Drama

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Lotus, Alex, and the Rabbit That Couldn't See - Paperback

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by Doris Mack (Author)A little girl on a rainy day wanted to play outside but couldn't. The girl watched the rain out of the window until it came to a stop. She was then allowed to go outside to jump rope. While out playing, she noticed something strange going on in her backyard. The little girl watched for a little while and noticed an animal needed help. She went inside to ask questions and returned to the yard to begin looking around to make sure it stayed safe. The little girl decided she...

Greek Tragedies for Contemporary Times: Three Reimagined Classical Plays - Hardcover

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by Dipo Baruwa-Etti (Author), Katherine Soper (Author), Sophie Ellerby (Author)Three electrifying, fresh takes on Greek classics, adapting their stories to the modern day to address contemporary issues.Protest, desire, free will; the central themes of Greek classics have never been more prescient. In this specially commissioned trio of plays, modern writers utilise these well-known plays and their timeless themes to speak to 21st century issues.Lysistrata by Sophie Ellerby. Between working a ...

#Wakingthefeminists and the Data-Driven Revolution in Irish Theatre - Paperback

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by Claire Keogh (Author)#WakingTheFeminists was a year-long grassroots campaign for gender equality in Irish theatre. Prompted by the gender disparity of Ireland's Abbey Theatre's 2016 programme, 'Waking the Nation', Lian Bell posted a Facebook message that sparked a surge of feminist fury that ignited the #WakingTheFeminists movement. This Element considers the movement both as digital feminist activism and as part of the growing trend of data feminism, by analysing how its combined use of c...

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by John Pielmeier (Author)Drama / Characters: 3 FemalesSummoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of a young novitiat accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, determindly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, arousing Livingstone's suspicions further. Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? Livingstone's questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the powe...

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by Neil Simon (Author)Comedy / Casting: 2m, 3f / Scenery: Var. settings This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another, a father takes his son to a house where he will be initiated into the mysteries of sex, only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever. In another sketch, a crafty seducer goes to work on a wedded woman, only to realize ...

Twelfth Night: 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 SHAKESPEA...

New Russian Drama: An Anthology - Hardcover

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by Maksim Hanukai (Editor), Susanna Weygandt (Editor), Richard Schechner (Preface by)New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium--a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging from small playwriting festivals, provincial theaters, and converted basements, it evolved into a major artistic movement that startled audiences with hypernaturalistic portrayals of sex and violence, daring use of non-normative language, and thrilling experimen...

Old, Bold and Won T Be Told Shakespeare S Amazing Ageing Ladies - Paperback

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by Yvonne Oram (Author)A lively exploration of ageing women in Shakespeare's day - onstage and off.Author BiographyYvonne Oram has worked as a journalist and teacher, with an interest in Elizabethan and Jacobean history and drama. www.yvonneoram.com Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2013

The Adorers Of Dionysos: The Bakchai Of Euripides - Paperback

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by James Morgan Pryse (Author)The Adorers of Dionysos: The Bakchai of Euripides is a book written by James Morgan Pryse. It is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of one of the most famous plays of Euripides, The Bakchai. The book explores the themes of the play, which include the conflict between reason and passion, the consequences of denying one's true nature, and the power of the divine. Pryse provides a detailed analysis of the characters, their motivations, and their relationshi...

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by Elaine Bossik (Author)Reporter Ellie Andrews investigates the sudden death of an athlete who received a kidney transplant at Virginia General Hospital. When other transplant patients at the hospital become ill, Ellie searches for answers. Ellie is not prepared for what happens next. Her brother, Matt, a fellow reporter, is framed for drug possession by local police while investigating the deaths of injured prison inmates.Then the unthinkable happens. Life is snatched from two people closes...

The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table - Paperback

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by Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes (Author)You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing else. -from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table A superb example of a literary form that has long since fallen into disuse, this seriocomic one-sided conversation with the dictatorial "autocrat" was originally published in segments in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1857 and 1858. The unnamed speaker of...

