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Men and Angels: Three South American Comedies
ISBN: 9780809304288 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Willis Knapp Jones, a noted translator and specialist in Latin-American theatre, has chosen these three comedies as examples of the flowering of truly national theatre in Paraguay, Chile, and Argentina: "The Fate of Chipi Gonzalez, "by Jose Maria Rivarola Matto; "Man of the Century, "by Miguel Frank; and "The Quack Doctor, "by Camilo Darthes and Carlos Damel. As the title under which the three plays are collected suggests, the plays reflect a unique if irreverent combination of fact and fantasy. Yet, as the reader will perceive, underlying this fantasy and love of the quixotic are themes of...
""Willis Knapp Jones, a noted translator and specialist in Latin-American theatre, has chosen these three comedies as examples of the flowering of tru...
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58,37 |
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Chuzzlewit: A Play in Two Acts
ISBN: 9781434435705 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge estate to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dying man from such a mistake. But Old Martin is far from deaths door, and is planning from pure spite to swindle the relatives he loathes out of all their money. To do this he employs Montague Tigg, a honey-tongued confidence man who has, up to this point, had little worldly success despite his many talents. He pretends to be an English lord, a man of means whos the foundation of the Anglo-American Disinterested Life Insurance Company--which, of...
In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge estate to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dyi...
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63,99 |
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Awesome Aspects of Amazing Comedy
ISBN: 9781463563578 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Awesome Aspects of Amazing Comedy is a guide for comedians to learn how to "wow" the crowd with finesse and ease. Flex your comedic muscles and get ready to learn everything you need to know to be a successful comedian. Here are a few of the topics that are covered. - Find your comedic identity - Write quality material that pays off - Command the crowd with strong stage presence - Strengthen your inner resolve at open mic - Learn the secret to hosting as the MC - Rebound and recover from the bombing experience - Learn the elements of effective support Regardless of whether you are new to the...
Awesome Aspects of Amazing Comedy is a guide for comedians to learn how to "wow" the crowd with finesse and ease. Flex your comedic muscles and get re...
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40,03 |
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Plankton Soup: Second Helping
ISBN: 9781467000376 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based On A True Story The book that the C.I.A. don't want you to read I would not recommend this book to anybody - Senior C.I.A. Agent (not his real name). I laughed so much I had loose stools for a week - DIY FURNITURE ASSEMBLER I on the other hand became quite vexed and did not laugh one iota. I have recommended the author for psychiatric evaluation. Consequently my stools remain firm and trouble free. - AUTHOR'S G.P. If only this book had been around in my day, just think what I might have achieved - ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Could have been greater). More comedy per square metre than other...
Based On A True Story The book that the C.I.A. don't want you to read I would not recommend this book to anybody - Senior C.I.A. Agent (not his real...
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90,49 |
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Don't Wear Shorts on Stage: The Stand-up Guide to Comedy
ISBN: 9781468004847 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rob Durham has written a book on the ins and outs of being a stand-up comic. Hilarious and enlightening, he uses some funny experiences of his own with famous and not-so-famous people to give some great tips on getting started in the biz. "Rob Durham 'gets it' as a performer and a teacher of how to get going in the comedy business. He covers the little things that so many new guys ignore. This is the book I would have written. . . if I had the time, interest, or word-processor." --Jimmy Pardo "I support this book unconditionally " --Maria Bamford "Read this book before going to your next open...
Rob Durham has written a book on the ins and outs of being a stand-up comic. Hilarious and enlightening, he uses some funny experiences of his own wit...
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64,00 |
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The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences
ISBN: 9781602352421 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, THE LAUGHING STALK: LIVE COMEDY AND ITS AUDIENCES focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior. Performers, writers, historians, producers, and theorists explore the practice and reception of live comedy performance, including cultural and historical variations in comedy audience conduct, the reception of "low" versus "high" comedy, and the differences between televised and live jokes. Contributors reflect on the subjectivity of audience members and the spread of affect, as well as the two-way...
With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, THE LAUGHING STALK: LIVE COMEDY AND ITS AUDIENCES focuses...
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140,66 |
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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
ISBN: 9781617032493 / Angielski / Twarda / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick... The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 18... |
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272,60 |
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Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 9780573016509 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,73 |
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Dad's Army
ISBN: 9780573100147 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic BBC TV comedy series of the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea who battle daily against the Germans and local ARP Warden Hodges, comes to the stage complete with all the well-loved characters: "stupid boy" Pike, "Don't panic, don't panic" Jonesey, "Doomed, we're all doomed " Fraser, "May I be excused, sir?" Godfrey, and all under the command of the redoubtable Captain Mainwaring and his effacing deputy Sergeant Wilson. Also included in the volume is the Floral Dance Sketch. The plays may be presented together as an evening's entertainment or separately. If presented separately...
The classic BBC TV comedy series of the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea who battle daily against the Germans and local ARP Warden Hodges, comes to the...
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96,75 |
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Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema
ISBN: 9780804738934 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" The extraordinary emphasis on nervous pathology in the Parisian cafe-concert, where the genres of the Epileptic Singer and the Idiot Comic took center stage, and where popular comic monologues and songs included "Man with a Tic" and "I'm Neurasthenic," points to a fascinating intersection between medicine and popular culture. The French tradition of comic performance style between 1870 and...
Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the pe...
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467,31 |
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Dress To Kill
ISBN: 9780753504796 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eddie Izzard - action transvestite, boy racer and male tomboy - spent the 1990s conquering Britain. As the decade ended, he looked further afield. Dressed To Kill, his stand-up tour, saw him transport his high heels and off-the-shoulder numbers to New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, taking a natural comedian's delight in the differences separating the two sides of the Pond.
