The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome write by John Guare. This book was released on 2002-06-01. The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From an American playwright who “is in a class by himself,” two acclaimed plays linked by a character who comes of age in the sixties. (The New York Times) In John Guare’s classic play The House of Blue Leaves, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, the Pope is visiting New York, and eighteen-year-old Ronnie goes AWOL from the army to come home to New York and blow up the Pope as he passes his house. In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. With his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written two scathingly funny satires on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art. Praise for The House of Blue Leaves: “Splendid . . . a joyful affirmation of life and of John Guare’s artistry.” —The New York Times “A woozy, fragile, hilarious heartbreaker . . . the writing is lush with sad, ironic wisdom about fame, love, and deluded values.” —USA Today Praise for Chaucer in Rome: “Guare makes us become voyeurs even as we scorn voyeurism—thus offering a titillating, troubling commentary on life.” —USA Today “Guare’s most disciplined, merciless yet lovable work since Six Degrees of Separation and maybe his best yet.” —New York Newsday
The House of Blue Leaves ; And, Chaucer in Rome
The House of Blue Leaves ; And, Chaucer in Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House of Blue Leaves ; And, Chaucer in Rome write by John Guare. This book was released on 2002. The House of Blue Leaves ; And, Chaucer in Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chaucer in Rome
Chaucer in Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaucer in Rome write by John Guare. This book was released on 2002. Chaucer in Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE STORY: In the Holy Year of 2000 in Rome, Matt has learned that his painting has given him a curable form of cancer. In return for survival, he must abandon paint for a new artistic medium. Ultimately he chooses to dress in religious garb, video
John Guare
John Guare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Guare write by Jane K. Curry. This book was released on 2002-07-30. John Guare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best known for his plays Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the Lydie Breeze series. His career began with off-off-Broadway experimentation in the sixties and continues through the present. In that time Guare has created many imaginative, eccentric plays that reflect the chaos, violence, and loneliness of life in our time. He frequently combines outrageous farce with painfully serious subject matter. This sourcebook is both a convenient reference and a resource for further investigation of Guare's works. The volume chronicles his achievements with a chronology and biographical essay. It also includes summaries of his published and unpublished plays, overviews of the critical reception of each work, production credits, a primary bibliography of dramatic and nondramatic writings, and extensive annotated bibliographies of reviews and other secondary material.
John Guare’s Theatre
John Guare’s Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Guare’s Theatre write by Robert J. Andreach. This book was released on 2009-01-14. John Guare’s Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”