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Play in Four Acts - Paperback

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by Laurel A. Rockefeller (Author)Aliénor was the most sought after bride in all of Christendom - and not simply because she was beautiful. The eldest daughter of Duke William X of Aquitaine, she inherited his vast duchy at the age of just 15 and was crowned queen of the Franks that same year. But love was not to be for the beautiful duchess, despite two marriages and giving birth to a total of ten children. Troubadours sang her praises and composed the first romantic love songs. Tales of King...

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by Inua Ellams (Author)Are you angry with policing or Polyneices?Them, we can change. He, is dead. Speakto Creon... Ask him to release Polyneices...we will bury him quietly, peacefully, together. A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son. One conflicted sister, and the second is on the run. This is a blistering retelling of Sophocles' epic story from the writer of Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams. Antigone first premiered at Regent Park's Open Air Theatre in Sep...

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by Johnnie Mortimer (Author), Brian Cooke (Author)Comedy Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke Characters: 2 male 4 female Interior Set Based on a very popular British sit com this riotously funny play is classic British sex farce. When Mildred and Ethel go off on a trip to Paris the "mice will play". Egged on by Ethel's philandering husband Humphrey Pomfrey George agrees to invite two charming little sex kittens over. Well you know already what happens don't you the wives come home premature...

Women Making Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Kim Solga (Author)This Element examines why women makers from equity-owed communities (Indigenous, of colour, Deaf, disabled, trans and non-binary communities among others) choose to work with Shakespeare and his contemporaries at a moment in time when theatres around the world are striving toward equity, inclusion, diversity, and decolonization. It details and explores these creators' processes to learn from them about how to transform plays we know all too well as patriarchy-affirming, a...

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by Craig Jendza (Author)This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a comic conflict between an Athenian father named Philocleon and his son Bdelycleon; at stake are issues of political discourse, the judicial system, social class and mental illness. Alongside Aristophanes' striking scenes involving a chorus of citizen wasps, a dog trial, and a concluding dance-off ...

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by Angela Betzien (Author)Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, a cruel governess harbouring a mysterious past. The children begin to listen to the stories of the restless spirits of other children who have passed through the orphanage, and by doing so release the spirits from the tragedies of their pasts. This new gothic fairytale for young people tells a...

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by Charles Busch (Author)Shortly after the death of celebrated playwright Henrik Ibsen, his widow Suzannah receives word that her husband's former prot?g?e is in town peddling a libelous diary exposing the playwright's misdeeds. Enlisting help from her sharp-witted stepmother, Ibsen's long-lost illegitimate son, a servant girl with a wayward pelvis, and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife, Suzannah sets out to preserve her husband's legacy by any means necessary. Written by...

Fire in the Temple: A Play by Glen Williamson - Paperback

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by Glen Williamson (Author)Taken as a biographical whole, the "final act" of the remarkable life story of Rudolf Steiner, the original and preeminent spiritual warrior of the twentieth century, begins with the destruction by fire of the original Goetheanum building on New Year's Eve 1922 and proceeds through the almost unfathomable exertions of creativity that followed before his death in 1925. Although this "final act" of a single life is in a way the main subject of Glen Williamson's Fire i...

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by Courtney Johnson (Author) Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 06, 2025

Thomas Middleton - A Trick to Catch the Old One:

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by Thomas Middleton (Author)Thomas Middleton was born in London in April 1580 and baptised on 18th April. Middleton was aged only five when his father died. His mother remarried but this unfortunately fell apart into a fifteen year legal dispute regarding the inheritance due Thomas and his younger sister. By the time he left Oxford, at the turn of the Century, Middleton had and published Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satirese which was denounced by the Archbishop of Canterbury and publicly burne...

Contemporary Performance Translation - Hardcover

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by Jean Graham-Jones (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 12, 2024

The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights - Paperback

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by Eric Lane (Editor), Nina Shengold (Editor)Today's most exciting work for the stage is emerging far from Broadway's "mainstream," at Off and Off-off Broadway theaters, at regional companies around the country, and from abroad. Here is an up-to-the-minute collection of scenes--ideally suited for both classroom and audition use--from the best dramatists now being produced.Author BiographyEric Lane has edited 12 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books with his longti...

