Drama

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by David Adjmi (Author)From David Adjmi the virtuosic playwright dubbed one of the "best and most original theatre artists of a generation" by Vogue come a wholly original one-woman show. Elective Affinities takes the audience into the apartment of Alice a witty octogenarian offering a funny and savage portrait of cultured life promising to initiate a vital discourse about what it means to be civilized. Number of Pages: 18 Dimensions: 0.04 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2014

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by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder (Author)1m, 3f / Drama / Simple set Gee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the real community of Gee's Bend, AL, which is now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there. Gospel songs weave in and out of this hauntingly beautiful work. "Gee's Bend is a lovefest -- between the characters in the play and the land they live on, between the actors and the characters...

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by Sophocles (Author)The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus's own faults contribute to his tragic downfall. A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: ...

Great Storytellers of the Upper Peninsula

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Report copyright infringementby Mike McCarthy (Author) Number of Pages: 436 Dimensions: 0.89 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Liz Morgan (Author), Sulu Leonimm (Author), Katy Rubin (Author)The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work! Why Wildcard? Because to be a "Joker" in the Theatre of the Oppressed is to play many different roles and to navigate uncertainty with joy. Written by experienced Jokers from Theatre of the Oppressed NYC ...

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Report copyright infringementThis meticulously edited collection presents "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" in two comprehensive volumes. Including a detailed biography of the Bard, explanatory footnotes, critical analyses, and a helpful glossarial index, this edition is an invaluable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike. Experience the timeless brilliance of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets, from the tragedies of "Hamlet" and "Macbeth" to the comedies of "A Midsummer ...

Never Like My Father: Childhood Trauma, Family Addiction, and One Sacred Promise

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Kane (Author)"Dear God, I will never, ever, EVER be like my father. I will never drink. I will never hurt people. I will never make my children scared. I promise. Amen."On Easter morning, six-year-old Olivia Parker is on her knees in a cramped Ohio bathroom, wiping vomit off her father's shirt while he shakes on the toilet. In that moment, she makes a sacred promise: she will grow up to be the opposite of this man.Never Like My Father, Book 1 of The Daug...

Comedies for the Virtual Stage: Short Plays Adaptable for Online Performance

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Report copyright infringementby Janet R. Carpman (Editor), Mary Ann Hubbard (Editor)Virtual theatre fed a hunger for live performances during the pandemic, when traditional stages went dark. Online streaming technology enabled audiences to enjoy the magic of theatre in real time from the comfort and safety of home. Today, this innovative art form is thriving beyond crisis times. With high production values and relatively low costs, live online theatre has proven to be more than a stopgap. It ...

The Actor's Emotions: Conscious Activation of Subconscious Creativity

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Report copyright infringementby Prodan Dimov (Author)In the context of the modern trends in the development of world theater pedagogy, using interdisciplinary research methods, this book is dedicated to the nature of emotional memory in the light of scientific discoveries made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in physiology and psychology and its application in the modern acting training described in the System of the early Stanislavsky and the Strasberg Method. The main body focuse...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole White (Author) Number of Pages: 396 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2023 Large Print: Yes

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Sierzant (Author)Brooklyn Love Story is a tender, nostalgic coming-of-age tale set in the heart of 1950s Brooklyn, where ten-year-old Jeanette navigates the lively chaos of a Sicilian-American household, the trials of sisterhood, and a complicated affection for her favorite cousin, Sonny. Through family dinners, rooftop fireworks, stickball games, and Easter feasts, Jeanette's world is filled with laughter, heartbreak, and the rich tapestry of immigrant l...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Sullivan (Author), Basil Hood (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)A wealthy man unknowingly harbors the Sultana after she sneaks out of the palace, which causes the Sultan and his guards to storm their party. Threatened with death, the man tries to convince the Sultan to spare his life. Hassan is a wealthy merchant who loves the company of common travelers. Despite his social status and many wives (25 to be exact), he constantly opens his home to re...

The Lies We Tell Ourselves: A One-Act Play

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Report copyright infringementby Franky Corcoran (Author)The Lies We Tell Ourselves is a one-act play set in a hotel room in Miramichi, New Brunswick. Vern and Liza Anderson are a newlywed couple in St. Andrews who have come to Miramichi for their honeymoon, which just so happens to be Vern's hometown. His previous marriage ended with his ex-wife, Peggy Bell cheating on him... At least that's what he told Liza. In a wicked twist of fate, Vern reunites with Peggy at the hotel, where she is now ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (Author)Never safe, always provocative, sometimes controversial, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan combines forceful poetry with absurdist atrocity and surrealism in this moving trilogy. Three tragic events from World War II Nazi occupied Jersey are explored in this avant-garde trilogy of plays from award winning Irish playwright, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan. A boatload of French prostitutes is shipwrecked, drowned, their bodies abandoned to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Brown (Author)Gloria Mundi is a one-act play written by Patricia Brown. The play is set in a small village in England and revolves around the life of a young woman named Gloria. Gloria is a bright and ambitious woman who has dreams of leaving her small town and pursuing a career in the city. However, her plans are derailed when she becomes pregnant and is forced to marry her boyfriend, Tom.As the play unfolds, we see the struggles that Gloria faces as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert S. G. Canning (Author)Shakespeare's Timon of Athens: A Study by Albert S. G. Canning is a comprehensive analysis of one of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays. The book delves into the themes, characters, and language of Timon of Athens, exploring the play's commentary on wealth, friendship, and betrayal. Canning's study also provides historical context for the play, examining the political and social climate of Shakespeare's time that may have influenced t...

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Report copyright infringementby A. L. Chisholm (Mrs ). (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations i...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikolai Gogol (Author), Deborah McAndrew (Adapted by)This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government. Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger is mistaken for a government inspector. Fearing discovery of their corrupt goings-on, the town's unscrupulou...

The Plain-Dealer. a Comedy, Etc. [In Five Acts, in Prose and in Verse. Taken from Molie Re's Comedy,

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Report copyright infringementby William Wycherley (Author), Moliere (Author)Title: The Plain-Dealer. A comedy, etc. [in five acts, in prose and in verse. Taken from Molie re's comedy, "Le Misanthrope."]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Martin (Author)Title: Translations from Ancient Irish Manuscripts, and other poems.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Lang (Author)""Ben Jonson and Shakespeare"" is a book written by Andrew Lang that explores the relationship between two of the most prominent playwrights of the Elizabethan era: William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Lang examines the similarities and differences between the two writers, their respective styles, and their contributions to the English stage. He also delves into the personal relationship between the two men, including their collaborations and...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah More (Author)Title: Sir Eldred of the Bower, and the Bleeding Rock: two legendary tales. [In verse.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include a...

Christabess ... A right woeful poem, translated from the doggerel, by Sir Vinegar Sponge. [A parody of S. T. Coleridge's Christabel.]

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Report copyright infringementby S. T. Colebritche (Author), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author)Title: Christabess ... A right woeful poem, translated from the doggerel, by Sir Vinegar Sponge. [A parody of S. T. Coleridge's "Christabel."]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newsp...

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Report copyright infringementby John P. Mawhood (Author)Title: The Rover. A poem.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hildegarde Flanner (Author)Mansions: A Play In One Act is a drama written by Hildegarde Flanner and first published in 1920. The play revolves around a wealthy family living in a grand mansion, who are visited by a young woman seeking employment as a maid. As the family members interact with the new maid, their true personalities and secrets are revealed, leading to a dramatic climax. The play explores themes of class, power, and the consequences of hiding one'...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Addison (Author)Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison, first performed in 1713. The play is set in ancient Rome during the time of the Roman Republic and follows the story of Cato, a stoic philosopher and senator who opposes Julius Caesar's rise to power. Cato is torn between his duty to uphold the values of the Republic and his love for his daughter, Marcia, who is in love with Caesar's ally, Juba. The play explores themes of honor, duty, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Maloney (Author), Treg Miller (Illustrator)Much Ado, A Shakespeare-inspired Tale tells the comedy of true love and trickery in short poetic verse like never before using original acrylic paintings on paper. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.07 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Sonia Farmer (Author)Written by Sonia Farmer, A True and Exact History: a Reading is a poetic erasure of Richard Ligon's A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657), using the language at the core of this text to interrogate narrative as a device of cohesive history in the Caribbean. Reimagined as a dramatic reading using eleven speakers to represent the eleven separate parishes of the island, their voices inhabit and exchange threads of these di...

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Report copyright infringementby George Bernard Shaw (Author)THE PRINCESS. Oh no: you mustn't think I want one. It's so unpatriotic to want anything now, on account of the war, you know. I sent my maid away as a public duty; and now she has married a soldier and is expecting a war baby. But I don't know how to do without her. I've tried my very best; but somehow it doesn't answer: everybody cheats me; and in the end it isn't any saving. So I've made up my mind to sell my piano and have a maid....

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Report copyright infringementby George Bernard Shaw (Author)Augustus Does His Bit is a satirical play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play is set during World War I and follows the story of Augustus, a wealthy and self-centered man who is drafted into the army. Despite his initial reluctance, Augustus eventually becomes a model soldier and rises through the ranks, gaining the respect of his fellow soldiers and superiors. Along the way, Shaw uses Augustus as a vehicle to critique the war e...

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Report copyright infringementby Rabindranath Tagore (Author), W. B. Yeats (Foreword by)The Post Office: A Play is a dramatic work written by Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Indian poet, philosopher, and playwright. First published in 1912, the play centers around Amal, a young boy who is confined to his home due to illness. Amal is fascinated by the world outside and eagerly awaits the arrival of the postman every day. When the postman finally arrives, Amal befriends him and learns about the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marion Isaac McClinton (Author) "POLICE BOYS is a cry from the heart written in response to the recession-spawned epidemic of gang violence that erupted in the late 80s. Filled with a rich array of lovingly and painfully conceived characters who spout equal parts profanity-laced invective and transfigurative arias, it charged headlong into a world of fatherless warrior children and the elder survivors wrestling with them, and with their own legacies. The ambit...