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Breaking from Realism: A Map/Quest for the Next Generation

Product Description: Breaking from Realism introduces 15 concepts, methods, and tools from creative workshops, all of which guide playwrights away from conventions of realism and toward more theatrical and imaginative forms of theatre. The goal is for playwrights to write theatrical text that better reflects life as it is in the 21st century...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Jon Jory (foreword by)

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9781575258683 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, June 1, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Breaking from Realism introduces 15 concepts, methods, and tools from creative workshops, all of which guide playwrights away from conventions of realism and toward more theatrical and imaginative forms of theatre.

The Playwright's Workout: Exercises for the Dramatic Imagination From Professional Playwrights

Product Description: This collection of exercises is designed to build creative muscle in students of playwriting and will prove useful as well to working dramatists who want to build their skills while stretching their imaginative powers. Contributed by some of America's foremost playwrights and playwriting teachers, these varied and inventive exercises offer new sources for dramatic inspiration, provide ways to embolden dramatic action, and encourage experimentation with the basic elements of playwriting...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor), Liz Engelman (editor), Marsha Norman (foreword by) and Mac Wellman (other contributor)

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9781575256177 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of exercises is designed to build creative muscle in students of playwriting and will prove useful as well to working dramatists who want to build their skills while stretching their imaginative powers.

Vrooommm! a Nascomedy

Product Description: Full Length, Comedy / 1m, 5f (to play several roles) / Areas In this breezy "NASComedy" the fast lane is stalled to a screeching halt by the arrival of a woman driver on the NASCAR scene, and egos get bruised as Holly "Legs" Nelson starts stealing the show, driving so fast some think she's cheating...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (contributor)

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9780573663758 | Samuel French Inc Plays, January 30, 2009, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Full Length, Comedy / 1m, 5f (to play several roles) / Areas In this breezy "NASComedy" the fast lane is stalled to a screeching halt by the arrival of a woman driver on the NASCAR scene, and egos get bruised as Holly "Legs" Nelson starts stealing the show, driving so fast some think she's cheating.

The Best Ten-minute Plays For 2 Actors 2003

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor)

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9781575253879 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, July 30, 2005, cover price $19.95

The Best Ten-minute Plays For 3 Or More Actors 203

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor)

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9781575253886 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, July 30, 2005, cover price $19.95

2004: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Liz Engelman (editor)

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9781575253367 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, October 1, 2004, cover price $19.95

2004: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors

Product Description: Collected from theaters across America, these new ten-minute plays reveal the power and pleasures of this tightly knit form. These plays can be gathered into an evening of short works for production â an event thatâs becoming more common in the American theater â or theyâre ideal for the classroom...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Liz Engelman (editor)

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9781575253374 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, October 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collected from theaters across America, these new ten-minute plays reveal the power and pleasures of this tightly knit form.

The Playwriting Experiment: A Writer's Companion for the Exploration of Dramatic Form, Genre, Media and Collaboration

By Michael Bigelow Dixon

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9781575252803 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, December 1, 2003, cover price $16.95

Jane Martin: 1996-2001

Product Description: This new collection of plays brings us up-to-date with the preoccupations of Jane Martin--social satirist and purveyor of comedies and dramas that delight in popular culture, scrutinize American politics, and limn the infinite variety in human relationships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Jane Martin

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9781575252728 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, December 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This new collection of plays brings us up-to-date with the preoccupations of Jane Martin--social satirist and purveyor of comedies and dramas that delight in popular culture, scrutinize American politics, and limn the infinite variety in human relationships.

30 Ten Minute Plays for 2 Actors from Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest

Arranged by gender groupings, provides a selection of contemporary ten-minute plays by playwrights including David Henry Hwang, Tina Howe, Jon Jory, and Craig Lucas. (view table of contents)

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor), Karen C. Petruska (editor) and Amy Wegener (editor)

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9781575252773 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Arranged by gender groupings, provides a selection of contemporary ten-minute plays by playwrights including David Henry Hwang, Tina Howe, Jon Jory, and Craig Lucas.

Thirty 10-Minute Plays for 4, 5, and 6 Actors from Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest

Product Description: This volume features 30 outstanding ten-minute plays written for actors in their teens, twenties, and thirties. These plays have been culled from thousands submitted to Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Actors Theatre of Louisville (corporate author), Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor), Brendan Healy (editor) and Tanya Palmer (editor)

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9781575252797 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, August 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This volume features 30 outstanding ten-minute plays written for actors in their teens, twenties, and thirties.

Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays

Product Description: The seventh volume in Smith and Kraus' annual series of plays produced at America's premiere New Play Festival. This year's volume includes: Cabin Pressure by Anne Bogart, Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls by Naomi Iizuki, Y2K by Arthur Kopit, The Cockfighter by Frank Manley, God's Man in Texas by David Rambo...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Amy Wagener (editor)

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9781575252070 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The seventh volume in Smith and Kraus' annual series of plays produced at America's premiere New Play Festival.

500 Years of Theatre History: From the Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville

Product Description: This volume features a collection of lectures from various contributing scholars about the history of the past 500 years of theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival brings together this history, providing a lasting record of the most important aspects of theatre in the past 500 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Classics in Context Festival (other contributor), Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Valerie Smith (editor)

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9781575251738 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This volume features a collection of lectures from various contributing scholars about the history of the past 500 years of theater.

Humana Festival 1998: The Complete Plays

Product Description: The sixth volume in Smith and Kraus' annual series of plays produced at America's premiere New Play Festival. This year's plays include: Like Totally Weird by William Mastrosimone, Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies, Resident Alien by Stuart Spencer, Mr...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Amy Wegener (editor)

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9781575251424 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The sixth volume in Smith and Kraus' annual series of plays produced at America's premiere New Play Festival.

Humana Festival 1996: The Complete Plays

Product Description: 1996 marks the 20th anniversary of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Thanks to the generosity and vision of the Humana Foundation, the festival has introduced to the American repertoire more than 200 plays by 130 playwrights. - Michael Bigelow Dixon & Liz Engelman (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Liz Engelman (editor)

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9781575250335 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, December 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 1996 marks the 20th anniversary of the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

By Southern Playwrights: Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville

Product Description: Presents nine plays, most previously published, which have premiered at Actors Theater of Louisville. Works include Marsha Norman's Loving Daniel Boone, Harry Crewe's only play Blood Issue, Elizabeth Dewberry's Head On, and Wendell Berry's The Cool of the Day ...read more

By Actors Theatre of Louisville (corporate author), Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Michele Volansky (editor)

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9780813119670 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, March 1, 1996, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Presents nine plays, most previously published, which have premiered at Actors Theater of Louisville.

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9780813108773 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, February 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: By Southern Playwrights is a rare assemblage of works from the 1980s and 1990s by writers continuing the tradition of Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Beth Henley, among others.

A Decade of New Comedy: Plays from the Humana Festival

Product Description: These two volumes bring together 10 of the best comedies from the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New Plays. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor), Humana Festival (corporate author) and Michele Volansky (editor)

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9780435070137 | Heinemann, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: These two volumes bring together 10 of the best comedies from the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New Plays.

9780435070175 | Heinemann, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A truly remarkable collecion of the best comedies of the decade .

Twenty One-Act Plays from Twenty Years of the Humana Festival: 1975-1995

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By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor), Humana Festival (corporate author) and Michele Volansky (editor)

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9781880399989 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $19.95

Anne Bogart: Viewpoints

Product Description: Including contributions from... Porter Anderson, Gregory Gunter, Eelka Lampe, Ellen Lauren, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Paula Vogel, Anne Bogart, Mel Gussow, Tina Landau, Eduardo Machado, Tadashi Suzuki, plus the text of Small Lives/ Big Dreams created by the SITI Company.

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Joel A. Smith (editor)

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9781880399941 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Including contributions from.

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9781880399804 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Including contributions from.

A Brave and Violent Theatre: Monologues, Scenes and Critical Context from 20th Century Irish Drama

Product Description: This is a splendid anthology. It covers almost a century of Irish theatrical writing, and includes selections from the work of internationally renowned dramatists, as well as from that of younger authors who will undoubtedly become as well known outside the island of Ireland as they already are acclaimed within it...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky (editor)

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9781880399712 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, January 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This is a splendid anthology.

Kiss and Tell: Restoration Comedy of Manners : Monologues, Scenes and Historical Context

Product Description: Actors will adore this collection of early 18th century Restoration monologues that unabashedly gives voice to the bawdy sexual and social mores of that time period. Kiss and Tell is a volume of comic and romantic monologues from plays by Behn, Wycherly, Centlivre, Etherege, Dryden, Vanbrugh, and others...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor) and Michele Volansky (editor)

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9781880399385 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, December 1, 1993), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Actors will adore this collection of early 18th century Restoration monologues that unabashedly gives voice to the bawdy sexual and social mores of that time period.

Big Trouble: Six Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville

Product Description: Out of print. Director's copy written on front. Clean, tight no writing within.

By Michael Bigelow Dixon

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9780886803247 | I E Clark, September 1, 1990, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Out of print.

Tales from the Arabian Nights

By Jan Cole and Michael Bigelow Dixon

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9780886802394 | I E Clark, September 1, 1985, cover price $5.00

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