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by Elizabeth Bankes (Author)In the mid-1990s British and Irish backpackers invade Bondi. They have come for a good time and find work on building sites, in bars and strip joints. Many are regulars at the Regent Hotel, but their enjoyment is interrupted when one of their own, a gay Liverpudlian, is found dead down on Bondi Beach. As Jim Cameron knows the dead man he becomes involved in the investigation and once again joins forces with New Zealander, Detective Alan Stone. Jim engages the help ...

Heart of Redemption: a hockey romance novel - Paperback

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by Liana Tiamzon (Author)She's a princess locked in a tower of her parent's castle...Margo Hamilton has always done everything she could to please her family. Even marry a random stranger.But a long-time rival with threatening eyes and striking smile is all she needed to disobey her family's wishes. After a summer of love, he leaves her high and dry. She refuses his very attempt to wow her with gifts, flowers, and even a checklist she made him complete.When she lands herself a job as the new ...

White Room Virgin: An Unexpected First Love and Roommate MM Romance - Paperback

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by Cas Roman (Author)An Unexpected First Love and Roommate MM RomanceRaised with strict beliefs, Jonah suddenly realizes that he feels attracted to his roommate.In the quiet isolation of his parents' farm, Jonah has always felt like an outsider. Now, as he moves to Zurich to study, he's ready for a fresh start-new friends, new experiences, and maybe even his first romance. But the vibrant city brings unexpected challenges. Jonah soon finds himself caught between the strict religious values he...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sylvan Barnet (Editor)A man's thirst for power ends in tragedy in this Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare's most powerful works. When a trio of witches foretell that Macbeth will become King of Scotland, the brave general is consumed by ambition. Encouraged by his wife to seize the throne, their quest for power leads down a blood-strewn path that ends in madness and death in this play that explores the consequences of guilt and corruption. T...

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay - Paperback

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by Lorraine Hansberry (Author), Robert Nemiroff (Editor)Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament to her unparalled accomplishment as a Black artist. The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the auth...

Eight Great Tragedies: The Complete Texts of the World's Great Tragedies from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Sylvan Barnet (Editor), Morton Berman (Editor), William Burto (Editor)Presenting the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O'Neill. Some of the world's greatest dramas unfold on these pages. In the powerful and famous plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripedes, Oedipus makes his disastrous marriage, Prometheus struggles against Zeus to break his painful chains, and the Love Goddess, Aphr...

Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel González Melo: Chamaco (Kiddo); Nevada; Weathered; Outside the Game; Tell Me the Whole Thing Again; Abyss - Hardcover

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by Abel González Melo (Author), William Gregory (Translator)"One of Cuba's most important contemporary playwrights, Abel González Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of postmodern life. " (Lillian Manzor, University of Miami) Born in Havana in 1980, Abel González Melo is a rare example of a contemporary ...

I, Black Pharaoh: Rise to Power (Kemet Edition) - Hardcover

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by Emmanuel Kulu (Author)This written Masterpiece brings light to the accurate imagery of African kings never seen before by the western world! The ancient Egyptians before the coming of Greeks and later Romans were, African people. The novel is a powerful mythological story based on the Historical Life of the expansionist Warrior "King Thutmose III", who is also called the "Napoleon of Egypt." A prophecy is given to the sorcerer by way of dream, about a coming birth of a child that would bec...

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by Shakemore Dirani (Author)An ageing king decides to step down from the throne but he is at a dilemma: his twin boys, Hunter and Farmer, both eye the high seat. Once word of the Old Man's intention to step down reaches them, the two boys come up with creative, and later cunning, ways to outdo each other. Somehow the young men overdo it. The situation deteriorates; violence, fear and uncertainty grip the kingdom. The young, the aged, all the people are thrown in the fray. Although the story i...