Drama

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by Marcia Kash (Author), Doug E. Hughes (Author)Little Theatre Mystery Marcia Kash and Douglas E. HughesCharacters: 3 male 3 female Interior SetSix people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the r...

Amish Project, the (Ensemble) - Paperback

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by Jessica Dickey (Author)The Amish Project is a fictional exploration of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake. Originally a solo show The Amish Project has now been adapted for an ensemble. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2013

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by Colin Crowther (Author), Mary Crowther (Author)What advice would you give yourself? Th e hero of this play gets just that chance. At the point of death he revisits himself as a teenager, as a young man, as a disgruntled middle-aged husband and, in the final moments of the play, as a newborn child and the old man he now will never be.-3 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 27, 2015

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Spotlight On Jesus: Readers' Theater For Children's Church - Paperback

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by Robert Lakey (Author)Looking for a novel approach to the children's sermon -- something more creative than a simple story or object lesson? This collection of 40 dramatic sketches in readers' theater format will teach your young people about the events of Jesus' life -- while also actively involving your members in the worship service. Each scene vividly relates a story from the gospels in easy-to-read dialogue that can be performed with minimal rehearsal by teenagers or adults -- providin...

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by Lorraine Hansberry (Author)When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. A play that changed American theater forever.--The New York Times. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.65 x 7.14 x 4.04 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2019 Accelerated R...

Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women - Paperback

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by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway (Editor)Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actresses of black, African American, South Asian and Middle Eastern heritage. Featuring the work of international contemporary playwrights who have written powerful and diverse roles for a range of actors, the collection is edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway. Categorized by age-range, the monologues are ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Shakespeare. Indeed, his genius is questioned only by those who doubt the authenticity of his authorship of timeless classics like Romeo and Juliet. As Ben Jonson once put it, "He was not of an age, but for all time." No other writer, in English or in any other language,...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.Author BiographyWilliam Shakespeare (26 April 1564-23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dr...

La Casa Azul: Inspired by the Writings of Frida Kahlo - Paperback

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by Sophie Faucher (Author), Neil Bartlett (Author)'I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The life is one of struggle - with love, with the body, with her country, and most of all, with her art. La Casa Azul is a collaboration between Quebeçois playwright Sophie Faucher, who also played Frida Kahlo in this production, and internationa...

Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul - Paperback

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by Jan H. Blits (Author)The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul.Author BiographyJan H. Blits is Professor, Honors Faculty, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Insufficiency of...

Rescued: How God Delivered One Man from Demonic Depression, Epilepsy, and Death - Paperback

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by Daniel B. Betsuamlak (Author), Uberwriters LLC (Editor)Daniel Betsuamlak, son of a renowned Ethiopian pastor, has an anointing to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ from the day he is born, but threatened by God's call, Satan targets Daniel in merciless efforts to kill him before his ministry can begin.A difficult birth, two near-fatal car accidents, resulting epilepsy, heavy, addictive medication, dark demonic depression and more, the devil pulls out all the stops to kill Daniel.In this dr...

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by Tim Trott (Author)Do you know who flew the plane in the Sky King series of TV shows? How many different "Songbird" planes were there? What happened to the "missing episodes"? What did Kirby Grant do after the TV series ended? Did you know Kirby Grant was a singer and a concert violinist? Sky King began in the late 1950s.Those of us of a certain age grew up with theshow. The old black and white TV series inspired a lot of aviation careers, from pilots and flight instructors to airline pilot...

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by Robert Merritt (Author)No, mustn't give him that. It would only cause him pain. They are not accustomed to cake, they are not ready for cake.' On newly-declared terra nullius, a Priest, a Civilian and a Soldier watch an Aboriginal family. 'Too ignorant for light, too old for change, ' remarks the Priest as he blesses the Soldier's gun. On a New South Wales Aboriginal mission, decades later, another Aboriginal family live under the watchful eye of Social Welfare. Along with the policeman's ...

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by Jos? Zorrilla (Author)En Don Juan Tenorio Jos? Zorrilla recogi? toda la tradici?n anterior relacionada con el personaje de Don Juan, aderez?ndola con elementos religiosos y rom?nticos. Consigue hacer de su personaje un arquetipo humano cuyas caracter?sticas dif?cilmente pueden ser imitables sin caer en la versi?n o el plagio.Don Juan Tenorio se convierte en referencia de un modelo de hombre enfrentado a la muerte, al amor, a la castidad y a la pasi?n. La popularidad de su obra hizo ingresa...

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by Lance Fogan (Author)DINGS tells of a mother's struggle to support her son in the midst of a mysterious condition. Conner's school believes that he is not ready for promotion into the third grade. His teacher recommends that he repeat the second grade. Conner's dad is on a combat tour in 2006-7 Iraq; the adults in the boy's life assume that stress and anxiety about his father serving in a combat theater have interfered with his school achievement. Meanwhile, Sandra is embittered; she is for...

