And the bits of comic business from the Lazzi can be inserted into the written text or explored and improvised in the drama studio. As well as being suitable for performance on stage, the plays can be used as the basis for classroom and workshop study. The second half of the book consists of a unique compilation of the Lazzi that form the basis of Commedia - we might call them bits of comic business - ranging from the Aside and the Chase to whole scenes such as 'The Proposal' and 'Caught in the Act'. Each of the eight plays carries its own detailed introduction and each play is presented both in outline form and in full text, allowing performers to improvise around the theme or to mount a fully-fledged staging. In his new book, Commedia Plays, Grantham - himself a well-known Commedia performer/deviser - offers a collection of eight short plays illustrating the different periods and styles of this famous dramatic genre. A collection of short Commedia plays, sketches and exercises for use in the classroom and drama workshop - a follow-up to the backlist bestseller, Playing Commedia Barry Grantham's first book, Playing Commedia, offered a brilliantly practical introduction to the characters, history and techniques of Commedia dell' Arte.
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Jewish American Heritage Month is a great time to read something new that touches on a topic or history we didn’t know about before. Our histories, our ethnicities, and our cultures are varied, and recognizing this is important - and I say this to my fellow Jews as well, as there is racism and lack of inclusion within our community, too. When you think of Jewish Americans, many people tend to assume we’re a monolith: white and Ashkenazi (of European descent) - when the reality is, we are so much more. People like Deborah Lipstadt (a historian confirmed as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism), Joan Rivers, Daveed Diggs, photographer Diane Arbus, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are just some of the notable Jewish Americans we can celebrate this month. May is Jewish American Heritage Month, when we celebrate Jewish contributions to American culture, history, and society. 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Is it ever too late to leave the friend-zone? “The Hazel Wood” is a grounded YA fantasy novel that reads as “Pan’s Labyrinth” meets “Alice in Wonderland.” Opening in modern day, the story follows teenage Alice, who lives a life on the road with her mother, incessantly pursued by bad luck. and the book is available in 20 additional foreign territories. “The Hazel Wood,” a novel written by Melissa Albert, has been on the NY Times Young Adult Bestseller list for seven weeks and is currently at Number five. VP Lucas Wiesendanger is overseeing for Red Wagon.Īlso Read: Kevin Bacon, David Koepp to Team Up for Blumhouse's 'You Should Have Left' Powell previously wrote “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” for Disney.ĭoug Wick and Lucy Fisher (“Divergent,” “The Great Gatsby”) at Red Wagon are producing. Ashleigh Powell has signed on to adapt the YA fantasy novel “The Hazel Wood” for Columbia Pictures, TheWrap has exclusively learned. So it’s not any surprise that Paige Patterson, who commented on the body of a sixteen-year-old girl to a crowd of Christians (resulting in their laughs and applause), shares the same understanding of women’s roles as the Baptist churches involved in the sexual abuse of hundreds of women…” I’ve been teaching the importance of ideas about women since I first entered the classroom in 1998. Ideas that objectify women result in women being treated as objects (sex objects mostly). Ideas that depic women as less than men influence men to treat women as less than men. This is what I wrote in the conclusion: “Ideas matter. But when Daniel Silliman published his news story yesterday, Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today, I couldn’t help but think about a passage in The Making of Biblical Womanhood. |