My wife and I asked her sister for my wife's wedding dress back. She is refusing to give it to us until we pay her for damage to her car. [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2008 - 58 answers

How can I determine, with access to limited biological data, if my father is not who I thought he was? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2008 - 10 answers

Looking for plays with courtroom/trial scenes. [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2008 - 24 answers

ElizabethanDramaFilter. I'm considering doing a PhD (because apparently I'm a masochist who doesn't have quite enough student loan debt yet), and my area of emphasis is Elizabethan/Jacobean revenge tragedies. I'm trying to find a book on the comprehensive history of the form, but the most recent one I've been able to find is Fredson Bowers' Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642 from around 1940. Does anyone know of something similar that was written in the last fifteen years or so?
posted on May 20, 2008 - 6 answers

Novelists or short story writers who write like David Milch (Deadwood / John From Cincinnati)? [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 8 answers

Does this girl look familiar? I'm wondering where she is from in THIS picture. [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 3 answers

Mothers and daughters and the films about them - can you name some? [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2008 - 45 answers

On behalf of a friend: looking for a single scene from a play that would work well as a standalone piece, for a drama class showcase. [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - 23 answers

How are serial television dramas, like "Deadwood," written? [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 15 answers

Help me grow a spine, stop being a drama queen, and get control of my life again. [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2008 - 33 answers

What well-known (or lesser-known) plays are written intentionally so as to be unperformable -- only readable as scripts? I'm thinking stage directions along the lines of pulls out a handgun and fires at random into the audience, or that instruct the actors to walk on the ceiling, or specification in the dramatis personae that goats are to be cast in speaking parts. Who's employed this device to the greatest artistic effect?
posted on Dec 25, 2007 - 24 answers

I missed my two brothers-in-laws' birthdays, and one of my sisters is mad at me. I'll see everyone at Christmas. Help me make things right and prevent family drama. [more inside]
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - 24 answers

How do I deal with a sociopath that is connected to my social circle? [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - 34 answers

How to help a person known for high drama... (long) [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - 21 answers

What are some famous stories that don't have a proper ending, like the series finale of the Sopranos? [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 62 answers

what fun, performance-related activities would you teach in a high-security prison? [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 12 answers

I'm dealing with the fallout from coming out to my deeply religious immediate family. For years, I had prepared for their tears, their anger, their remonstrances, their appeals to the Bible, and all of those have come. What I hadn't prepared for was how disappointed I would be, and how fundamental and lonely that disappointment would be. Help? [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2007 - 38 answers

I want to find work as a film editor in the UK. Would it be better to find a permanent job, or freelance? Would I need an agent? If so, do you have any recommendations? [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2007 - 2 answers

What are some examples of boundary breaking art in the 20th and 21st centuries? Has there been any art that caused riots, made huge headlines, caused masses to reevaluate their lives and societies? For the purposes of this question I would like to define art in the broadest possible way.
posted on Oct 4, 2007 - 45 answers

Is there a real song with this lyric? "Where and how shall I earliest meet her? What are the words that she'll first say to me?" [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 5 answers

What plays did you love performing when you were in your high school drama club? [more inside]
posted on Aug 4, 2007 - 41 answers

Help analyze my terrible work situation! [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2007 - 23 answers

A friend bitched me out about a minor fight I had with my boyfriend. Was she out of line, and how do I reconcile the bad feelings I still have about it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 24, 2007 - 43 answers

Friendshipfilter: How do I end it? [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2007 - 29 answers

What are the best ways of dealing with dramatic friends, to give them the love and support that they need without rewarding their dramatic strategies? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2007 - 29 answers

Did I miss something in the last episode of Deadwood? (spoilers galore) [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2007 - 22 answers

UnneccesaryInternalDramaFilter: I need some help letting go of ridiculous, but intense, hurt feelings over two best friends' impending weddings. [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2007 - 32 answers

How do I get into drama, acting or TV extra work in China? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2007 - 8 answers

I just listened to Radio Inferno and it completely blew my mind. What should I listen to next? [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2007 - 4 answers

Audio Drama Filter: Radio Arcade? [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 1 answers

