Read My Shorts: Twelve Short Plays by Greenhouse, Melanie

Read My Shorts: Twelve Short Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539622307)

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Format: Paperback
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Read My Shorts: Twelve Short Plays by Greenhouse, Melanie

Read My Shorts: Twelve Short Plays

$18.95
Read My Shorts: Twelve Short Plays by Greenhouse, Melanie

Read My Shorts: Twelve Short Plays

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Short plays challenge us to see how much character development, plot, irony, drama, and humor can be compressed into ten or fifteen minutes. The genre's recognized father, Jon Jory, called them "American theatre's haiku." Read My Shorts puts ordinary humans-a compulsive gambler, a sky diver in training, a woman living alone with her cat, couples in love and out of it-in situations that may strike us as absurd until they swallow us whole. Can a glass of water carry on a conversation? Can a bald eagle lure a newly wed woman away from her loser husband? It doesn't matter. What matters is how these brief dramas reveal us to ourselves and make us laugh, wince, and nod in agreement. These dozen "shorts" can be presented as full performances with all the bells and whistles or presented more sparely as reader's theater. Or offer them to dinner guests after conversation has waned. If enough refreshment has been imbibed, your guests might be willing to cast aside inhibitions and take on a role.

Author: Melanie Greenhouse
ISBN-10: 1539622304
ISBN-13: 9781539622307
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2016
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.33d
By Melanie Greenhouse
By Melanie Greenhouse
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Playwright/poet Melanie Greenhouse lives and writes on the outskirts of Noank, Connecticut, the place that inspired her full-length plays "Point of Land" and "The Duchess of Noank." Both have received numerous local productions. Her play "Chestina Vinessa Poulson" is an autobiographical portrayal of a post-holocaust family settling on a remote section of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and how two minorities co-exist in a very segregated part of the country. Melanie guided the popular literary series, The Arts Café, Mystic, through its first decade. Since 2008, she has developed Gray Dawn Breaking, a program that uses poetry to enhance memory and cognition in the older individual.

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