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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel - Paperback

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by Richard Rodgers (Author), II Oscar Hammerstein (Author), Ferenc Molnar (Author)In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the gentle millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison...

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by Patrick Hamilton (Author)This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough proves Manningham's true identity and finally Bella achieves a few moments of sweet revenge for the suffering inflicted on her. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Pub...

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by Erika Daniels (Author)Come Back Kinda Love is a story of timing, meeting the right person at the right time at the right moment, when a heart is open and ready to love. When Erika collides with John on a Saturday night in late September, she is just beginning the recovery from her divorce, unprepared for the rush of emotions that comes with meeting the man who at first night appears to be so right. Over the next several months, they come together for brief moments, until Erika decides that...

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by James Ijames (Author)Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.Juicy--a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity--is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbeque. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man,...

Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays - Paperback

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by Eric Lane (Editor), Nina Shengold (Editor)A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn't last long, but its power can stand your hair on end. This splendid anthology contains enough wattage to light up a small city. For in its pages, thirty-two of our finest playwrights hone their skills on a form that has been called the haiku of the American stage. The plays that Nina Shengold and Eric Lane have collected in this volume range from monologues to an eight-character farce...

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by Sam Shepard (Author)Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, " someone is cutting someone else's throat."Front JacketSet within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play...

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by Wallace Stevens (Author), Milton J. Bates (Editor)When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the pr...

Playwrights at Work: Interviews with Albee, Beckett, Guare, Hellman, Ionesco, Mamet, Miller, Pinter, Shepard, Simon, Stoppard, Wasserstein, Wilder, Wi - Paperback

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by Paris Review (Author), George Plimpton (Editor), John Lahr (Introduction by)The third installment in the Modern Library's Paris Review "Writers at Work" series, this is an all-new gathering of interviews with the most important and compelling playwrights of our time. Their singular takes on their craft, their influences, their lives, the state of contemporary theater, and the tricks of the trade create an illuminating and unparalleled record of the life of the theater itself. "At its best,...

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - Paperback

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by Herman Wouk (Author)The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life--and mutiny--on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half cent...

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon - Paperback

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by Neil Simon (Author)The eight plays in the second volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon bear eloquent witness to the unique genius of a master playwright who so magnificently blended the joy of laughter and the love of life. This volume includes: - Little Me- The Gingerbread Lady- The Prisoner of Second Avenue- The Sunshine Boys- The Good Doctor- God's Favorite- California Suite- Chapter Two- And an Introduction by the author: "As Time Flies By" Nothing can take away the pleasure that...

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by Chloe Ruffennach (Author)Somehow, the sun always finds its way through the windows of the five mansions on Wisteria Drive. The Montgomery family is exactly who you would picture inhabiting the palace-like homes along this gated strip of road. The men in the Montgomery family have always known what they want from life-and family is at the center. Their wives, on the other hand, have had the privilege of marrying into the Montgomery wealth after the brothers pursued them with calculated spec...

The House of Dracula - A comedy-horror - Paperback

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by Martin Downing (Author)This clever spin off of The House of Frankenstein finds the Baron, Baroness and their repulsive retainers, Igor and Frau Lurker, going to stay at a macabre Transylvania fortress. Excitement turns to terror when they are greeted by more than a few of their mortal (and immortal) enemies. They are to take part in an unholy survival test involving ghouls, ghosts and the fiendish Dr. Jekyll. The Frankensteins flee from cellar to attic, desperate to escape a fate worse tha...

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by Anton Chekhov (Author), Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Editor), Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Introduction by)Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story. Edited and with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, The Portable Chekhov presents twenty-eight of Chekhov's best...

I Was There: A Good Friday Tenebrae Service - Paperback

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by David E. Ridenhour (Author)This gripping tenebrae worship drama confronts your congregation with the powers of darkness and destruction that were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. Brief monlogues by Sorrow, Fear, Death, and four other shadowy personae (presented on stage or spoken from off stage), and an eerie, dimly lit stage create the somber and mournful mood that all Christians feel on this day. This flexible worship drama requires only a few easily obtained props -- a large c...

Six Characters in Search of an Author - Paperback

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by Luigi Pirandello (Author), Eric Bentley (Translator), Eric Bentley (Introduction by)Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello was one of the most original and powerful dramatists of his time--the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His plays dramatize with force and eloquence the loneliness and isolation of the individual both from society and from himself. In Six Characters in Search of an Author, his greatest work, these themes are played ou...

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by Alice Birch (Author)Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling towards one moment that could devastate them all. Many Moons opened at groundbreaking Theatre 503 in summer 2011.Author BiographyAlice Birch's work includes Peckham: The Soap Opera, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Royal Court)...

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by William Douglas Home (Author) William Douglas HomeComedyCharacters: 2 male 1 female Exterior Set Cecil a seventy year-old successful novelist living comfortably with his fussy old butler is contemplating marriage. The object of his affections Evelyn has just buried the man she married fifty years ago after being propositioned by Cecil. She is confronted with a candid and charming proposal in this delightful comedy that starred Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert on Broadway. "A delightful f...

