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God's Ear
ISBN: 9780573663017 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drama / Characters: 3m, 4f God's Ear marks the debut of Jenny Schwartz, "an indelibly clever playwright, possessed of linguistic playfulness and a lively sense of rhythm" (The Village Voice). Through the skillfully disarming use of cliched language and homilies, the play explores with subtle grace and depth the way the death of a child tears one family apart, while showcasing the talents of a promising young playwright who "in a] very modern way is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word" (The New York Times). A husband and wife have trouble coping with the...
Drama / Characters: 3m, 4f God's Ear marks the debut of Jenny Schwartz, "an indelibly clever playwright, possessed of linguistic playfulness and a liv...
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Les Blancs
ISBN: 9780573611513 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a...
New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetical...
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Crime and Punishment: A Play in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781434457073 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the classic 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this play focuses on Raskolnikov, the self-proclaimed "superior being," who commits a brutal murder to show his contempt for the rest of mankind.
Based on the classic 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this play focuses on Raskolnikov, the self-proclaimed "superior being," who commits a brutal mu...
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Pretty Theft
ISBN: 9780573697210 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drama / Characters: 3m, 4f Pretty Theft is a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe, an autistic savant. When things take a violent turn, Allegra and Suzy escape cross country and befriend Marco, a mysterious thief who claims he cannot be caught. "Disturbing but touching...Mr. Szymkowicz writes quirky plays about contemporary topics like online dating and gender roles, but there always seems to be something - a knife, a rope, a dead body - in an unexpected...
Drama / Characters: 3m, 4f Pretty Theft is a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the ...
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Terre Haute
ISBN: 9780573696534 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drama/ 2m A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist. One has a story to write, the other has a story to tell. As the clock ticks on death row, a strange bond grows between the two men. Filled with clever sparring and raw emotion, this is a tuat drama that touches on the definitions of freedom and the need for love. The Daily Telegraph in London hailed Terre Haute as, "topical, transgressive and thrillingly dramatic." "White has captured the amusingly constricted voices of the patrician novelist and the plebian terrorist cannily and cogently." -Charles...
Drama/ 2m A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist. One has a story to write, the other has a story to tell. As the ...
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Cactus Flower
ISBN: 9780573606656 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Full Length, Comedy, 7m, 4f, InteriorsA philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse threatens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his "wife." She blossoms and he finds himself falling in love with the lovely "cactus flower" right under his very nose. "You will find the jokes fast and funny, the situation becoming funnier as the play skips along." - New York Times
Full Length, Comedy, 7m, 4f, InteriorsA philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse thre...
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Anna Christie
ISBN: 9781438524597 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eugene O'Neill (1888 -1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. He was the first American to use the technique of realism in his plays. His characters were often on the outskirts of society and spoke in American dialects. His characters were unsavory people who often performed inappropriate acts yet still hoped for more in life. They ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), The First Man (1922), and The Hairy Ape (1922). The Straw was produced in 1919. Anna Christie is a symbolic play about...
Eugene O'Neill (1888 -1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. He was the first American to use the technique of realism in...
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60,21 |
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The Third Story
ISBN: 9780573697302 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandly bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the...
Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gan...
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Ruby's Story
ISBN: 9780573696923 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drama / Characters: 3m, 6f June 1944. In England, Allied troops are massing for an invasion. On a small farm in Appalachia, a different kind of war is about to rage. Here, Walter and Grace share a home with four daughters: Rose, who struggles to understand why Stan - an immigrant coal miner and the love of her life - abruptly left to join the Polish Free Forces; Helga, who fears for her husband who's in the Army and - like Stan - assigned to a combat unit in England; Frieda, the family's adventure-seeking daughter, who works in a factory making uniforms and new friends, one of whom she can't...
Drama / Characters: 3m, 6f June 1944. In England, Allied troops are massing for an invasion. On a small farm in Appalachia, a different kind of war is...
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Shrinking Violets and Towering Tigerlillies: A Bouquet of Female Delights
ISBN: 9780573696763 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seven Brief Plays About Women in Distress To go through life as a woman is to be in distress most of the time, so these short plays alight on situations that are inherently distressing -- doctor visits, photo shoots, looking for the right dress and navigating around swimming pools. Since we're blessed with uncanny reserves of strength and imagination, we tend to emerge triumphant. One way or another these are comedies about transformation. Plays include: Appearances The Divine Fallacy Through a Glass Darkly Teeth Water Music Milk and Water Skin Deep
Seven Brief Plays About Women in Distress To go through life as a woman is to be in distress most of the time, so these short plays alight on situatio...
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Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America
ISBN: 9780292723047 / Angielski / Miękka / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured in such screen adaptations as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer, reflects the sea change in American culture in the mid-twentieth century. Placing this body of work within relevant contexts ranging from gender and sexuality to censorship, modernism, art cinema, and the Southern Renaissance, Hollywood's Tennessee... No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the a... |
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141,98 |
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Duped
ISBN: 9781440134401 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When two people, including a police officer, are found dead at a trucking company parking lot in New York City, Detectives Pamela Shakur and Andy O'Toole are called in to solve the case.
The detectives quickly identify a witness, Albert Franklin, who saw the killings from his apartment window. But they keep running into one dead end after another. And when Franklin disappears, they suspect he, too, may now be dead. Now Shakur, who prides herself on always knowing how to behave and react, finds herself mixed up with figures from the city's underbelly. And it becomes clear that the... When two people, including a police officer, are found dead at a trucking company parking lot in New York City, Detectives Pamela Shakur and Andy O'To...
