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Fractured Fairy Tales for Student Actors: A Collection of Contemporary Fairy Tale Scenes
ISBN: 9781566081924 / Angielski / Miękka / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) These royalty-free scenes are laugh-out-loud funny and clever, to boot Based on familiar nursery rhyme characters, Ewen put a comedic spin on their situations. For instance, ESPN newscasters are interviewing Jack out at the track where he does his training for candlestick jumping. The 20 scenes are evenly split between five-minute scenes for 2 to 3 characters and ten-minute scenes for 5 to 20 characters. Most of the characters may be played by either gender, and several scenes can be expanded to accommodate an entire classroom. Unlike most scene books, the table of contents even indicates...
These royalty-free scenes are laugh-out-loud funny and clever, to boot Based on familiar nursery rhyme characters, Ewen put a comedic spin on their s...
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77,09 zł |
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Plays And Poems
ISBN: 9781432531867 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book, "Plays And Poems", by Ben Jonson, is a replication of a book originally published before 1902. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.
This book, "Plays And Poems", by Ben Jonson, is a replication of a book originally published before 1902. It has been restored by human beings, page ...
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153,68 zł |
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Siting the Other: Re-Visions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama
ISBN: 9789052019345 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The emergence of contemporary Australian and English-Canadian multicultural drama undoubtedly constitutes a fascinating development in the history of international literatures written in English. These postcolonial plays offer ideal vantage points from which to observe the struggle of two comparable Commonwealth countries to accommodate the pluralism of their social fabric. As the prominent theatre scholars of this collection cogently argue, the articulation of otherness forms a central concern in the drama of these two countries. The postcolonial playwrights studied in this book interpret...
The emergence of contemporary Australian and English-Canadian multicultural drama undoubtedly constitutes a fascinating development in the history of ...
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435,39 zł |
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Social Darwinism
ISBN: 9780573700637 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Winner! 2006 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Student Playwriting Award Winner! 2006 Paula Vogel Award Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival From the author: "To anyone who has ever gotten a beat down for looking like a woman, being a woman, looking like a queer, being a queer, not being manly enough, being too manly, or having the audacity to be any race other than Caucasian, here's the last laugh!" Social Darwinism is a socio-political absurdist comedy that follows a familial group: an Alpha Male, Alpha Female, Second Banana (Subordinate Male),...
Winner! 2006 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Student Playwriting Award Winner! 2006 Paula Vogel Award Kennedy Center America...
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68,50 zł |
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Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781593932602 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) I found Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts fascinating, touching, and revealing of Orson and Roger. It certainly is the Orson I knew in all his complexity and brilliance. -PETER BOGDANOVICH, American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and author I read A Friendship in Three Acts with absolute delight. At last I have got what I have been looking for in vain till now: the sound of Welles's private voice, the warmth, easiness, modesty, fantasy of which so many have spoken but which none have been able to reproduce... -SIMON CALLOW, English actor,...
I found Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts fascinating, touching, and revealing of Orson and Roger. It certainly is the Orson I k...
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139,48 zł |
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Running with the Big Dog: True Stories from the Road with America's Bus Company
ISBN: 9780615816890 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The things people do and say will surprise, shock and disgust you. Driving the highways of America can be very entertaining. Experience the joy, the tragedy and the oddities of life on the road with this reality show in a book.
The things people do and say will surprise, shock and disgust you. Driving the highways of America can be very entertaining. Experience the joy, the t...
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45,05 zł |
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John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play
ISBN: 9780195371048 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time but have long been unavailable or extremely hard to find. In this unique collection, Steven C.Tracy has joined Bradford's seminal works in a new critical edition to help contextualize both the novel and play, making these vital texts widely available again for scholars of folklore and African American literature. This new volume includes an expansive introduction that explores Bradford's life and work, critical responses...
Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential...
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193,70 zł |
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Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience
ISBN: 9780230619661 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new world opportunity? What does it mean to be a Jew - or to be an American, for that matter?
Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with ...
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192,30 zł |
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Maria Irene Fornes: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
ISBN: 9780415454353 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Offers an introduction to Maria Irene Fornes, a pivotal figure in both Hispanic-American and experimental theater. From her theatrical origins in 1960s Cuba to her precedent plays for the US stage, this book presents an important guide of work of this politically-charged playwright.
Offers an introduction to Maria Irene Fornes, a pivotal figure in both Hispanic-American and experimental theater. From her theatrical origins in 1960...
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187,39 zł |
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American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance
ISBN: 9781137286703 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry.
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you wit...
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211,53 zł |
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This Is Her Century: A Study of Margaret Walkerâ (Tm)S Work
ISBN: 9781443848084 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is a study of the works of Margaret Walker (1915-1998) in chronological order, in the social and intellectual context of twentieth-century America. Walker is a writer who is known by name for her works; however, very little criticism is written on her literary contributions. This is the first monograph on Walker's work by a single author and is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker's representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity. This book shows that Walker is a woman writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon for...
This book is a study of the works of Margaret Walker (1915-1998) in chronological order, in the social and intellectual context of twentieth-century A...
