrive at the Snowflake Inn and deck the halls with holiday hilarity.
Snowing at Delphi
November 21, 2012
Butterfield, Catherine.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c1994.
68 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Ancient lights
November 21, 2012
Stephenson, Shelagh.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2004.
74 p. ; 20 cm.
Tom Cavallero, Hollywood actor, and his girlfriend Iona are spending Christmas in England with his oldest friends, Bea and Kitty. Tom, Bea and Kitty go back a long way. They've known each other since they were young and unformed. But who have they become? And what price have they paid?
The theatre of E.E. Cummings
November 21, 2012
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
x, 212 p. ; 22 cm.
"Previously published under the title Three plays & a ballet"--Title page verso.
Him -- Anthropos -- Santa Claus -- Tom.
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