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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

Love's Chosen Destiny: Life Can Turn On A Dime - Paperback

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by Myrna Skoller (Author)A love story that defies boundaries and changes destinies.Step into a world where love knows no bounds and destinies are intertwined in unexpected ways in Love's Chosen Destiny. In this heartfelt and captivating romance, written by Myrna Skoller, Liz's life is a tapestry woven with deep connections, unexpected attractions, and life-altering choices.Liz and Julie have been inseparable since high school, their bond unbreakable. Julie's younger brother, Jonathan, was just a child when Liz first met him, but their connection was instant and profound. Fast forward to Julie's wedding, and Jonathan has transformed into a strikingly handsome young man, stirring emotions i...

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by Ken Ludwig (Author)Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back on the case! An investigation into the Bohemian king's stolen letters cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail, and intrigue. With world peace at stake, Holmes and Watson join forces with American actress Irene Adler to take down cunning criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty and his network of devious henchmen. Five actors play over forty roles in this adventure that has danger - and laughter! - around every corner. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8 x 5 IN

Towards Zero (Outdoor Version) - Paperback

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by Agatha Christie (Author)When a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife, Audrey, and his new flame, Kay. A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder. With reflections on suicide, depression and redemption, the play is a layered drama of piercing intelligence. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

Sheep-O: A Collection of Stories from the Shearing World of Bygone Days - Paperback

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by Guru Om (Author)In the 1960s, a Yorkshire teen's escape from abuse leads to a transformative odyssey as he navigates the harsh, rugged world of Australian shearing, shaping his identity and earning respect stroke by stroke.It's the 60's.A 15 year-old boy from North Yorkshire has emigrated to Australia on the Big Brother Program. He has left an abusive situation with family, teachers, etc. Believing that he would have a better life and learn a trade.Unbeknownst to him, he has jumped from the proverbial "frying pan into the fire." After leaving the Training Farm, he is sent to his first job in the Bush. Treated like a slave, hard work, he does have the first opportunity to shear a sheep!...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Peter Holland (Editor), Peter Holland (Introduction by)"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completel...

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by Patrick Hamilton (Author)A Broadway hit first produced on the West End under the title Gaslight and filmed twice, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams, who live on Angel Street in 19th-century London. As the curtain rises, all appears to be the essence of Victorian tranquility. It is soon apparent, however, that Mr. Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly driving his gentle, devoted wife, Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness that masks more sinister motives. While he is out, Mrs. Manningham has an unexpected caller: amiable, paternal Inspector Rough from Scotland Yard. Rough is convinced that Mr. Manningham is a homicidal maniac wanted for a mur...

The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 - Paperback

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by Glenn Young (Other)A collection of twelve short plays from 1995-1996. Includes: "Fitting Rooms" - Susan Cinoman; "Scribe's Paradox, or The Mechanical Rabbit" - Michael Feingold; "Home Section" - Janusz Glowacki; "Degas, C'est Moi" - David Ives; "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" - Allan Knee; "Old Blues" - Jonathan Levy; "Dearborn Heights" - Cassandra Medley; "American Dreamers" - Lavonne Mueller; "When it Comes Early" - John Ford Noonan; "The Original Last Wish Baby" - William Seebring; "The Mystery School" - Paul Selig; "The Sandalwood Box" - Mac Wellman. Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.29 x 5.41 IN

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by Caryl Phillips (Author)"I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves. They're young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past - the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago. But when Alvin returns home from his grandfather's funeral a new version of their past emerges, and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the...

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by Chanell Howard (Author) Mr. Keller's recent job promotion necessitates a significant family relocation to what appears to be a quaint, ordinary house in the small town of Canyon, Texas. However, the reality may be far from ordinary. As they settle in, Ms. Keller finds herself grappling with a unique gift, one that challenges her ability to discern between reality and illusion, a gift she is reluctant to embrace. It's not every day that the people you meet turn out to be figments of your imagination. Or are they? Torn between the prudent murmurs of her intuition and the seductive rumors of the townsfolk, Ms. Keller faces a quandary. Is the truth confined to the realm of her thoughts, or...

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by Israel Zangwill (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Melting Pot (1908) is a play by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories of the Victorian era. When it was staged in Washington, DC, The Melting Pot received praise from President Theodore Roosevelt, who proclaimed from the audience "That's a great play, Mr. Zangwill!" During the 1...