Eddie Izzard - action transvestite, boy racer and male tomboy - spent the 1990s conquering Britain. As the decade ended, he looked further afield. Dre...
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66,56 |
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62 Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens: More Real-Life Situations for Laughter
ISBN: 9781566081863 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work features easily staged scenes with believable teen characters in a variety of comic situations. People just can't get enough of Laurie Allen's comedy duet scenes Based on the popularity of her "Sixty Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens," this sequel was inevitable. Like her original, this funny book is written for middle and high school students, with a brand new collection of five- to ten-minute skits split evenly between scenes for females, males and mixed. Allen is a pro at capturing a teen's voice, and many of her competition pieces have gone all the way to national speech and...
This work features easily staged scenes with believable teen characters in a variety of comic situations. People just can't get enough of Laurie Allen...
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79,85 |
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Definemensional Harmontics: Conceptualize Recapitulation
ISBN: 9781475240993 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first published volume or book when I started self-publishing. What I am about to say the student will not understand because the last is first and the first is last. If you read from the tenth book to the first you will, 'Review learning.' If you read from book one to book ten and study hard, you will be sneaking up on the eighth speech. We believe the model of your world (MOW) starts with the thoughts you elude from the Unconscious (eloquent) statements that are Modalities for teaching the eighth speech especially when an old Chinese fortune cookie tells us, Character cannot be...
This is the first published volume or book when I started self-publishing. What I am about to say the student will not understand because the last is ...
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60,03 |
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Putz: A Play in Two Acts
ISBN: 9781478108207 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PUTZ, Michael B. Druxman's two-character comedy, explores the vicissitudes of the father & son relationship. Alan Nathan is a twice-divorced Jewish screenwriter who can't understand why his beloved son, Marty, is suddenly causing him problems. Not only has the high school senior begun criticizing Alan's self-indulgent lifestyle, but he's now decided to quit school and go on the road as a rock musician. "If only he had lived with me all these years," Alan bemoans, "instead of his mother, my son's head wouldn't be so screwed up." Tragedy strikes. Alan gets his wish. The boy moves in, and it's a...
PUTZ, Michael B. Druxman's two-character comedy, explores the vicissitudes of the father & son relationship. Alan Nathan is a twice-divorced Jewish sc...
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33,98 |
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Hail on the Chief!: A Comedy in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781478108177 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if you hated your next door neighbor...and he has just been elected President of the United States? In Michael B. Druxman's outrageous comedy, HAIL ON THE CHIEF , cantankerous gentleman rancher Oliver Pettridge hates his neighbor, a former cowboy movie star. He's hated him for years over a property line dispute. As the play begins, the neighbor has just been elected President of the United States. Now, Oliver must deal with all the inconveniences that anyone living next to the President must endure...including a paranoid Secret Service Agent. After the agent "bugs" Oliver's house,...
What if you hated your next door neighbor...and he has just been elected President of the United States? In Michael B. Druxman's outrageous comedy, HA...
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33,98 |
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Impressions Junior: Definemensional Harmontics is a books series each requisite to the next book in a sequential order for learners. Book
ISBN: 9781475204551 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book written in Surrealism and Automatism redundantly is the evolution of the human being especially reaching Autism. We use capitals and italic meaning the concept may have more than one meaning as a style of writing. This is not a social science but a Concept Science may confuse the Critical Mind of other professionals. Challenging without comprehensions will create exhaustion. This book is redundant in Symbolic Logic. 'Unparallel Parodies, ' means attack is warranted in the age of competition complimenting the little Comic. The little Comic has little chance of success if not skillful...
This book written in Surrealism and Automatism redundantly is the evolution of the human being especially reaching Autism. We use capitals and italic ...
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60,03 |
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The Lost Mind of Buffalo Morgan: Sick & Funny Comedy from Buffalo's Vegas Show
ISBN: 9781938634215 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So I'm on stage, in Vegas, doing my act and this older fella is sitting up front. After every punch line, he'd say, "Huh, what was that?" and I'd repeat the punch line. After a while of this, I told him I'd write a book of my act and he can read it. He laughed and said he'd buy it. So did about a dozen people in the audience... DING
So I'm on stage, in Vegas, doing my act and this older fella is sitting up front. After every punch line, he'd say, "Huh, what was that?" and I'd repe...
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35,42 |
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Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition
ISBN: 9781137378729 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role comedy played in an entertainment form known mostly for striptease, and explores how these sketch performers approached their craft.
The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role c...
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201,72 |
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Bingo: The Winning Musical
ISBN: 9780573700194 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bingo is a splashy, zippy, fun new musical comedy - great for theatres looking to produce a small musical with a big heart. Bingo is about a group of die-hard bingo players who stop at nothing to miss their weekly game. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long lost friends reunite. These lovable characters spring to life with a smart, funny script and bouncy, hummable score. Audiences will be laughing in the aisles when they aren't playing games of bingo along with the cast
Best friends and Bingo pals Vern, Honey and... Bingo is a splashy, zippy, fun new musical comedy - great for theatres looking to produce a small musical with a big heart. Bingo is abo...
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60,80 |
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Momologues 2: Off to School
ISBN: 9780573700279 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The MOM crew is at it again "MOMologues2: Off to School" offers a frank and funny look at the true tales of motherhood, from homework hell to multitasking mania. Four separate characters tell their individual stories, either directly to the audience in monologues, or in scenes with each other. Moms everywhere will laugh in recognition at the playdates gone wrong, the crazy way to get a Mom day off, how to stalk a potential babysitter, and much more.
The MOM crew is at it again "MOMologues2: Off to School" offers a frank and funny look at the true tales of motherhood, from homework hell to multita...
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53,17 |
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