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Author: Edward Albee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 104
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Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama during his long and distinguished career, Edward Albee is one of America's preeminent playwrights. "The Play About the Baby" is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple-Boy and Girl-have a new baby, whom an older couple-Man and Woman-have come to steal. Why? Because, as Man says, "If you don't have the wound of a broken heart, how can you know you're alive?" Brutal loss-the loss of a child or childhood self-has been a recurring Albee theme, and Ben Brantley of the "New York Times" summed up the critical reaction to "The Play About the Baby" when he called it a "funny, harrowing dramatic fable . . . as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver."
Author: Edward Albee Publisher: Methuen Publishing ISBN: 9780413773845 Category : Parent and child Languages : en Pages : 60
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The first British publication of a brilliant new Albee play If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? In THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY, a young couple who are madly in love with each other, have a child - the perfect family - that is, until an older couple steal the baby. Through a series of mind games and manipulations, they call into question both couples' sense of reality and fiction, joy and sorrow in this devastating black comedy which invites parallels with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. "You're unlikely to find a more intriguingly structured, provocative or entertaining new play" - Curtain Up "The Play about the Baby rockets into that special corner of theatre heaven where words shoot off like fireworks into dazzling patterns and hues" - New York Times
Author: Edward Albee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 0822223171 Category : Languages : en Pages : 50
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When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets...[Ives] add The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty...in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama...a piercing portrait of the contemporary social architecture, in which the distance between people can be widened or collaps
Author: Marilyn Janovitz Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402262264 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 27
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Baby has played with her pets, explored the outdoors, and cuddled with her family-- now it time for a play date Toys and games galore Which will baby pick? How about a bouncy ball to Kick Kick Kick A companion book to BABY BABY BABY and GO BABY GO featuring Marilyn Janovitz's enchanting and critically acclaimed art. Bouncy Baby engages in various fun activities with new little friends.
Author: Edward Albee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama during his long and distinguished career, Edward Albee is one of America's preeminent playwrights. "The Play About the Baby" is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple-Boy and Girl-have a new baby, whom an older couple-Man and Woman-have come to steal. Why? Because, as Man says, "If you don't have the wound of a broken heart, how can you know you're alive?" Brutal loss-the loss of a child or childhood self-has been a recurring Albee theme, and Ben Brantley of the "New York Times" summed up the critical reaction to "The Play About the Baby" when he called it a "funny, harrowing dramatic fable . . . as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver."
Author: Edward Albee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822218142 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 60
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THE STORY: By turns funny, mysterious and disturbing, THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY concerns a young couple who have just had a baby, and the strange turn of events that transpire when they are visited by an older man and woman.
Author: Wendy S. Masi Publisher: ISBN: 9781864367317 Category : Educational games Languages : en Pages : 192
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Sharing playtime with infants is one of the best ways to give them a great start in life - and Baby Play can help. Full of simple activities that you and your baby can do together, Baby Play provides the inspiration you need to get your child excited about discovery and play. Each activity, game, song and chant has been devised by child development experts for you and your baby to enjoy together at home or on the go. All of the activities stimulate a baby's physical and social development and nurture significant skills.
Author: Paula Vogel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822221074 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 52
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THE STORY: Anna, Ruth and Peter await the arrival of their newborn child, but first they must rid the crowded apartment of their three imaginary children.
Author: Christopher Durang Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822200840 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 68
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THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner
Author: Israel Horovitz Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN: 9780822209300 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 24
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THE STORY: In Martin Gottfried's words: The story is about two rats. One has control over a rich hunting ground in New York City and the other has come down from Greenwich, Connecticut, looking for an in. The power rat is reluctant to let anybody into his domain but his visitor is convincing and talks his way in, until an infant child makes his appearance. Then the country rat wants his bite, the city rat is revealed as kindhearted and they fight over the screaming baby. It is a hideously powerful conclusion to a fascinating and comic play. The play's fascination, though, is more with its treatment of rats as souls. Mr. Horovitz is not simply dealing with sewer rats in the city. He is also dealing with people-rats in their conniving for position (a subject which he has artfully treated before). The play moves from very funny parallels with social status to very grisly parallels with greed. It is superb and Horovitz has quickly established himself as a playwright of smooth technique, serious intent and great imagination.
Author: Edward Albee
Author: Edward Albee
Author: Edward Albee
Author: Marilyn Janovitz
Author: Edward Albee
Author: Edward Albee
Author: Wendy S. Masi
Author: Conrad E. Davidson
Author: Paula Vogel
Author: Christopher Durang
Author: Israel Horovitz