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Red Velvet: 2nd edition
ISBN: 9781472582430 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) It's like being at a crossroads - a point of absolute, unequivocal change. It makes the blood rush. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over the role. But as the public riot in the streets over the abolition of slavery, how will the cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre? Lolita Chakrabarti's play creates imagined experiences based on the little-known, but true, story of Ira Aldridge,... It's like being at a crossroads - a point of absolute, unequivocal change. It makes the blood rush. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833... |
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57,23 zł |
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Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model
ISBN: 9781783190638 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, award-winning artist Bryony Kimmings and her niece Taylor, nine, decided to play the global tween machine at its own game by inventing dinosaur-loving, bike riding, tuna pasta-eating, alternative pop star Catherine Bennett.
In a typically screwball and humorous fashion, acclaimed writer Bryony Kimmings, tackles the issues at the very core of their plight head on and begsthe question, what does it really take to be a Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model for a child of... In an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, award-winning artist Bryony Kim...
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62,43 zł |
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The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women : Volume One
ISBN: 9781849434287 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) -So Katy Wix has written this book of comic monologues and I may have to steal some of them. Although written for the female voice, I dare say they would stand up very well if you were a gentleman and changed the odd word or two. Here you have a book filled with brilliant characters and much funny. Each piece is bubbling with the quirky genius that makes Miss Wix one of the funniest performers / writers around.- - Jennifer Saunders, from her foreword.
There are many monologues books on the market but very few provide rich material for comedy. This collection from up and coming... -So Katy Wix has written this book of comic monologues and I may have to steal some of them. Although written for the female voice, I dare say they...
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57,23 zł |
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The Secret Game
ISBN: 9780992869205 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the Mobil Prize for Playwriting, Ireland, 1995. Is killing ever justified? This gripping drama examines the terrible choices of a teenage terrorist and a young mother in an exploration of contemporary morality. On her way home from a traumatic weekend, Chris is seeking solace with her aunt near the Northern Irish border. Parking her car, Chris disturbs a terrorist hide-out in her aunt's barn. As Chris is held captive through the night, it becomes apparent that her terrorist captor is not the only one with a dark secret... Anne Le Marquand Hartigan is an award winning... Winner of the Mobil Prize for Playwriting, Ireland, 1995. Is killing ever justified? This gripping drama examines the terrible choices of a teenage... |
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70,34 zł |
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Tokaido Road: A Journey After Hiroshige
ISBN: 9781848613782 / Angielski / Broszura / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is Nancy Gaffield's libretto, based on her 2011 poetry collection of the same name, for Nicola LeFanu's chamber opera (2014). In 1832 the young Hiroshige sets out on Japan's great Eastern Sea Road, the Tokaido, linking Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The paintings he creates along the way reveal the secrets of a hidden country. As the young artist, Hiro savours all his adventures-not least the amorous ones-and his paintings bring to life everyone he meets: old men and beautiful women, samurai and geisha, pilgrims, porters and passers-by. Hiroshige in old age is present in the opera too,...
This is Nancy Gaffield's libretto, based on her 2011 poetry collection of the same name, for Nicola LeFanu's chamber opera (2014). In 1832 the young H...
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52,67 zł |
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Farber: Plays One: Molora; RAM: The Abduction of Sita into Darkness; Mies Julie
ISBN: 9781783191512 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first collection of plays from award-winning South African playwright Yael Farber, featuring three fresh adaptations of classical theater texts.
Molora - Based on The Oresteia by Aeschylus In this reworking of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation. Attempts to come to terms with their violent past echo testimonies delivered in Apartheid's wake throughout South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. RAM: The Abduction of Sita into Darkness - Based on The... The first collection of plays from award-winning South African playwright Yael Farber, featuring three fresh adaptations of classical theater texts. <...
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98,88 zł |
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The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars
ISBN: 9780868199726 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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81,72 zł |
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Cyberbile / Grounded
ISBN: 9780868199849 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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96,15 zł |
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Oroonoko
ISBN: 9781500517212 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention.
