Drama

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Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue

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Report copyright infringementby Todd E. Johnson (Author), Dale Savidge (Author), Robert K. Johnston (Editor)Christian theatre has rich roots, from ancient Hebrew dramas to medieval plays, but where does it fit in today's media-saturated society?Performing the Sacred is a fascinating dialogue between a theologian and theatre artist, offering the first full-scale exploration of theatre and theology. The authors illuminate the importance of live performance in a virtual world, of preserving the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Craig (Author)"Nothing changes. Everything just gets worse. What's the point of that?" Two couples trample on friends and lovers as they search for happiness. In Fringe First and Peggy Ramsay award winner Ryan Craig's play, their dialogue crackles with desperation and raw humour. Happy Savages was performed at the Underbelly, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008. "They burn like bush fire" - Sunday Times "The study of the agony and ecstasy of yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Teevan (Author)The village of Todos Os Santos is under threat from developers who want to clear the village and the forest for farmland. Meanwhile, the village bull won't dance the traditional bumba meu boi and the pregnant Catarina has developed a taste for impossible foods that her husband Francisco must get for her. Can the spirits of the forest help our heroes save their environment, their way of life, and themselves?Fantasy and reality dance through ...

Season of Joy: Dramas for Advent Christmas Epiphany

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Report copyright infringementby Emmeline S. Miller (Author), Char Schultz (Joint Author), Linda Aranda (Joint Author)Drama 1 These Things Belong to Christmas For Advent or Christmas Eve By Emmeline S. Miller and Char Schultz Drama 2 Three Gifts Of Love For Advent Or Christmas Eve By Linda Aranda Season Of Joy offers two short, easy-to-produce plays for the season of Advent-Christmas-Epiphany. "These Things Belong to Christmas," suitable for Advent or Christmas, offers five scenes in modern-da...

The Gates of the Kingdom Part 2: A Journey into Realms Unseen

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Russell Baker (Author)'The Gates of the Kingdom' is a book series which will take you on a spiritual pilgrimage, exploring events where the realms of Heaven and Earth have touched. This pilgrimage is through places which will often be foreign to you. The names of people, places, and relationship terms have been preserved in their original language so that you will get a sense of the cultural context of this real-life journey into realms unseen. Part 2: Si...

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Report copyright infringementby David Foley (Author)It's 1919 and the US naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, is mired in 'conditions of vice'. Mr Vole has a plan to clean it up.He orders a group of young sailors to infiltrate Newport's dens of depravity, meet other young sailors and have sex with them; then uses their graphic reports to conduct a string of arrests. Only when the investigation snares an Episcopal priest does it explode in a scandal that reaches up to the highest level of gove...

The Little Gate of the Great King: The Real Story of Christmas

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Baker (Author)Be there in the Holy Place when Gabriel appears before Zechariah. Be there when Mary meets Elizabeth. Be in the home of Heli when Mary is found to be with child. Be the fourth person walking that road to Bethlehem. Stand with the Magi on the walls of Babylon as they first sight the star. Discover the source of the intrigue that obsessed them to worship before the face of the new-born King regardless of the cost. Hear the sounds, see the sigh...

The Gates of the Kingdom Part 1: A Journey into Realms Unseen

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Voices in Isolation: 4 Queer Plays at a Social Distance

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Report copyright infringementby Owen Keehnen (Author)Voices In Isolation is a collection of four LGBTQ plays on four queer historical topics, written and staged for an era of social distancing. This collection includes Sirens of the Belmont Rocks, Pansies on Parade, Presenting Wanda Lust, and COVID Summer. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 19, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Torben Betts (Author)From a playwright rated by Alan Ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution.Witness to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against. This skewed world spins giddily between the surr...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Bloomer (Contribution by)Includes the plays You Were After Poetry, Lyre, Ned & Sharon and Weightless The four plays in this volume formed the centrepiece of the inaugural HighTide Festival in Halesworth, Suffolk, in 2007. Developing plays from the first draft to first performance, HighTide is the first new-writing theatre festival to focus on exclusively on young artists. The volume has a preface by Bill Nighy. You Were After Poetry by Steven Bloomer...

Creative Play Acting - Learning Through Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel B. Burger (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Dave Florez (Author)The one thing we realised, very early on, was not to get attached. Feel pride in your work, yes, but keep. It. Practical. Dan has a troubling past and needs help to leave it behind. Amy is employed to support him, and she's determined to succeed - by whatever means necessary... Experience is a stirring exploration of the moral implications of helping others - how far is too far and can we really never expect anything in return? A compelling ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Morris (Author)What if bed-hopping among university students was not just inevitable, but mandatory?A sexy radical girl, an over-sexed jock and an ancient professor of Ancient Greek discover that with the lights off, a serious attempt to end discrimination can also be a very dirty joke.Peter Morris's new play is an All-American Undergraduate Sex Farce. Gaudeamus opened at the Arcola Theatre, London in March 2006.Author BiographyPeter Morris divides his ti...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Brogan (Author)A young black boy dances the shuffle better than anyone, but that isn't going to fill his belly. Teenager Hazel gives him what he wants. Older woman Leonora gives him what he needs. His mum Queenie is saving up to go to Jamaica and won't give him anything more than a catering tin of beans. The fight is on... A powerful story of three women and their love for one man. Linda Brogan's new play creates a dark and vivid world of love, jealousy a...

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Report copyright infringementby Crispin Whittell (Author)Socorro, New Mexico. 17 June 1945: a month before the testing of the first atomic bomb. America is at war with Japan abroad, and still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbour at home. The great American scientist Richard Feynman makes a right turn out of Albuquerque and ends up in a hotel room in the middle of the desert. But a young girl has her own plans for the same room, and Feynman suddenly finds himself entangled in a twisting ta...

