The Power of One: The Solo Play for Playwrights, Actors, and Directors

The Power of One: The Solo Play for Playwrights, Actors, and Directors

Read an interview with Lou Catron!

The one-person play has a long and distinguished history, as well as being (a) one of the most economical forms of theatre and (b) a wonderful showcase for an actor, a playwright, and a director-especially when all three are the same person! Dean of American playwriting texts, Louis Catron offers an outstanding guide for playwrights, actors, and directors who are interested in working in this form. He demonstrates techniques of writing, acting, and directing that encourage the reader to create a personal theatrical experience. Among the special qualities in the book are:


discussions and illustrations of the actor/playwright conundrum
tips for solo play actors, directors, and playwrights
numerous examples of actual solo play scripts.
The book comes complete with exercises for the writer and solid advice for actors and directors.

ISBN: 0325001537

Author: Louis E. Catron

Publisher: Heinemann Drama

Rating: 3.12

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Annals of the Former World

Annals of the Former World

The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years

Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World.

Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction.

Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

ISBN: 0374518734

Author: John McPhee

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Rating: 4.33

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Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island

"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."

After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another,so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.

Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.

ISBN: 0380727501

Author: Bill Bryson

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Rating: 3.91

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Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum Assessment K 12

Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum Assessment K 12

In Mapping the Big Picture, Heidi Hayes Jacobs describes a seven-step process for creating and working with curriculum maps, from data collection to ongoing curriculum review. She discusses the importance of asking "essential questions" and of designing assessments that reflect what teachers know about the students in their care. She also offers a viable alternative to the "curriculum committees" that are part of almost every school district in the United States.

ISBN: 0871202867

Author: Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

Rating: 3.49

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The Woodsman and His Hatchet: Eighty Years on Back Country Survival

The Woodsman and His Hatchet: Eighty Years on Back Country Survival

Subtitled "Eighty Years on Back Country Survival", in "The Woodsman and His Hatchet", long-time woodsman-outfitter-author Bud Cheff draws on a lifetime of experience as a woodsman and outfitter-guide in the Bob Marshall Wilderness to give good, common sense advice on how to survive almost any situation one might encounter in back country travel. This is a down-to-earth, been-there-done-that, solid book on basic survival techniques offered by an expert woodsman, with an emphasis not only on how to prepare for a back country trip but how to use materials you'll find to survive. Chapters in "The Woodsman and His Hatchet" include his expert commentary on such subjects as Back Country Survival, The Significance of The Hatchet, Sharpening Your Axe and Knife, Fire Building, Being Lost in The Woods, Building a Shelter, Dangers of Mountain Climbing, Crossing a Stream or Small River, Finding Food in an Emergency, Things A Hunter Should Know, Shooting Game, and How Meat Is Packed.

ISBN: 0912299622

Author: Bud Cheff Sr.

Publisher:

Rating: 3.29

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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)

The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)

No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.

ISBN: 034541005X

Author: Bryce Courtenay

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Rating: 4.34

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Ruby s Low Fat Soul Food Cookbook

Ruby s Low Fat Soul Food Cookbook

Enjoy the best of America's traditional soul food cuisine made the healthy way. With "Ruby's Low-Fat Soul Food Cookbook," you can cook up mouthwatering southern dishes including soups, stews, gumbos, salads, main courses, vegetables, sauces, biscuits and breads, desserts, and beverages. Each recipe is a delectable, satisfying celebration of our rich African-American culinary heritage--and, because each recipe contains only a fraction of the fat, cholestrol, and sodium found in other soul food recipes, these dishes noursh the body as well as the soul.

ISBN: 0809231530

Author: Ruby Banks-Payne

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books

Rating: 4.50

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