A new Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: 10 - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Experience the works of Shakespeare like never before with this comprehensive collection. Featuring extensive notes and commentary, this edition provides a deeper understanding of the plays and sonnets of the world's most celebrated playwright. This book is a must-have for any Shakespeare enthusiast.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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the ...

La Celestina: Tragicomedia De Calisto Y Melibea: Texto De Veintiún Actos Según La Edición De Valencia, 1514, Comparado Con El Primit - Paperback

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by Fernando De Rojas (Author)Esta edición única de La Celestina incluye comparaciones de tres versiones diferentes, convirtiéndola en una obra esencial para el estudio de la literatura española. La trama sigue a los amantes Calisto y Melibea mientras navegan por el amor, la lujuria y la muerte en un estilo que marcará el comienzo del teatro moderno en España.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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corpo...

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by Nicholas Kinsey (Author)Stortorget Square, Stockholm, 1945."In a side street, Peter waited near the car with Evdokia dressed in a grey raincoat. Her head was covered with a black cloth bag. A car stopped on the opposite side of the square. Two men emerged. Peter recognized one of them as the NKVD head of station, Major Vladimir Petrov, in a business suit and a fedora. He led the way, followed by a second man wearing a workman's cap over his white hair. The hand-off was to happen in the middle of the square. Evdokia stumbled badly on the cobblestones in her heels as Peter brought up his Webley revolver to show the Russians he was taking no chances."Mr Faye. Thank you so much for bringin...

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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 musical comedy, which moves seamlessly between speech and song, is a celebration of the lifelong adventure that is family love. Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.35 x 8 x 5 IN

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by Max Frisch (Author), Chris Thorpe (Composer), Simon Stephens (Adapted by)But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it. This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it. Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all down. It's a plague. And we don't know why. But Trueman is no fool. He can spot an arsonist from a mile away. These two strangers with troubled pasts who turn up on his doorstep asking for a spare room can't be arsonists. They're too polite. Like him. Everybody is far too respectable to act on their suspicions. Even when t...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)A Midsummer Night's Dream, ' where love, magic, and mischief intertwine under the moonlit forest canopy. Shakespeare's timeless comedy takes you on a whimsical journey as four young lovers find themselves entangled in a web of mischievous fairies, including the notorious Puck. Meanwhile, a group of amateur actors, led by the comically inept Bottom, add to the hilarity with their attempts to put on a play.As the night unfolds, love takes unexpected turns, and reality blurs with fantasy, leaving the audience spellbound by the beauty of Shakespeare's words and the joy of a comedy where dreams truly come to life. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a delightful explo...

Performing Nationalism in Russia - Hardcover

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by Yana Meerzon (Author)Following Homi Bhabha's prompt on reading nationalism as a set of discursive and performative practices, this Element focuses on the cultural geography of today's Russia and examines a range of performative strategies used by the Russian state to uphold its nationalist project. Simultaneously, it maps artistic strategies of resistance to the ideology of nationalism as employed by both state-funded and independent theatre companies, via new dramaturgies, performance practices and strategies of storytelling. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN

22 Ways A Nonfiction Portrayal - Paperback

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by James A. Jr. Padgett (Author)My novel, 22 Ways A Nonfiction Portrayal, is a completely true story of my life. Throughout the book, I re-live my lifetime of working 22 entirely different jobs. I wrote about encounters I faced working in each job. Some of the 22 jobs and professions include work in oil refineries, hospitals, nuclear pipe sales, retail stocker, day laborer, teacher, digital artist, and househusband to name a few. Situations present during the time of each job created great hilarity, and some great danger. Shared with the reader is a tremendous variety of education I learned from each. Presented are events and many personal interactions over those years, again each its own...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Frances E. Dolan (Editor), Frances E. Dolan (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage,...

The Adulateur: A Tragedy As It Is Now Acted In Upper Servia - Paperback

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by Mercy Otis Warren (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9.09 x 6.08 IN

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by Eve Ensler (Author)Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body." "In the 1950s," Eve writes, girls were "pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. . . . In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the corporate ladder. They go to the gym. . . . They wear painful pointy shoes. They don't eat too much. They . . . don't eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good."The Good Body starts with Eve's tortured relationship with her own "post-forties" stomach and her skirmi...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)As You Like It is a play written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1623. The play is a romantic comedy that follows the story of Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled duke, who falls in love with Orlando, the son of one of her father's enemies. When Rosalind is banished from the court, she disguises herself as a man and flees to the Forest of Arden, where she meets a host of eccentric characters and finds unexpected love.The play explores themes of love, gender roles, and the nature of identity. It is known for its witty dialogue, memorable characters, and lively songs. As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and has been adapted int...

