Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Scott W. Collins (Author)Mr. Collins weaves a tale of deception and greed, revealing the perils of a gambling underworld seen through the eyes of a naive and gullible protagonist, Johnny Jasper. Johnny's best friend, the incorrigible Seymour Galvin, gets deep in debt with a bookie and can't pay up. Johnny can help, but only if he dips into the coveted family nest egg without his wife's consent. Johnny's simple life quickly spins out of control as he gets caught...

Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller

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Report copyright infringementby Nilgun Anadolu-Okur (Author)The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marjuan T. Canady (Author)A hysterical, provocative play in which Marjuan Canady transforms herself into ten diverse characters, capturing the voices and concerns of black women worldwide. This satire explores how we have viewed black women in the past, present, and a funny yet frightening future. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 07, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Idris Goodwin (Author)3f, 2m with doubling (or up to 15 without)What if being picked last wasn't the end of the story, but the beginning of something bigger?It's the playground at recess. Teams are being selected and stakes are high. And Chavonne has decided to change the trajectory of the game.Blending science, humor, and youthful wit, Pick Me Last invites audiences to look closely at how systems shape who gets seen, who gets chosen, and who gets left behind. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ashleigh Henry (Author)Victoria has finally learned to love herself for who she is. She has forgiven herself for the mistakes she made in the past. She regrets not telling Amy who her biological father was as a child because her daughter has to deal with harassment and shame at school. Victoria did not realize how much it would affect her daughter. Unfortunately, she has to live with the feeling of guilt and shame from her past decisions. That was exposed and r...

The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker; Volume V

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Dekker (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.Th...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)Bill and Billy are having marital problems but these pall when compared to the problems they have to face from their next door neighbour. If that wasn't enough, there is the general alarm put out to be on the alert for a serial murderer thought to be in the district. In the heavy night of the Mornington countryside, their weekender cottage offers scant protection from what is determined to befall them from the outside and what is determined to...

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Report copyright infringementby Madelaine Nunn (Author)'I could crack open the footpath. Shake the houses until bookcases topple over. And all the porcelain in the world is just dust on the floor. And everything fragile is broken.'Sam's in her last year of high school. Her dad's just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 'Too much wanking!' her mum says. It's a joke but no one finds it funny. It's safe to say no one's coping very well-least of all Sam. Not that anyone is noticing. It isn't unt...

Just Out of Your Ground: or, The Floundering of W.A.

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)This is a rollicking play about one of the founding and/or foundling fathers of Western Australia... Thomas Peel, first cousin of the then British Prime Minister. He was the leader of the first organized group of settlers, but from the moment he arrived on western shores, he became, as it were, rooted to the spot, utterly unable to marshal himself to provide the leadership and employment to his hundreds of artisans, labourers and families. Ind...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry John Cohen (Author)In 1886 when gold was discovered in the Transvaal, the peaceful farming existence of the Afrikaners (descendants of the Dutch settlers formerly called "Boers") was forever shattered. The setting of Barry Cohen's fact-based novel, Let the Storm Burst, is South Africa at the turn of the (20th) century, as thousands of alien fortune-seekers made their way to the gold fields in the quest for adventure, action, and affluence. Into this fact-...

The Playbook: Six Plays and One Libretto

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Report copyright infringementby Ephiny Gale (Author), April Guadiana (Cover Design by)1. Jack and Jill build an indeterminate time machine. 2. Madalyn Walker returns from fairy land, 3 times. 3. Nine people search for a reason to hold them down to Earth. 4. Illia struggles to direct from within a human body. 5. Two burn to death; one burns others. 6. King Santino unleashes his powers of cut-to. 7. A magic-free world questions its devotion to fairy tale rules.Full of speculative tales, queer l...

Shorts: The short and one-act plays by Bill Reed

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)Here are the award-winning or noted short-form plays whose productions range from a few minutes to lengthy one-acters. Each inclusion in this collection has been selected by the Australian Script Centre to be listed for viewing or purchase on its website Australianplays.org. These twelve plays are designed either for full production or as workshop exercises with allowances for a few or a goodly number of actors and theatre support staff. Some ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jocelyn Bioh (Author)Jaja's African Hair Braiding in Harlem is a salon full of funny, whip-smart, talented women ready to make you look and feel nice-nice. On this particularly muggy summer day, Jaja's rule-following daughter Marie is running the shop while her mother prepares for her courthouse, green-card wedding... to a man no one seems to particularly like. Just like her mother, Dreamer Marie is trying to secure her future; she's just graduated high school ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)LIVING IN BLACK HOLES is a first-time collection of five of Bill Reed's most popular and/or performed plays. The works collected here are: Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and PaperBurke's CompanyTruganinniBullsh (including More Bullsh)Cass Butcher BuntingEach play has been 'modernised', in that the playwright has changed the plots as necessary to bring them up-to-date and brought the colloquialisms to be more familiar to the modern ear. Here ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)Dorothy is married to a south Indian surgeon who has been shot in a gang-related murder in Melbourne. She knows nothing about what's behind this but she feels obliged to travel to her mother-in-law in Chennai to relate what little she does know. This, she dreads doing, not just because this once-Australian, everyone's 'auntie' has always turned a blithe deaf ear to her, but more because the old girl is a scrawn, a whack job, a dizzy, shouting ...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Brevoort (Author)A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son's remains seven years after he was lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane's wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim's familie...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Douglas Blaine (Author)What is the future of the EU? Find out in this dramatic adventure novel. Number of Pages: 254 Dimensions: 0.58 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 01, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)He hadn't told his son he was adopted, nor that his son had a twin sister who hadn't been handed over with him when they travelled from Melbourne to India all that time ago to pick up both infants. Part of his silence was the guilt of being on the end of what was then undoubtedly a child-racketeering scam. Charged by his estranged wife to go back to India to find out more about the recent brutal murder of their son - and, consequentially, what...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine De Lorraine (Author)In Human Bridges, Katherine De Lorraine's valuable and strongly achieved ambitions are healing and reconciliation as she observes the situation of womankind from three very different angles of vision. The middle sequence of contemporary lyrics ties together the series of stories of the valiant Weya women of Africa and the metaphysical hip-hop drama, Power Play, that ends the volume. Here is a poet that believes in a unity of spirit...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Nelson (Author)Critic's Pick "Truly profound... The genius of INCIDENTAL MOMENTS is in how it extends [the] social and verbal uneasiness within a family to embrace the most important and divisive subjects of the day."The New York Times***** Five Stars (out of Five) "Beautifully composed."The Guardian (UK) "Virtually perfect."Daily Mail (UK)***** Five Stars (out of Five) "Nelson subtly shines a light on the anger and angst of modern-day America. Undernea...

Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and Paper

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)Blurb (Act I) PARSONS: I'm beginning to feel what his friends must have gone through when they were really seeing him off. The longer they wait, the more improbably it is that the bloody plane will ever leave. They mouth platitudes to each other about every man having the unimpeachable right to die at home. They don't look into each other's eyes knowing that not one of them has even bothered to tell the old boy about pipe dreams, tobacco smoke...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Edwards (Author), Bill Reed (Author)'Life's a real cow of a thing!'You can take five locals virtually locked out of their Outback pub by a bunch of city-slickers up from Sydney who, deep into the grog, start offering money for the best local yarn. You could take it that these five, gathered around Pop, are used to being virtually locked out of their pub even in the best of times, and have their own jealously-guarded places out on the back porch. So you migh...

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Report copyright infringementby Beth Deshaun (Author)Shadows saved her. Love broke her. Happiness and love are fleeting. That's the truth of it. Alex had once believed she had both. Her life was anything but simple, but she had loved it, had been loved. Alex had been the unbreakable shield of the Varon Province's queen, despite breaking all the rules, and risking her position as the Queen's Guard. When betrayal strikes without warning and her queen vanishes in the dead of night, suspicion and...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter E. Levy (Author)Three scintillating and intense dramas, real page turners, in the one book. A bright teenage girl ravaged at home and on the streets. An atrocious act plagues a heroic war hero. A meritorious secret agent reflects upon a flawed life. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Boika Sokolova (Author), Kirilka Stavreva (Author)Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva's second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman's first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across Europe and the USA, and on film, th...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)'Don't let them cut me up! Bury me behind the mountains!'Fear, violence and race prejudice are themes with which we are all sadly familiar. Bill Reed's three plays-on-a-theme, based on the life and times of Truganinni -- the supposed last Tasmanian Aborigine and, at the end, so socially visible -- develop these themes based on the dispossession and final degradation of the Tasmanian original people. In her own lifetime, Truganinni lived throug...

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Report copyright infringementby C. J. Tielle (Author)Making Love Until The EndTold by an omniscient narrator, Between the Sheets is a coming-of-age read for adults that delivers a subtle yet powerful message about the delicate balance between life and death. Depicted with an emotional candor and explicit scenes, this compelling story captures the rich and tender nuances and the infinite and ineffaceable features of mature love and sex.Inspired by a true story, Between the Sheets explores the ...

From Faustiana to The Fall of Athens: Ten Plays by Ruth Wolff

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Wolff (Author)The collection includes nine full-length plays, FAUSTIANA, ARABIC TWO, AVIATORS, THE SHAKESPEARE ROAD, HOTEL VICTORY, BUFFALOES, THE SKY POOL, THE ARDENT PHILANTHROPIST, and THE FALL OF ATHENS, and one long one-act, STILL LIFE WITH APPLES.About Ruth Wolff: "I love THE ABDICATION play and I loved acting in the film. Ruth Wolff has written a treasure trove of extraordinary roles for actresses. I hope this book will find many readers." --Liv U...

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Report copyright infringementby Desiree S. McCray (Editor in Chief), Kyron Elam (Associate Editor)DJELI JOURNAL represents more than just words jumping off the page; it marks the amplification of a kaleidoscope of visionary voices that have often been marginalized or overlooked in the mainstream literary landscape. I started DJELI because I've been in rooms where our brilliance was underestimated, our voices sidelined, our words tone-policed, and our truth deemed inconvenient or "too much." I...

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Report copyright infringementby Edie Claire (Author)Comedy/ 6m 6f 2 teen girls 1 teen boy and a good-natured minister/ A church sanctuaryThe mother of the bride has every reason to panic. Three generations of Bower family weddings-three inexplicable disasters. Now with the church building falling down half the wedding party AWOL and the bride's sisters still fighting over what happened at the last family wedding daughter Jenna's nuptials seem hopelessly doomed. But peacemaking brother Brian i...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Davis (Author)This book was written about the summer of 2023, when Steven Davis worked an unarmed security officer position. Being certified through the state was a requirement within sixty days of the hire date.Steven Davis wrote this book to show people how Jesus and the Holy Spirit really work. Amazingly, that summer he never got stabbed, shot, punched, or anything along those lines-thank God. It was a divine protection on him.The book also shows how,...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Kelly (Author)Tim Kelly A Who Dunit Soap Opera Farce Characters: 5 male 5 female. Interior Set Life in a soap opera meets life in a New York City penthouse with hysterical results! Old Horatio Tucker sponsor of television's most popular daytime soap "The Best Tears of Our Lives" has received an anonymous note telling him that the clue to his killer can be found in the next day's episode. Things become woefully muddled when a nasty network executive Ivy Mede...