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Report copyright infringementby Shelagh Stephenson (Author)What you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look - needle - stab - stitch - thought. Needle - stab - stitch - thought. So next time you see a woman demurely sewing a sampler, be very, very wary. God knows what she may be planning. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was a social theorist who is often credited as being the first female sociologist. In Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing, Shelagh Stephenson depicts th...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Morris (Author)'Charlie, there's plentya shit they do in this part of the world, and the reason we're here is 'cause we're not gonna give it a try. Isn't that so?' The images of war. Snapshots from Abu Ghraib that depict atrocities committed in the name of freedom. Tabloid images of English soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner that are later revealed as fakes. And somewhere between England and America, between savagery and spin, lies the truth. In monologue...

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Report copyright infringementby John Goodwin (Author)Based on the novel "Sappho" by Alphonse Daudet A play about sexual obsession. Set in nineteenth-century Paris and the French countryside, it centres on a passionate love affair between a young man and an older woman. The novel on which the play is loosely based was published in 1884, hugely popular in its day and notorious for its supposed immorality. The story - or an approximation to it - has been filmed in England (1922), in America (193...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Bean (Author)Includes the plays Toast, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, and Honeymoon Suite 'Suddenly with four new plays opening within 12 months, Richard Bean has become the playwright of the moment and now, in Honeymoon Suite, his most prestigious premiere to date, he has written what seems like the perfect play' The Financial Times on Honeymoon Suite 'Toast is as funny, touching, and brilliant an account of men at work as any we have had since Dav...

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Report copyright infringementby Do Shaw (Author)A community play for a large cast and a wide audience, Washboard Blues tells the story of ordinary women in the 1950s. In a municipal wash-house a group of friends meet and talk their way through the weekly laundry. Love, laughter, lies; deprivations, delights and dreams. Lily is searching for stardom as a clubland singer, but rock and roll is on its way in - is it too late to get her big break? Number of Pages: 64 Dime...

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Report copyright infringementby Lin Coghlan (Author)'I started out like you. Bit of rubbish. And look at me now...A young man, he don't have no one to blame but himself if he don't make something of his life'Winter on a crumbling South London estate. Denny's up to his neck in toilets; his hopeless apprentice Elvis is about as useful as the pot-noodles he subsists on. Elvis's mate Ally has come up with a can't-lose-get-rich-quick scam that might just save their bacon. And Cooper may have big p...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Jesson (Author)More than chronological coincidence brings together Ty Cobb and Ernest Hemingway, who never met, in this play set in late autumn 1960. Cobb was dying of cancer and other ailments but still driving himself around the country, and Hemingway had been admitted to the Mayo Clinic, ostensibly for hypertension and other physical ailments but actually for what might now be diagnosed as bi-polar disorder with strong suicidal tendencies. They both ...

Under the Curse; Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris'- A New Version by Dan Farrelly

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Farrelly (Editor) Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Russell Barr (Author)Set in Glasgow's surreal underworld, this is a funny, soulful and deeply unusual coming-of-age story, tainted by the memory of a shocking and lonely crime.Sisters such Devoted Sisters conjures up a world of exploding pigeons, a fire-hazard grandmother, Jack Russell's driving cars, shoplifting and a boy's first kiss.But it is also the increasingly nightmarish and heartbreaking world of his drag queen alter-ego, Bernice Hindley - 'Myra's niec...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Dickens (Author), Giles Havergal (Adapted by)The treacherous Uriah Heep, the jovial nurse Peggotty, the adorably dim-witted Dora, the improvident Mr Micawber and the egotistic and charming Steerforth come to life in this new adaptation of Dickens' classic.From seaside Yarmouth to London and beyond, as plots and counterplots effortlessly interweave into one intricate, grand design, David Copperfield captures the brightness, magic and terror of the world ...

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Willmott (Author)It's the wedding day of the mysterious beauty the press have dubbed 'The Black Widow', but will her latest millionaire groom survive longer than her previous five rich and elderly husbands? A tough talking editor dispatches his handsome rookie reporter to find out. But is he wise to visit the creepy abandoned laboratory in a thunderstorm, as midnight strikes... and to take along a date? This hilarious, fast-moving tribute to Hollywood and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Davies (Author)After successfully finding a husband for her governess, young, rich and clever Emma Woodhouse becomes determined to match other potential couples. This includes the poor but pretty, Harriet Smith, the snooty vicar, Mr Elton, and the charming yet illusive, Mr Frank Churchill. However, Emma faces disapproval from her father, a valetudinarian resistant to change, and her long-time family friend/brother-in-law, Mr Knightley. Numbe...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Rowe (Author)Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, on June 20th, 1674. He was educated at Highgate School, and then at Westminster School under the tutelage of Dr. Busby. In 1688, Rowe became a King's Scholar, and then in 1691 gained entrance into Middle Temple. This was his father's decision (he was a barrister) who felt that his son had made sufficient progress to study law. While at Middle Temple, he decided that studying ...

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Report copyright infringementby Buffalo Literary Clinic (Author)This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Torben Betts (Author)At the turn of the sixteenth century the two most powerful people on the planet, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon are making plans to expand their empire. They are plundering the riches of the New World, removing all Jews and Moors from their territories and waging war on the infidels in the East. At home they seek to assert the dominance of Spain by marrying their daughters to various princes of Europe. One such daugh...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence Wilson (Author)A grandfather, a father, a son. Three broken men in one stagnant household. The memory of a wife and mother and the beautiful songs she used to sing. What will it take to get some money coming in, to get some life back into this place? Selling family treasures? Or singing songs to strangers? None of the family really knows what's wrong, but they're all about to find out.... Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.32 ...