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Peter Stone - 1972

1776 is an inspiring and imaginative re-creation of the events from May 8 to July 4 in Philadelphia, when the second Continental Congress argued about, voted on, and signed the Declaration of Independence.

From John Adams's opening diatribe to the signing of the document, 1776 is a classic musical play of mounting tension and triumph. Stone and Edwards have dramatically brought to life the legendary delegates: the ever-urbane Benjamin Franklin, the hot-blooded newlywed Thomas Jefferson, and the fiery Adams in conflict with the conservative John Dickinson. With stirring dialogue and colorful, evocative lyrics, 1776 lends an emotion and human dimension to the story that is unattainable in a history book alone.

The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays

David Ossman - 1972

Table of Contents * A Straight, Forward Look at the Firesign Theatre * Who Am Us Anyway? * Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him o Revolution or Revelation o May I see your Passport, Please? o The Script * How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All o The Perfect Ralph Williams Mantra o Welcome to Side Six o The Script * Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers o It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here o "A Life in the Day" o The Script * I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus o If Bees Lived Inside Your Head o Intrat Et Exit Ut Nil Supra! o The Script * Addenda, Appendix and Et Cetera o Mark Time's True Chronology of The Firesign Theatre o Lt.

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The Magic of Light: The Craft and Career of Jean Rosenthal, Pioneer in Lighting for the Modern Stage

Jean Rosenthal - 1972

A lighting designer discusses the people and the productions that she has worked with, revealing the use and significance of lighting in plays, operas, musicals, and ballets..

A lighting designer discusses the people and the productions that she has worked with, revealing the use and significance of lighting in plays, operas, musicals, and ballets.

The Life of the Theatre

Julian Beck - 1972

(Limelight).

"He did what he wanted to do: with his wife Judith Malina he created the Living Theatre . . . Not an ivory tower, however: a headquarters of revolution, a guerrilla theater, though a pacifist one . . . He didn't get the kind of death he wanted . . . but . . . he had had the life he wanted . . . When such a life has been lived, who dares say theater is just a business? Who dares say it is just an art?" Eric Bentley

Three Plays: Striptease / Repeat Performance / The Prophets

Sławomir Mrożek - 1972

Slawomir Mrozek, the Polish-born writer whose plays - among them Tango and Vatzlav - have earned him a reputation as one of Europe's most inventive new playwrights, has written three more plays which confirm his position as a master of modern satire whose concerns are as political as they are moral.

In Striptease, two characters - one an intellectual, the other an activist - find themselves inside a room where a gigantic hand instructs them to remove their clothes until both act out an elaborate dance of rationalized submission. In Repeat Performance, a middle-aged man on an escapade with his son's young wife encounters a ghost from his own youth - the charismatic political leader to whom he had sworn everlasting allegiance, and whose spirit has now returned to claim either the father or the son. The Prophets tells what happens when two prophets show up to fulfill the prophesies instead of just one.