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208,23 zł |
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We Bombed in New London: The Inside Story of the Broadway Musical Late Nite Comic (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781593937089 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the HARDBACK version. WE BOMBED IN NEW LONDON tells the true story of one man's tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic inception to its eventual demise and then the score's resurrection in cabarets and recordings, this book takes you on a journey through the ups and downs of the theatrical world with all its excitement, disappointment, laughter and hope. Packed with memorabilia, including rare photos and interviews, this book documents composer/lyricist Brian Gari's minute by minute development of his musical. Fortunately, he saved every scrap of paper, tape...
This is the HARDBACK version. WE BOMBED IN NEW LONDON tells the true story of one man's tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic...
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144,05 zł |
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Texas Tragedy: The Story of Priscilla Davis: A True Story of Money, Murder and Survival
ISBN: 9781532929540 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The criminal prosecutions of Cullen Davis was explored on CBS' 48 HOURS on May 13, 2017. This book touches on the crimes, but tells more of what happened to Priscilla in the following years. In August of 1976, one of the most notorious murder scenes played out in Ft. Worth, Texas. Cullen Davis was one of the richest men in Texas and his second wife, Priscilla Davis, with whom he was divorcing, was shot in their mansion. Also shot and murdered were her twelve-year-old daughter and her thirty-year-old boyfriend, Stan Farr. Priscilla and two other people said it was Cullen. The culprit was...
The criminal prosecutions of Cullen Davis was explored on CBS' 48 HOURS on May 13, 2017. This book touches on the crimes, but tells more of what happe...
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63,13 zł |
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Hamilton: The Revolution
ISBN: 9781455539741 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation. HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION gives readers an... Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical H... |
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214,73 zł |
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How the World Began
ISBN: 9780573700583 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A provocative, intelligent, and deeply felt play from the author of "Crooked" and "The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock," Catherine Trieschmann, that earned critical acclaim Off-Broadway at The Women's Project. A Manhattan woman travels to a rural town in Kansas recently devastated by a tornado to take a teaching job in a makeshift high school. But when she makes an off-handed remark regarding the origins of life, she unleashes community outrage and the particular distress of a disturbed young boy. In an intimate and artful inquiry of her character's very souls, Trieschmann invites audiences to...
A provocative, intelligent, and deeply felt play from the author of "Crooked" and "The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock," Catherine Trieschmann, that earned...
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68,50 zł |
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They Watch Me as They Watch This: Gertrude Stein's Metadrama
ISBN: 9780812230574 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Gertrude Stein wrote almost one hundred plays, many of which were published and performed during her lifetime. In "They Watch Me as They Watch This," the first full-length study of Stein's plays, Jane Palatini Bowers focuses on the author's contributions to the genre and offers individual and clarifying readings of these often difficult texts. In writing about Stein's plays, Bowers employs both semiotic and structuralist concepts but avoids the excessively abstract language and "scientific" approach often... Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Gertrude Stein wrote almost one hundred plays, many of which were publish... |
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364,49 zł |
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Best Contemporary Monologues for Men 18-35
ISBN: 9781480369610 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Acting Series). Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have a compelling present-tense action for actors to perform. A few are story monologues and they're great stories. Actors will find pieces by star playwrights such as Don Nigro, Itamar Moses, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Terence McNally; by exciting up-and-comers such as Nicole Pandolfo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Crystal Skillman,...
(Applause Acting Series). Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages o...
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72,96 zł |
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Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35
ISBN: 9781480369627 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Acting Series). Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have a compelling present-tense action for actors to perform. A few are story monologues and they're great stories. Actors will find pieces by star playwrights such as Don Nigro, Itamar Moses, Adam Bock, and Jane Martin; by exciting up-and-comers such as Nicole Pandolfo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Crystal Skillman, Greg...
(Applause Acting Series). Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages...
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72,96 zł |
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25 10-Minute Plays for Teens
ISBN: 9781480387768 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Acting Series). In 25 10-Minute Plays for Teens, young thespians in high school and middle school will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights, such as Don Nigro, Wendy MacLeod, Jeff Goode, Bekah Brunstetter, and Constance Congdon; and equally terrific plays by such exciting up-and-comers as Chad Beckim, C. S. Hanson, Merridith Allen, Sharyn Rothstein, and Kayla Cagan. The characters are teens, and the subject matter will be of interest to aspiring young actors, making it easy for them to connect with the characters and situations. Ideal for theater students,...
(Applause Acting Series). In 25 10-Minute Plays for Teens, young thespians in high school and middle school will find terrific plays by some of our mo...
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72,96 zł |
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Enacting Nationhood: Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99
ISBN: 9781443858298 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is a collection of new essays opening introspective space for further exploration into constructions of "We the People..." during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It does so by interrogating intersections of pro-enslavement and anti-enslavement expressions of cultural nationalism, investigating assorted expressions of partisanship within dramatic literature and live performance (broadly defined), and by probing effects of armed conflict on notions of "nation," "theatre," "performance," and other markers of communal identity. Enacting Nationhood is distinctive in that the essays...
This is a collection of new essays opening introspective space for further exploration into constructions of "We the People..." during the mid-to-late...
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208,23 zł |
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