I'm thinking of a rotating platform in the floor of the stage. The platform has many partitions to make rooms, with a different set in each room. When the setting of the play changes, the platform is rotated to reveal a different set. While the actors are using one setting during the play, the partitions facing backstage are re-arranged and prepared before they are used. Is there a term for this, or is it just referred to generically?
posted on Dec 30, 2006 - 7 answers

Hotel/Home for the Holidays? My girlfriend and I are facing a major dilemma in visiting her home town for Christmas: Stay at her parents house or stay in a hotel. Any advice or past experiences would be most appreciated. Much much [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2006 - 44 answers

I am a hopelessly moderate, hyper-responsible, mostly mellow person. How can I help my niece, who is very bright, but hyper-emotional and kind of an over-the-top drama queen, create stability for herself and/or make more responsible choices? [more inside]
posted on Oct 6, 2006 - 18 answers

I seem to remember an American TV medical drama in which one of the subplots concerned a patient who had died... but didn't realize he was dead. His ghost wandered around seeking treatment and couldn't understand why nobody paid attention to him. The show may have been "ER" but I'm not sure. Any one else remember this?
posted on Aug 11, 2006 - 8 answers

How can I make sense of Beckett's play Waiting for Godot [more inside]
posted on Jul 31, 2006 - 25 answers

What is the brand of backpack used by the actors in the US television drama "LOST"? [more inside]
posted on Jul 4, 2006 - 4 answers

What to do with a friend that completely lacks social skills? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2006 - 26 answers

what can i do to get this person to stop harassing me? [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2006 - 84 answers

I'm trying to find a serial radio play that CBC Radio ran around 1985-1989. The show was about a regular guy who is elected prime minister of Canada. His cabinet consist of just a couple people including the minister of defense, an Indian Chief who is in some way associated with a turtle. [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 5 answers

Help me identify this (Off-?)Broadway number. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2006 - 10 answers

Web Drama Filter: I liked Broken Saints. What else would I like? ( I'm not looking for web comics so much as long-form dramatic pieces, with sound, 2D and 3D animation and possibly video.) Is there anything else out there using the web as a platform for viewing and distribution?
posted on Jan 23, 2006 - 3 answers

Someone who shall remain nameless put my Sandisk Cruzer Mini USB drive through the washer. It's one of the groovy ones with rubberised slipcases, and it's still working. What are these things made of? Will it rust? [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2006 - 12 answers

ForgottenMovieFilter: I'm looking for this film I saw at least fifteen years ago about a single mother whose daughter was killed by a train. [all the plot I can remember inside, including spoiler] [more inside]
posted on Sep 17, 2005 - 5 answers

I need a few good fonts for various props in a 1956 play. Does anyone know of a list of several 1950's fonts? I need a sign, window lettering, and I'd like the program to have a fifties feel as well.
posted on Aug 23, 2005 - 11 answers

How can I learn how to read aloud? [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2005 - 13 answers

What makes something melodramatic? I have an idea of its definition, based on context; but would never use this word, since I'm not exactly sure -- what does it mean to you? I've known people who use the term to mean something like dramatic or overly dramatic or emotional, over-wrought or even hysterical. So, okay, dramatic; but why mellow? [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2005 - 16 answers

I would like to see all 37 of Shakespears plays (unabridged), what is the easiest, cheapest, way to do this?
posted on Dec 7, 2004 - 21 answers

I'm a huge fan of the epic British TV-dramas from the 70s & 80s -- the type shown here in America on "Masterpiece Theatre." Though some of the most famous ones ("Upstairs, Downstairs", "I, Claudius") have been out on DVD for a long time, I've noticed that recently some of the more obscure ones are coming out ("The Charmer," "To Serve Them All My Days"). I usually get my DVD news from dvdjournal.com, but that site doesn't list British series. Does anyone know of a site that tracks them? I am specifically interested in versions for the US, since I don't have a region-free DVD player yet.
posted on May 8, 2004 - 8 answers

Looking for good historical dramas, especially ones where the main character sticks to his/her principles, regardless of the consequences. Watched Matewan (John Sayles) recently, as an example. Movies or books would do.
posted on Mar 4, 2004 - 14 answers

I'm looking for the text of a monologue from 'Angels in America.' [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2003 - 12 answers