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Crimen Sin Rostro: Sindicato De Miami - Hardcover

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by Tommy Herrera (Author)Esta novela teje una apasionante historia de suspenso y arraigada en los eventos de cr?menes reales del sur de Florida, fusionando la realidad con la ficci?n. Profundiza en los temas de la ambici?n y la seductora atracci?n del poder, pintando una imagen v?vida del trasfondo din?mico pero peligroso de Miami. La ciudad, conocida por encabezar las listas de fraudes en la atenci?n m?dica, sirve como el escenario perfecto para esta fascinante historia."Crimen Sin Rostro" e...

Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by 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 Author BiographyWILLIAM SHAKES...

Five Finger Exercise - A Play - Paperback

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by Peter Shaffer (Author)The first stage success from the author of Equus and Amadeus, this taut family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of well-to-do family is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated people.2 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Niyi Osundare (Author)A recently published play from the prolific Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary critic, which testifies to the author's commitment to socially relevant art and artistic activism for which he is justifiably renowned. The play tells the story of Yankeland, an imaginary African country, where the country's natural and donated wealth is in the hands of a few corrupt rulers in cahoots with the American military. The powerful prey on the explo...

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Mathias (Author)Swansea Boy is a coming-of-age play of deep humanity, gentle humour, and unwavering compassion. In 1980s Swansea, a young man discovers his sexuality and finds the courage to tell his parents that he is gay. While finding his way as an artist in London, he reconnects with a young man who becomes the love of his life, only to face heartbreak and loss when he discovers his partner has contracted AIDS. Number of Pages: 128 ...

The Will to Remember: Bound By Hope: A Polish Family's Journey of Survival during the Holocaust

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Report copyright infringementby Roger D. Evans (Author)The Will to RememberA Story That Spans Continents and Generations -- The Will to Remember unfolds across continents and generations, weaving an expansive narrative that resonates deeply with readers. The story begins in the close-knit world of a single family residing in a small Polish village. From this intimate setting, the novel broadens its scope to explore the all-encompassing devastation wrought by war, the enduring strength of love...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Mooney (Author), James Yeatman (Author)A smartly composed exploration of greed, loss and the loneliness of eternity, More Life is an incredibly human play about technology. --Guardian A woman wakes up in 2075, in a body that is not her own. Fifty years ago, Bridget died in a car accident. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough, she is back: her mind, her consciousness, in a synthetic body. Metal. Wires. But she's still Bridget, isn't she? She must b...

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Report copyright infringementby Faith Pincay (Author)Lydia isn't looking to be saved.Bash isn't looking to be her savior.After a constant string of loss and trauma in her life, Lydia has mastered the art of quiet destruction. She's losing herself one hit at a time.After surviving what no one should have to, she's drowning in the only thing that makes life bearable-whatever she can take to quiet her mind and keep her heart from remembering the pain.Then there's Bash.A boy with his own ghosts. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Cataluna (Author)Lee Cataluna's Flowers of Hawai'i brings together four of her most resonant plays, each centered on the complicated, humorous, and sometimes painful dynamics of family life in Hawai'i. From inheritance fights to cancelled garage parties, from awkward livestreams to legacies built on shaky ground, these stories explore the tensions, sentiments, and unspoken histories that keep families linked, whether they like it or not.Known for her vivid,...

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Report copyright infringementby Taylor Mac (Author), Matt Ray (Composer)A joyfully queer fantasia that draws on jazz music and operatic form to reimagine the last hours of Socrates as an ecstatic celebration. The latest work from playwright Taylor Mac and composer Matt Ray takes us to ancient Athens on the eve of the death of famous philosopher Socrates. Sentenced to die for corrupting the youth (by having sex with them), Socrates decides to spend his remaining hours doing what he loves: enga...

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Report copyright infringementby Sonali Bhattacharyya (Author)A brilliant parable for our times, combining impish humour with social fury. --The Stage Nikita and Riya are two South Asian sisters: insecure, stateless, and desperate for somewhere to call home. Nikita's work with young migrants requires her to keep her savior complex in check as she negotiates the challenges and hypocrisy of the third sector. Meanwhile, Riya is offered the chance to create an advocate in the form of a homunculus ...

The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley: Scripts, Essays, & Reflections

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Report copyright infringementby Robbie McCauley (Author), Alisa Solomon (Editor), Elin Diamond (Editor)A consummate compendium that highlights the work of an audacious, incomparable theatremaker. A vital presence in the avant-garde theatre movement since the 1970s, Robbie McCauley worked as a playwright, director, and performer for many decades, garnering international acclaim for her thought-provoking work. Her plays consistently confronted uncomfortable truths about race and racism in Ameri...

