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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Report copyright infringementby Louisa May Alcott (Author), Emma Reeves (Adapted by)Romantic Meg. Shy Beth. Wilful Amy. And, of course, passionate and fiery Jo. Little Women tells the story of the March sisters growing up in genteel poverty against the backdrop of the American Civil War. This timeless tale of four sisters' adventures has enchanted millions of readers, and is now available in this acclaimed adaptation for the stage.Author BiographyEmma Reeves writes for stage, radio and televi...

She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Nguyen (Author)A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games in a new edition created speciallyfor High School performing groups! She Kills Monsters tells the story of high schoolerAgnes Evans as she deals with the death of her younger sister Tilly. When Agnes stumblesupon Tilly's Dungeons & Dragons notebook she finds herself catapulted into a journey ofdiscovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister&rs ...

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus - Paperback

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by F. Storr (Translator), Sophocles (Author)Theban plays The Theban plays consist of three plays: Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or by its Latin title Oedipus Rex), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. All three plays concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published under a single cover. Sophocles, however, wrote the three plays for separate festival competitions, many years apart. Not only are the Theban plays not a true trilo...

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Report copyright infringementby David Wood (Author)Characters: 4 male, 2 female plus children's chorus (optional)Scenery: Various setsWizzpopping wonder and fruit filled fun abound in this stage adaption of Roald Dahl's greatest adventure story. James is a lonely young boy who is forced to work like a slave for the most revolting aunts in England. One day a mystical old man gives him a bag of magic. When he accidently spills it near the old peach tree, the most incredible things happen! "Pure...

Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical - Paperback

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by Trey Parker (Author), New Cannibal Society (Author)Cannibal The Musical is the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America - Alferd Packer. The sole survivor of an ill-fated trip to the Colorado Territory, he tells his side of the harrowing tale to news reporter Polly Pry as he awaits his execution. And his story goes like this: While searching for gold and love in the Colorado Territory, he and his companions lost their way and resorted to unthinkable horrors, inclu...

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Report copyright infringementby Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder (Author)1m 3f / Drama / Simple setGee'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 ac...

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Report copyright infringementby Nia Vardalos (Author)Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that "Sugar" was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid anonymous position of advice columnist Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Tiny Beautiful Things is ...

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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Author)The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written ...

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by Daisy Eris Campbell (Author)COSMIC TRIGGER: THE PLAY, based on Robert Anton Wilson's classic autobiographical philosophical treatise, took the British alternative theater and counterculture scenes by storm in 2014 and 2017, with the ripples continuing to this day. And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, you too can experience Daisy Eris Campbell's wild opus. Take your seats, and strap in for a psychedelic magick trip, as Wilson and pals navigate Chapel Perilous via Playboy magazine, Discordian Init...

Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in this new EXPANDED edition of HAMLET! 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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Report copyright infringementby Deangelo Richardson (Author)In an autobiography of the childhood story of Dr. DeAngelo Richardson, he uses his writing to relive the childhood experiences and sufferings. Left to survive the realities of growing up in poverty, he shares stories in an earthshaking drama of his life experience of growing up in a single parent household. He unveils the experiences of enduring a myriad of circumstances, such as sexual exploitation, drugs, violence, abuse, abandonme...

Twelfth Night: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Auth...

King Lear: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English

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by Henrik Ibsen (Author), Christopher Fry (Author), Johann Fillinger (Author)This translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen's collected works. It provides a close account of the quality of Ibsen's play by reproducing as nearly as possible not only the meaning in the literal sense but the verse forms that constitute so much of the substance and dramatic structure of the original. It makes an important contribution to those studying Peer Gynt in English, as ...

Fleabag: The Special Edition (Tcg) - Paperback

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by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Author)Adapted into the Hit TV Series, Winner of Six 2019 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Celebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition--featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen color photos, and exclusiv...

