Captive
ISBN: 9780573693588 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. p> Jan Buttram Full Length, Comedy Chacaters: 2 male, 1 female Interior A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down home philosophy. Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in Texas hoping to borrow money from her brother to pay a debt to gangsters incurred by her husband. Her elderly parents are supposed to be vacationing in Israel, but she is greeted with a shotgun aimed by her irascible father who has been left home because of a minor car accident and is not at all happy to see her. When...
p> Jan Buttram Full Length, Comedy Chacaters: 2 male, 1 female Interior A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combi...
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The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781475952018 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,20 zł |
The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781475952025 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,35 zł |
The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque
ISBN: 9781902806624 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a re-working of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" set in the Middle East. The setting of this version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a "new democracy".
Presents a re-working of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" set in the Middle East. The setting of this version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern s...
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The Invisible Hand
ISBN: 9781350013506 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are prisoners of a corrupt country of our own making
American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price. Confined to a cell within the depths of rural Pakistan, every second counts. Who will decide his fate? His captors, or the whims of the market? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar has written an intense, fast-moving political thriller, which lays bare the raw, unfettered power of global finance. The Invisible Hand received its world premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop on 8 December 2014 and its UK premiere at the... We are prisoners of a corrupt country of our own making
American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price. Confined ... |
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56,24 zł |
Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora
ISBN: 9781559364799 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form... And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and nationalities, they have an unyielding collective voice." - Nathalie Handal, from the Introduction Includes: Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi
Keffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia Taha Plan D by Hannah Khalil Handala by Abdelfattah Abusrour Territories by Betty Shamieh 603 by Imad Farajin The first collection of its kind, Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the... "These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form... And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and n...
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Oh My Sweet Land
ISBN: 9781472589392 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They call it a civil war, but there is nothing civil in this. Nothing civil at all. They came from Damascus, from Halab, from Banias where the bombs fall day and night and the wounded children look like sleeping angels. Now they live in camps and abandoned buildings in Lebanon or Jordan. Now Syria is just a distant memory, a home forever lost. This urgent and extraordinary play explores the crisis in Syria through the stories of its two million refugees. Oh My Sweet Land received its UK premiere at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 9 April 2014. They call it a civil war, but there is nothing civil in this. Nothing civil at all. They came from Damascus, from Halab, from Banias ... |
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72,27 zł |
Les Hommes de sable: Quand parlent les voix du désert
ISBN: 9781500196868 / Francuski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Si vous aimez le depaysement, les Hommes de sable vous guideront dans un univers de passion et de violence, ou la poesie des grands espaces se heurte a la durete des traditions religieuses et a la rigueur d'usages sanglants imposes par l'exigence de survie. Plus qu'un roman: Une epopee. _________________________________ If you like scenery of exile, sandy Men will guide you into a world of passion and violence, where the poetry of the great outdoors is hampered by the hardness of religious traditions and rigor of bloody practices imposed by the requirement of survival . More than a novel: An...
Si vous aimez le depaysement, les Hommes de sable vous guideront dans un univers de passion et de violence, ou la poesie des grands espaces se heurte ...
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The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes
ISBN: 9781783191536 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the short story by Hassan Blasim.
Salim, an Iraqi refugee, takes on a new identity In London after fleeing persecution in Baghdad. He is picked up, and marries a wealthy older woman, who enthusiastically coaches him in the bedroom for his forthcoming citizenship test. But Carlos Fuentes finds that knowing the names of all six of Henry VIII's wives can neither satisfy his new wife nor turn him into a -Britishman-. The nightmare of the violence of his past catches up with him, and suddenly he is at the airport, accompanied by a G4 security guard, waiting for a plane to take... Based on the short story by Hassan Blasim.
Salim, an Iraqi refugee, takes on a new identity In London after fleeing persecution in Baghdad.... |
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51,12 zł |
Fireworks: Al' AB Nariya
ISBN: 9781474244503 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There's no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I'll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins. In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself. Dalia Taha's play offers a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood. Fireworks (Al'ab Nariya) is part of International Playwrights: A Genesis Foundation Project and received its world... There's no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I'll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wi... |
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Dara
ISBN: 9781848424678 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1659. Mughal India. Dara, the crown prince, has the love of the people, but brother Aurangzeb holds a different vision for India's future. Islam inspires poetry in Dara, puritanical rigour in Aurangzeb. Can Jahanara, their sister, assuage Aurangzeb's resolve to purge the empire? Dara was originally produced in Pakistan; this adaptation premiered at the National Theatre in 2015.
1659. Mughal India. Dara, the crown prince, has the love of the people, but brother Aurangzeb holds a different vision for India's future. Islam inspi...
