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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Hood is reeling from drink, while his wife reads self-help books and loses patience with her husband's lies. Their son Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring girl, and Wendy Hood is roaming the neighborhood looking for something new.
2) Focus
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, a Brooklyn man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jewish and harrassed by their anti-Semitic neighbors.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Four extra-terrestrials suddenly materialize in the college town of Rutherford, Ohio. Disguised as humans, they name themselves the Solomons. On the surface, this family functions as normal as possible, but underneath they are out of sync with every person on the planet. Their mission from The Big Giant Head is to study this confusing planet and its confounding inhabitants while trying to gain acceptance on Earth.
5) Heathers
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Veronica is part of the exclusive high school clique ruled by the "Heathers", but gets tired of playing their power games. She starts dating the new guy at school, who decides murder is the best solution to the problem.
6) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him. This East German classic is praised by critics as one of...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Le théâtre autochtone connaît depuis une trentaine d'années une véritable renaissance. Puisant à ses formes traditionnelles, mais tout autant aux ressources du théâtre d'avant-garde contemporain, cette renaissance s'inscrit dans une dynamique de transformation des expressions théâtrales. Les oeuvres dramatiques d'Ondinnok (Yves Sioui Durand et Catherine Joncas), de Monique Mojica et de Drew Hayden Taylor sont ainsi mises en résonance avec...
Author
Language
English
Description
How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing from the Greek chorus to Reminiscence Theatre. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances, and practices to the material, social and ideological conditions...
10) Medieval People
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book contains a series of sketches that aim to illustrate various aspects of social life in the Middle Ages. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in European history. Contents include: "The Precursors", "Bodo, A Frankish Peasant In The Time Of Charlemagne", "Marco Polo, A Venetian Traveller Of The Thirteenth Century", "Madame Eglentyne, Chaucer's Prioress In Real Life", "The Ménagier's Wife, A Paris Housewife In The Fourteenth...
Author
Language
English
Description
Concluding the "Church and State" trilogy of plays that began with Doubt and Defiance, Storefront Church tells the story of a Bronx Borough President who is forced by the mortgage crisis into a confrontation with a local minister. Blending earthy humor and philosophical reflection, this compassionate morality tale is an exploration of the often thorny relationship between spiritual experience and social action. John Patrick Shanley is the author of...
12) Cul-de-sac
Author
Language
English
Description
In his latest collaboration with director Daniel Brooks, MacIvor plays the role of Leonard, who narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself. Through the course of the play, we peer behind the curtains of his neighborhood as MacIvor transforms into the multiple characters who bear witness to Leonard's life and death.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Two grown sisters confront the memory of their parents' tragic death. This revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco's translation of Michel Tremblay's original French text. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
15) Six Plays
Author
Language
English
Description
Uniquely adept at capturing the idiomatic poetry of his native South, Linney maneuvers with equal grace through the vernacular of New York's contemporary intelligentsia and the voices of a wide range of historical figures.
Author
Language
English
Description
The first collection of plays by one of the most moving and astonishing writers of the last 15 years. Though critics reflexively class his work as "magical realism," Rivera's extravagant, original imagery always serves to illuminate the gritty realities and touching longings of our daily lives. Also includes: Each Day Dies with Sleep and Cloud Tectonics.
20) Five Plays
Author
Language
English
Description
By depicting the everyday trials of ordinary Americans, critically acclaimed playwright Samuel D. Hunter "writes with unusual insight into, and empathy for, people whose lives have settled into sad stasis" (New York Times). Hunter's compassionate eye for the quiet, lonely struggles of his Idahoan characters makes his plays desperately and painfully human. The talented writer demonstrates his knack for exposing the pathos in marginalized lives with...
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