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Three Nights in Tehran
ISBN: 9780881454314 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A comedy about the Iran-Contra affair. "Heroic ... Sharp ... Wonderfully nuts ... The antic lunacy of a Busby Berkeley routine ... Strand's Ollie North is not just the butt of the play but its suffering hero. He's like a lawbreaker out of Ibsen, maybe a little crazy but with a genuine, shining integrity." -The Washington Post "John Strand's THREE NIGHTS IN TEHRAN is a furiously comic take on the Iran-Contra affair ... Inherently theatrical ... A farce exploring the outer limits of American diplomatic folly ... Strand's stage version of North consciously echoes elements of Othello's...
A comedy about the Iran-Contra affair. "Heroic ... Sharp ... Wonderfully nuts ... The antic lunacy of a Busby Berkeley routine ... Strand's Ollie Nort...
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76,71 zł |
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Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version
ISBN: 9781559362399 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) -Mr. Kushner's glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character's wayward speculations or fantasies... He makes the personal and the universal, the trivial and the cosmic come simultaneously to life in a single character's bewilderment.- -Ben Brantley, New York Times
-An extraordinary play...a deeply felt, expansively ruminative drama.- -Paul Taylor, Independent (London) -What a feast of a play. No playwright in the English language has a greater passion for language than Kushner. And to this Kushner... -Mr. Kushner's glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character's wayward specu...
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68,50 zł |
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Collateral Damage
ISBN: 9781840021264 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) War rages in the Balkans. While NATO bombs Serbia, the Kosovan Albanians are driven out of their homes. Europe is divided. In homes everywhere, people debate the rights and wrongs of the war. This play reveals the results. War rages in the Balkans. While NATO bombs Serbia, the Kosovan Albanians are driven out of their homes. Europe is divided. In homes everywhere, peo... |
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62,43 zł |
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Crossing Jerusalem & Other Plays
ISBN: 9781840023619 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Crossing Jerusalem describes a day in the life of an Israeli family at the beginning of the latest intifada. The Golem is a children's version of the famous story, exploring what happens when a monster is constructed to defend his community. Year Zero is a bittersweet satire about Communists, Gaulists, and collaborators in the north of France, 1940s. Saint Joan sets the heroine against a sweep of world history, culminating in the Parisian National Front rally of 1995. Crossing Jerusalem describes a day in the life of an Israeli family at the beginning of the latest intifada. The Golem is a chi... |
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98,88 zł |
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The Mirror for Princes: Kalila Wa Dimna
ISBN: 9781840026702 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) New writing based on the fables of Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of the Council for Kings--literally, a -mirror- for princes--these subtle and philosophical animal fables to this day carry immense significance to all sections of Arab and Persian society. New writing based on the fables of Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of the Counci... |
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52,02 zł |
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Arabian Nights
ISBN: 9781854594617 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Arabian Nights focuses on seven of the 1,001 tales that Sharazad told her royal husband Shahrayar each morning to stave off her threatened execution. -It's been a long time since I've heard a theatre audience stamp and whistle at a curtain call, but that's precisely how the punters greeted Dominic Cooke's vibrant staging of these classic Eastern folk tales.---Evening Standard
Arabian Nights focuses on seven of the 1,001 tales that Sharazad told her royal husband Shahrayar each morning to stave off her threatened exec...
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71,20 zł |
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The Magic Tree
ISBN: 9781840028669 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us. The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past.... |
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62,43 zł |
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Captive
ISBN: 9780573693588 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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68,50 zł |
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The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781475952018 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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59,91 zł |
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The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781475952025 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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102,86 zł |
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Plays from the Arab World
ISBN: 9781848420977 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. Includes Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine), Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco), The House by Arze Khodr (Lebanon), and Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt). "A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. Includes Withdrawal |
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96,69 zł |
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The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque
ISBN: 9781902806624 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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94,27 zł |
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The Invisible Hand
ISBN: 9781350013506 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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57,23 zł |
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Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora
ISBN: 9781559364799 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "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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89,97 zł |
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Oh My Sweet Land
ISBN: 9781472589392 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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65,72 zł |
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East/West, an Ambiguous State of Being: The Construction and Representation of Egyptian Cultural Identity in Egyptian Film
ISBN: 9780820426396 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This analysis of an Egyptian film produced in Cairo in the mid-1980s shows how Egyptian cultural identity is represented. The film "Khalil Ba'ad Al-Ta'dil (Khalil After Straightening Out)" is a mainstream comedy-drama representing Cairo's urban life and some of its concerns and problems: family life, gender roles, jobs, friendship, sex, marriage, parenthood, divorce and love. The imagery of this film is examined including the content of the dialogue in relation to the characters expressing it; the symbolism of the music, songs and sound effects on its soundtrack; and the colors, clothes,...
This analysis of an Egyptian film produced in Cairo in the mid-1980s shows how Egyptian cultural identity is represented. The film "Khalil Ba'ad Al-Ta...
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283,58 zł |
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Les Hommes de sable: Quand parlent les voix du désert
ISBN: 9781500196868 / Francuski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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85,68 zł |
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The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes
ISBN: 9781783191536 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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52,02 zł |
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Fireworks: Al' AB Nariya
ISBN: 9781474244503 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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65,72 zł |
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Dara
ISBN: 9781848424678 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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54,76 zł |
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