Henry VI, Part I: The Oxford Shakespeare - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Taylor (Editor)Henry VI: Part One is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists. It depicts the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles with their French counterparts.Despite its debut performance in 1592, however, Henry VI: Part One does not appear in printed form until some thirty years later, in the 1623 folio. There are many questions, therefore, surroun...

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Report copyright infringementby John Gay (Author), Hal Gladfelder (Editor)"Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives." Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly--published together here for the first time--offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart. With The Beggar's Opera, John Gay created one ...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Middleton (Author), Richard Dutton (Editor)This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside," "Women Beware Women," "The Changeling," and "A Game at Chess." "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies aside from Shakespeare, studies in lust, power, violence, and sel...

Nkjv, Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version - Imitation Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even though this Bible is small, you don't have to compromise size for readability. Plus, thousands of cross references are conveniently located at the end of verses to help you make connections throughout Scripture.Trusted b...

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author), Richard Allen Cave (Introduction by), Richard Allen Cave (Commentaries by)The crowning plays of one of Ireland's most heralded artists Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Kno...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Pushkin (Author), James E. Falen (Author), Caryl Emerson (Introduction by)Alexander Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies, which confront greed, envy, lust,...

Henry VI, Part II: The Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Roger Warren (Editor)Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classi...

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Report copyright infringementby Aeschylus (Author), Christopher Collard (Author)Aeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the power to inspire and terrify readers and theatre-goers alike. The four plays in this volume demonstrate the full range and depth of Aeschylus's genius. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks' extraordinary victory over Persia in 480 BC. In ...

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Report copyright infringementby Juvenal (Author), Niall Rudd (Author), William Barr (Introduction by)Commonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satires, Professor Rudd combines textual accuracy with colorful poetry, vividly conveying Juvenal's gift for evoking a wealth of imagery with a few economical phrases. About the Series: For over 100 ye...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Murnane (Author)It's fall 1992, and Abby Williams is struggling at St. Dymphna's, her new school. She eats lunch alone to avoid the cafeteria's invisible rules and obvious hierarchy. Percy Van Allen is one of those rich kids. He drives the black BMW his father paid for, but pretends he wants nothing of his father's wealth. He makes money he doesn't need selling plastic bags of pills because it's one choice he gets to make for himself.Kira watches all t...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for DramaA darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.Suzan-Lori P...

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Report copyright infringementby David Lindsay-Abaire (Author)"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." -David Rooney, Variety "A beautifully observed new play blessed with David Lindsay-Abaire's customary grace and wit." -Ben Brantley, New York Times "With Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serious, simply told work of ...

Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story - Paperback

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by Hamid Sulaiman (Author)JOE SACCO MEETS PERSEPOLIS IN THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A NEW INTERNATIONAL TALENT, HAMID SULAIMAN--WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD---It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is controlled by Assad's brutal regime, but is relatively stable. However, as the months pass, the situation becomes increasingly complex and violent. Told ...

Bodas de Sangre (Obra de Teatro) / Blood Wedding (a Play) - Paperback

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by Federico Garc?a Lorca (Author)Una de las piezas teatrales imprescindibles de Federico Garc?a Lorca.Federico Garc?a Lorca dirigi? La Barraca, experiencia teatral decisiva para la escena espa?ola. Desde 1918, cuando public? su primer libro, hasta su muerte, no dej? nunca de componer versos y escribir teatro. Austral presenta en este volumen Bodas de sangre, ejemplo esencial de su obra dram?tica en el que construye una tragedia cargada de lirismo y de elementos simb?licos a partir de un hecho...

Two Plays by Aleister Crowley: Tannhäuser and Household Gods

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Leighland (Editor), Aleister Crowley (Author)Aleister Crowley's forgotten plays finally get the spotlight they deserve. Tannhäuser tells the story of a poet-knight caught between pleasure and purpose, tempted by the goddess Venus and driven by the need to redeem himself through love and truth. Household Gods brings that same struggle into everyday life, where an ordinary family's quarrels and routines become a test of self-awareness, honesty, and choice...

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Report copyright infringementby Lorraine Hansberry (Author)"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, ...