Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of ÊMoonstruckÊ. Includes: The Big Funk Savage in Limbo Danny & The Deep Blue Sea Welcome to the Moon The Red Coat Down & Out Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night Out West A Lonely Impulse of Delight Women of Manhattan The Dreamer Examines His Pillow Italian-American Reconciliation and Beggars in the House of Plenty. Also includes an introduction by the author.
inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.
The screenplays of award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley have earned him a reputation as a gifted writer with a great range and imagination. His movies Moonstruck, Five Corners, and Joe Versus the Volcano have starred such Hollywood luminaries as Cher—who took home an Oscar for her performance in Moonstruck—Nicolas Cage, Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Meg Ryan, and Tom Hanks. This collection showcases Shanley’s talent for creating dialogue that is true to his characters and his ability to tell their stories in eccentric and intensely humorous situations.
"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times" The] #1 show of the year. How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity unlike anything we have seen from this prolific playwright so far. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely. Doubt is a lean, potent drama . . . passionate, exquisite, important, and engrossing."--Linda Winer, NewsdayChosen as the best play of the year by over 10 newspapers and magazines, Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues. This new play by John Patrick Shanley--the Bronx-born-and-bred playwright and Academy Award-winning author of Moonstruck--dramatizes issues straight from today's headlines within a world re-created with knowing detail and a judicious eye. After a stunning, sold-out production at Manhattan Theatre Club, the play has transferred to Broadway.John Patrick Shanley is the author of numerous plays, including Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Dirty Story, Four Dogs and a Bone, Psychopathia Sexualis, Sailor's Song, Savage in Limbo, and Where's My Money?. He has written extensively for TV and film, and his credits include the teleplay for Live from Baghdad and screenplays for Congo, Alive, Five Corners, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Moonstruck, for which he won an Academy Award for original screenplay.
Now a major motion picture Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play."The best new play of the season. That rarity of rarities, an issue-driven play that is unpreachy, thought-provoking, and so full of high drama that the audience with which I saw it gasped out loud a half-dozen times at its startling twists and turns. Mr. Shanley deserves the highest possible praise: he doesn't try to talk you into doing anything but thinking-hard-about the gnarly complexity of human behavior."--Terry Teachout, "The Wall Street Journal""A breathtaking work of immense proportion. Positively brilliant."--Melissa Rose Bernardo, "Entertainment Weekly""#1 show of the year. How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity unlike anything we have seen from this prolific playwright so far. In just ninety fast-moving minutes, Shanley creates four blazingly individual people. "Doubt" is a lean, potent drama . . . passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing."--Linda Winer, "Newsday"John Patrick Shanley is the author of numerous plays, including "Danny in the Deep Blue Sea," "Dirty Story," "Four Dogs and a Bone," "Psychopathia," "Sexualis," "Sailor's Song," "Savage in Limbo," and "Where's My Money?" He has written extensively for TV and film, and his credits include the teleplay for "Live from Baghdad" and screenplays for "Congo"; "Alive"; "Five Corners"; "Joe Versus the Volcano," which he also directed; and "Moonstruck," for which he won an Academy Award for best original screenplay.
" Shanley's] intense engagement with questions of religion and ethics...remains distinctive and invigorating."?"The New York Times""There's a deeper philosophical vein that the author mines, allowing his language to acquire the heft and timbre of a serious moral debate. . . . We taste bitterness, but also much that is sweet."?"Time Out New York"The final installment of John Patrick Shanley's "Church and State" trilogy--beginning with the award-winning "Doubt "and "Defiance"--concerns a Bronx Borough President who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a confrontation with a local minister. Blending earthy humor and philosophical reflection, this morality tale explores the relationship between spiritual experience and social action.John Patrick Shanley is the author of numerous plays, including "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," "Dirty Story," "Four Dogs and a Bone," "Psychopathia Sexualis," "Sailor's Song," "Savage in Limbo," and "Where's My Money?" He has written extensively for television and film, and his credits include the teleplay for "Live from Baghdad "and screenplays for "Congo"; "Alive"; "Five Corners"; "Joe Vs. the Volcano," which he also directed; and "Moonstruck," for which he won an Academy Award for best original screenplay. He adapted his Tony Award-winning play "Doubt "into an Academy Award-winning film, which he also directed, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
"In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as absolute as it is illusory."--"BOMB" magazine"Outside Mullingar" is about the romance of Anthony and Rosemary, neighbors in rural Ireland, who are nearing their middle years. It is by turns poetic, uplifting, dark and funny as hell. Anthony is an introverted farmer and Rosemary is the woman who vows to have him at all costs. When Anthony's father threatens to disinherit his son, Rosemary steps into the middle of a land feud and family eccentricities beyond what one might imagine. On the brink of romantic catastrophe, this one-of-a-kind Irish heroine fights against time and mortality in hopes of securing her dream of love.""Outside Mullingar" is a charmer of a play... In Shanley's] first work set in Ireland, he lovingly tends the roots and tills the soil of his ancestry, spinning a tale suffused with melancholy humor and a deep yearning for heart, home, land, faith and a sense of belonging.... Shanley has a poet's ear for the lyrical music and twinkly humor of their dialogue." - "Hollywood Reporter"""Mullingar" is Shanley's best play since "Doubt," and like that hit from a decade ago, it's lean, dialectical and packed with wise saws and aphoristic gems." - "Time Out New York""Shanley once again reveals both a touch of the poet and a fine gift of gab." - "NY1""Wholly diverting... Mr. Shanley's finest work since "Doubt.".. a softhearted comedy freckled with dark reflections on the unsatisfactory nature of life and the thorns of love." - "New York Times"John Patrick Shanley is the author of "Doubt: A Parable" (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," "Four Dogs and a Bone," "Dirty Story," "Defiance" and "Storefront Church," among many others. He wrote the teleplay for "Live from Baghdad" (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special), and the screenplays for "Doubt" (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay), "Five Corners" (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), "Alive," "Joe Versus the Volcano," and "Moonstruck" (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).
'What I admire most is that his plays are beautifully well made, economical, sharp and coherent. He's not a misanthrope, but he's in pursuit of why people behave as badly as they do along with having a great compassion for them. That's an unusual and interesting combination.' Tony Kushner, on John Patrick ShanleyWhen a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx finds himself shipped off to a private school in New Hampshire, the adjustment to the alien environment will lead to his ultimate dissolution or redemption. Teachers in the affluent institution do not know what to make of the new boisterous student, though the challenge really lies in his self-perception. Like his most celebrated play, "Doubt," the author has based this new work on his own personal experiences of growing up as a teenager in the South Bronx and his time spent at a prep school in New England. Shanley has created an elemental study of a young's man search for his place in the world.John Patrick Shanley's plays include "Outside Mullingar," "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," "Savage in Limbo," and "Dirty Story," along with his "Church and State" trilogy, "Doubt," "Defiance," and "Storefront Church." For his play "Doubt," he received both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has nine films to his credit, including the five-time Oscar-nominated "Doubt," and "Moonstruck," which received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The Writers Guild of America awarded Shanley the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing."
