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by Martine Beswicke (Author), Simon Firth (As Told to), Martijn Mulder (Designed by)Martine Beswicke was born in Jamaica as Mary Rose Penso Beswick. From a very early age, it was her dream to be an actress. She moved to London in her early teens to begin a career in modelling. During the swinging sixties, Martine - a wild child from an early age - indulged in all that the city offered and various encounters helped her acting career to slowly take shape. In 1963, she was cast as the fighting g...

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by Henrik Ibsen (Author), Amy Herzog (Adapted by)Amy Herzog's streamlined adaptation of the Ibsen classic is a vibrant and compelling theatrical experience. A small-town doctor considers himself a proud, upstanding member of his close-knit community. When he discovers a catastrophe that risks the lives of everyone in town, he raises the alarm. But he is shaken to his core when those in power, including his own brother, try not only to silence him, but to destroy him. Number of Pages: 98 Dimen...

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by Sally Nemeth (Author)The mysterious causes and devastating effects of a steel mill explosion are seen through the eyes of a defiant young widow. "It's a straightforward enough story, but Nemeth tells it in a way that stunningly recapitulates the crazy-quilt patterns of memory. Creating a collage of time, sensation, inner thought and overt action, she twists the past and the present so that the intensity of pleasure, pain and loss becomes truly excruciating. And in the process, she reminds ...

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by Sarah Ruhl (Author)An adaptation of the "longest and most charming love letter in literature," written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time and gender. Orlando's adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. This fresh stage adaptation from Sarah Ruhl uses narrative and a c...

Who Is In the Room?: Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director - Paperback

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by Brooke O'Harra (Author)With this book, Brooke O'Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O'Harra drives the art of directing forward.Author BiographyBrooke O'Harra teaches acting and directing, queer performance practices and experimental playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9.69 x 6.85 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 25, 2024

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by Rick Drost (Author)The authors of two letters in the New Testament are considered by many to be the actual half-brothers of Jesus Christ. However we are told in the gospels that the family of Jesus approached Him at one point during His ministry asking Him to come home, thinking He was out of His mind (Mark 3:21). But how did Jesus's brothers go from being concerned about His sanity to being important contributors to the early church?The Netzereth Trial suggests a possible series of events...

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by Cyn Lawrence (Author)Young and insecure, Detective Daniela "Dan" Neely fights daily to earn respect in a Boston Police Department steeped in traditions as old as time. She works obsessively, determined to crack the big case-a recent string of deaths that plague the city-to prove that her father, a local pharmaceuticals magnate, didn't buy the position for her. When she is called to the crime scene of the newest victim, a beloved friend with a secret past, her determination morphs into an i...

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by Federico Garc?a Lorca (Author), Jorge Cabezas Miranda (Editor)Con Bodas de sangre, obra en tres actos, escrita en verso y en prosa en 1933, Federico Garc?a Lorca se propuso escribir una tragedia en el sentido cl?sico del t?rmino, un g?nero que consideraba la verdadera ra?z del teatro. La obra est? ambientada en la tradicional Andaluc?a -que Lorca convierte en un lugar tan m?tico y universal como la Grecia cl?sica-. All? una joven enamorada de Leonardo, con quien mantuvo en el pasado una re...

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by Ansel Riedlinger (Author)Post-Apocalyptic Journey: Lone Survivor's Trek from Texas to Florida, Battling Gangs, Radiation & Inner Demons in a World After Nuclear War. A Tale of Redemption Amidst Ruins. Immerse yourself in a world where the chilling fears of the Cold War have become a grim reality. The earth, now a barren wasteland after a catastrophic nuclear showdown, is the backdrop for our protagonist's solitary journey. After the world s tragic end, a lone man has spent the last 16 ...

Bakke's Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - Paperback

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by Anthony Bakke (Author)Meet Romeo Montague: a dramatic, fun-loving, witty, and emotional boy. Meet Juliet Capulet: a beautiful, impulsive, passionate, and headstrong girl. The two hopelessly romantic teenagers meet at a party, fall desperately in love, and plan their happily ever after. But feuds, fate, and family conspire against the pair of star-crossed lovers, destining their story for a most tragic end.Experience Shakespeare's iconic tale of love and woe as never before with this new mo...

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by Neil Simon (Author)Full Length, Comedy Characters: 7 male, 2 female InteriorInspired by the playwright's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman "Max Prince". "Old style comedy: fast and furious."-The Wall Street Journal "One of [Simon's] funniest...Comedy, comedy Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions...

How to Transcend a Happy Marriage - Paperback

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by Sarah Ruhl (Author)At a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp, Pip, in Jane's office. When they invite Pip and her two male partners, discussion turns to action and the exploration of unexplored desire turns animalistic, and then Jane's daughter sees it all. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage blurs the lines of monogamy and asks how deeply friends, lovers, and strangers connect. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 ...

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by Meredith Dayna Levy (Author)From the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, comes a story about friendship and the complex though essential role of women in wartime. Virginia Hascall has left her home and fiancee to become a Women Airforce Service Pilot, and do her part to help defeat the Axis powers in the Second World War. Through triumph and tragedy, she and her sisters in flight suits learn as much about themselves as they do about airplanes. As the war ra...

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by R. T. Robinson (Author)Comic dramaCharacters: 1 male, 6 female Unit set. Tood, Weetsie and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set back, ...

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by Topher Payne (Author)Bennett is really trying to keep it together right now. He broke up with his boyfriend and moved in with his best friend, Cooper. It's election season, and he's the speechwriter for Georgia's only gay state senator, who's engaged in a bloody campaign against a conservative darling. Then Bennett's ex is attacked in the parking lot of a gay bar. Bennett and Cooper are informed that the assault can't be classified as a hate crime - because in Georgia, hate crimes against ...

