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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 August Wilson (Author)Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with ...

Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown - Paperback

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by Anaïs Mitchell (Author)"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."--Lin-Manuel Miranda Anaïs Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020 An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown--the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical--from its author, songwriter Anaïs Mitchell with a foreword by Steve Earle On Broadway, this fresh take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has ...

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides - Paperback

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by Euripides (Author), Anne Carson (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by)Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so." His plays were shockers: he unmasked...

Greatest Works of Jane Austen (Set of 5 Books) - Paperback

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by Jane Austen (Author) Jane Austen, a renowned English novelist of the nineteenth century, crafted timeless tales that continue to captivate readers to this day. Her greatest works are a testament to her wit, social commentary, and keen understanding of human nature. In this set of five books, immerse yourself in Austen's world of societal manners and romantic entanglements. Pride and Prejudice showcases the complexities of love and social hierarchy, while Emma explores the pitfalls of match...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Peter Holland (Editor), Peter Holland (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of The Tempest is edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Holland and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illust...

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by Tina Prima Knaps (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2024

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by Tina Prima Knaps (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2024

Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition: Volume 30 - Paperback

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by Sparknotes (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in this new EXPANDED edition of ROMEO AND JULIET Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter. The expanded sections include: Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked questions about major...

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by August Wilson (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a "vivid and uplifting" (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called "his most ma...

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by Tim Firth (Author)Imagine you're a spirited 13-year-old and you've won - actually won - a magazine competition to describe your family. The prize is a dream holiday for the lot of you, anywhere in the world. Except... Nicky's family isn't the blissfully happy bunch she's described. More like the contestants in a gladiatorial arena, in fact. Where on earth can she take them that might make her wishful thinking a reality? Winner of the 2013 UK Theatre Award for Best Musical, this hilarious m...

Master Harold and the Boys: A Play - Paperback

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by Athol Fugard (Author)A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" (Time). Originally produced in 1982, "Master Harold and the Boys" is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time.Author BiographyATHOL FUGARD was born in South Africa in 1932 and is an internationally acclaimed playwright. His best-...

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by Jonathan Norton (Author)In this strikingly inventive autobiographical work of drama, Jonathan Norton delves into the story of American systemic racism, illustrating life for one Dallas household and their candy shop during the drug epidemic of the late 1980's.Author BiographyJonathan is the Playwright in Residence at the Dallas Theater Center. His work has been produced or developed by Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival, Dallas Theater Center, PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre Company, ...

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Oscar Wilde (Author), Peter Raby (Editor)Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical...

The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare the Tragedy of Coriolanus - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), R. B. Parker (Editor)Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first full stage history and analysis of the original production of Coriolanus at the Blackfriars theater, and also examines Shakespeare's adaptation of his historical m...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would hav...

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by Euripides (Author), Robin Waterfield (Translator), Edith Hall (Introduction by)Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humor while the blo...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Jane Coles (Editor), Rex Gibson (Editor)Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Measure for Measure has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Measure for Measure aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind...

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by Shaina Taub (Author)2024 Tony Award winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original ScoreA musical one hundred years in the making, Suffs brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to vote.Written by one of the most exciting new voices in theater, this epic new musical takes an unflinching look at the unsung trailblazers of the American women's suffrage movement. In the seven years leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, an impassioned gro...

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by Tennessee Williams (Author), Edward Albee (Introduction by)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics C...

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by Jez Butterworth (Author)"A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play...An instant classic." --Independent "A mighty affair, sending stories, characters, history, politics and love skittering across the floor with the flair of a gambler rolling dice. It's a stunning piece of writing: teeming with life; haunted by death...Butterworth takes the great family drama and makes it his own." --Financial Times "An astonishing, enormous, shattering eruption of a play...It left me genuinely stunn...

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by Craig Lucas (Author), Adam Guettel (Author)Winner of six Tony Awards "A wondrous fable that is as simple and complicated as its ineffable subject--love. The Light in the Piazza has ravishing power. It's as if Guettel were determined to capture the golden light of Tuscany in a bottle. His lyrics are remarkable, and the book, written by Craig Lucas, is written with characteristic empathy and humor. Brilliant." -Frank Rich "The Light in the Piazza beautifully captures the eternal allure of It...

Twelfth Night: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition: Volume 10 - Paperback

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by Sparknotes (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in new DELUXE editions Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They introduce Shakespeare's world, significant plot points, and the key players. And now they feature expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter, along with links to bonus content on ...

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author), Rodelle Weintraub (Introduction by)Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of one of Shaw's most delightful comedies--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Raina, a young woman with romantic notions of war and an idealized view of her soldier fianc , is surprised one night by a Swiss mercenary soldier seeking refuge in her bedchamber. The pragmatic Captain Bluntschli proceeds to puncture all of Raina's illusions about love, he...

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by Mat de Melo (Author)"Un poema de montaje cinematogr?fico que difumina las l?neas entre la poes?a y el teatro." Ficci?n Inc. (Ficci?n S.A.) es una narrativa colorida y on?rica que mezcla teatro, mitolog?a y poes?a cinematogr?fica. En el coraz?n de la historia se encuentra Milo, un dramaturgo bajo un hechizo de los dioses, que se ve atrapado entre los reinos de la ficci?n y la realidad. Junto a un elenco de personajes exc?ntricos, Milo y su s?quito sienten el peso del mundo para cumplir con ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his her...

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by Mat de Melo (Author)"A cinematic montage poem that blurs the lines between poetry and theatre."Fiction Inc. is a genre-defying book that combines theatre and cinematic poetry. At the heart of the story is Milo, a playwright under a spell by the gods who finds himself caught between the realms of fiction and reality. Alongside a cast of eccentric characters, Milo and his entourage, Juno, Bacchus and Sonny feel the weight of the world to fulfill their obligations to the Universe, and to save...

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by Steven Sater (Author), Duncan Sheik (Author)"This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times"The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts...In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence."--John Heilpern, The New York Ob...

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by Pearl Cleage (Author)"Pearl Cleage is a passionate, challenging playwright whose concerns for the species are unmistakable and profound. As a woman, as an African-American, her artistic objectivity and sensitivity to history combine with, but do not overshadow, her capacity to dig for truth and present it flat out as she sees it - with a finger snap or a shout and sometimes with a wink. Among the most satisfying roles I've undertaken on stage is surely Miss Leah in Flyin' West. She brings ...

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Author)"Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast...Guirgis's rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy." --Alexandra Schwartz, New YorkerStephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a women's halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents...

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by Dipika Guha (Author) Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 01, 2020

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Stephen Orgel (Introduction by), Stephen Orgel (Editor)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of King Lear presents a conflated text, combining the 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts, edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged with cover art...