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by Agatha Christie (Author)Karl Hendryk is a brilliant professor who, with his wife and her cousin, has fled persecution in his homeland and finds himself ensconced in London. The play concerns itself with the relationships the professor has with the women in his life. His wife, Anya, who is suffering from a progressively debilitating disease, her cousin and carer, Lisa, and Helen Rollander, a spoiled student who takes up private lessons with the professor. Not a murder mystery or a whodunnit...

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by Charles Vance (Author)adapted from the novel by Emily Bronte Drama / Characters: 6 male, 4 femaleScenery: Unit setA stunning version of the immortal Bronte novel set amid the bleak beauty of Haworth Moor, where the wild and passionate tale of Heathcliff, a stablehand and the beautiful Cathy Earnshaw is played out with all the vivid depth and intensity of ancient tragedy. A spellbinding love story brought vividly to life in this theatrical adaptation. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x ...

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by A. R. Gurney Jr. (Author)Three men and three women portray a wide, diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play. The action takes place in an upper middle-class American dining-room, the hub of social family life, comprising a mosaic of interrelated scenes, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes rueful, which together create a profound study of the decaying mores of the American WASP.3 women...

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by Ross Howard (Author)"In the wake of public spending cuts, Arthur wrestles with the methods set out in Montgomery Swank's '28 ways to terminate your existence and questions you may have, ' the one book he has salvaged from the closure of his beloved library. In the wake of her own death, his wife Esther reconciles the ghosts of the past with a hope for the future. A play of two worlds. This elemental and affecting two-hander explores love, its loss, and the lives we inherit and impose on ot...

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by Mark Healey (Author)John Fowles's classic story of possession, obsession and love is considered one of the great works in modern literature. Frederick Clegg appears to be an ordinary, slightly shabby clerk. Winning a fortune in the lottery he buys a remote country house, and goes about furnishing it with everything he thinks a beautiful woman could desire.1 woman, 1 man Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2010

After Miss Julie - A Version of Strindberg's Miss Julie - Paperback

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by Patrick Marber (Author)Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie is not a translation of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie but a version of it, moving the action from the original 19th-century Sweden to the England of 1945.2 women, 1 man Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2015

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by Deborah Gearing (Author)This is the story of Birdman. Fifteen years old, no family, no friends - a loner with nothing to lose. One lazy afternoon, down on the riverbank, the friends he never had narrate the story of his dramatic last day.7 women, 5 men, 1 girl Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2015

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by April De Angelis (Adapted by)This adaptation brings Emily Bront�'s passionate and spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge to life on stage. Set on the wild, windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the tempestuous story of free-spirited Catherine and dark, brooding Heathcliff. As children running wild and free on the moors, Cathy and Heathcliff are inseparable. As they grow up, their affection deepens into passionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her heart as she choose...

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by David Campton (Author)Everyone has their dream, and this is no exception for the six mice living in the loft. Their dreams are conjured up by music as each hears a different tune played by an invisible Piper and each has to answer his call until only Tattymouse, who is completely deaf, is left. A highly original and thought-provoking play.6 women or men Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 06, 2015

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by Tom Stoppard (Author)A sly, gentle dig at society's conventions and preconceptions. John Brown arrives at a country nursing home with a case of money expecting hotel-style service. He's a kind of dropout bound to puzzle a profession geared to treating the sick. He's not physically ill and apparently not mentally so. He settles into the routine and cocoon-like security. Everyone speculates as to his identity.4 women, 2 men Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date...

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by April De Angelis (Author) Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 1994

The Passing-Out Parade - A Play - Paperback

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by Anne Valery (Author)The play charts the fortunes of a group of ATS girls from their arrival as a raw, awkward, ill-assortment of individuals to their passing-out parade as a 'perfectly drilled unit of faceless soldiers', following the shifts and tensions of their personal relationships, the comedy, drama and- in one case - eventual tragedy that occur during their period of training together. The action centres on the girls' barrack room, with small insets in adjacent places.3 women or men ...

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by Harold Pinter (Author)Focusing on the brutalities of a society which forbids a minority of its population to speak in their own language, it is a play of few words which add up to an eloquent indictment of the banning of any human utterance.' Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2015

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by Rebecca Russell (Author), Jenny Wafer (Author)"Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived..." Admired, vilified, de-humanised. Three Catherines, two Annes and a Jane. Six women with one thing in common - marriage to a man called Henry - have passed into historical legend. Of course, it couldn't happen these days... Six modern women have also married one man. Their lives are both separate and intertwined as they tell their stories from a room in which they have all once lived. T...

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by Joanna McClelland Glass (Author)Jessica, a writer approaching middle-age, her mother Ruth (who is unable to read or write) and her Jewish mother-in-law, Rachel, find themselves emotionally stranded in Jessica's Connecticut beach home. Weighing the choices each have made as women, as daughters, as mothers, their recollections of guilt and regret are punctuated by wry observations on sex, history, ideas and their relationships with the men in their lives.4 women Number of Pages: 74 Dimension...

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by Eileen Atkins (Author), Vita Sackville-West (Based on a Book by)"An adventure in beauty to draw on joyously as long as heart and memory endure." - New York Magazine"Works like a magic charm." - The New York Post"A lot of intelligence and entertainment." - The New Yorker Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 01, 1995

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by Andrew Translator Smith (Author)When Sophie's teenage sister turns up at her flat one evening after an absence of four years, Sophie's suspicions are roused. Why is she there? Where has she been? And how does she know so much about Sophie's life? Then when Sophie's roommate Jen arrives home, she recognizes Alex from the previous evening -- as the person who mugged her.3 women Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2015

The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays: Internal Evidence for the Major Problems of Authorship - Paperback

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by David J. Lake (Author)'Only numbers can annihilate.' This book sets out to solve by statistics the many problems of disputed authorship that surround the work of Thomas Middleton, one of the greater Jacobean dramatists. The internal evidence used is all of an objective nature: 201 items of linguistic evidence have been checked through a corpus of 132 plays by 35 playwrights contemporary with Middleton. Extensive tables make it clear at a glance which features are comparatively rare in the ...

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by Sophocles (Author), David Franklin (Editor), David Franklin (Translator)Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Antigone is suitable for students...

The Ghosts of Hamlet: The Play and Modern Writers - Paperback

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by Martin Scofield (Author)If the aim of criticism is, in Arnold's phrase, 'to see the object as in itself it really is', what 'is' Hamlet, when every age has seen the play quite differently? Despite certain notable accounts, there is no single reading that seems to have interpreted the play for our time. This book approaches the play through its influence on the work of some writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Separate chapters show their different responses to Hamlet ei...

'Michael Field': Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle - Paperback

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by Marion Thain (Author)'Michael Field' (1884-1914) was the pseudonym of two women, the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as 'lovers'. The large oeuvre contains poems, dramas, and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic persona, which became a self-reflexive study in aestheticism. The constructed life and work of 'Michael Field' is used here to deepen and complicate our understanding of many of...

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by R. A. Foakes (Author)This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of "greatest" among his works. Recent critical theorizing has destabilized the texts and undermined the notion of "greatness" or any consideration of the plays as works of art. Foakes takes issue with such theories and reconsiders textual revisions, in order to argue for the integrity of the plays as reading texts, and to recover a flexible sense of their artistry in relation ...

Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World - Hardcover

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by Dale Cockrell (Author)Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth--all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analyzing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs such as "Jim Crow," "Zip Coon," and "Dan Tuck...

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by Raffalovitch J (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.This work is in the public dom...

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by Martin McDonagh (Author)Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best PictureWinner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022.What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more? 1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Pádraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarmin...

Report from Tokyo: A Message to the American People - Paperback

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by Joseph C. Grew (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN P...

Dramas For Children: The Little Country Visitor; Prince Henry; Village Wedding; Distrest Family And Charles The First - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.4...

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by Plautus (Author), W. M. Lindsay (Editor)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 392 Dimensions: ...

Under The Gaslight: A Totally Original And Picturesque Drama Of Life And Love In These Times, In Five Acts (1867) - Paperback

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by Augustin Daly (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Pub...

Ten 10-Minute Plays: Volume II - Paperback

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by Walter Wykes (Author), Nick Zagone (Author), Jeanette D. Farr (Author)This collection of 10-minute plays will delight readers and audiences alike. From the dark humor of Nick Zagone's "Sixty Years, to Life" to the zany absurdism of Walter Wykes' "Family 2.0" to the disturbing imagery of Laura Elizabeth Miller's "Fugue," each of these short plays expresses the unique vision of an emerging contemporary dramatist. Together, they make an exciting and diverse evening of theatre. Other plays in ...

Titanic Aftermath - A Play in Three Acts - Paperback

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by Michael B. Wehrli (Author)Based on the Senate Hearing transcripts, the British Inquiry and survivor accounts, Titanic Aftermath is told through the eyes of J. Bruce Ismay, president of the White Star Line at the time of the disaster. He is now near the end of his life in mental anguish over his role in the disaster after having spent twenty five years in seclusion. He is still unable to come to terms with his and White Star's culpability. His nights are spent in torment reliving the event ...

The House Of Fear Presents: Ghost Stories Vol.1:

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by Dan Bianchi (Author)Welcome to the House Of Fear Here you will find scripts originally created for the THEATRE OF IMAGINATION...or, LIVE AUDIO THEATRE stage productions as presented by the NYC Performance Group RADIOTHEATRE. Now, RadioTheatre offers these easy-to-read, easy-to-produce scripts to others who want to produce a unique style of Theatre presentation...as well as, unique content found in the genres of HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION and WEIRD fiction. However, these specially formatted ...