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by Eva Le Gallienne (Author), Florida Friebus (Author)Adapted from Lewis Carroll Fantasy / More than 50 characters plus extras (doubling possible) / Ints./exts. Produced and revived on Broadway, this is the most successful dramatic version of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: a journey into a world of complete illusion. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 04, 2010

Anne of Green Gables: The Musical - Paperback

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by Campbell Norman (Author), Donald Harron (Author), L. M. Montgomery (Author)The classic tale of an orphan girl, Anne, who rises from destitution to happiness in the farm country entirely by virtue of her pluck and personality. Anne's adventures at Green Gables, the farm owned by her new caretakers, are both comical and heartwarming. Originating in Canada, the play left capacity audiences there to journey to London, where it opened to acclaim. The original Anne of Green Gables novel is the f...

The White Liars and Black Comedy - Paperback

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by Peter Shaffer (Author)The White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller, a rock musician, and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus-pocus over a crystal ball, ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity. Black Comedy: The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed. U...

Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes - Paperback

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by Aristophanes (Author), Stephen Halliwell (Editor)Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institu...

The Long Pivot Home: Based on a true story of love and loss in Oklahoma - Paperback

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by Jim Willis (Author)This is an historical work which contains fictional elements and aliases. The focus is on a middle-aged man named Lucas Jarrett, who has just lost his wife of seventeen years and is trying to adjust to the pain and grief. He unwittingly puts himself in the midst of a greater collective grieving, which is the Oklahoma City bombing in April, 1995. As a career journalist as well as a native of metro Oklahoma City, Jarrett returns to the streets as a reporter to cover the bo...

Money Lies and The Housewives - Paperback

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by Jackie Beard Robinson (Author) Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2024

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by Paul Leonard Murray (Author), William Shakespeare (Based on a Play by)"The concept is original and the execution brilliant. This is Dr Seuss meets Shakespeare, with all the joy of the former meshed with all the intrigue of the latter." - David Crystal, author of Shakespeare's Words and How Language WorksBut bottom of the all-time list/ Of Shakespeare's not-so-greatest hits/ The play which always fails to please/ The poor, unfortunate Pericles./ But before you stand and leave you a seat/ I ...

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by Paul Leonard Murray (Author), William Shakespeare (Based on a Play by)"The concept is original and the execution brilliant. This is Dr. Seuss meets Shakespeare, with all the joy of the former meshed with all the intrigue of the latter. The rhymes are really clever, and often elicited an actual LOL."- David Crystal, author of Shakespeare's Words and How Language Works.The Silly Shakespeare for Students edition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream simplifies the famous play without dum...

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by Debra Oswald (Author)A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna - older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, p...

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by Itamar Moses (Author)Dramatic Comedy / 2mWhat if all your dreams came true...for your best friend? The Four of Us follows Ben whose first novel vaults him into literary stardom and his friend David a struggling playwright who is thrilled by Ben's success...and crushed by it. From the dreams of aspiring youth to the realities of adulthood this poignant two-man comedy explores friendship and memory the gap between our hopes and our lives and the struggles between our egos and our capacity to...

The Works of John Locke, Etc. Eleventh Edition. - Paperback

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by John Locke (Author)Title: The Works of John Locke, etc. Eleventh edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collect...

Flying Alaska Gold: Grizzlies, Gold, Gangsters - Paperback

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by David Hoerner (Author)This book is a recollection of the authors experiences in Alaska. It details his hair raising and near death flying experiences. The trials and tribulations of gold mining, and the greed associated with it. A connection with the Mafia. An accelerated learning curve flying supplies to other miners. The support of family at home in Montana and at the mine. Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 05, 2005

The Kreutzer Sonata: A Play In Four Acts (1907) - Paperback

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by Jacob Gordin (Author), Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (Translator)The Kreutzer Sonata is a play in four acts, written by Jacob Gordin and first published in 1907. The play is based on Leo Tolstoy's novella of the same name, and explores themes of love, jealousy, and the destructive nature of passion.The story follows the character of Pozdnyshev, who is on a train journey with a stranger. He begins to tell the stranger the story of his life, and in particular, his marriage to his wife, who he belie...

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by Carlo Goldoni (Author), Gianluca Rizzo (Editor), Michael Hackett (Editor)One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) wrote more naturalistic "comedies of character" that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni's finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, and "The Holiday Tri...

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by Mark Hayhurst (Author)In your quest for respectability I think we can say you have been talking out of both corners of your mouth. One corner talks to your rich backers, the other to your street-fighters. 1931. Hans Litten is one of the most celebrated lawyers in Berlin, famed for his brilliant mind and the rhetorical flair with which he defends those fighting back against the rapidly growing Nazi movement. So, when he calls Herr Hitler as star witness in the trial of a band of murderous S...

Down and Out in Paris and London - Paperback

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by George Orwell (Author)Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is a picaresque account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel acco...

Thy Kingdom Come: Lent and Easter Sermons by David H. Petersen - Paperback

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by David H. Petersen (Author), Michael N. Frese (Editor), Wilken Todd (Foreword by)This collection of sermons arises from the culture of an active parish life as a part of its usual worship routine. With over sixty sermons spanning Pre-Lent, all forty days of Lent, and the Sundays after Easter, this book now serves as an excellent daily devotion for both pastors and parishioners. Distinctive in his preaching style, Pr. Petersen fluidly interweaves the words of Holy Scripture with his own, imm...