I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fan...
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26,38 zł |
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The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur
ISBN: 9781618113986 / Angielski / Twarda / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The plays included in this volume offer some of Sadur's most influential works for the theater to the English-speaking audience for the first time. The collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature and culture, Russian theater, as well as women's literature. Sadur's plays are inspired by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd and Russian folklore, yet are...
Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptio...
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427,47 zł |
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The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur
ISBN: 9781618113993 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The plays included in this volume offer some of Sadur's most influential works for the theater to the English-speaking audience for the first time. The collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature and culture, Russian theater, as well as women's literature. Sadur's plays are inspired by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd and Russian folklore, yet are...
Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptio...
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76,68 zł |
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Let God Forgive Him: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780692312292 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "It's not your fault " These were the only words Jewels heard after revealing her childhood secret. If it wasn't her fault then whose fault was it for all the pain she had endured? Follow her through her life's journey as she brings forth her truth. The same truth that has haunted her for years forcing her to deal with the past she so desperately wanted to leave behind.
"It's not your fault " These were the only words Jewels heard after revealing her childhood secret. If it wasn't her fault then whose fault was it for...
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49,60 zł |
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Red Velvet
ISBN: 9780573703225 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridge prepares to play King Lear. The intrusion of a young female journalist forces him to look back on the defining moment of his illustrious career. Thirty years previously, Edmund Kean, one of the greatest actors of his generation, collapses on the Theatre Royal stage in London, and Pierre Laporte, theatre manager and friend, asks Aldridge to replace him as Othello. At the same time Parliament is preparing to vote in favour of abolishing slavery...
Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridg...
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68,50 zł |
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The Griffin and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781460260081 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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158,85 zł |
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The Griffin and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781460260098 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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124,50 zł |
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Bakkhai
ISBN: 9781783199150 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A powerful new translation of the Greek classic by award-winning Classics scholar, poet, and writer Anne Carson. Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides's electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and god.
A powerful new translation of the Greek classic by award-winning Classics scholar, poet, and writer Anne Carson. Pentheus has banned the wild, ritu... |
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52,02 zł |
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American Dancer: A Belly Dancing Story
ISBN: 9781495226328 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An American belly dancer immerses herself in Arab and Middle Eastern culture as a professional dance entertainer in Southern California circa 1980. Based on a true story, Anisa is often pursued by Arab and Armenian musicians and customers from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Syria but remains focused on rising to a higher level in her performances. In large print and suitable for most ages to enjoy. There is no profanity, no violence nor disturbing imagery. This novella is a great book for high school classes, college and library collections and a glimpse of an often misunderstood art and culture....
An American belly dancer immerses herself in Arab and Middle Eastern culture as a professional dance entertainer in Southern California circa 1980. Ba...
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53,89 zł |
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21: Based on a True Story
ISBN: 9781517126186 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This riveting tale of Alice Carroll -- a drug-addled, bipolar wreck of a narrator -- combines poetic prose against a nightmarish backdrop of drugs, lies, and madness. This nonfiction novella opens with a rather ordinary scene of Carroll's 21st birthday and rapidly progresses throughout the months of the year into a story colored with excessive drug use, careless decision-making, exorbitant lying, and the drama & chaos that ensues from the combinations of such during any social interactions with friends, family, and foe. This well-written memoir is a work of art that generates writing styles...
This riveting tale of Alice Carroll -- a drug-addled, bipolar wreck of a narrator -- combines poetic prose against a nightmarish backdrop of drugs, li...
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31,52 zł |
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Cuttin' It
ISBN: 9780571329632 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret. Tracking the urgent issue of FGM in Britain, this play reveals the price some girls pay to become women.
Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painf...
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50,87 zł |
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Nell Gwynn (NHB Modern Plays)
ISBN: 9781848425590 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second-class citizens, can her charm and spirit protect her from the dangers of the Court?
Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and h...
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60,24 zł |
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