Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Colonel David Hale (Author), Amy Purdy (Author), James Purdy (Author)President Harry Truman rejoiced with all Americans when World War II came to a close. But, as if the new threat from Josef Stalin in Russia wasn't enough, he learned that there was an even greater menace on the horizon. The Soviets were collaborating with aliens already on the earth, collecting rare minerals and preparing to conquer the planet. While Americans were now faced with the potential...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Jackson (Author)Drama. THREE PLAYS is the second collection of plays by Mark Jackson, bringing together three recent works--God's Plot, Mary Stuart, and Salomania--all based on incredible historic events. God's Plot illuminates a little known chapter of American history, a 1665 case in which three American colonists were sued for blasphemy by a fourth for having performed a political play in their local tavern. Mary Stuart is an adaptation of Friedrich Sch...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathalie Guilbeault (Author)Nathalie Guilbeault is the author of the novels INHALED and WHEN I BECAME NEVER. COLD CHAOS, Stories from a North, is the author's first collection of short stories. Set in northern Quebec, where the author lived most of her adolescent years, the stories decompose the emotional and physical realities of living between the 49th and 55th northern parallels, inside the peacefulness and isolation of its landscape. Humorous, dark, and so...

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Report copyright infringementby Alaina Kunin (Author), Bradford Proctor (Author)Characters: 3 male 2 femaleSingle Set Winner! 2010 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards for Overall Production of a MusicalBunked!: The Musical is a touching coming of age comedy about five summer camp counselors during that pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters experiencing their first tastes of independence and a catchy pop score BUNKED! taps into the uncertainty of tryi...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Durang (Author), Peter Rodgers Melnick (Author), Peter Melnick (Author)Full Length Musical / 4m 3f /Unit Sets Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best MusicSet in 1952 in Macao China ADRIFT IN MACAO is a loving parody of film noir movies. Everyone that comes to Macao is waiting for something and though none of them know exactly what that is they hang around to find out. The characters include your film noir standards like Laureena the curvacious bl...

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Report copyright infringementby Noel Coward (Author) Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Gilbert Murray (Translator)The Medea is a Greek tragedy written by Euripides in the 5th century BCE. It tells the story of Medea, a sorceress and former princess of Colchis who falls in love with Jason, a Greek hero who arrives in her homeland seeking the Golden Fleece. Medea helps Jason secure the Fleece and they flee to Corinth, where they have two sons and live as husband and wife. However, when Jason decides to marry the daughter of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby George Bernard Shaw (Author)Widowers' Houses is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. The story follows the relationship between a young doctor, Harry Trench, and his fianc��e, Blanche Sartorius. The couple is on vacation in London when they meet a wealthy man named Mr. Sartorius, who is Blanche's father. Trench soon discovers that Mr. Sartorius has made his fortune by exploiting the poor and renting out slum housing. This revelation causes tension between ...

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Report copyright infringementby Angelos Michalopoulos (Author)A man and his Conscience are having a conversation about how to handle what they don't know how to fear, how not to pollute their world by letting their own silences live forever in them, how not to let everything that makes them sad make them also uglier than they are. As the conversation progresses, they move into such subjects as how many walls must they construct in order to become more visible to their own ambiguity, how many ...

The Scruffy Scoundrels: A New English Translation of

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Report copyright infringementby Annibal Caro (Author), Donald Beecher (Translator), Massimo Ciavolella (Translator)Annibal Caro wrote The Scruffy Scoundrels (Gli Straccioni) in Rome in early 1543 for his patron Pierluigi Farnese, the eldest son of Pope Paul III. The actual performance of the play was delayed, then ultimately canceled after the death of its patron. Caro denied numerous requests for permission to stage the play and even to have it copied. First published in 1582 in an edition f...

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Report copyright infringementby Dirk Budwill (Author)The Good Cyclist Germany, 1914.Ludwig Schmidt is a young man whose face and life have been ravaged by a fire. As a result, he is shunned and ridiculed by German society. Yet Ludwig is an excellent cyclist, and when World War I begins he is quickly conscripted into the army. His mission: transporting messages and provisions for the German soldiers on the Eastern front with his bicycle. Ludwig faces great hardship and witnesses horror, yet th...

