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by Grace Chapple (Author)Northern Ireland, 1987. Deirdre is stuck - between arguments, nations, and the lives she almost lived. But when her old schoolfriends gather in her kitchen yet again for Christmas Eve, their growing differences push to the surface a powder-keg, waiting the tiniest spark. And then one of them turns up with her surprise fianc?.He's English.Set against the backdrop of The Troubles, this brilliant debut play is an unforgettable drama of home, friends, the decision to leav...

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by Justin Drafts (Author) At first glance, you'd think Jesse Troupe is a young man with the world in his hands... a pilot, unattached, a free spirit in a career where not even the sky is the limit. But if you could truly know him, you'd never want anything close to his life. Neither does he. It would seem death has stalked him, taking so many of those he's held dear. The only reaction he can muster is a frigid shoulder to anyone near him. Caroline Kaden might have foolishly tried to give him ...

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by Ian Feldman (Author)LOGLINE: A treasure hunter and his estranged wife team up to search for a legendary sunken WWII Japanese warship carrying China's looted Gold Treasures.THE PAST: The background of the story begins as WWII is Ending for Japan - August, 1945: Yellow Sea. . . Japan's troops are evacuating all of China. Commander Ozawa is tasked with transporting gold and jewels looted from China's mainland on his destroyer KAGA-5505, when he learns that both Atomic Bombs have been dropped ...

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by Jay Bell (Author)William Townson is a good person. He's kind, considerate, and the last thing he ever wanted was to hurt anyone. Accidents happen though, and when they do, all that can be done is to pick up the pieces. For William, this means trying to hold together a stagnant relationship while resisting the temptation of Jason Grant, a young man with eyes just as intense as his love. Only the future can promise redemption for mistakes of the past, forcing William to choose between the Co...

101 Theatre Games: For Drama Teachers, Classroom Teachers, and Directors - Paperback

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by Mila Johansen (Author)Let's put some fun into teaching! Any teacher, drama coach, or director can pick up this book and within ten minutes be leading a dynamic theatre game. It is explicit enough for beginners and in-depth enough for the advanced thespian. Almost every theatre term and concept is presented in this comprehensive guide to teaching theatre techniques and etiquette. 101 THEATRE GAMES is currently being used by Directors, Classroom Teachers, Drama Teachers, Church Leaders, and ...

The Drunk Deliverance: Discovering Purpose in Traumatic Experiences - Paperback

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by Christopher M. Pate (Author)One driver. "One beer." One night. One life turned upside down. At twenty-three, Christopher M. Pate almost lost his life when a drunk driver hit him. Though God spared his life, he lost the man he once was. After weeks of recovery followed by months of learning how to do basic tasks like sitting upright, standing, walking, and eating, he slowly began to live again. With limited knowledge of the man who was, he embarked on a period of introspection and self-disc...

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by Mayer Smith (Author)In the shadowed corners of Willow Creek, a wealthy heir hides among the forgotten, cloaked in the guise of a drifter. Haunted by a past he cannot escape and burdened by a secret that could unravel the fabric of the town, he walks a delicate line between anonymity and destiny. But when a mysterious altar tied to ancient powers emerges as a catalyst for chaos, his quiet life is shattered.Drawn into a deadly conspiracy led by the cunning Mayor and an enigmatic figure known...

Back To Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch With Preface (The Infidel Half Century) - Paperback

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author)Back To Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch With Preface (The Infidel Half Century) This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-creat...

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by Jaber Ramezani (Author), Sara Bigdeli Shamloo (Translator), Mahsa Dehghanipour (Editor)The true audience of "The Swim Team" are only the ones who have tasted the poverty significantly; from the people who practice democracy when it's missing, to the ones who try falling in love when there is no love. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 02, 2021

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by Michael Gow (Author)A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction. This is Michael Gow's most uncompromising play. 'Such was its intensity and energy, it was as if Gow had captured an emotional state and hurled it like a thunderbolt upon the stage for us all to see.' ANGELA BENNIE, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.27 x 5.39 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2021

Mr Melancholy and Footprints on Water: Two plays - Paperback

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by Matt Cameron (Author)Mr. Melancholy is an absurd comedy of solitude and sorrow. Three hermits, living in a lighthouse without a light, discover a runaway circus clown washed ashore. 'Cameron seems heir to the existentialism of a Samuel Beckett, the absurdities of a Goon Show and the hauntingly melancholic whimsy of cartoonist Michael Leunig.' - The Bulletin Footprints on Water is a darkly comic parable of belief and judgement. A religious zealot wills God to wipe out his morally bankrupt v...

The Man Who Lived Inside a Poem - Paperback

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by Mayer Smith (Author)The Man Who Lived Inside a Poem is a literary romance that blurs the line between fiction and reality. Evan Knight, a reclusive writer, finds himself trapped within the pages of his own creation-a labyrinth of ink and words that begins to warp and twist beyond his control. His once peaceful existence is shattered when he discovers that the world he thought he had created is not just a story, but a living, breathing entity. Each word, each sentence, has power, and as the...

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by Walter Wykes (Author)The intellectual offspring of Ionesco, Beckett, and Pinter, Walter Wykes is proof that the Theatre of the Absurd lives on. In his plays, he creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and rich, poetic language. The worlds he creates are brand new, and hilarious, yet each contains an ancient horror we all know and cannot escape and have never been able to hang one definitive word on. "The Worker" explores...

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by Voltaire (Author)Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest. Don Gusman a Spanish grandee has just succeeded his father Don Alvarez in the Governorship of Peru. The rule of Don Alvarez had been beneficent and just; he had spent his life in endeavoring to soften the cruelty of his countrymen; and his only remaining wish was to see his son carry on the work which he had begun. Number of Pages: 40 Dimens...

