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Another Round
ISBN: 9780989507226 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great story must entertain, inform or inspire, and this book does all three. Susan Waits has created a dramatic narrative with authentic characters that draw breath, laugh, cry, teach and learn in vivid settings drawn from a deep well of personal experience. The plot reflects the inexplicable and serendipitous twists and turns of two women's lives as they come face to face with their addiction to alcohol. Implicitly revealed are the iconic twelve steps to recovery in the illustration and interplay among personal intention, forgiveness, surrender and love. Claire Danner's life was one call...
A great story must entertain, inform or inspire, and this book does all three. Susan Waits has created a dramatic narrative with authentic characters ...
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85,17 |
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Dea Loher: Three Plays
ISBN: 9781783190621 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays, translated into English.
Olga's Room Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario's story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s, Dea Loher's gripping first play spans Brazilian revolution and Nazi dictatorship. Innocence A city by the sea. 14 people on the edge. Illegal immigrants... Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays, translated into E...
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97,50 |
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Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and
ISBN: 9780865478152 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving, innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history From 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four hundred letters. Describing the writing of their poems, their travel and daily illnesses, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection they had for each other, these missives are the most intimate record available of both poets and one of the greatest correspondences in American literature. A moving, innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history From 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizab... |
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68,61 |
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Adult Supervision
ISBN: 9781783190591 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -I keep trying to find something a bit exotic in my family tree. Best I could do was a great-grandma who looks a bit tanned in the old photos.-
US election night 2008. A smart inner-London 'village'. For white ex-lawyer Natasha, adoptive mother to two Ethiopian children, tonight is the ideal opportunity to get to know the small handful of other 'mothers of children of color' at their smart private school. But as the Obamatinis start to flow, the middle-class veneer begins to crack and Natasha's carefully planned social occasion quickly unravels. Lifting the lid on a stew of racial... -I keep trying to find something a bit exotic in my family tree. Best I could do was a great-grandma who looks a bit tanned in the old photos.-...
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59,83 |
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Crowning Glory
ISBN: 9781783190676 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crowning Glory brings together the stories of seven women to explore the meaning of identity and beauty in today's world. This thought-provoking story is sure to make you laugh and cry, and will undoubtedly get you talking.
-Tackling the often vexed relationship that black women have with their locks, Seaton turns the work into an exploration of identity, ethnicity and belonging.- - Telegraph -Angry, provocative, piercing and funny.... The writing is raw and rhythmic with a jagged poeticism. ... undercut by a ferocity, compassion and intelligence. A heartfelt headrush of... Crowning Glory brings together the stories of seven women to explore the meaning of identity and beauty in today's world. This thought-provokin...
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59,83 |
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Chamber Piece
ISBN: 9781783190706 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the thumbs up. Rapist murderer Richard Sanger is strapped to the gurney. Chamber Piece depicts a modern, British execution. How would it look? How would we feel? And what could possibly go wrong?
-An assured, funny and twisty script by the young poet and playwright Caroline Bird... It leaves you... In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain...
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48,73 |
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Mr. Burns and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781559364812 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory."--Entertainment Weekly "Fascinating and hilarious . . . With each of its three acts, Mr. Burns grows grander."--Village Voice "When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin? . . . Mr. Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas . . . with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination."--The New York Times An ode to live theater and the resilience of The Simpsons, Anne Washburn's apocalyptic comedy... "One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory."--Entertainment Weekly "Fascinating and hilarious . . . With each of i... |
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79,85 |
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Places Where We Can Imagine
ISBN: 9780984686612 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Places Where We Can Imagine, by Maya Odim, is a collection of poetry.
Places Where We Can Imagine, by Maya Odim, is a collection of poetry.
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40,03 |
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The Triple Goddess: Three Plays
ISBN: 9781312013148 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three full-length dramas by Carolyn Gage: The Goddess Tour: It's a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six American women -- strangers to each other (or are they?)-gather for a tour of ancient goddess sites. A murder mystery exploring potentially deadly mother-daughter dyads, played out amid ghostly sightings of lost children and pre-Celtic rituals involving various aspects of the goddess Ugly Ducklings: Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the...
Three full-length dramas by Carolyn Gage: The Goddess Tour: It's a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six Amer...
