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Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781559360845 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -One of the best playwrights our country, and our language, has produced.- -Tony Kushner
-Quirky, disturbing, and inexplicably beautiful theatrical poetry.- -Cary M. Mazer, Philadelphia City Paper -Congdon writes like a woman possessed.- -Nels Nelson, New York Daily News An immensely inventive and challenging writer, Constance Congdon is one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with great compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility. Throughout the plays in her first collection, she demonstrates a range rare in writers in any age, from a somber... -One of the best playwrights our country, and our language, has produced.- -Tony Kushner
-Quirky, disturbing, and inexplicably beautiful theatrica... |
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The America Play and Other Works
ISBN: 9781559360920 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue
"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myt...
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75,83 |
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Pride's Crossing
ISBN: 9781559361538 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In one of her most accomplished works to date, Tina Howe has created a remarkable heroine for the '90s--Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel. Structured like memory, the play's scenes crisscross between her youth growing up in Pride's Crossing and the events in between which she shaped her life.
In one of her most accomplished works to date, Tina Howe has created a remarkable heroine for the '90s--Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 se...
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64,43 |
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This Is a Chair
ISBN: 9781559361774 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life.- -Guardian
-Puts one in mid of the painter Magritte...Each brief scene is preceded by doomy, tabloid television 'news music', and a graphic announcing some heavy topical subject - The War in Bosnia, for instance, or the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Then the performers... play a scene that has nothing to do with its title...The piece creates a haunting impression of urban alienation, self-obsession and... -Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreali...
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60,63 |
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The Red Letter Plays
ISBN: 9781559361958 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with -a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.'---Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
The playwright who -has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way ... -In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthor...
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75,83 |
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Topdog/Underdog
ISBN: 9781559362016 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including "In the Blood" and "Venus." She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the... A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the... |
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72,03 |
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Women in American Theatre
ISBN: 9781559362634 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newly revised and expanded, "Women in American Theatre" is a unique resource that challenges preconceptions by exploring and celebrating the heritage of women in American theater. In this new edition, the editors have collected a series of interviews and essays that address the contributions of women to theater, the recurring patterns of their participation and the problems as well as successes they have encountered in developing their careers. Helen Krich Chinoy is professor emeritus of theater at Smith College, where she taught for over 25 years. Linda Walsh Jenkins formerly was a... Newly revised and expanded, "Women in American Theatre" is a unique resource that challenges preconceptions by exploring and celebrating the herita... |
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75,83 |
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365 Days/365 Plays
ISBN: 9781559362863 / Angielski / Miękka / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.---Tony Kushner -The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the 'weather.' It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life.---Suzan-Lori Parks On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a... -Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.---Tony Kushner -The plan was that no matter what I did, how bu... |
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94,84 |
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Birth and After Birth and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781559363211 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three plays by acclaimed American playwright Tina Howe.
Three plays by acclaimed American playwright Tina Howe.
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72,03 |
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Wolf Lullaby
ISBN: 9780868196688 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls on nine-year-old Lizzie. Angela, Lizzie's young mother, is convinced her daughter is guilty. She must make the torturous choice between ignoring what her intuition tells her, and presenting Lizzie to the police with painfully extracted information.
In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls on nine-year-old Lizzie. Angela, Lizzie's young mother, is convinced her daughter ...
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76,59 |
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Rabbit Proof Fence: the screenplay
ISBN: 9780868196558 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1930s, three young girls fled through harsh desert country after being kidnapped by authorities in the name of miscegenation. Their remarkable story is now the subject of a new film by Australian director Phil Noyce.
In the 1930s, three young girls fled through harsh desert country after being kidnapped by authorities in the name of miscegenation. Their remarkable ...
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76,59 |
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Skate
ISBN: 9780868197272 / Angielski / Miękka / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fictional play inspired by true events that occurred in a south western NSW town. A group of kids battle with their local council to get a skatepark built in their home town of Narragindi. In the midst of this struggle, they are forced to deal with the s
A fictional play inspired by true events that occurred in a south western NSW town. A group of kids battle with their local council to get a skatepark...
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76,59 |
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Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and pregnant girlfriend... This is a story about Aussie battlers -- battling with each other, the elements and the
Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and preg...
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76,59 |
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In 1931, during a wild afternoon's ride, Alice, a white stationowner makes a tentative pact with her Aboriginal headstockman, Jim, to hand her land back to him and his people. An unfortunate accident prevents it from happening and no-one learns of their mu
In 1931, during a wild afternoon's ride, Alice, a white stationowner makes a tentative pact with her Aboriginal headstockman, Jim, to hand her land ba...
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PEACH SEASON
ISBN: 9780868198057 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoe away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia's safe
After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoe away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The a...
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76,59 |
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STORIES IN THE DARK
ISBN: 9780868198316 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna older, street smart and scornful of his crying.
A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out hous...
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SEED
ISBN: 9780868198262 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A play, which provides an exploration of a very real family and the repercussions of war.
A play, which provides an exploration of a very real family and the repercussions of war.
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76,59 |
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The Magic Tree
ISBN: 9781840028669 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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59,66 |
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The Collected Plays of Paul Rudnick
ISBN: 9780061780202 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril." --David Sedaris, author of Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
This definitive collection of Paul Rudnick's plays presents the pinnacle of theatrical hilarity from one of America's great humorists. Popular for his wickedly funny novels, including I'll Take It and Social Disease, comic screenplays like In & Out and Addams Family Values, and the Augusten Burroughs-like memoir I Shudder, Rudnick... "Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril." --David Sedaris, author of Naked, Me Talk Pre...
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94,98 |
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Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams
ISBN: 9781597091619 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In two intertwined songs, a feminist epic poem and a dreamlike opera libretto, Among the Goddesses traces one woman s harrowing mythological journey of discovery. Tutored by encounters with seven Goddesses, both frightening and nurturing, Marie/Lily is tested by loss, rape, and abortion as she finds her community and her spiritual strength. This magical book embodies the goddesses in every woman and gives voice to the power of the feminist spirituality movement."
In two intertwined songs, a feminist epic poem and a dreamlike opera libretto, Among the Goddesses traces one woman s harrowing mythological jo...
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