Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle [Audiobook]




Girl Walks into a Bar…: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle [Audiobook] by Rachel Dratch


English | April 3, 2012 | ASIN: B007R6B0AY | MP3@64 kbps | 5 hrs 12 mins | 148 MB

Narrator: Rachel Dratch | Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir/Humor




In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it – at the age of 44.




Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as "Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians."




Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog-sitting, learning Spanish – and dating. After all, what did a forty-something single woman living in New York have to lose? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John.




Handsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child and moved to New York to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word.




Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch"s time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar is a refreshing version of the "happily ever after" story that proves female comics – like best sellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler – are truly having their moment.








Friday, September 11, 2015

The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy, 3 edition




J Michael Walton, "The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy, 3 edition"


English | ISBN: 1138857319, 1138857335 | 2015 | 184 pages | PDF | 2 MB




In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention should still be paid to the nature of stage image and masked acting as part of this conception.




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