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The Fever Chart
ISBN: 9780881453867 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subtitled "Three Short Visions of the Middle East," this collection includes three thematically related short plays, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, THE RETREATING WORLD, and BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU, collectively entitled THE FEVER CHART. Vision One, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, is set in Rafah, Palestine, and features a Palestinian woman, an Israeli architect, and an Israeli soldier. Vision Two, THE RETREATING WORLD, concerns an Iraqi bird keeper from Baghdad and his address before the International Pigeon Convention. Vision Three, BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU, takes place after hours in the waiting room...
Subtitled "Three Short Visions of the Middle East," this collection includes three thematically related short plays, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, THE RETREAT...
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77,09 zł |
The Black Eyed & Architecture
ISBN: 9780881454017 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection includes one full-length play, THE BLACK EYED, and one short play, ARCHITECTURE. THE BLACK EYED: Four Arab women from across the ages meet in the afterlife. As these characters - who include the Biblical Delilah and a secular modern Arab-American - struggle to come to terms with their lives and their choices, this shockingly funny play skewers traditional views on sex, family, and terrorism. ARCHITECTURE: A short play based on the character of the Architect from the play THE BLACK EYED. "A gorgeously conceived and realized drama ... Shamieh's] theatrical imagination, in its...
This collection includes one full-length play, THE BLACK EYED, and one short play, ARCHITECTURE. THE BLACK EYED: Four Arab women from across the ages ...
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A Jew On Ethiopia Street
ISBN: 9780881455335 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported. Meanwhile, there is also a reckless, clandestine operation afoot to airlift one last group of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. "In 1996, Israel announced a blood shortage and urged its citizens to give generously. The Falasha-Ethiopian Jews who were new immigrants and eager to embrace their spiritual homeland-turned out in record numbers. A newspaper report later revealed that all of the Ethiopian blood had been discarded, untested,...
A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being dep...
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Special Forces
ISBN: 9780881455427 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An action-adventure about a mission behind enemy lines during the Gulf War. "Action sequences that offer a straight-faced microcosm of U S blundering in Iraq ... Hilarious scenes limning the hell-yeah, know-nothing spirit that many fear now dominates our military personnel ... Like an eccentric novella that holds attention ... A] half queer Casablanca homage, half American-policy-in-Iraq docudrama that is perversely interesting. Fisher is a kick." -Dennis Harvey, Variety "Witty, thought-provoking and inventive ... Engrossing and entertaining." -Rob Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle "Low-key...
An action-adventure about a mission behind enemy lines during the Gulf War. "Action sequences that offer a straight-faced microcosm of U S blundering ...
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The Day of the Picnic
ISBN: 9780881455892 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Betsy Fullbright keeps hearing someone outside, or down the hall, call out yoo hoo. The television seems stuck on a program where people are burning flags. A goat seems to have been left out on the lawn and there may be a leopard prowling nearby. Meanwhile, the retirement home staff have vanished and most everyone else is away on a picnic. A silent black man, who arrived the night before, now sits in a wheelchair and stares at her. Could this be someone she knew once upon a time in Kenya? Did this person somehow follow her here after all these years? "A haunting, deeply compassionate play....
Betsy Fullbright keeps hearing someone outside, or down the hall, call out yoo hoo. The television seems stuck on a program where people are burning f...
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77,09 zł |
Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power
ISBN: 9781349364053 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at odds with those of the powerful sponsoring organisations. This fresh approach to the topic provides the reader with an innovative, critical way of studying community theatre.
Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at o...
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195,42 zł |
De Taif a Andalous: La Chevauchee fantastique des Bani Hilal
ISBN: 9781535189309 / Francuski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cela faisait des heures qu'il faisait le guet ses yeux remplis de sable, attentif au moindre mouvement, allonge sur l'une des dunes. Hassoune l'un des meilleurs guetteurs de la tribu des Bani Hilal, etait la en compagnie d'une vingtaine de guerriers restes en bas de la dune avec leurs montures cachees et prets a l'attaque."
Cela faisait des heures qu'il faisait le guet ses yeux remplis de sable, attentif au moindre mouvement, allonge sur l'une des dunes. Hassoune l'un des...
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O Jerusalem
ISBN: 9780881452624 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. O JERUSALEM centers around an American State Department official who becomes entangled in Middle Eastern politics before and after September 11, 2001. Along the way, the protagonist encounters a Palestinian woman from his past. "It's true that O JERUSALEM, an exhilarating new play by A R Gurney ... seems especially timely because of its subject matter. After all, it touches on many of the issues now preoccupying people around the world: the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, American foreign policy, terrorism ... Gurney's play manages to reach beyond its topical premise to... O JERUSALEM centers around an American State Department official who becomes entangled in Middle Eastern politics before and after September 11, 20... |
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77,09 zł |
And Here I Am
ISBN: 9781786822567 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity.
A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity.
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56,24 zł |