Drama

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by James Serpento (Author), Louise Bylicki (Author)A full-length, two act drama that explores the complexity of the Reproductive Rights issue as it impacts an American family. When Drew, a twentysomething teacher on the cusp of professional advancement, discovers she is pregnant, she struggles not only with her own decision on whether or not to bear the child, but also with her family's viewpoints and history - which includes her older sister's death from an attempted self-induced abortion. T...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), James Anthony (Author)HAMLET: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare's 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it's easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard's lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, each befuddling reference. Never get stuck on Shakespeare's lang...

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by Dave Vaughan (Author)This gripping thriller follows the story of Amber Stone, who narrowly survives a brutal attack outside her workplace. As Amber works alongside a rookie detective to piece together the circumstances of the assault, they soon find themselves entangled in a web of unexpected surprises that will leave the reader guessing until the very end. From shocking revelations about her past to unforeseen twists and turns in her relationships, Amber must navigate a series of dangerou...

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by Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)A stunning collection of plays from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that captures the societal rupture of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and the worldwent into lock-down, Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write aplay every day. What emerged is a breathtaking chronicle of our collectiveexperience through-out the troubling days and nights that followed. Parks'sgroundbreaking n...

Closing the Circle: A Journey of Love - Paperback

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by Judy Giudice Tull (Author)My grandparents had come to America from hard times of starvation and despair. Because of widespread poverty, thousands of Italians and Sicilians were emigrating from their homeland in the early 1900s. Certainly, things must have been dark in Sicily in 1910 when my grandfather was only seventeen. How did he determine at such a young age that he had to make it to America "on the boat" and alone? That is just one of the questions I wanted answered. Even with a sense...

The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Tom Stoppard (Author)"Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language."--NewsweekCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright's career, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, and essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. Author BiographyTom Stoppard is ...

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by Elizabeth Freestone (Author), Jeanie O'Hare (Author), Annalisa Dias And Tara Moses (Foreword by)This book is a guide to one hundred plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire--to start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions. Above all, it is a call to arms--to step up, think big, and unleash theatre's power to imagine a better...

Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species - Paperback

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by Maureen N. McLane (Author)This innovative study examines the dialogue between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, engaging with major discourses on moral philosophy, political economy and anthropology by preeminent theorists such as Malthus, Godwin and Burke. The book provides original readings of canonical works, including Wordsworth's Lyrical Balla...

Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade - Paperback

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by Zachary Lesser (Author)Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication re-imagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers. Since success in the book trade required specialization, locating a play within its publisher's output allo...

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by The Heather Brothers (Author)Womaniser Mike Mason, star of TV's 'Bargain Basement' and his wife Liz were involved in a hit and run accident in which a young teenage girl Carol Mitchell was killed. They believed they have got away with it until seven years later they receive a call from someone claiming to be the dead girl.4 women, 1 man Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 05, 2010

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)England's comic master is in a black comic mode in this West End hit about our fascination with technology. It is sometime quite soon in a steel shuttered, slovenly flat in a no go area of North London where punks rule deserted streets. Here, a lonely composer sits surrounded by high tech equipment. His only company is a robot nanny, and she's on the blink. He desperately wants to reclaim his teenage daughter and enlists an out of work actress to implement a cunning ...

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)Features ten plays, which have been selected from the BT National Connections scheme, in which some contemporary playwrights in the UK and Europe were commissioned by the Royal National Theatre to produce original drama specifically for young people. The scripts are specifically written for 11-16+. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2000

Four Commedia Dell'Arte Plays with Stage Direction - Paperback

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by Irene Mawer (Author)Commedia Dell'Arte was created in Italy during the Renaissance and can be said to have been the reinvention of theatrical performance in Europe. With this fascinating collection of plays you too can put on these classic pieces. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 06, 2012

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by Neil Labute (Author)What if God told you to be a better person but the world wouldn't allow it? Such is the dilemma facing Joe Smith, a run-of-the-mill white-collar businessman who survives an office shooting and is subsequently touched by what he believes to be a divine vision. His journey toward personal enlightenment--past greed and lust and the other deadly sins--is, by turns, tense, hilarious, profane, and heartbreaking. Exploring the narrow path to spiritual fulfillment and how strew...

Beaumarchais: Mariage de Figaro - Paperback

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by Pierre Augustin Caron Beaumarchais (Author), Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais (Author), Arnould (Editor)One of the greatest comedies in French theatre history, Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro is a dynamic text of humour and social satire which still works well on stage today, and was the inspiration for Mozart's opera.Although ostensibly set in Spain, the play satirises certain abuses and attitudes prevalent in France during the turbulent years just before the French Revolution.The...

Antigone Uninterrupted: Antigone's Biographical Tale of Learning from Tragic Counsel - Hardcover

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by Wendy Bustamante (Author)This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer. We can simply listen to her whole story and learn from what she learns from her father, Oedipus. While other works boldly claim to be progressively moving beyond the scope of tragic themes of mortali...

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by Lindsey Ferrentino (Author)When their eighty-five-year-old father dies, sparring siblings Maggie and Jake must face a question: How to break the bad news to their brother Andy, who has Down syndrome and has lived in a state home for years? Along the way, the pair find out just how much they don't know about their family and each other. It seems only Andy knows who he really is. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 08, 2019

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by Claire Van Kampen (Author)Depressed and plagued by insomnia, King Philippe V of Spain lies awake in his chamber. The queen, desperate to find a cure, hears of Farinelli - a castrato with a voice so divine it has the power to captivate all who hear it. Even Philippe is astonished when Farinelli sings, and he begs him to stay. But will Farinelli, one of the greatest celebrities of his time, choose a life of solitude over fame and fortune in the opera houses of Europe? And will his extraordin...