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Report copyright infringementby William Butler Yeats (Author)Cathleen Ni Houlihan is a one-act play written by Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats. The play tells the story of a young couple who are about to get married when they are interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious old woman, Cathleen Ni Houlihan. The woman claims to be in search of her four lost sons who died fighting for Ireland's independence. She tells the couple that their duty is to join the cause and fight for the...

Freire and Drama: 'Marília', a Play - Anti-Oppression and Healing in the Arts

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Report copyright infringementby Rogério M. Pinto (Author), Greg William Misiaszek (Editor), Carlos Alberto Torres (Editor)This book introduces Freire's theoretical concepts as they relate to playwriting and theatre. User-friendly and concise, the book shows how anyone interested in social justice and self-healing can use drama/performance as an accessible vehicle for exploring the root causes and effects of oppression. It centres on the text of the author's award-wining one-person play, Maríl...

Letzte Chancen: Vier Einakter Von Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Report copyright infringementby S. Kord (Editor), Modern Humanities Research Association (Manufactured by)Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, now famous for her novels, aphorisms, novellas, and diary writing, saw herself as a playwright, wrote exclusively dramas during the first 30 years of her literary career, and was extremely ambitious: in her own words, she was aiming to become 'the Shakespeare of the nineteenth century.' She authored twenty-six plays, which were reviewed contemptuously by her co...

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Report copyright infringementby H. D. Higgins (Author)It is mid-eighteenth century, East Africa and the village of the Chinchigwe tribe is overrun by the Batushi slave hunters, who capture and sell thirty survivors to Oliver McIntyre an American slave trader. When a group of Chinchigwe escapes from the makeshift pens where they have been shackled and chained, Captain McIntyre sets out on a ruthless mission to recover his escaped slaves. A tension-filled page-turner that will keep readers on t...

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Report copyright infringementby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor)The highroad was dry, a lovely April sun was shining warmly, but the snow was still lying in the ditches and in the woods. Winter, dark, long, and spiteful, was hardly over; spring had come all of a sudden. But neither the warmth nor the languid transparent woods, warmed by the breath of spring, nor the black flocks of birds flying over the huge puddles that were like lakes, nor the marvelous fathomless...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Lynn (Author)Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works, preserving as far as possible for the modern reader Shakespeare's original language and mood. In this totally new edition, the tales are collected by genre and arranged chronologically. Each genr...

Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs

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Report copyright infringementby Ziba Shirazi (Author), Kamran Afary (Author), Ziba Shirazi (Contribution by)Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs combines oral history, storytelling, theories of communication, and performance studies into a unique study of an immigrant community. This book is the result of collaborative work between two Iranian-American immigrants, one a musician and artist and the other a professor. Using ethnographic, dramatistic, and oral history approaches, Ziba ...

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Report copyright infringementby Noel Coward (Author)Noel Coward's "The Vortex: A Play in Three Acts" is a powerful drama and enduring work of British literature. This classic play provides a compelling social commentary on themes of drug addiction and its devastating impact. A significant work within the performing arts, "The Vortex" explores complex relationships and societal pressures through intense character interactions. This edition of "The Vortex" preserves the original text, offering ...

Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher R. Smit (Editor), Anthony W. Enns (Editor)Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet disability itself has no easily recognizable form. When isolated from the mainstream of human existence by artistic representations, the disabled individual is effectively transformed into an object of cultural fascinati...

The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History

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Report copyright infringementby David Wiles (Editor), Christine Dymkowski (Editor)Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how historical facts ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Miller (Author)Set in Brooklyn, this gripping mystery begins when attractive, level-headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. The only clue to her mysterious ailment lies in her obsession with news accounts from Germany.Back JacketIt's the late 1930s in New York. Phillip Gellburg is an executive and the only Jew among the WASPs at a very Establishment Wall Street bank. His wife, Sylvia, is obsessed with news of Nazi Germany. After seeing...

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Report copyright infringementby Tammy Ryan (Author)"Tammy Ryan's poignant SOLIDER'S HEART shines a light on the struggles facing woman warriors...a tense, raw, troubling and no-nonsense examination of what happens to soldiers, particularly female soldiers, serving in the military...This is not an easy play to watch. Nor is it meant to be." Alice Carter, Tribune "Portrayls of soldiers wrecked by war date to the ancient Greeks (see Aeschylus), but Ms Ryan adeptly reworks the time-tested recipe ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Tait (Author)Mightier than the Sword by Alexander Tait is a book about Scottish nationhood. It tells the dramatic story of William Wallace, the greatest warrior and martyr for Scotland s ancient liberty. It uncovers the fascinating history of the symbol which has for over 700 years represented the nation s heroic struggle for freedom. It provides a revealing record of the many chapters in the Scots relentless pursuit of self-determination, and, throug...

The Comedies Of Aristophanes, Volumes 1-2

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Report copyright infringementby Aristophanes (Created by), Thomas Mitchell (Author)This collection presents the complete comedies of Aristophanes in two volumes, translated and annotated by Thomas Mitchell. Aristophanes, the master of Old Comedy, offers a biting and hilarious commentary on Athenian society, politics, and culture during the 5th century BCE. Volume 1 includes well-known plays such as "The Acharnians," "The Knights," "The Clouds," "The Wasps," and "Peace." Volume 2 features "Lys...

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Report copyright infringementby Stacy Davidowitz (Author)Ah the joys of sleepaway camp: raids, color war, a slavish devotion to social hierarchy. For the girls of Bunk 14, camp isn't an eight week vacation; it's a dog-eat-dog microcosm of the adult world they're so desperate to inhabit. Join Ashley, Zoe, Tracy, Samantha, and Abby on a hilarious yet terrifying 90-minute thrill ride into the deep, unexpectedly dark and dangerous world of twelve-year-old girls. Everyone wants to climb the social...

The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With an introductory memoir by William B. Scott.

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Report copyright infringementby George Byron (Author), William Scott (Author) Title: The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With an introductory memoir by William B. Scott.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...

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Baillie (Author)Title: Dramas.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 collections of...

Grobianus; Or, the Compleat Booby. an Ironical Poem. in Three Books. Done Into English, from the Original Latin of Friderich Dedekindus, by Roger Bull

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Dedekind (Author), Roger Bull (Author)Title: Grobianus; or, the Compleat Booby. An ironical poem. In three books. Done into English, from the original Latin of Friderich Dedekindus, by Roger Bull.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, new...

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Report copyright infringementby Brooke Berman (Author)Amy and Isaac are the perfect couple. Amy and Emma are the perfect friends. If everyone is so perfect, why are they so unhappy? A dark comedy about love, growing up and letting go. "... Armed with her customary flair for brainy-yet-heartfelt banter and an anthropologist's eye for social mechanics ... Berman raises several rich themes - loneliness, sexless infidelity, Gen Xers versus Gen Yers, gender roles and the awful mutability of love ....

The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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Report copyright infringementby Edward de Vere (Author)This edition of the classic text is rendered in superbly readable form and properly ascribed to its true author, Edward de Vere. Having staged numerous plays at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in his youth, Edward de Verewent on to write, from the sanctum of anonymity, the plays and sonnets that have heretofore been ascribed to the Elizabethan actor and merchant, William Shakespeare. This rendering of Hamlet is presented in recognition of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sara R. Cleveland (Author), Judas Iscariot (Cover Design by)The girl with the golden hair...Siphons are rare creatures, supposedly born of the union of human and fey blood. How she got her ability doesn't much matter to Wynne; all she knows is it's a death sentence or worse if the wrong people find out about her gift. It's too bad she was never very good at minding her own business....and the bear who stole her heart.An old curse grows stronger, leaving Callum ...