I Did It My Way: An Autobiography - Paperback

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by Victor Olusegun Orelaja (Author)It is true that everyone has his or her own story of life to tell, but some have far more fascinating stories than others. Such a one is Engineer Victor Olusegun Orelaja who, although not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, was nevertheless not born poor and, in adulthood, treaded the path of life like a colossus.Segun Orelaja never looked to anyone to prop him up in life; rather, he mapped out a path for the success he achieved. He worked hard to acquire...

Looking Both Ways: The Never-Ending Search for Champ, The Lake Champlain Sea Monster - Paperback

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by D. Kirk (Author)What do you recall of your first walks to school? Follow Kevin, Stuart, Arnold, and James on their long morning trek across town to their middle / junior high school in Burlington, Vermont. Listen in on their candid conversations; learn backward talk; contemplate the origin of electricity, fentanyl, and cancer-curing drugs. See the sights on this journey across side streets, the grounds of a regional medical center, and the main campus of the University of Vermont. This tal...

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by Qui Nguyen (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2024

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by Paula Vogel (Author) Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2024

Don't Be Long Where You Don't Belong - Paperback

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by Christopher C. Smith (Author) Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2024

The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama - Hardcover

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by Denys Van Renen (Author)While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English Drama examines how the "little world" of the theatre enables the British to conceptualize and experience how scientific and technologica...

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by Lisa Hopkins (Author)Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses. By addressing what is primarily at stake in the major theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's works, the book breaks down both fears and preconceptions to offer students a map of the current critical practices of others.Front Jacket'Beginning Shakespeare' introduces students to the study of Shakespeare, and grounds their understanding of his work in t...

The Song of the Angels: The Story of Christmas and the Cross - Paperback

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by Linda Schmitz (Author) Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.12 x 7 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 09, 2024

The Redemption of Kyle Prescott - Paperback

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by Chris Honoway (Author)Former Hockey phenom Kyle Prescott saw his life derailed after a tragic car accident that left his family and hometown devastated. Years later, at 38, still consumed by guilt and remorse, his former coach and mentor offers him a second chance: a tryout for a minor league team in the same small Canadian town where he grew up. Kyle faces many challenges: a questionable team owner exploiting him through the media, and a complicated reunion with his former flame, Julie Ca...

Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone - Paperback

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by Sophocles (Author), Dudley Fitts (Translator), Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)The critically acclaimed Fitts and Fitzgerald translation of Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle that chronicles the tragic downfall of the royal family of Thebes. The ancient myth of Oedipus, which still reverberates to this day, provided Sophocles with material for three great tragedies--Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--that together recount the downfall of Oedipus, king of Thebes, his death in exile, and the...

Deceptive Hearts: Sequel to Charlotte and Me - Paperback

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by Carol Margaret Leyland (Author)Having seen her friends Charlie and Alice so settled and happy, Grace sets out to find the woman of her dreams and hopefully not nightmares. So she dips her toe into online dating, but finds that doing so in your 50s is a minefield. Modern day dating involves swiping left or right rather than meeting at the pub, so she's forced into guessing a womans character through a few words and hoping that they aren't a psycho, a ghoster or ending up in a situationship....

Counterpunch: Maryl Morgan Marks: Book 1 - Hardcover

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by Taylor Zane (Author)Maryl Morgan Marks jumps into the gritty pounding city of Philadelphia after a chance meeting leads her to a booming high-tech startup job far from her sleepy Seattle suburb. There she is shocked into the reality of power, greed, and start-up speed in the high-stakes world of the 1980s. Grappling with an inherited friend group, dubious business ethics, and the new definition of corporate success, her journey is a tug-of-war between her higher self and wanting retributio...

Papa Panov's Magic Christmas: A Play - Paperback

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by Paul Thain (Author)As the children walk in with their lighted candles, and the Storyteller takes us back to a small Russian village, the scene is set for this magical Christmas story. Papa Panov, the old shoemaker, now almost too blind to thread a needle, has a dream that Jesus will visit him on Christmas Day. All day he waits for him, but the only visitors he has are a tramp, a roadsweeper and a woman with a baby. Selflessly he gives them his coat, his money and his soup. As he falls asle...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Two of Shakespeare's important and illuminating history plays in a comprehensive and scholarly update. This edition includes a discussion and criticism of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by outstanding scholars past and present, stage histories of notable actors, directors, and producers, and clear, readable text and commentaries.Author BiographyWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most inf...

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by Euripides (Author), Robin Robertson (Author), Daniel Mendelsohn (Author)A bold new translation of Euripides' shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, with a new introduction by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic and translator Daniel Mendelsohn.Thebes has been rocked by the arrival of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. Drawn by the god's power, the women of the city have rushed to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing with ...