The Audition Bible: Secrets Every Actor Needs to Know

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Report copyright infringementby Holly Powell (Author)Conquering the audition process and mastering the tools needed to book the part is a mandatory skill each actor must perfect to survive as a professional. Acting classes don't always prepare the actor for the sabotaging effects of auditioning. Because of the COVID -19 pandemic, auditioning pivoted from actors being in a room filled with casting directors, producers and directors, to self-taping in their own homes surrounded by ring lights, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Author)Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for DramaA complex and compelling bilingual play that examines the intersections of queerness and Indian-American identity.When Indian-American graduate student Choton travels from the U.S. to his family's home city of Kolkata to film interviews with the local queer community, he relishes acting as the local expert, especially in his role as interpreter between Bangla and English for his filmma...

Gruesome Playground Injuries/Animals Out of Paper/Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays - Paperback

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by Rajiv Joseph (Author)Rajiv Joseph is one of today's most acclaimed young playwrights. The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award, he is an artist to watch. This volume gathers together for the first time his three major works to date. Included herein are his latest play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, which charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to g...

Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer - Hardcover

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by Steven C. Smith (Author)During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in his iconic work for such classics as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The...

The Tempest: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by Aimé Césaire (Author), Richard Miller (Translator)"C saire's Tempest, in translation by Richard Miller, is a sprightly and song-filled enchantment. The luminous intelligence of Mr. C saire's meditation on the absurdities of colonialism shines through the antics of the bewildered characters." -New York Times "The weapon of poetry may be C saire's greatest gift to a modern world still searching for freedom. As one of the last truly great 'universalists' of the twentieth century, he has had a...

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by Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A 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 Parks is the author of numer...

Cost of Living (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Martyna Majok (Author)"Immensely haunting... The first of many great things about Martyna Majok's Cost of Living... is the way it slams the door on uplifting stereotypes... Ms. Majok has engineered her plot to lead naturally to moments of intense and complicated pungency... If you don't find yourself in someone in Cost of Living, you're not looking." --Jesse Green, New York Times Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Cost of Living deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those ...

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...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Joseph Pearce (Author)One of the four great tragedies--alongside Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth--Othe llo is among the darkest of Shakespeare's plays, illumining the shadows of the gloomiest recesses of the human psyche and serving as a damning indictment of the world in which it was written. A cautionary tale of the destructiveness of sin and the ruinous consequences of bad philosophy, Othello seems to express Shakespeare's rage at the cynicism and brutality...

The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1: 1958-1965 - Paperback

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by Edward Albee (Author)These range from the four brilliant one-act plays with which he exploded on the New York theater scene The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream to his early masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Also included are two adaptations from notable American novels The Ballad of the Sad Caf and Malcolm and Albee's mysteriously fascinating Tiny Alice. This book represents one of the most exciting and bold periods in the career of one ...

The Merchant of Venice: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by Joseph Pearce (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)The Merchant of Venice is probably the most controversial of all Shakespeare's plays. It is also one of the least understood. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? What is the meaning behind the test of the caskets? Who is the real villain of the trial scene? Is Shylock simply vicious and venomous, or is he more sinned against than sinning? Can the play be described as anti-semitic? What exactly is the quality of mercy? Is Portia one of the great ...

Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays - Hardcover

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by Joseph Pearce (Author)Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare, bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare's immortal plays � The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear � in order to uncover the Bard's Catholic beliefs. In The Quest for Shakespeare, which has been made into an EWTN television series, Pearce delved into the known biographical evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism. Here the popular and prov...

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by Caryl Churchill (Author)Caryl Churchill, hailed by Tony Kushner as "the greatest living English language playwright," has turned her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloning--how might a man feel to discover that he is only one in a number of identical copies. And which one of him is the original. . . ? "Churchill's harrowing bioethics fable leaves us with a number of things to chew on." -Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago "A Number confirms Churchill's status as the first dra...

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by José Rivera (Author)First major collection by a leading Hispanic-American playwright. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.48 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: April 01, 1997

Barbecue / Bootycandy (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Robert O'Hara (Author)Searing and sensationally funny... As raw in its language and raucous in spirit as it is smart and provocative.--The New York TimesFunny, smutty and enticingly subversive. . . . A toxically satiric portrait of American life.--Washington PostWhen I told my mother that a theater was putting on my play Bootycandy, her response was, 'What? Bootycandy? These white folks are going to let you put on a play called Bootycandy? ? Are they crazy ' And my response was, 'Yes. Yes...

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by Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)"Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced."--Tony Kushner "The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the 'weather.' It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life."--...

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by Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.'--Margo Jefferson, The New York Times The playwright who has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical l...

Between Riverside and Crazy (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Author)Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us.--The New YorkerWritten with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him.City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor stor...