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| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Stephen Trask, John Cameron Mitchell, 2003 Tells the story of transsexual rocker Hedwig Schmidt, an East German immigrant whose sex change operation has been botched and who finds herself living in a trailer park in Kansas. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The Story Tracey Scott Wilson, 2004 THE STORY: An ambitious black newspaper reporter, Yvonne Wilson, goes against her editor, Pat Morgan, to investigate a murder and finds the BEST story...but at what cost? Wilson explores the elusive nature of truth as the boundaries between reality a |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity Raymond Knapp, 2010-06-21 The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin' in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz. Complementing the author's earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: How I Got that Story Amlin Gray, 1982 THE STORY: The scene is Ambo Land (Vietnam) where a naive young Reporter from Dubuque encounters the Historical Event--a second actor who portrays some twenty-one characters, including several anxious to cover the war in all its aspects. The Repor |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The Chemistry of Change Marlane Meyer, 2003 THE STORY: An idiosyncratic look at the way love can remake our lives in the most surprising ways, THE CHEMISTRY OF CHANGE is the story of a dysfunctional family who must learn to function when the matriarch, Lee, falls unexpectedly and deeply in l |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Dirty Story John Patrick Shanley, 2003 THE STORY: When aspiring novelist Wanda seeks the advice of successful writer Brutus, she gets more than she bargained for. Of the manuscript she sent him, he tells her, It was wretched, it was ignominious. It takes seventeen trees to make one ton |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Rent Jonathan Larson, 2008 (Applause Libretto Library). Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is no day but today. Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introduction (Rent Is Real) by Victoria Leacock Hoffman. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The Late Henry Moss Sam Shepard, 2002 Length: 3 acts. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Ramshackle Inn George Batson, 1944 THE STORY: An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange tumble-down place near the ocean, and gets what she bargains for--plus a good deal besides. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Tira Tells Everything There Is to Know about Herself and the Bodybuilders Michael Weller, 1972-10 THE STORIES: TIRA TELLS EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT HERSELF. At the outset Tira awaits the arrival of her lover, Edward, who, she admits, bores her. When he goes off to retrieve the present he forgot to bring her, she is visited, in turn, by |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West, 1959-10 THE STORY: As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' as the conductor of the co |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: SHOW BOAT EDNA FERBER, 1926 |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: A Woman Without a Name Romulus Linney, 1986 THE STORY: The place is a small American town. The time 1900. As the play begins the characters enter and seat themselves in a semi-circle of antique chairs. The last to enter is the Woman, who carries a ledger (her journal) from which she starts t |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Four One-act Plays Robert Schenkkan, 1993 THE STORIES: In CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SPANISH LADY, a sleepless old railroad man describes hauling trains full of the dead across Canada during the World War I home-front plague of influenza that killed thousands of people. As he defends his life, |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The People Next Door James Pinckney Miller, 1969 THE STORY: As The New York Times comments: Mr. Miller's drama involves two middle-class families that outwardly symbolize the tranquillity of stable suburbia. But behind the green shutters and the contentment of sustained affluence lies the latent |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The Young Elizabeth Jennette (Dowling) Letton, Jennette Dowling Letton, Francis Letton, 1955 First produced in New York by the Women's Project, APPROXIMATING MOTHER is a contemporary new comedy about today's middle-class maternity boom. In the play, two women friends from the city, and a pregnant Midwestern teenager, discourse on the pros and con |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Final Performance Charles George, 1960 THE STORY: Depicts a little-known and highly dramatic incident in the life of Edwin Booth. The scene is the cellar of Booth's Theatre in the winter of 1873. With great difficulty and expense, Mr. Booth has obtained possession of an old trunk containing many of the costumes and other paraphernalia, which had belonged to his infamous brother. Late at night, with the help of the janitor and the stage manager, he opens the trunk and as each costume is extracted, it recalls a famous Shakespearean role in which the unworthy member of the Booth clan had appeared. With great dramatic intensity Edwin recites the better known passages from these plays, and then orders the two men to take the costumes to the furnace room (which is off-stage) and burn them, so that they cannot be exhibited as mementos of a dastardly deed. One sees the reflection of the flames as the costumes are consumed. A thrilling one-act play with magnificent climax. Especially recommended for contest purposes. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: In other parts of the world Peter Parnell, 2001 THE STORY: PART TWO: IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. The aging Dr. Larch and his two nurses, Edna and Angela, try to keep the orphanage going while scheming to get Homer Wells to return, as Homer meets the world of the apple farm run by young Wally an |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Over the River and Through the Woods Joe DiPietro, 1999 THE STORY: Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Boston Marriage David Mamet, 2000 THE STORY: Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming women of fashion who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Broken Glass Arthur Miller, 1994 Presents the script of the 1994 drama in which Sylvia Gellburg, wife of a Jewish banker in Brooklyn, New York, becomes mysteriously paralyzed in 1938 after reading the news about what is happening in Nazi Germany. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: At this Evening's Performance Nagle Jackson, 1984 THE STORY: On tour in rural Dunsk (recently annexed by the hated socialist state of Strevia) a theatrical troupe is obliged to present corny melodramas and creaky verse plays as modern drama has been banned by their new masters. Led by a hammy egom |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Dark Ride Len Jenkin, 1982-10 |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Richard Cory Albert Ramsdell Gurney, 1985 THE STORY: Comprised of a series of vignettes and interrelated scenes, presented with a minimum of props and scenery and flowing together with resourceful theatricality, the story of Richard Cory is that of a wellborn young man who seems to have ev |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Laundry and Bourbon James McLure, 1981 THE STORY: The setting is the front porch of Roy and Elizabeth's home in Maynard, Texas, on a hot summer afternoon. Elizabeth and her friend Hattie are whiling away the time folding laundry, watching TV, sipping bourbon and Coke, and gossiping about the many open secrets which are so much a part of small-town life. They are joined by the self-righteous Amy Lee who, among other tidbits, can't resist blurting out that Roy has been seen around town with another woman. While the ensuing conversation is increasingly edged with bitter humor, from it emerges a sense of Elizabeth's inner strength and her quiet understanding of the turmoil which has beset her husband since his return from Vietnam. He is wild, and he is unfaithful, but he needs her, and she loves him. And she'll be waiting for him when he comes home-no matter what others may say or think. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: My Sister Eileen Joseph A. Fields, Jerome Chodorov, 1946 THE STORY: As decribed in the World Telegram, The new play recounts only the twelve months' period encompassed by the signing of a lease on a Greenwich Village basement apartment and the evacuation thereof, and a few of the amazing adventures that |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The O'Conner Girls Katie Forgette, 2004 THE STORY: The O'Conner story takes place in 1997 in Minnesota over the Christmas holiday. Tom O'Conner has passed away, and his wife (Sarah) and children (Liz, Martha and Matt) have reunited to excavate his mountain of personal effects. As the fam |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Boys' Life Howard Korder, 1988 THE STORY: Told in a series of fast-paced, sharply etched scenes, the play traces the misadventures of three former college buddies now seeking to make their way in the big city--and with various women of their acquaintance. There is the cynical Jac |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: The Land of Cockaigne David Ives, 1995 THE STORIES: THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE. In THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE, three poignant scenes depict a small family birthday party in a Midwestern yard on a summer day. Each scene presents a different angle on the group, what they say and who they may be. Is |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Fifth of July Lanford Wilson, 1982 Deals with a group of former student activists and the changes that have been wrought in their lives and attitudes in the years since leaving college. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Our Lady of 121st Street Stephen Adly Guirgis, 2004 THE STORY: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-chal |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Las Meninas Lynn Nottage, 2004 THE STORY: LAS MENINAS is the true story of the illicit romance between Queen Marie-Therese (wife of Louis XIV) and her African servant, Nabo, a dwarf from Dahomey, and the hilarious consequences that scandalized the French court. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Lone Star James McLure, 1980 THE STORY: The play takes place in the cluttered backyard of a small-town Texas bar. Roy, a brawny, macho type who had once been a local high-school hero, is back in town after a hitch in Vietnam and trying to reestablish his position in the community. Joined by his younger brother, Ray (who worships him), Roy sets about consuming a case of beer while regaling Ray with tales of his military and amorous exploits. Apparently Roy cherishes three things above all; his country, his sexy young wife, and his 1959 pink Thunderbird. With the arrival of Cletis, the fatuous, newlywed son of the local hardware store owner, the underpinnings of Roy's world begin to collapse as it gradually comes out that Ray had slept with his brother's wife during his absence and, horror of horrors, has just demolished his cherished Thunderbird. But, despite all, the high good humor of the play never lapses, and all ends as breezily and happily as it began. |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Isn't it Romantic Wendy Wasserstein, 1985 THE STORY: The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Golden Boy Clifford Odets, 1964 THE STORY: The Acting Edition contains notes showing how nearly all scene changes may be made with a minimum of effort. People are inclined to laugh at Joe, a moody young Italian with cockeyed notions. At heart a musician--he has a real talent for |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Bodies, Rest, and Motion Roger Hedden, 1987 THE STORY: The place is a small and rather rundown house in Enfield, Connecticut, the pad shared by Nick and Beth. Rootless and undecided about what to do with their lives, Nick keeps them going by selling TVs, but his plan (to which Beth relucta |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Proof David Auburn, 2001 THE STORY: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Blues for an Alabama Sky Pearl Cleage, 1999 THE STORY: It is the summer of 1930 in Harlem, New York. The creative euphoria of the Harlem Renaissance has given way to the harsher realities of the Great Depression. Young Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., is feeding the hungry and preaching an |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: Ethan Frome Owen Davis, Donald Davis, 1954-10 THE STORY: As told by Gabriel in the New York Journal-American, the play concerns farmer Ethan Frome, his complaining wife Zenobia, and her young kinswoman and house-drudge Mattie Silver. And of Ethan's and Mattie's awkward, hide-bound passion in |
| plot hedwig and the angry inch: "Me, Candido!" Walt Anderson, 1958 THE STORY: ME, CANDIDO! is the defiant battlecry of a homeless eleven-year-old shoeshine boy, who is unofficially adopted by Papa Gomez, a poor Puerto Rican with a large family recently arrived in New York; by truculent old Mr. Ramirez, proprieto |
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Plot is the sequence of interconnected events within the story of a play, novel, film, epic, or other narrative literary work. More than …
PLOT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PLOT is a small area of planted ground. How to use plot in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Plot.
Plot: Definition and Examples | LiteraryTerms.net
What is Plot? In a narrative or creative writing, a plot is the sequence of events that make up a story, whether it’s told, written, …
Plot - Examples and Definition of Plot as a Literary Device
Plot refers to what actions and/or events take place in a story and the causal relationship between them. Narrative encompasses …
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