Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects
ISBN: 9780786463930 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes,...
This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of viole...
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336,98 zł |
Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays
ISBN: 9780857420206 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa s "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays "explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease.In one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders emotionally (as in "Awakening"), physically (as in "Comet Hunter") or socially (as in "Broken Morning"), and the line that separates life and death is thin.""In the title play, a woman in New... The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa s "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays "explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine po... |
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101,94 zł |
The Chicago Landmark Project: 12 World Premiere Plays about Chicago Places
ISBN: 9781463573935 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chicago Landmark Project chronicles all twelve short plays produced by Theatre Seven of Chicago as part of a World Premiere theatrical event paying tribute to the people and places of the Windy City. Using distinct locations in zip codes from Rogers Park to the South Side, The Chicago Landmark Project offers twelve diverse snapshots of Chicago life from present day to the distant past. From famous landmarks like Navy Pier to only-in-Chicago places like the Logan Square Farmers Market and Riverview Amusement Park, The Chicago Landmark Project uses location to create an emotional geography...
The Chicago Landmark Project chronicles all twelve short plays produced by Theatre Seven of Chicago as part of a World Premiere theatrical event payin...
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71,93 zł |
9 Encounters of John 9: A Play in 3 Acts
ISBN: 9781461127291 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Could a man sin before he was born? That's what the disciples asked Jesus when they came upon a man who was born blind. They asked Jesus, who sinned? They wanted to know if it was the man born blind from birth or the man's parents. Jesus could have shredded their thinking skills or bizarre theology; instead, he opened a window to see the economy of God. Could people not recognize the man who could now see even though they probably walked by him 2000 times or more over the past decade? Immediately after washing in the pool of Siloam, those gathered around him starting arguing if this was the...
Could a man sin before he was born? That's what the disciples asked Jesus when they came upon a man who was born blind. They asked Jesus, who sinned? ...
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The Bat
ISBN: 9780573605888 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mystery Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 3 female
Scenery: 2 Interiors In this popular American mystery play, incident is piled on incident with skill and plausibility, and it is impossible to know who the real criminal is until the final curtain. This thriller revolves around Cornelia Van Gorder, a maiden lady of sixty, who rents the summer home of a banker reported killed in Colorado. She is warned that mysterious things are happening but she refuses to move. Then it is discovered that a large sum is missing from the dead man's bank and it is suspected that, far from being dead, he stole... Mystery Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 3 female
Scenery: 2 Interiors In this popular American mystery play, incident is piled on incident with skill... |
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91,15 zł |
Luann: Scenes in a Teen's Life
ISBN: 9780874403282 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,71 zł |
Playing Dreidel with Judah Maccabee
ISBN: 9780977019748 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this play in eight scenes, a modern boy finds Judah Maccabee in an abandoned room that exists both in his own temple and the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. This story of the celebration of both Hanukkah and its ancient origins is told with gentle humor.
In this play in eight scenes, a modern boy finds Judah Maccabee in an abandoned room that exists both in his own temple and the ancient Temple in Jeru...
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96,18 zł |
Philoktetes PB
ISBN: 9780062132161 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Philoketes is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet James Scully. A powerful tale born out of the blood and chaos of the Trojan War, Philoketes tells the story of a wounded soldier exiled by Odysseus, and the devastating consequences of the abandoned warrior's dangerously conflicted emotions when his former commander realizes Troy will not fall without Philoktetes and attempts to recruit him once...
Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Philoketes is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now ...
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42,95 zł |
The First Thanksgiving: A Play For Children
ISBN: 9780984031405 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A play for children, ages 4-12, based on the historical journey of the Pilgrims to the New World, and the Native Americans who befriended and helped them.
A play for children, ages 4-12, based on the historical journey of the Pilgrims to the New World, and the Native Americans who befriended and helped t...
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31,52 zł |
Billy the Kid and Other Plays, 10
ISBN: 9780806142258 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. Like his novels, many of Anaya's plays are built from the folklore of the Southwest. This volume opens with The Season of La Llorona, in which Anaya fuses the Mexican legend of the dreaded "crying woman" with that of La Malinche, mistress and adviser to Hernan Cortes. Southwestern lore...
While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his nat...
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156,30 zł |
Sondheim and Wheeler's Sweeney Todd
ISBN: 9781138678866 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,93 zł |
50 Plays
ISBN: 9781257949663 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To follow-up writing a comedy sketch a day for a year with 365 Sketches, Joe Janes has collaborated with Chicagos finest directors and actors to write and develop for them 50 short one act plays. Each director showcased his or her own specific take on the limitless imagination of the former stand-up comic and Emmy Award winner turned instructor/director/performer at Strawdog Theaters Hugen Hall in June 2011 to sell out crowds and enthusiastic reception.
To follow-up writing a comedy sketch a day for a year with 365 Sketches, Joe Janes has collaborated with Chicagos finest directors and actors to write...
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121,79 zł |
Out of the Blue: A Unique Showcase Book of Hilarious Monologues, Clever Scenes, and Outlandish Sketch-Comedy!
ISBN: 9781432777357 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Chuzzlewit: A Play in Two Acts
ISBN: 9781434435705 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge estate to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dying man from such a mistake. But Old Martin is far from deaths door, and is planning from pure spite to swindle the relatives he loathes out of all their money. To do this he employs Montague Tigg, a honey-tongued confidence man who has, up to this point, had little worldly success despite his many talents. He pretends to be an English lord, a man of means whos the foundation of the Anglo-American Disinterested Life Insurance Company--which, of...
In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge estate to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dyi...
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The Last Emancipation: An Original two-act play
ISBN: 9781450262637 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A play about the commercial exploitation of African-Americans on food products following The Emancipation Proclamation to present.
A play about the commercial exploitation of African-Americans on food products following The Emancipation Proclamation to present.
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The Devil's Disciple
ISBN: 9781461039211 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as wel...
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Letters from the Moon
ISBN: 9781462869800 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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162,28 zł |
The Glass Menagerie and Other Plays
ISBN: 9783639305418 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English Literature Made Easy is a series of critical commentaries and study guides based on prominent masterpieces of English Literature. Antar Abdellah presents these articles and critical essays, reproduced from his old study manuscripts, as part of a bigger project for facilitating the study of English literature to the new generations of university students who did not have the chance to undertake similar research work. Summaries, overview of major themes, and detailed critical commentaries are accompanied by the original texts of the pieces of literature for concentrated study and for...
English Literature Made Easy is a series of critical commentaries and study guides based on prominent masterpieces of English Literature. Antar Abdell...
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Paradise
ISBN: 9781770917583 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home to process her feelings. But home isn't quite the reprieve she expected when she comes back to turmoil between her parents. Her father tries unsuccessfully to connect with Rachel, who seems to be reeling. Unable to find solace, Rachel finds herself down a slippery slope experimenting with drugs.
After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home to process her feelings. But home isn't quite the reprieve she expected when she com...
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Punch Up
ISBN: 9781770917422 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who's about to end her life. Convinced he's fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll give life another shot, but if she doesn't even giggle, he'll help her go through with her plan. There's just one catch: Duncan isn't funny. At all. So he borrows Pat, his second-favourite comedian, to help him come up with the perfect routine. But Pat is having a hard time mustering his sense of humour after a bad...
Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman wh...
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91,73 zł |