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The Odyssey: A Play
ISBN: 9780810120938 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dramatic adaptation of Homer's myth begins with a modern young woman who is struggling to understand Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey. A classical muse appears, and the young woman becomes the goddess Athena--a tireless advocate for Odysseus in his struggle to get home. With her trademark irreverent and witty twist on classic works, Zimmerman brings to life the story of Odysseus's ten-year journey, depicting his encounters with characters such as Circe, the Cyclops, Poseidon, Calypso, the Sirens, and others.
This dramatic adaptation of Homer's myth begins with a modern young woman who is struggling to understand Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Od...
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78,32 |
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The Arabian Nights: A Play
ISBN: 9780810120945 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A twelve-member cast enacts Scheherazade's tales of love, lust, comedy, and dreams. Scheherazade's cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel ruler Shahryar, from murdering her, and after 1,001 nights, Shahryar is cured of his madness, and Scheherazade returns to her family. This adaptation offers a wonderful blend of the lesser-known tales from "Arabian Nights" with the recurring theme of how the magic of storytelling holds the power to change people. The final scene brings the audience back to a modern day Baghdad with the wail of air raid sirens threatening the rich culture and...
A twelve-member cast enacts Scheherazade's tales of love, lust, comedy, and dreams. Scheherazade's cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel ...
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63,62 |
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The Kleist Variations: Three Plays
ISBN: 9780810121157 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia Prize
Winner of 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award In this collection, Eric Bentley presents "Concord," a comedy adapted from Kleist's "The Broken Jug;" "The Fall of the Amazons, " a tragedy written in response to Kleist's "Penthesilea;" and "Wannsee, "a tragic-comedy which is Bentley's rendering of Kleist's "Cathy of Heilbronn." Bentley sets "Concord" in a courthouse during the early days of the Republic. Convened to discover who broke an irreplaceable jug symbolic of the chivalric age of... Winner of 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics Thalia Prize
Winner of 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award ... |
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Purple Heart and the Infidel: Two Plays
ISBN: 9780810122147 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Purple Heart, " Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother. One day a stranger arrives at the door, a soldier with one hand who is seemingly connected to her late husband and comes to offer condolences to the grieving family. The soldier's mysterious visit is solved in graphic and bloody detail at the end of the play. Norris uses these quirky and flawed characters to provide a humorous yet very dark view of war and the human condition.
Loosely based on a true story, "The Infidel" tells of a charismatic and... In "Purple Heart, " Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother. One day a stran...
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Man from Nebraska: A Play
ISBN: 9780810123472 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life of middle-aged insurance salesman Ken Carpenter. Then one night, he awakens to find that he no longer believes in God. To the surprise of his very understanding (to a point) wife and his two grown daughters who think he has lost his mind, Ken decides to find himself and his faith by flying to London, where he was stationed while in the Air Force. He navigates through the new and somewhat dangerous realm of British counter-culture and ultimately...
A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life o...
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63,62 |
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Bug: A Play
ISBN: 9780810123489 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-husband. Her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces her to Peter, a handsome drifter who might be an AWOL Gulf War veteran. They soon begin a relationship that takes place almost entirely within the increasingly claustrophobic confines of her motel room. Peter begins to rant about the war in Iraq, UFOs, the Oklahoma City bombings, cult suicides, and then secret government experiment on soldiers, of which he believes he is a victim. His delusions...
This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-h...
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63,62 |
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Best Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting
ISBN: 9780810123908 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the relatively recent development of a tradition of African American playwriting, the Theodore Ward Prize has, over its twenty-year history, offered a rich reflection of the accomplishments of emerging and established black playwrights and their growing importance in shaping contemporary theater. This volume showcases three winners of the Theodore Ward Prize--plays that in their quality and subject matter aptly represent what is being written and produced by African American playwrights and theaters today. Carefully selected by a director and educator who has been affiliated with...
Within the relatively recent development of a tradition of African American playwriting, the Theodore Ward Prize has, over its twenty-year history, of...
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97,90 |
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In the Winter of Cities: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811202220 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,32 |
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
ISBN: 9780811202251 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only one of these plays The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable traveling salesman (The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) or of delinquent children (This Property is Condemned), his insight into human nature is that of the poet. He can compress the basic meaning of life its pathos or its tragedy, its bravery or the quality of its love into one...
Only one of these plays The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. W...
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65,32 |
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume I: Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie
ISBN: 9780811204170 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes original cast listings and production notes, in addition to the texts themselves.
This book brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chro...
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134,87 |
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Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol 2
ISBN: 9780811204187 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramat...
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181,11 |
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Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol 3
ISBN: 9780811204194 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramat...
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173,41 |
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume V: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth, Small Craft Warnings, The Two-Character Play
ISBN: 9780811205931 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production.
Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production.
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173,22 |
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Just Wild about Harry: A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes
ISBN: 9780811207249 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Admittedly inspired by lonesco and the Theatre of the Absurd, Miller's tragicomic slapstick is nevertheless as American as the Marx Brothers and the blues--the simple story of a heartless Harry (the one the ladies are wild about) who learns a bittersweet lesson about life, death, and love.
Admittedly inspired by lonesco and the Theatre of the Absurd, Miller's tragicomic slapstick is nevertheless as American as the Marx Brothers and the b...
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61,47 |
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The Two-Character Play
ISBN: 9780811207294 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the course of its evolution, several earlier versions ofThe Two-Character Play have been produced. The first of them was presented in 1967 in London and Chicago and brought out in 1969 by New Directions in a signed limited edition. The next, staged in 1973 in New York under the title Out Cry, was published by New Directions in 1973 The third version (New York, 1975), again titled The Two-Character Play, is the one Tennessee Williams wished to include in New Directions' The Theatre of Tennessee Williams series. It is this version which is presented in...
In the course of its evolution, several earlier versions ofThe Two-Character Play have been produced. The first of them was presented in 1967...
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50,28 |
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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Play
ISBN: 9780811207577 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams s most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony. Williams s unerring dialogue reveals each of the four characters ofA Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeurwith precision and clarity: Dorothea, who does even her "setting-up exercises" with...
It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tenn...
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, the Rose Tattoo, Camino Real
ISBN: 9780811211369 / Angielski / Miękka / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,98 |
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume V: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth, Small Craft Warnings, The Two-Character Play
ISBN: 9780811211376 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramat...
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107,71 |
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The Notebook of Trigorin
ISBN: 9780811213622 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tennessee Williams' journey from first reading Chekhov's The Sea Gull to his adaptation of that play as The Notebook of Trigorin mirrored his own creative life. Early on, Williams thought of directing The Sea Gull, and, over the years, often returned to the play, his empathy gradually shifting from Constantine, the youthful experimenter, to Trigorin, the world-weary writer. Williams, in his pursuit of success, had also made compromises. Near the end of his life, Williams realized his dream to interpret The Sea Gull when the University of British Columbia sponsored a production at the...
Tennessee Williams' journey from first reading Chekhov's The Sea Gull to his adaptation of that play as The Notebook of Trigorin mirrored his own crea...
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60,34 |
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Not about Nightingales
ISBN: 9780811213806 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,61 |
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