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68,09 |
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The Nether: A Play
ISBN: 9780810130630 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground. Sims argues for the freedom to explore even the most deviant corners of our imagination. Morris holds that we cannot flesh out our malign fantasies without consequence. Their clash of wills leads to a consequence neither could have imagined. Suspenseful,... The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological ... |
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60,03 |
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The Voyage [A Play]
ISBN: 9781587902611 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Voyage is J. Lea Koretskys second play. Set in Australia, Tasmania and the Fiji islands, this tale wends a charted course of morality through seasonally high wind infested islands which require complicated medical surgery and long term treatments for physical and corruption-oriented malaises. The expedition takes forty years at sea, features an unusually skilled physician team and their families at home. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The author resides in San Joaquin County. She has written eleven fiction books, two non-fiction on psychotherapy and one free-style verse collection. ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Voyage is J. Lea Koretskys second play. Set in Australia, Tasmania and the Fiji islands, this tale wends a charted course of m... |
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68,61 |
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The Flick
ISBN: 9780573702037 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner 2013 OBIE Award, Playwriting Winner 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play Nominee 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play Finalist 2013 New York Critics Circle Award, Best Play In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster,... WINNER 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner 2013 OBIE Award, Playwriting Winner 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee 2013 Drama... |
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72,23 |
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Slut: The Play
ISBN: 9781558618824 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition of SLUT features the play only.
SLUT: The Play offers communities and individuals the real-life insight into rape and bullying culture necessary to inspire change in the attitudes and practices surrounding girls and sexuality. The story and the performance creates much-needed space to discussopenly and honestlyexperiences with shaming, sex, and violence, thus providing a crucial antidote to slut-shaming culture. " This edition of SLUT features the play only.
SLUT: The Play offers communities and individuals the real-life insight into rape and b... |
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34,11 |
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Don't Call Me a Victim!
ISBN: 9781784379070 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in India, Europe, USA and Japan.
One night in1974, Archana, her brothers wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archanas younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for armed insurrection. When Archanas brother is caught, the three women are sent to prison indefinitely, along with him, on... This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in ...
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Don't Call Me a Victim!
ISBN: 9781784379087 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in India, Europe, USA and Japan. One night in1974, Archana, her brother's wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archana's younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for armed insurrection. When Archana's brother is caught, the three women are sent to prison indefinitely, along with him, on...
This novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in ...
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152,42 |
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The Love of a Woman III
ISBN: 9781500772642 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will make you laugh and cry while learning The Love of A Woman in Depth. It motivates, inspires and encourages all women; while showing men the depth of a Woman's Love It is a story that we all can relate to. This book deals with real life issues that we have faced at some point or we may know someone else who has faced it or may be dealing with one or many of the situations addressed in this book
This book will make you laugh and cry while learning The Love of A Woman in Depth. It motivates, inspires and encourages all women; while showing men ...
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140,07 |
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Paula Vogel
ISBN: 9780472052394 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paula Vogel's plays, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning How I Learned to Drive, initiate a conversation with contemporary culture, staging vexed issues like domestic violence, pornography, and AIDS. She does not write "about" these concerns, but instead examines how they have become framed as "issues-"-as sensationalized topics-focusing on the histories and discourses that have defined them and the bodies that bear their meanings. Mobilizing campy humor, keen insight, and nonlinear structure, her plays defamiliarize the identities and issues that have been fixed as "just the way...
Paula Vogel's plays, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning How I Learned to Drive, initiate a conversation with contemporary culture, staging vex...
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128,11 |
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Belleville
ISBN: 9780573700385 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award
Finalist 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack's noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he's supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life. Winner 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award
Finalist 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstandin... |
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I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside
ISBN: 9780992869236 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally written in the 1970s but resonating with relevance today, this lively tragi-comedy by an award winning Irish playwright reveals what it is to be old and vulnerable, frail but feisty. In a dreary, seaside care-home in 1970s Ireland, Eve and Francis's spirited friendship has made life worth living. Threatened with separation by their selfish families, Eve and Francis take matters into their own hands, with dramatic consequences... Anne Le Marquand Hartigan is an award winning playwright, poet and artist. Her work has been translated into several languages and adapted... Originally written in the 1970s but resonating with relevance today, this lively tragi-comedy by an award winning Irish playwright reveals what it ... |
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34,26 |
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La Corbière
ISBN: 9780992869267 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Avant garde drama by award winning Irish playwright, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan. "She mines a seam close to that of Joyce, with sound impinging on sound, word upon word, spinning from one meaning to another..." Irish Times. "Poetic drama...set before us on a sea of floating silk." International Herald Tribune. "Rare and delicate...a newborn breath with a light and beautiful hand." Sunday Independent. When a boatload of French prostitutes is shipwrecked off the coast of German occupied Jersey, their bodies are left to drift on the tide for days, their long... Avant garde drama by award winning Irish playwright, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan. "She mines a seam close to that of Joyce, with sound impingi... |
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