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65,32 |
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Duped
ISBN: 9781440134395 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When two people, including a police officer, are found dead at a trucking company parking lot in New York City, Detectives Pamela Shakur and Andy O'Toole are called in to solve the case.
The detectives quickly identify a witness, Albert Franklin, who saw the killings from his apartment window. But they keep running into one dead end after another. And when Franklin disappears, they suspect he, too, may now be dead. Now Shakur, who prides herself on always knowing how to behave and react, finds herself mixed up with figures from the city's underbelly. And it becomes clear that the... When two people, including a police officer, are found dead at a trucking company parking lot in New York City, Detectives Pamela Shakur and Andy O'To...
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103,86 |
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The Nuttiest, Wackiest, Funniest, Skits Ever!
ISBN: 9780941599689 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is packed with 50 of the most hilarious comedy skits ever! All of the skits are easy-to-perform and utilize two or more performers. Are they nutty? Unquestionably! Will audiences enjoy them? Definitely! Are they outrageously fun? Absolutely! These side-splitting comedy skits are sure to tickle your funny bone and get you laughing out loud. Ideal for clowns, family entertainers, school performances, youth groups, or just for fun.
This book is packed with 50 of the most hilarious comedy skits ever! All of the skits are easy-to-perform and utilize two or more performers. Are they...
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68,84 |
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Karlaboy
ISBN: 9780573697241 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drama / Characters: 6m, 2f Biographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven, a long dead legendary 1950's starlet. As a result, he is summoned in the middle of the night to the dilapidated mansion of Karla's celebrity husband, Harold Bachman, a reclusive director who makes the outlandish claim that Karla's ghost has threatened to kill him this very night unless Bill calls off the publication of his tawdry book of lies. What follows is an intense evening where memory wrestles with myth in order to find the truth. As Harold gets deeper into exposing Bill's lies about...
Drama / Characters: 6m, 2f Biographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven, a long dead legendary 1950's starlet. As a result,...
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The Man in the Gray Suit and Other Short Plays
ISBN: 9780573697296 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Various m and f roles From the author of Cabo San Lucas, Waiting, and Truth be Told, comes six new one act plays about love and relationship. Perfect for any theatre. Included in this book are: The Man in the Grey Suit, Different, Red Roses, The Same Thing, Knots, and Come to the Garden. All have simple casting and production requirements, all are easy to stage. "Ms. Soland has developed several plays...all interesting, all clever, all unique. She is gorgeously talented." -Charles Nelson Reilly. "Soland's work is so audience friendly...she has an uncanny ear for dialogue." -Los Angeles Times
Various m and f roles From the author of Cabo San Lucas, Waiting, and Truth be Told, comes six new one act plays about love and relationship. Perfect ...
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Truth Be Told
ISBN: 9780573697227 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Truth Be Told is a full-length play that consists of eleven, one-person stories shared by a variety of personalities, all focused on getting at the truth. "Lisa Soland's characters are quirky, heartbreaking and enchanting. In these short, expertly-tuned monologues, we understand the entire life of the characters by focusing in on events that define their lives. The characters stay with us because there are pieces of them in us all." -Lloyd Noonan, Dramatic Writing Editor, Quay Journal. "An extraordinary, well-balanced and perfect evening of theatre - so clever, so witty, so insightful and so...
Truth Be Told is a full-length play that consists of eleven, one-person stories shared by a variety of personalities, all focused on getting at the tr...
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Rose and Walsh
ISBN: 9780573703348 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rose and Walsh" follows two great literary figures and the depth and consequence of their enduring love. At a beautiful beach house on the tip of Long Island, Rose, a celebrated but near penniless author, receives nightly visits from Walsh, the love of her life and a famous writer himself. Now Walsh must go away forever, but not before securing Rose's financial future with an extraordinary proposal that promises to change everything.
"Rose and Walsh" follows two great literary figures and the depth and consequence of their enduring love. At a beautiful beach house on the tip of Lon...
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Behind the Mask
ISBN: 9781440185038 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life is not perfect. Especially for Christians. The characters Rita Owens, Shawn Owens, Taurus Nate and Joy Waters are prime examples of that in the book, Behind the Mask. Rita, who is married to Pastor Shawn Owens, is having a hard time living up to her title as first lady of a church and her selfishness catches up to her. Pastor Shawn Owens acts like a doormat sometimes but when he goes thru some personal hurt, that's when he grows the spine that he's been missing. Taurus is the Elder of the church and is also Shawn's best friend. That is, until Taurus crosses the line and ruins not only...
Life is not perfect. Especially for Christians. The characters Rita Owens, Shawn Owens, Taurus Nate and Joy Waters are prime examples of that in the b...
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The Contrast
ISBN: 9781438527321 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Contrast by Royall Tyler was the first play professionally performed in the United States. The play is a very humorous satire aimed at the evils and follies of the time. Royall uses this dramatic form to satirize Americans who follow British fashions and indulge in 'British vices'. Royall Tyler was born in 1758 into one of the riches families in Boston. He graduated from Harvard and fought in the Revolutionary War. Before The Contrast the theater was looked down upon in the United States. This play made a tremendous shift in the opinions of Americans towards the theater.
The Contrast by Royall Tyler was the first play professionally performed in the United States. The play is a very humorous satire aimed at the evils a...
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