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Plays by Source (Study Guide): Plays Based on Actual Events, Plays Based on Media, Donnie Darko, a Few Good Men, the Crucible, Lost Highway
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-14.
ISBN 9781157913726
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Plays Based on Actual Events, Plays Based on Media, Donnie Darko, a Few Good Men, the Crucible, Lost Highway, Children of Paradise, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Theatre of Blood, Kelly, the White Devil, Charlie Victor Romeo, Lost Colony, Our Country's Good, Ross, Memphis, Scenes From a Marriage, Imaginary Friends, Twelve Angry Men, Swimming With Sharks, Festen, Death and the Maiden, I Am My Own Wife, Agnes of God, the Biograph Girl, Plague Over England, This Beautiful City, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Elling, Tru, Bloody Poetry, Real Women Have Curves, Tea at Five, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Machinal, Bloody Sunday: Scenes From the Saville Inquiry, Groucho: a Life in Revue, Godshow, the Star Wars Trilogy in Thirty Minutes, Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diaries, the State of Mississippi and the Face of Emmett Till, the Innocent, Making History, the Last of the Tsars. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller (19152005). It is a dramatization of the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was to be questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for failing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The reviews of the first production, which Miller felt was stylized and too cold, were largely hostile, although The New York Times noted "a powerful play driving performance." Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 "Best Play" Tony Award. A yea...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=199491
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