Stages of Theater: The Dramatic Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann, 1951-2006 - Paperback

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by James R. Russo (Editor)Stages of Theater: The Dramatic Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann, 1951-2006 is a collection of 100 pieces of dramatic criticism by the late Stanley Kauffmann (1916-2013). Kauffmann's creative life spanned seven decades: starting in 1951 and continuing until 2013, he was a drama (and film) critic for the New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. He was also an actor, stage manager, playwright, novelist, professor, and editor. Along with John Simon, Robert B...

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by Woody Allen (Author)Each play is an absurdist take on marital infidelity, one instance set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the other in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Fred Savage, a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter, has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea - in fact, his life - to create a successful movie plot. In an orthodontist is hosting her sister and golf-mad brother-in-law, a plastic surgeon, at her grand suburban...

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by Wolf Mankowitz (Author)Set in Ireland in 1921, this is the deceptively simple story of a young revolutionary who seeks shelter from an elderly refugee. Separated by their very different backgrounds they are united in their fear of the outside world. In a moment of crisis a decision has to be made: to defend a principle through violent or pacific means? Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.04 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2018

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by Steve Mackes (Author), Michael Whaley (Author), James Laver (Based on a Book by)This famous 'lost' musical, a hit in London in the thirties and later a triumph for Gertrude Lawrence and Elizabeth Welch, was recently restaged to bravos in London. Its whimsical story follows innocent Evangeline Edwards as she bids farewell to a Swiss finishing school and sets off across Europe and looking for love and adventure. She gets into one scrape after another and is rescued by a series of unsuitable ...

Last Ship to Proxima Centauri - Paperback

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by Greg Lam (Author) "Mr Spock likely would have raised an eyebrow and proclaimed th[is] play 'fascinating.' LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI zips issues of immigration, race, gender, ethnicity, genetics, demographics, history, politics and economics, to name just a few, into space suits for a dark comedy set in a not-so-appealing future. There's definitely a lot to think about in this highly imaginative and sometimes quite biting work. The titular ship is one of several launched on a mission to...

Make Theatre Happen II: Theatre Curriculum - Paperback

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by Palmore (Author)A must have book for the High Schol Theatre Teacher. Course descriptions, samples, syllabuses. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 27, 2023

Ponies & Rainbows (hardback): The Life of James Kirkwood - Hardcover

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by Sean Egan (Author)James Kirkwood is the forgotten man of American letters In 1975, he had two shows playing on Broadway, while his latest novel Some Kind of Hero saw reviewers comparing him to Saul Bellow and Joseph Heller. One of those shows - A Chorus Line - won him a Pulitzer Prize for his co-writing contribution and went on to become the biggest stage phenomenon in history. Yet today his work is largely out of print and his name rarely mentioned. Kirkwood led a life that was as grippin...

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by Voltaire (Author)R_x0001_dipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time in 1718 and ran for forty-five nights. Du Frêsne a celebrated actor and of the same age as the author played the part of R_x0001_dipus; and Madame Desmarêts a famous actress did Jocaste and soon after quitted the stage. In this edition the part of Philoctetes is restored and stands exactly as it was in the first representation. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x ...

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by Clarence Carter (Author)Mishka is a young girl whose father is a powerful Russian mafia boss. After her mother's death, which is rumored to be at the hands of her father, Mishka escapes to America and pursues her dream of modeling. However, her dream is soon stolen when she's kidnapped by a crazed truck driver. In the midst of her turmoil, Mishka must find the courage to keep moving forward and to not let her past define her. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Dat...

Death by Design: A Comedy with Songs and Murder - Paperback

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by Rob Urbinati (Author)Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly - a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer - each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it's left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 ...

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by Qui Nguyen (Author)"Remember the excitement of each new production from the Ridiculous Theatrical Company? The company would offer a riff on a classic, shot through with enough satire to stand on its own. Vampire Cowboys Theater Company is channeling that energy in LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK, the hilarious and witty new play by Qui Nguyen. Nguyen, like Charles Ludlam before him, knows his Shakespeare. Using HAMLET as a jumping-off point, Nguyen throws in martial arts, horror movies, pop songs,...

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by Voltaire (Author)In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy they very well know is not a history but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that Cicero Catiline Cato and C sar do in this piece is not true but their genius and character are faithfully represented: if we do not there discover the eloquence of Cicero we shall at least find displayed all that courage and virtu...

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by Roger Howard (Author)Features the plays White Sea, A Break in Berlin and Partisans. These plays are set in the cruelest decades of 20th century Europe. Their characters suffer extreme conditions which are at the same time their 'normal' everyday lives. They survive, or succumb, with more or less honour, as history - in the forms of revolution, war and cold war - plays out its own dramas around and through them. Using a range of dramatic forms in over eighty plays, Roger Howard has develope...

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by Louise Rozett (Author)BREAK is about the unexpected effects of the Ground Zero recovery effort on New York City's firemen and policemen, and their families. In December of 2001, F D N Y Captain Jon Emmett and N Y P D Officer Marco Gennaro are both assigned to Ground Zero. Emmett is struggling with the loss of hundreds of friends and the disintegration of his family while Gennaro is fighting to keep his marriage together though being around his wife and child is a constant reminder of what ...