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by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (Author)Bullfighting in Yucat?n, Mexico is a world nearly exclusive to men-yet for Elena Mar?a Ram?rez, it is her life's ambition. With the help of her best friend, a matador's son, Elena begins secretly training to compete with the greatest. But when she discovers that her seemingly inherent talent can beat even the most accomplished toreros, this young woman must choose between accepting society's limits or breaking boundaries. A powerful play written by a stunning ne...

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by John Webster (Author) Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2024

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by Candace Miles (Author), Madelaine Nunn (Author), Anna Rodway (Author)Meet Alice Anderson: Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. Founder of Australia's first all-girl garage! It's 1920s Melbourne - society reels from the aftermath of World War I, women's fashion sets startling trends and the city hums with the music of the motorcar. Meanwhile, one small woman defies convention and makes her mark...Sparked by historical events, Garage Girls shines a light on Alice Anderson's short but eventfu...

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by Dylan Van Den Berg (Author)'You've got one hand that's gushing blood and in the other hand you're holding the knife. You actually are the full story. Both sides.' A great-great grandmother sold as a 'wife' to a white sealer. Her granddaughter, who buried her identity to survive the settler-colony. A young fair-skinned Palawa man, their descendant, seeking truths about their shared past. Bound by blood and borne by the winds of the Bass Strait Islands, they meet at the Island of the Dead. W...

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by Mary Rachel Brown (Author)Every night, at the same time, a pigeon crash lands in my room. At first, I think it's dead. Then it starts talking. A homing pigeon with no sense of direction becomes the unlikely saviour of a young girl up against her first encounter with heartbreak. Rose's life has been turned upside down. She seems to be getting through it okay, except at night when her dream life is taken over by a mouthy homing pigeon that claims to be her subconscious. The last thing Rose w...

Maverick Secrets: Decoding Early TV Westerns - Paperback

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by Catherine Lee (Author)At a city-run Senior Center in San Antonio, a multicultural group of seniors is playing Texas Hold'Em poker and chatting. These casual friends have developed a habit to gather mornings to play cards before the Center's free lunch service begins. They overhear an old Western being broadcast on TV monitors from the nearby exercise area. They discuss how Westerns unconsciously influenced them as children to hold biased attitudes about cultural minorities, women's roles, ...

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by Marcellus Nealy (Author) Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: January 10, 2025

The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: 2008 - 2021 - Paperback

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by Elisabeth Angel-Perez (Editor), Aloysia Rousseau (Editor)It is a fact that today's British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by exploring the vitality, inventiveness and particularly strong relevance of these poetics. These women playwrights sometimes invent radically new forms and sometimes experiment with c...

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by L. R. Crow (Author)In this pitch black retelling, Peter Pan's journey unfolds in a gritty world of crime and power struggles. As he ascends to the pinnacle of an underground empire, he grapples with morality, loyalty, and the haunting echoes of his past. With each step, he teeters on the edge of darkness, forced to confront his inner demons and make choices that will define him forever. Number of Pages: 318 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 22, 2025

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by Betty Shamieh (Author)An irreverent comedy and sequel to Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT. It's wartime. A lowborn steward, Malvolio, has risen to the rank of general. He is determined to seek vengeance on a cast of characters who tormented him twenty years earlier until he encounters Volina, the daughter of Duke Orsino and Duchess Viola. MALVOLIO explores both revenge and redemption. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 20, 2024

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by Elizabeth Woolsey (Author)Maggie Kincaid is marrying the famous and charismatic Colin Chandler. It's far from the quiet, reclusive life she envisioned when she retired from veterinary medicine and moved back to the States after many years practicing in Australia as a horse vet. She still must testify in a trial where high-level government officials have been caught running drugs from Mexico to the US. So, on her wedding day, she receives death threats. Is there a jealous woman who fantasiz...

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by Samah Sabawi (Author)across the sea that separates us from them life waits for us on the other side and I can't go there without you... In an unnamed city at war, five young people count down the days before a boat leaves for Europe. Who will leave, who will stay, and what will their choices cost them? From the writer of the award-winning Tales of a City by the Sea. Winner of the Green Room Independent Theatre Award for Writing 2020 Shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premier's Literary ...

The Ripple, the Wave That Carried Me Home - Paperback

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by Christina Anderson (Author)Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson penned this poignant, transporting and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy and family forgiveness. Janice's childhood was steeped in her parents' activism as they fought for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas and taught scores of Black children to swim. But Janice later steps away from her parents' politics and starts her own life and family far away - until she's pressed ...

People vs. Judas Iscariot: The Punishment Phase - Paperback

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by William Clayton McCord (Author)Written in an easy-to-present format, this captivating five-part series takes place in a courtroom, as attorneys present evidence based upon the Bible and tradition. Witnesses who are ""subpoenaed"" to testify include Peter, John, and Mary Magdalene. The People vs. Judas Iscariot is a captivating five-part series for Lenten worship or group discussion. Detailed worship bulletins with an order of service are provided for each of the five presentations. The Peo...

Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader: Foreword by Spike Lee - Paperback

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by Janice D. Hamlet (Editor), Robin R. Means Coleman (Editor)Shelton Jackson Spike Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings - from classic scholarship to new research - this book focuses on this revolutionary film auteur and cultural provocateur to explore contemporary questions around issues of race, politics, sexuality, gender roles, filmmaking, commercialism, celebrity, and t...