I'm working on a creative project about somebody who gets his brain removed and put in a vat. What should I read?
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posted by HeroZero
on Mar 15, 2013 -
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Help me find this anti-nuclear protest play I saw online at some point in the last two years.
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posted by jrb223
on Mar 25, 2012 -
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Where can I purchase or download English audio and/or radio dramas based on animes? Is there a website that caters to such a medium? If not, which animes do you know that have been converted to an audio drama? Perhaps a podcast?
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posted by UsagiBride
on Jul 27, 2011 -
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If you were doing an outdoor guerrilla community Shakespeare play, where each scene was performed in a different public place, which one would you choose?
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posted by jeffmshaw
on May 11, 2011 -
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I'm directing a high school play and need to make a bluebird fly away on stage, but using a real bird is out of the question. How can I create this effect?
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posted by MShades
on Dec 9, 2010 -
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Molière's Don Juan, Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Dewars, Shaw's Leonard Charteris. I am clearly missing some greats, but who are theatre's other great philandering characters, male or female? (Theatre only, please, no films or television.)
posted by mykescipark
on Oct 19, 2009 -
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Stage Combat Question. Is it possible to take a bladed weapon and render it safe for use on-stage (without damaging the weapon itself)? I seem to recall from my days as a DragonCon volunteer that cosplayer's swords had to be taped* and/or bated (or else the sword had to be peace-tied so as to prevent its leaving a scabbard), but I can't find a description of the safety-making process.
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posted by grabbingsand
on Aug 6, 2009 -
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Sort of a two-part question, though answering the first part will help me answer the second. First, does anyone know of a (preferably online) way to search for plays by topic or subject matter? Searching for title keywords is sometimes useful but not ideal, and I haven't been able to make the search functions at the major playhouses' websites play nicely either. Second, in particular, I'm looking for plays about, referencing, or otherwise related to fire, smoke, etc. Any thoughts on either?
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posted by hatta
on Apr 3, 2009 -
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I'm directing a farce with a bunch of high-schoolers, and would love to give them some movie suggestions to look at for characters. They are pretty classic comic archetypes, but my brain is reeling a bit trying to think of all of them, and though I'd put it out to the hive mind. The only catch is that I can't really suggest any R-Rated movies, because most of them aren't old enough to watch them...
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posted by rawredmeat
on Mar 13, 2009 -
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HighSchoolDramaTeacherFilter: Any tips for doing documentary theater with students?
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posted by HeroZero
on Jan 23, 2009 -
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Help me find free age appropriate plays/skits/acting exercises for my 6 year old.
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posted by dejah420
on Jan 19, 2009 -
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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.
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posted by thoughtless
on Feb 27, 2008 -
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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 by electric water kettle
on Dec 25, 2007 -
24 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?"
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posted by bovious
on Sep 25, 2007 -
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I would like to see all 37 of Shakespears plays (unabridged), what is the easiest, cheapest, way to do this?
posted by phrontist
on Dec 7, 2004 -
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