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Duo! The Best Scenes for Mature Actors
Stephen Fife
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Paperback. This foray into the deeply serious and deeply funny world of life after 40 focuses primarily on scenes that depict the struggles of contemporary characters to come to terms with disappointment and obsolescence or to redeem their lives from the mistakes or miscalculations of their youth. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: ANC; DD; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 535.
While contemporary American culture may be fixated on youthful sex appeal the truth is that the most complex and interesting characters in dramatic literature have been (and still are) those over 40 years old. Whether it's James and Mary Tyrone in ÊLong Day's Journey into NightÊ or Willy Loman in ÊDeath of a SalesmanÊ or Polly Wyeth and her sister Silda in ÊOther Desert CitiesÊ the richest characters are those over 40 whose wealth of experience often helps little when it comes to making the difficult decisions. This volume will mine the deep and fertile vein of ... Read more
While contemporary American culture may be fixated on youthful sex appeal the truth is that the most complex and interesting characters in dramatic literature have been (and still are) those over 40 years old. Whether it's James and Mary Tyrone in ÊLong Day's Journey into NightÊ or Willy Loman in ÊDeath of a SalesmanÊ or Polly Wyeth and her sister Silda in ÊOther Desert CitiesÊ the richest characters are those over 40 whose wealth of experience often helps little when it comes to making the difficult decisions. This volume will mine the deep and fertile vein of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema
Condition
New
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781480360204
SKU
V9781480360204
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99-15
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