Dedication, Or, The Stuff of Dreams

2006 Drama

Author : Terrence McNally
Release : 2006
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 450/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dedication, Or, The Stuff of Dreams written by Terrence McNally. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four-time Tony Award-winning author Terrence McNally returns with a powerful new play about how far one will go for one's love of the theater. In a small upstate New York town, Lou, a speech and drama teacher, and Jessie, a dog groomer at The Dapper Dog, bring joy to their community through running an amateur theater company. They become obsessed with buying a derelict movie theater and turning it into Captain Lou and Miss Jessie's Magic Theater for Children of All Ages. The only obstacle in reaching their dream is Annabelle Willard -- a terminally ill and manipulative widow who owns half the town. Will these naive dreamers be able to grasp the brass ring, and at what cost?

The Theater of Terrence McNally

2013-10-17 Performing Arts

Author : Peter Wolfe
Release : 2013-10-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 587/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Theater of Terrence McNally by : Peter Wolfe

Download or read book The Theater of Terrence McNally written by Peter Wolfe. This book was released on 2013-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length work on Terrence McNally shows how his decades in the theater have refined his thoughts on subjects like growing up gay in mannish, homophobic Texas, Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary drama, and the life-giving power of forgiveness. McNally believes that the ability to forgive--a challenge to even the most high-minded--confirms our humanity because the wrongs done to us usually don't deserve to be forgiven. The author shows how McNally's impeccable timing, his instinct for a good laugh line, and his preference for physical sensation and character over plot helps him reveal both what's important to his people and why his people are important. These revelations can shake up audiences while providing a great evening at the theater.

Terrence McNally

1994 Drama

Author : Terrence McNally
Release : 1994
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Terrence McNally written by Terrence McNally. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fifteen short plays by playwright Terrence McNally.

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2019-10-04 Literary Criticism

Author : Raymond-Jean Frontain
Release : 2019-10-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Theater of Terrence McNally by : Raymond-Jean Frontain

Download or read book The Theater of Terrence McNally written by Raymond-Jean Frontain. This book was released on 2019-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrence McNally’s canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his accomplishment. This book is the first critical study to identify the four major stages of McNally’s development in terms of his understanding of how theater helps the modern person trapped in a seemingly profane existence to find a gateway to the transcendent. Drawing upon such diverse religious thinkers as Martin Buber, Mircea Eliade, Ilia Delio and Carter Heyward, Frontain analyzes the evolution of McNally’s understanding of grace, not as a gift bestowed by an all-powerful deity upon a desperate soul, but as the unwarranted—and, thus, all the more unusual—“act of devotion” (McNally’s phrase) that one person performs for another. By seeking to foment community, most importantly at the height of the AIDS pandemic, McNally’s theater itself proves to be a channel of grace. McNally’s greatest success is shown to be the creation of a theater of empathy and compassion in contradistinction to Artaud’s “theater of cruelty” and Albee’s Americanization of the theater of the absurd.

Corpus Christi

1999 Drama

Author : Terrence McNally
Release : 1999
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Corpus Christi written by Terrence McNally. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t

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