Impassioned Embraces: Pieces of Love and TheatreDealing largely with the many aspects of love (from the sublime to the ridiculous) and with the trials and terrors that actors must face, the plays mingle hilarity and poignance as they explore the problems that romance--and the need for self-expression--can engender. We encounter, for example, an actor struggling through a particularly devastating rehearsal; two teenagers gingerly dissecting a frog--and their sex lives; a bridegroom who finds that he really loves the bridesmaid rather than the bride; a woman (masquerading as a man) who tries to pick up a man (masquerading as a woman) in a bar; a couple chattering through a "splatter film" whose conversation is even wilder, and more intriguing, that the soundtrack of the movie; and assortment of sad/funny monologues about the various perils (and pleasures) of the acting profession; a wildly funny farce involving a man about to undergo a vasectomy, a shockingly inept doctor, an irate (and pregnant) nurse, and the doctor's madly jealous wife. |
Contents
Section 1 | 23 |
Section 2 | 28 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 54 |
Section 5 | 55 |
Section 6 | 65 |
Section 7 | 70 |
Section 8 | 76 |
Section 9 | 83 |
Section 10 | 86 |
Section 11 | 96 |
Section 12 | 97 |
Common terms and phrases
A's last name Actor A's last Actor's first name Actress B's Actress's first name Actress's last name Actress's name ain't Bambi big bad wolf Bimba Blackout C's first name car keys CAROL chorus CLICK dance in silence DAVID MERRICK Davis Doctor Regan Doreen Empty Stage eyes FEMALE ANNOUNCER frog funny Gimme the fawkin girl Gloria gonna Goober gotta Gunga Din hath I'm lyin Impassioned Embraces ISBN John Pielmeier JUDY kinda kiss Lady Gwen laugh Living Dead look MALE ANNOUNCER Mama MCGUFFIN mean Miss Marple Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Mother MOVIE Nurse Boodie PICK-UP ARTIST pulls Quadrathalon remember RIDE DOWN MT Roger screams Sex and death shit shoot sings Sir David sobs Soundtrack South Yemen Tabernacle Choir's rendition talk Thank theatre thing thought toilet brush tonight Walden Pond wanna know Wendy Wasserstein What's Whirmer woman wrong Yeah York Magazine
References to this book
How to be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater ... Mari Lyn Henry,Lynne Rogers No preview available - 2000 |