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by Neil Labute (Author)Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side--so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already broken up with). Some Girl(s) is the latest work from Neil Labute, American...

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England - Hardcover

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by Bonnie Lander Johnson (Author) Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 09, 2025

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by Philip King (Author)So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish, audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the Air Force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who "touches alcohol for the first time in her life," four me...

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by Eugene Ionesco (Author), Derek Prouse (Translator)The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, una...

Importance of Being Earnest, the (3 ACT Version) - Paperback

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by Oscar Wilde (Author)Oscar WildeFull Length, Farce comedy Charcters: 5 male, 4 female Exterior Set and 2 Interior Sets This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity ever put into a play. Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 29, 2011

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by Mary Anne Butler (Author)Dot and Pearl live in Wittenoom, the blue asbestos mining town in WA's Pilbara. So begin glorious days, when the Pilbara's stunning landscapes, magnificent wildlife and close-knit community shaped an idyllic lifestyle; wild-natured Dot making the most of every second, while teenaged Pearl tries to make sense of what her own life might be. Wittenoom follows Dot and Pearl's personal story, filled with humour, sorrow and the friends they make along the way. Mary Anne ...

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by Kate Mulvany (Author)Meet Rose Maloney. Her dad Danny went to Vietnam. Her grandfather Brian is ex-IRA. Today is their collective birthday. From this intimate reunion, The Seed opens itself up over and over again until a silent family battle becomes a national story about finding new life amongst the rubble of old wars. This play has a very special kind of honesty and humour to it which sorts the great lies we buy into from the reality we live through.A compelling, tightly woven and thrill...

Belonging: Australian playwriting in the 20th century - Paperback

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by John McCallum (Editor)This new history explores the relationship between twentieth century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on the creative tension sparked by the duelling impulses of nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Also competing are artistic seriousness and larrikin populism. This book examines the influence of European high culture and popular theatrical forms on Australian drama, the ambivalence (between affection and aggression) of much Australian...

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by Julian Meyrick (Author)Australia in 50 Plays is Julian Meyrick's lively and accessible account of the remarkable relationship between our national drama and our national life, examining fifty outstanding plays of diverse content and style that have appeared in the 120 years since Federation. Energetic, entertaining and original, Meyrick shows the key contribution drama has made to the development of modern Australia through its role in the major issues of the twentieth and twenty-first cen...

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by Jay Bell (Author)Sometimes it's up to us to make our own luck-and to give ourselves a second chance.Noah Westwood is tired of living on the streets, so he turns to Marcello Maltese, a man who owns a small empire that includes an escort service. Noah volunteers for this, but he's playing a dangerous game. A secret from his past could turn his new friends into enemies, and he isn't sure he can perform the duties he signed up for, especially when he's more interested in falling in love than h...

An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying: A Guide to Prevention and Management of Workplace Bullying - Hardcover

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by Dr Debra Stewart (Author)The book an Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying examines organizational culture and wellness in the presence of bully triads. The book includes ideas for assessment and performance improvement concerning organizational culture. The book addresses possible approaches to improve workplace culture and corporate wellness and to create bully-free environments. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2023

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by Steve Carter (Author)Set in 1927 in New York City, EDEN revolves around Eustace, a happy-go-lucky African American man, who makes the mistake of falling in love with the girl next door, Annetta, daughter of an autocratic West Indian, Joseph Barton, who rules his household with an iron fist: he literally whips his belief in racial purity into his children with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 28, 2024

The Drunk Deliverance: Discovering Purpose in Traumatic Experiences - Hardcover

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by Steven Dietz (Author), Patrick Hamilton (Based on a Book by)In this turn-of-the-century Victorian thriller, strange things start to happen to the newlyweds Bella and Jack as their seemingly perfect marriage devolves into something sinister. Why is the attic door locked? Whose footsteps wander the halls at night? And is that gaslight flickering... or not? Bella's reality is twisted, forcing her to question both the truth and her husband's intentions in this haunting thriller based on the ac...

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by Madelaine Brauner Landry (Author)John Brauner, my father, was a radioman in the Infantry during World War II. He arrived in Italy in early 1945, as part of General Mark Clark's 5th Army. By early spring, he was stationed in Northern Italy, where he met Mafalda Riccadonna, who became his friend and correspondent until 1950. After his death in 1980, my siblings and I began searching through the contents of his US Army trunk, which was filled with souvenirs, memorabilia, and personal letters....

Erasing Secrets: The Lyons Garden Book Two - Paperback

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by D. M. Foley (Author)This is the second edition of the previously released Erasing Secrets: The Lyons Garden Book Two. The author's independent publishing company has extensively re-edited and reformatted it.Like all families, the Gardiners have secrets. Someone on the island knows all the secrets and will kill to reveal them. Jimmy Driscoll, head of security on the island, has a difficult job keeping everyone safe while keeping his past hidden from others.Jessica Greenhall and her siblings...

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by John D. McCray (Author)Synopsis: LaToya and Curtis Stewart have been married for ten years and have two children. LaToya loves her family but she feels that she's devoting her entire life to making her husband and children happy and she's neglecting her own happiness and lost her self-respect in the process.LaToya noticed that she's walking on eggshells around Curtis, trying to please him in every way. She's fed up with his verbal and physical abuse and she finally stands up for herself an...

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by Jennifer Panek (Author)This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in affect, disgust. It explores both the textual "performance" of affect, how literary language works to evoke emotions and the ways disgust can work in theatrical performance. Here Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece is the classic paradigm of sexual...