FREE THEATER BOOKS Linda Granger is giving away! If you would like any of these books, please send a specific request to Linda at mailto:[email protected] and she will give you her west side home address and instructions to pick up books from her garage:
1. Let's Go to the Movies! (actually a fun paperback about movie trivia)
2. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (fiction, not a script)
3.Eight Great Tragedies (Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Hippolytus, King Lear, Ghosts, Miss Julie, On Baile's Strand, Desire Under the Elms)
4. Five Modern English Plays (The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion, Riders to the Sea, The Corn is Green, Witness for the Prosecution)
5. Playwriting for Amateurs by Thomas J. Hatton
6. Modern Drama (The Wild Duck, Three Sisters, The Devil's Disciple, A Dream Play, Desire Under the Elms, Henry IV)
7. 11 Plays for Children by Blanche Marvin these are not the traditional versions (The Emperor's New Clothes, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Littlest Tailor, The Arabian Nights, Peter and the Wolf, Alice in Wonderland, Pinnocchio, The Red Dragon, Mr. Easter Bunny, Crowning Glory - the Story of Esther)
8. Three Plays by Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker) this is a really old paperback
9. Humorous Monologues for Teenagers
10. A Book of Plays (The Secret, The Ugly Duckling, The Marriage Proposal, Finders Keepers, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, Thunder on Sycamore Street, The Merchant of Venice)
11. Four Modern Plays (Ibsen, Hedda Gabler; Shaw, Pygmalion; O'Neill, The Emperor Jones; Miller, Death of a Salesman)
12. The Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone)
13. No Exit and three other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies, Dirty Hands, The Respectful Prostitute
14. The Same Only Different, Five Generations of a Great Theatre Family, Margaret Webster
Linda would also like advice on whether or not these are worth keeping and/or reading:
The Open Door, Thoughts on Acting and Theatre by Peter Brook
The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods by Richard Brestoff
The Way of the Actor, a Path to Knowledge and Power, by Brian Bates
Directing a Play by Michael McCaffery
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