Take My Coxcomb: Shakespeare's Clown-Servants from Late Feudal to Proto-Capitalist Economies in Early Modern England - Paperback

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by G. Neasman Everett G. Neasman (Author)With the early growth of monarchal absolutism in England, professional acting troupes established themselves. These dramatists of a 'new secular seriousness' act in the shadow of waning Catholic cycle plays controlled by the church. By Shakespeare's time, professional acting troupes are forces of economic production. Specifically, "Take My Coxcomb" analyzes the ways in which the clowns affect three aspects of Shakespeare's comedies: clowns as markers of changes in audience humor from portrayals of court fool to rustic simpleton, clowns as economic barometers to the financial bonds and social/economic relationships with in their plays, and the expa...

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by Ed Genau (Author)The purpose of this book is to share how the grace of God was so beautifully displayed in the life of my wife Rene and how it was able to allow her to live joyously and victoriously though the trial of ovarian cancer. It is my hope and prayer that this book will be a tremendous source of blessing and encouragement to all who read it as they see the beauty of God's grace. Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN

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by E. D. a. Morshead (Translator), Aeschylus (Author)The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus and translated into English Verse by E.D.A. Morshead. From the plays of Aeschylus. The surviving dramas of Aeschylus are seven in number, though he is believed to have written nearly a hundred during his life of sixty-nine years, from 525 B.C. to 456 B.C. That he fought at Marathon in 490, and at Salamis in 480 B.C. is a strongly accredited tradition, rendered almost certain by the vivid references to both battles in his play of The Persians, which was produced in 472. Five years after The Persians, in 467 B. C., the play which we call the Seven against Thebes was presented at Athens. It bears now a...

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel - Paperback

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by Richard Rodgers (Author), II Oscar Hammerstein (Author), Ferenc Molnar (Author)In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the gentle millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager,...

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation - Paperback

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by Margaret Jane Kidnie (Author)'Kidnie's study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.' - Lukas Erne, University of Geneva 'This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well beyond the precincts of Shakespeare studies.' - W.B. Worthen, Columbia University Shakespeare's plays continue to be circulated on a massive scale in a variety of guises - as editions, performances, and adaptations - and it is by means of such mediation that we come to know his drama. Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation addresses fundamental questions about this process of mediation, making use of the frau...

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by Victor Lodato (Author)"Clive arrives unexpectedly at the house of his mother and his sister. He says that he is fleeing from the police, but perhaps it's another one of his delusions. Unbeknownst to him, he has shown up on a tragic anniversary. Three years prior, his sister's child was killed in a brutal shooting. As fate seems bent on shattering the walls, mother Mae valiantly attempts to keep house"--Publisher description. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 IN

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by Eilidh Loan (Author)A team. A team of wit? A team of players. A bunch of mates coming the gither to huv a kick aboot. Wits new? Garry's turned 50 but doesn't feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive 'the glory days', trying to understand his mistakes, answer questions and right some wrongs in a bid to make peace with his past and find renewed purpose. Inspired by true stories, Eilidh Loan's Moorcroft follows a group of young lads in search of an escape from their working class lives. But can playing football save them from the challenges they face and make them the men they want to be? With true friendship and the tenacity of working clas...

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by Lucy Hayes (Author)You look down to retrieve the ball but all you can see isLemonsLemons filling up the goalLemons writhing in the netLemons glistening and convulsing on the grass In the pressurised worlds of football and finance, two women carve their own path. After the loss of her dad, a goalkeeper prepares for the league final, while an ambitious banker battles her fears of being tokenised to secure a promotion. But as their pitches get closer, worlds collide as life shifts unexpectedly and in parallel. How do you face your biggest challenge yet? Winner of a Pleasance Edinburgh National Partnership Award and supported by Bristol Old Vic, Bitter Lemons is an explosive debut play fro...

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by Joanne Ryan (Author)Inspired by Joanne's experiences of her mother's bipolar diagnosis, and informed by a series of workshops with other affected families and individuals, thisplay presents a compelling and very human insight into the charms and challenges of a fascinating and commonly misunderstood condition. Originally commissioned by Belltable: Connect, development of In Two Minds was supported by The Arts Council, Limerick City and County Council, Fishamble's New Play Clinic, Community Foundation Ireland and The JP McManus Benevolent Fund. This edition was published to coincide with the run at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2023.Author BiographyJoanne Ryan is an actor and p...