A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Life of Walt Disney

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Life of Walt Disney
Author: Lucan Hnath
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2015-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780715650196

Lucas Hnath's darkly clever book centres on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylized screenplay written by the great man himself, in the ultimate act of self-mythologizing. It's being read by the people it's about Walt himself, his brother/henchman Roy, and Walt's resentful daughter and her ex-jock husband. It's about Walt's last days on earth.

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1683357108

Lucas Hnath’s darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney centers on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylized screenplay written by the great man himself, in the ultimate act of self-mythologizing. It’s being read by the people it’s about—Walt himself, his brother/henchman Roy, and Walt’s resentful daughter and her ex-jock husband.It's about Walt’s last days on earth. It's about a city he's going to build that's going to change the world. And it's about his brother. It's about everyone who loves him, and how sad they're going to be when he's gone. Can Walt control the future from the grave? Why does his daughter hate him so much? Were thousands of lemmings harmed in the making of a famous Disney nature film? Stay tuned . . .

The Christians

The Christians
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1468315420

Pastor Paul does not believe in Hell, and today, he's going to preach a sermon that finally says what he really believes. He thinks all the people in his church are going be happy to hear what he has to say. He's wrong.

Red Speedo

Red Speedo
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1683358953

“A taut, incisive drama” (New York Times), Red Speedo is the Obie Award–winning play by Lucas Hnath, the Tony Award–nominated playwright of A Doll’s House, Part 2. Ray’s swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he’ll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he’ll never need a real job. So, when someone’s stash of performance-enhancing drugs is found in the locker-room fridge, threatening the entire team’s Olympic fate, Ray has to crush the rumors or risk losing everything. Red Speedo is a sharp and stylish play about swimming, survival of the fittest, and the American dream of a level playing field—or of leveling the field yourself.

Isaac's Eye

Isaac's Eye
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822229226

To understand light and optics better, young Isaac Newton inserted a long needle "between my eye and the bone, as near to the backside of my eye as I could." Why take such a risk? Lucas Hnath reimagines the contentious, plague-ravaged world Newton inhabited in ISAAC'S EYE, exploring the dreams and longings that drove the rural farm boy to become one of the greatest thinkers in modern science.

Death Tax

Death Tax
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2013
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822227557

Typescript draft, dated 5-18-12. Unmarked script of a play that received its world premiere in the 2012 Hunana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Thatre of Louisville.

Vitals

Vitals
Author: Rosamund Small
Publisher: Scirocco Drama
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781927922248

Anna's daily routine is life, death, bureaucracy. Every call she receives is an emergency. How much trouble is our city in? Vitals is a solo show presenting the story of Anna, a Toronto paramedic. Based on real interviews conducted with local EMS workers, Vitals weaves together a canvas of affecting, poignant and disturbing emergency stories and explores their impact on the responder to these calls.

The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir

The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
Author: Honor Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2009-05-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393344215

“An eloquent argument for speaking even the most difficult truths.” —New York Times Book Review Paul Moore’s vocation as an Episcopal priest took him— with his wife, Jenny, and their family of nine children—from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop’s Daughter is his daughter’s story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets.

Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
Author: Peter Weiss
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826409638

Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.

The Thin Place

The Thin Place
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780573709036

The thin place is a place where the line between this world and another one is very thin; where the living and the dead can reconnect. Ever since she was a little girl, Hilda tried to make contact with that "other place" by listening very carefully, not with her ears but with the space just behind and a little above her eyes. She was never all that sure that the things she could hear were real, until she met Linda, a professional psychic, who can talk to the dead. That's what Hilda wants to do, and so she befriends Linda. But as their friendship deepens, Linda unveils some uncomfortable truths. The Thin Place is a horror story about what's really going on in the space just behind and a little above your eyes.