Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Clark (Author)Genre: Biographical comedy Characters: 3 males, 2 females Scenery: Interior In a small laboratory in Paris in the 1800s, Pierre and Marie Curie discover uranium, radium and their love. This intelligent comedy is equal parts science, history and riotously charming comedy. A blunt nanny, a profi teering scientist and a dull, ambitious academic department head round out the company. "An engaging, amusing and educational account of Pierre and Mari...

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Report copyright infringementby John Pielmeier (Author)A radio talk-show host is menaced by a threatening caller in this psychological thriller. "VOICES IN THE DARK reminds us just how fun and entertaining a good thriller can be. So what if you have a few nightmares, jump every time the phone rings for the next couple of weeks, and are never able to look a hot tub in the face again? It's worth it." Fergus McGillicuddy, talkinbroadway.com "It may take a psychologist to tell us why we enjoy bei...

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Report copyright infringementby William S. Yellow Robe (Author)Frank, Eldon and Kermit may not always get along, but they agree on one thing: their late mother wanted a traditional Assiniboine burial. Trouble is, her body is about to be prepared at the local funeral home. Can these three contentious brothers come together to honor her final request? Sneaky is a dark comedy about the lengths a family will go to in support of one other. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Sharkey (Author)An outrageous concoction of wild, warm, and lightning-paced hilarity that is perfect for the entire family. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Whitemore (Author)Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called Enigma, enabling allied forces to foresee German manoeuvres. Since his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for...

Shakespeare's Rival: A Study in Three Parts

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Gittings (Author), Unknown (Author)An intriguing study of Shakespeare's role in the Essex group, and his relationship to the poet Gervase Markham. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 21, 1976

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald M. Pincess (Author), Gerald M. Pinciss (Editor), Roger Lockyer (Editor)Substantial excerpts from a broad range of texts, providing an overview of the intellectual context of Shakespeare's work. The arrangement is by topic, such as religion, science, monarchy. The authors include Montaigne, John Dee, Machiavelli, James I. Castiglione, and others.Author BiographyGerald M. Pinciss is Professor Emeritus at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City U...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Ackerman (Author)Ever been racially slurred in the sack? Ever been subjected to strangers yelling at you at 3 am about the most intimate details of your life? Ever been to New York? Six characters from wildly different backgrounds make love, war, and hysteria late one night in the cultural, sexual, and generational smorgasbord that is Manhattan. "Peter Ackerman's screwball bedroom comedy consists mainly of a sublimely ridiculous conference call involving ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald Peacock (Author), Unknown (Author)In a series of essays on representative dramatists, Ronald Peacock follows the fortunes of poetic drama in Europe from the decline of romanticism, through the age of realism, to the renewal of poetic forms in the 1930s. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 29, 1986

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Report copyright infringementby Norman Corwin (Author)Adapted by Norman CorwinDramatic ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 1 femaleSimple Set Carl Sandburg's works, adapted by Norman Corwin, as first performed by Bette Davis and Lief Erickson, and a host of others in New York and on tour. The best of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's verse, including some previously unpublished; and prose, including the biography of Lincoln; and interspersed with optional American folk songs from his songbag. "Playful and se...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Hall (Author), Carlo Collodi (Author)A hilarious dramatisation of a classic children's story Since it first appeared in 1883, Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the mischievous puppet who becomes a boy has enchanted readers of all ages. Now dramatised by Lee Hall (acclaimed writer of Billy Elliot, Spoonface Steinberg and Cooking with Elvis) Pinocchio's hilarious and treacherous journey through childhood comes alive in the spirit of the Italian commedia dell'a...

Talking Shakespeare: Shakespeare into the Millennium

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Cartmell (Author), Michael Scott (Author)This edited collection of essays on Shakespeare includes writings on Shakespeare in his time, in our time, and in the future. It looks at why we talk so much about Shakespeare by considering the dominant views and theories on his work at the beginning of the new millennium. Essays included examine topics such as touring practices in Shakespeare's day, the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare in r...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest Fenollosa (Author), Ezra Pound (Editor), William Butler Yeats (Introduction by)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 edi...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Bond (Author)Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Court Theatre before members of the English Stage Society in a time when plays were still censored. With its scenes of violence, including the s...

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Report copyright infringementby Mick Martin (Author)Northern bloody soul... it's been my life. Two bad knees, one screwed hip and a vicious dorsal bunion... a messed up family, bones of my arse broke... but I'd do it all again in a trice. Eugene and Maxine's teenage romance first ignited on the dance floor, but life has spun them in and out of each other's arms ever since. Now, Eugene spends his weekends DJing-still living for the music-while struggling all week to keep his Northern Soul-them...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Badgett (Author)During this drama we experience the difficulties and hopes of the Earl and Countess of Ninth moving into Barham Hall after it was requisitioned during the second world war. Their grandson makes a bet with an Arab Prince that threatens his inheritance and puts in jeopardy the future of Barham Hall. The Earl and the butler come to his aid by providing a car that can compete with a Ferrari in a dramatic race at Le Mans. Number of P...

Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Kadija George (Editor), Rukhsana Ahmad (Author), Maya Chowdhry (Author)A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio. While other anthologies of plays by writers of African descent have been published, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers (1st edition 1993; new revised edition 2005) was the first drama anthology to represent women alone.Comedy, poetry, history and magic combined with themes of a social and spiritual nature are the themes and ...

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by Aeschylus (Author), Christopher Collard (Translator)The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate and the gods decree that each generation will repeat the crimes and endure the suffering of their forebears. When Agamemnon is murdered by his wi...

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by August Strindberg (Author), Michael Robinson (Editor), Michael Robinson (Translator)This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata, and The Dance of Death. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are base...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production - Hardcover

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by J. K. Rowling (Author), Jack Thorne (Author), John Tiffany (Author)The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a play by Jack Thorne.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must strug...

La Muerte Y La Doncella = Death and the Maiden - Paperback

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by Ariel Dorfman (Author)La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: " Como pueden los represores y los oprimidos cohabitar una misma tierra, compartir una misma mesa?" preguntas que hoy dîa siguen tan vigentes como cuando Dorfman escribia esta obra.Author BiographyARIEL DORFM...

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by Lanie Robertson (Author)Play with Music / Music by Mel Marvin / 4m, 6f (34 characters) / Various sets. Similar in structure to Spoon River Anthology and Our Town, It's life - and in this case, violent death - in a small town, with music, tied together by a running commentary by the town's sole physician of many years. The author has a savvy sense of black comedy, all utilized in weaving a series of sordid tales of backwoods murder, and adultery. And each vignette is either compelling or ca...

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by Noël Coward (Author), Simon Stephens (Introduction by)"Noel Coward's glittering gem" - The Times Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, recently divorced from one another after a five-year marriage, coincidentally arrive at the same French hotel... where they are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses. Jarred by this encounter, Elyot and Amanda realise that they still very much horrified and fascinated by the other. Frequently performed and revived in the West End, Private Lives is co...

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 49th Series

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Ho (Author), Ashraf Elsayigh (Author), Jay Stalder (Author)One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of emerging writers, giving them the exposure of publication and representation. The 49th collection includes: Beethoven's Third by Howard Ho (1 man, 1 any gender adult, 1 nonbinary) - On the eve of a revolutionary new path toward his artistic destiny, Ludwig van Beethoven i...

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by Tom Stoppard (Author)**Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play**Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard's humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and enduranceAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholi...

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by David Hill (Author)RYAN: In the headlights, I saw her face. Brown hair swinging as she turned to stare at us. Brown eyes stretched wide and startled. Then she hit the windscreen.TARA: I heard a roaring, shuddering noise. I was in mid-air, arms and legs stretched out. Then everything - the car, the guys, me - went rushing and shrinking together in a tiny glare of light, and I sank into the dark.Ryan has just got his licence. He's in his car with his mates. Tara likes to go running. She's ...

The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical - Paperback

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by Raymond Knapp (Editor), Mitchell Morris (Editor), Stacy Wolf (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that s...

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Report copyright infringementby Jm Alexander (Author)CONTROLLED CHAOS: MANSON AND THE CIABy J.M. AlexanderWas Charles Manson just a madman - or a puppet in a sinister game?In Controlled Chaos, J.M. Alexander rips the mask off one of America's darkest chapters, exposing connections between Manson, mind control experiments, and the CIA's secret war on the American mind. From the shadows of MKUltra to the manipulation of the counterculture, this explosive exposé dares to ask: Who created the mon...

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Report copyright infringementby Tammy Boling (Author)Seasons of My Life: Broken Love is a deeply personal and unfiltered memoir that follows Tammy Boling's journey through young love, domestic trauma, devastating loss, and the long road toward healing. What begins as a hopeful chapter in her life slowly unravels into a cycle of control, emotional pain, and fear-experiences no woman should ever have to face. When tragedy strikes in the most heartbreaking way, Tammy is left shattered, searching...

Spermeo & Juliegg: A Reproductive Tragedy - Paperback

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by Autumn Siders (Author), Emilita Siders (Author)Shake up Shakespeare with this humorous tale of the human reproductive system. You may know the story of "two star-crossed lovers," but you haven't heard a "tale of more woe, than this of Juliegg and her Spermeo." Characters from several different works by the Bard come together in this play that is not only witty, but educational. If you have ever wanted to know more about how babies are made (or not made), there is no better way to learn tha...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), A. R. Braunmuller (Introduction by), Stephen Orgel (Editor)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of Hamlet is edited with an introduction by series editor A. R. Braunmuller and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Russell Fraser (Editor)The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and tragic story of a kingdom held in the thrall of an aging ruler's descent into madness. Desperate for praise, he banishes those who would guide him with honesty and surrounds himself with sycophants--an action that leads to his ultimate downfall.... This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique...