Peggy to her Playwrights

Peggy to her Playwrights
Author: Peggy Ramsay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-05-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1786824302

Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on. To her remarkable array of clients, her letter writing was notorious, marked by searing candour, both a wondrous motivation and an unforgiving scrutiny to be feared. 'Peggy judged by the most exalted standards and lashed her writers when they failed to meet them. Her force of personality made her well-nigh irresistible. The letters she wrote to her writers and to producers are extraordinary documents, filled with all these qualities, and indiscreet, blasphemous and saucy to boot.' – Simon Callow

Peggy

Peggy
Author: Colin Chambers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312177133

Recalls the life and work of the British play agent responsible for nurturing several generations of Britain's most important playwrights

Peggy For You

Peggy For You
Author: Alan Plater
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2000-01-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Alan Plater's new stage play is an affectionate portrait of the notorious and legendary London play agent, Margaret 'Peggy' Ramsay.

Breathing Out

Breathing Out
Author: Peggy Lipton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429906618

Peggy Lipton's overnight success as Julie Barnes on television's hit The Mod Squad made her an instant fashion icon and the "it" girl everyone-from Elvis to Paul McCartney-wanted to date. She was the original and ultimate California girl of the early seventies, complete with stick-straight hair, a laid-back style, and a red convertible. But Lipton was much more: smart and determined to not be just another leggy blonde, she struggled for a way to stay connected to her childhood roots, though her coming of age had not been an easy one. And when she fell in love with Quincy Jones, that wasn't easy, either: their biracial marriage made headlines and changed her life. Lipton's passionate and complicated seventeen-year marriage to Jones plunged her into motherhood and also into periods of confusion and difficulty. Her struggle to keep moving forward in the world while maintaining a rich inner life informed many of her decisions as an adult. When Lipton's marriage to Jones ended, she returned to television, appearing in David Lynch's Twin Peaks as well as in The Vagina Monologues and other stage productions. But her most recent triumph has been her overcoming a surprising diagnosis of colon cancer in 2003. Breathing Out is full of fresh stories of life with the pop culture icons of our times, but is also a much more thoughtful book about life in the limelight, work, motherhood, and marriage. It's a refreshing and real look at the life of an actress who became, in many senses, a woman of her times.

The 'd' Monologues

The 'd' Monologues
Author: Kaite O'Reilly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786826348

These performance texts were written exclusively for performers identifying as Deaf, disabled or neuro-divergent. This unique collection of fictional dramatic monologues was written specifically for D/deaf and disabled performers (the 'd' of the title), informed by lived experience. But the 'd' could just as easily refer to difference, diversity, defiance, determination, desirability and a host of other delicious 'd's.... Covering a wide variety of form, content, and theatrical styles, the monologues offer fresh perspectives on difference and disability from across the UK and beyond. From biting satire to crip' pride, observational comedy to poignant revelations of life in contemporary Britain and beyond, these texts challenge and subvert ingrained preconceptions of disability and celebrate all the possibilities of human variety. This collection is the culmination of ten years work, with fictional monologues inspired by over 100 interviews, conversations and interactions with D/deaf and disabled individuals internationally. It brings together new and previously unperformed texts alongside monologues from In Water I'm Weightless (National Theatre Wales Cultural Olympiad 2012), the 70 minute stand alone one-woman show richard iii redux, co-written with Phillip Zarrilli, and the multilingual intercultural And Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore/UK 'd' Monologues. The monologues offer a great resource for atypical performers as audition pieces and for companies and individuals as script-in-hand, full productions, solo shows or with larger casts. The variety of monologues enables flexible presentation as solo, choral or ensemble performances.

Love Is Where It Falls

Love Is Where It Falls
Author: Simon Callow
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 9781854599766

Reached no. 7 in Amazon Bestsellers list. The best theatrical memoir of our day -Sunday Times

Iron Peggy

Iron Peggy
Author: Marie Clements
Publisher: Talonbooks
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781772012538

Interplay of Indigenous characters from different historical periods (modern vs. First World War), different cultural groups (Cree, Coast Salish ...). Suited for younger and young-adult audiences. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Canadian history.

Plays by Women from the Contemporary American Theater Festival

Plays by Women from the Contemporary American Theater Festival
Author: Susan Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350084832

Based at Shepherd University, in West Virginia, the Contemporary American Theater Festival is nationally and internationally recognized as a home for playwrights and the development and production of new plays. The Festival makes it a priority to celebrate and produce playwrights with strong, distinct voices, with a core value to tell diverse stories. This anthology of work provides plays that speak to one of the most compelling virtues of artists everywhere – freedom of speech. A necessary volume of women playwrights' work, ranging from a two-time Obie Award-winning author to emerging writers just beginning their careers, it represents a group of women who vary in age, race and sexual orientation and offers an invitation to artistic leaders, scholars and students to embrace gritty, thought-provoking new dramatic work. Edited by The Festival's Producing Directors Peggy McKowen and Ed Herendeen, this anthology features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Each of the five powerful plays is followed by an informative and discursive playwright interview conducted by Sharon J. Anderson that contextualizes and develops the works within the wider context of the annual festival. The plays include: Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W Gregory Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson 20th Century Blues by Susan Miller

Three Sisters

Three Sisters
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.

The Door in the Wall

The Door in the Wall
Author: Marguerite de Angeli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 125
Release: 1998-08-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0440227798

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs.