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The Septosphere: (Rise of the Shadows) - Paperback

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by J. K. P. Antoine (Author)The forces of darkness gather in an attempt to distract the young adventurers from their ultimate goal of seeking "The One" who can save them. This suspense-filled chronicle which transforms the characters' lives may lead you on your own life-changing quest. Raised in McHenry, Illinois, J.K.P. Antoine's last name derives from the maiden name of his late grandmother. Jeremy persevered in his quest to become a black belt in Shotokan Karate. His main interests includ...

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by Crystal Spagnuolo (Author)A story of a young girl, given all of the love and admiration from her parents, always looking for the missing puzzle piece in her life, she continues to battle those who prevent her from living her true life, under her own rules until the very day her life turns upside down. She is forced to move to a new city, start a new high school and one day while grabbing groceries for her beloved grandmother, she meets a woman who captures her heart and changes her life. F...

John Barrymore: The Life and Legacy of Early 20th Century America's Most Famous Actor - Paperback

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by Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John BarrymoreMovie stars are revered for their ability to captivate audiences, and Hollywood began to flourish before the onset of television, allowing movies to enjoy relatively uncontested supremacy over American entertainment. The popularity of various actors would thus extend well beyond the success of any of their individual films, reflectin...

Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content) - Hardcover

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by I. Wayan Dibia (Author), Rucina Ballinger (Author), Barbara Anello (Illustrator)Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of traditional performing arts in Bali--among the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical performances found anywhere. Ideal reading for visitors to the island, as well as anyone interested in Balinese culture, this book presents the history and form of e...

Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays - Paperback

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by Eric Lane (Editor), Nina Shengold (Editor)This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter. From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully loopy "Wanda's Visit" to Shel Silverstein's supremely twisted "The Best Daddy," there's someth...

The Theory and Analysis of Drama - Paperback

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by Manfred Pfister (Author), John Halliday (Translator)Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The materical on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods of drama, from Greek tragedy and comedy to the contemporary theatre, with the plays of Shakespeare providing a special focus. His approach is not historical but systematic, combining more abstract categoris...

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by Merlin Holland (Author)Set in the decadent world of Victorian London, a beautiful young man called Dorian Gray becomes infatuated by the exquisite portrait that Basil Hallward has painted of him. He makes a Faustian pact that the picture will grow old while he remains forever young. Oscar Wilde's only novel caused an immediate scandal when it was first published in 1890 and its themes of youth and decay, innocence and corruption, art and reality are even more relevant to us in the 21st cen...

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by John Osborne (Author)Archie Rice is a failure as a comedian. News of his son's death while on military service arrives as the family is anticipating his return with a party. Archie tries to stage a comeback for his befuddled, has-been father who, mercifully, dies in the attempt. A prosperous brother offers to send the family to Canada but Archie cannot leave the decaying world of the music hall, where he is at home.-3 women, 5 men Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Public...

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by Ian Hislop (Author)Following critical acclaim for The Wipers Times, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman have once again taken inspiration from real life events for their new play Trial by Laughter.William Hone, the forgotten hero of free speech, was a bookseller, publisher and satirist. In 1817, he stood trial for 'impious blasphemy and seditious libel'. The only crime he had committed was to be funny. Worse than that he was funny by parodying religious texts. And worst of all, he was funny about t...

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by Buddy Thomas (Author)Note: Wonderland Wives is intended for mature audiences with very immature tastes. Cinderella's Prince Charming is serving ten years in the pen, Belle's house is overrun with little monsters, Alice has been hitting the caterpillar's pipe a little too hard lately, and Snow White's husband has shacked up with the three little pigs. Now she's keeping up appearances as the fairest in the land with the help of a little girdle and a lot of ha Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: ...

The Secret Garden - Spring Version - Paperback

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by Marsh Norman (Author), Lucy Simon (Author)The long-awaited new 70-minute version of the beloved musical is as beautiful and spirited as the original in just half the time. Adapted by Marsha Norman from her Tony award winning book, it tells the story of Mary Lennox, orphaned in India, who returns to Yorkshire to live with an embittered, reclusive uncle and his invalid son. On the estate, she discovers a locked garden filled with magic, a boy who talks to birds, and a cousin she brings back ...

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by Scott Hunter (Author)Comedy, High School / Characters: 12m, 16f, 20+ non-gender / The story of Voltaire's Candide, as adapted in 2 hilarious hours by a quirky amateur theatre group. Candide, the unlucky innocent, is lead through a series of outlandish, side-splitting misadventures that span nine countries, in order to be reunited with his childhood love. Along his journey he encounters shipwrecks and pirates, war, passion, riches beyond the comprehension of mortal man, death by fire, hangi...

The Angelic Mysteries of the Nine Heavens: A Drama of Interior Initiation - Hardcover

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by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (Author)The Angelic Mysteries Of The Nine Heavens: A Drama Of Interior Initiation is a book written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. The book is a spiritual drama that explores the mysteries of the nine heavens and the journey of interior initiation. The story revolves around the protagonist who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. The book takes the reader through a series of mystical experiences and encounters with angelic beings that guide the...

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor)Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled ...

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by Aeschylus Aeschylus (Author)Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have su...

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by Nirjhar Sarkar (Author)'Theatre as Alter/"Native" in Derek Walcott' attempts a close and detailed politico-aesthetic analysis of his major plays. At the core of this book lies the attempt to answer the question of how postcolonial artists and intellectuals have dared to imagine radically different ways of living in the face of oppositional, binary choices. And as the title suggests, Walcott's plays carve out critical spaces for new narratives of "becoming" and alternative priorities, entan...

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by Joanna Murray-Smith (Author)'I'm ignited by three small words. I will not.' It's 9 October, 2012. She's been PM for two years and four months and she's worn down. She's been hounded, slurred, dissected, libelled. She's been violated over and over again by words. Julia Gillard's prime ministership was marred by the Australian media monopoly's inability to step over one thing: that she was a woman. A woman who, as a young aspiring lawyer, was told, 'When you are on your way up, don't forget ...

The Future Is Black Afrofuturism - Paperback

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by Isaac King (Author)THE FUTURE IS BLACK AFROFUTURISM: An Examination of Afrofuturism and the African-American ExperienceAfrofuturism is a cultural style that explores the African-American experience by fusing science fiction, history, and fantasy. It also aims to reunite the Black diaspora with their long-forgotten African ancestors. In "The Future is Black Afrofuturism," Isaac King delves into this fascinating world, highlighting its deep connections to ancestry and modern creativity.This ...

Art of a Deal with the Devil - Hardcover

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by Percy Twenty-Five Brown (Author), Ruby Brown (Author)Spouses are discussing the husband's study of Anthropology. The studies included "Religion, Magic and Witchcraft." The husband describes similarities between stories about incidents involving interactions with dark spirits in the past and today. Number of Pages: 22 Dimensions: 0.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 17, 2024

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by Anthony Booth (Author)Quake is a play for five women. Five wives of men working on a dam in South America, returning from a shopping expedition are isolated by an earthquake. The driver of their vehicle is killed. They find shelter, but their chances of being rescued are uncertain. A further quake shocks them. Under this strain the differences in their characters and interrelationships are brought into sharp belief. In particular tension rises between the strong-willed Marcia and the boss'...

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by Lachlan Philpott (Author)Tamara and Jasyn are in love. Jasyn lives with Aunty and his brother Dane is in prison for dealing. Jasyn wants to take Tamara to the formal, but he hasn't got the cash. In a world of absent mothers and missing fathers, Mrs Petchall battles to keep another year of students out of the ranks of the vanished. The Outsiders is on the syllabus again, but instead of Socs and Greasers, this is the world of Speds and Skanks'fuelled by Red Bull and powered by iPods. It can ...

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by David W. Rintels (Author), Irving Stone (Author)Here is the famous attorney reminiscing over his long and renowned career, touching on many of his famous trials, including the "Monkey" trial and the sensational Leopold-Loeb case. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

Lorca's Experimental Theater: Breaking the Guardrails of Convention - Hardcover

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by Andrew A. Anderson (Author), Anne J. Cruz (Editor)Critical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico Garc?a Lorca, Spain's foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author's more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca's Experimental Theater, Andrew A. Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging plays--Amor de don Perlimpl?n con Belisa en su jard?n, El p?blico, As? que pasen cinco a?os, and El sue?o de la vida (previously known as Come...

A Very Jewish Christmas Carol - Paperback

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by Elise Esther Hearst Kavanagh (Author), Phillip Kavanagh (Joint Author)Local baker Ely is not letting anything get in the way of fulfilling customer demand for her Bubi's famous Polish gingerbread. Not her family's impending Chrismukkah celebrations; not the imminent birth of her child; and certainly not the ghosts who've suddenly shown up in her kitchen. But the Rein-Dybbuck of Chrismukkah Past, Gingerbread Golem and Lilith Claus have other ideas... Drawn from the writers' own backgrounds,...

Putting on Panto to Pay for the Pinter - Paperback

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by Chris Abbott (Author), Stephanie Cole (Foreword by)Fully illustrated history of the pantomimes written by Henry Marshall and performed at Salisbury Playhouse (Wiltshire, England) between 1955 and 1985, including the full text of Marshall's gagbook, and reminiscences by many of the performers who went on to become famous nationally and internationally. Number of Pages: 326 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 26, 2012

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by Finegan Kruckemeyer (Author)The icebergs are melting. The animals are dying. The planet is buckling under the weight of our neglect, our greed. We dream of a sustainable future but could we dream ourselves into one?In Hibernation, one simple idea is turned into a global movement: what if we could somehow turn back the clock? What if everyone on earth went to sleep for a year and let nature take back control? This startling premise sets the stage for Finegan Kruckemeyer's bold and brilliant...

The Arden Introduction to Reading Shakespeare: Close Reading and Analysis - Paperback

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by Jeremy Lopez (Author)Shakespeare's plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meanings of and relationships between their words, is to gain a deep and lasting appreciation for the complex artistry of their construction and of their effects. In fourteen chapters, the book takes readers on a guided tour through some of the most productive sites in Shakespeare's plays for analysis, providing an introduction ...

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by Ekta Roopchand (Author) Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2024

Thomas Middleton - Hengist, King of Kent: or, The Mayor of Quinborough - Paperback

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by Thomas Middleton (Author)Thomas Middleton was born in London in April 1580 and baptised on 18th April. Middleton was aged only five when his father died. His mother remarried but this unfortunately fell apart into a fifteen year legal dispute regarding the inheritance due Thomas and his younger sister. By the time he left Oxford, at the turn of the Century, Middleton had and published Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satirese which was denounced by the Archbishop of Canterbury and publicly burne...

Hope Restored: Book 3 of the New Hope Protectorate Saga - Paperback

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by Sue Herbine (Author)While Jason and Calvin enjoy a trail ride, they encounter a face from their past! What part will this ghost from the past play in the future adventures as they search for Martin Fielding's stashes and the nuclear fuel rods? The adventures start after the weddings, and the excitement never stops till the final resolution. Read to watch Jason and Richanda start their life together. Find out how Calvin matures into a young man with plans. See how the influence of the New H...

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by Jeffrey K. Worth (Author)The Hungry Horse follows three brothers in a 1950s Montana town who cheat workers out of a $4 billion gold discovery. Thirty years later, a moral decision changes everything, turning workers into millionaires overnight. This tale of greed, redemption, and chaos explores the impact of sudden wealth. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 30, 2024

Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective - Paperback

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by Christy Stanlake (Author)The recent rise in publications and professional productions of Native American plays moves Native theatre from specific, cultural communities into larger, more generalized audiences, who quickly discover that Native plays are uniquely different from mainstream drama. This is because Native theatre is its own field of drama, one that enacts Native intellectual traditions existing independently from western drama yet capable of extending mainstream theatrical theori...