The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-13578-9 (ISBN)
With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by dramaturgical notes that help contextualize and analyze both the events themselves and the dramatic form in which they are presented.
The scripts included are:
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild
The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild
RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter Goodchild
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons (Winner of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Best Live Entertainment Award, 1992)
As well as five scripts this anthology includes a foreword by Professor Michael Hackett, professor of directing and theatre history at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
L.A. Theatre Works is a premier producer and distributor of audio theatre. It brings world classics, modern masterpieces and ground-breaking new works to over 8 million people worldwide per year through live performances and our multi-platform distribution channels. We achieve wide access through distribution of our one-of-a-kind Audio Theatre Collection of over 500 plays through our weekly Public Radio Broadcast Series carried in over 60 markets throughout the U.S. and daily in China on The Radio Beijing Network. ; free worldwide online streaming; audio publishing (in partnership with retailers such as Audible.com, iTunes and more than 11,000 educational institutions and libraries nationwide); mobile apps; and free school and library outreach programs, as well as national and international touring programs.
Introduction by Michael Hackett
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild
Script
Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg
Playwright Peter Goodchild’s program note
The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild
Script
Program note by playwright Peter Goodchild
Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg
Interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb
RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin
Script
Dramaturgical note by Elizabeth Bennett
Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg
Interview with longtime Kennedy confidante Father Ted Hesburgh (deceased), former President of Notre Dame University
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter Goodchild
Script
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons
Script
Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg
Two interview montages, one from 1991, the other from 2008-9 touring productions
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.06.2020 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 608 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-13578-X / 135013578X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-13578-9 / 9781350135789 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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