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(Applause Books). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to
announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay
and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century,
sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied
on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays, three are
completely out of print. Included are The God of Venegeance (1918)
by Sholom Ash, the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an
English-language audience; Lillian Hellman's classic The Children's
Hour (1933), initially banned in London and passed over for the
Pulitzer Prize because of its subject matter; and Oscar Wilde
(1938) by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, a major award-winning success
that starred Robert Morley. More recent plays include Mart
Crowley's The Boys in the Band (1968), the first hit "out" gay play
that was the most realistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gays on
stage up to that time; Martin Sherman's Bent (1978), which daringly
focused on the love between two Nazi concentration camp inmates and
starred Richard Gere; William Hoffman's As Is (1985), which was one
of the first plays to deal with the AIDS crisis and earned three
Tony Award nominations; and Terrence McNally's Love Valour
Compassion (1994), which starred Nathan Lane and won the Tony Award
for Best Play. The other plays are Edouard Bourdet's The Captive
(1926), Ruth and Augustus Goetz's The Immoralist (1954) and Frank
Marcus' The Killing of Sister George (1967). Forbidden Acts
includes a broad range of theatrical genres: drama, tragedy,
romance, comedy and farce. They remain vibrant and relevant today
as a testament of art's ability to persevere in the face of
oppression.
Now in its 25th year, the Commercial Theater Institute sponsors an
annual intensive program in New York for individuals interested in
producing or investing in the theatre that attracts people from all
over the world. The top working theatre professionals offer hard,
factual information to those interested in producing for Broadway,
Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, anywhere in North America, as well
as in the United Kingdom. The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to
Producing Plays and Musicals now collects for the first time the
cream of the crop of that advice, from the noted theatre
professionals who participate in the program, in their own words.
Interviews, contributions, and a resource directory are included
from 30 theatre professionals who have won a total of 45 Tony
Awards. Agents, directors, production designers, general managers,
fundraisers, marketing directors, producers, and theatrical
attorneys all offer invaluable advice in a book that will be the
definitive resource in its field.
Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of
how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent
that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as
its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably
accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes
on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a
compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the
scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's
peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends
foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised,
the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the
EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book
is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European
defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an
innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future
hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans
should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own
defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted
could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war
they must face.
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