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41) Battle Royal
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1795: England is at war with France, women are seen but not heard, and the Prince Regent, a man with 'an undeserved reputation for enjoying the amusements of his position whilst not embracing duties', is under pressure to marry and produce and heir.
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The book examines the various ways in which theatre responds to our psychological needs. It begins with how we present our own personal drama and goes on to look at theatre as the means by which we give events personal and corporate significance. Theatre enables us to overcome our reluctance to face psychological pain and so helps us towards healing, concentrating on its balance of protection and exposureits principal contribution to health and its...
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¿Qué relación hay entre voluntad y fe? ¿Qué hace que algo sea verosímil? ¿Qué papel ocupa la voluntad en la sugestión? El dramaturgo y director de escena Pablo Messiez escribe y dirige La voluntad de creer, una obra que toma como punto de partida Ordet, la película de Dreyer, para aproximarse a la muerte y la resurrección. Como protagonista encontramos al menor de una familia de hermanos que sostiene ser Jesús de Nazaret. Sus hermanas...
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The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Victorian performers and managers were used for such a purpose, with the British newspapers covering the good, the bad and the ugly side of life on the stage during the nineteenth century. Viewed through the prism of Victorian newspapers, and in particular through...
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Un grupo de profesores especialistas del teatro español, francés e italiano reflexionan desde la teatralidad franciscana medieval hasta los orígenes de la tragedia, el teatro como espectáculo y el espacio escénico, sin dejar de lado a autores como Carlo Gozzi o Giovan Battista Gelli. Un elenco de investigadores que rinden un merecido homenaje a Federico Doglio, creador del «Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale», quien supo fusionar...
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Han pasado 10 años desde que Quique vio a Paula por última vez. Fue un amor de otro mundo y no solo por la diferencia de edad, también porque pertenecían a universos muy diferentes. Aún así se amaban con todo, a pesar de saber, o quizá precisamente por eso, que su historia no era posible. Ahora, desde la serenidad del paso del tiempo, volverán a encontrarse. Quique tiene algo importante que decirle a Paula.
Eva ayudará a Quique a afrontar...
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Vanas repeticiones del olvido contiene-en una edición preparada por el propio autor-la obra dramática de Eusebio Calonge escrita entre 1992 y 2022 principalmente para La Zaranda, pero también para otras compañías. En palabras del propio autor, estas obras se reúnen con la intención de facilitar «una visión completa, todo el horizonte de un lenguaje. Creo que existen en el mío unas corrientes constantes: la meditación sobre el propio sentido...
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Ben and Susan Zucker-Feld arrive at the home of Rev. Jack Reed and his wife Virginia. Their children, Jessica and John, have recently become engaged. This is the couples' first meeting. The Reeds are Christian evangelicals who recently moved from Wichita, Kansas to the Washington DC are. The Zucker-Felds are Jewish liberals. The two couples try to bridge the gaps between their two worlds - but find it difficult to forge a common language. When their...
49) The Home Place
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The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher's English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg.
50) Leaving
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Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years?
While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student...
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Dracula stalks the stage in this two-act thriller freely adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. Perfect for any company or community looking for a Halloween play requiring a large ensemble cast. (8 Male, 6 female, and 2 children - casting can be flexible) This version of the classic vampre tale focuses on Mina Murray, a suffragette and proto-feminist fighting social mores and facing an encroaching force for evil.Suspenseful, smart, and surprising.Includes...
52) Dead 2 Rights
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Archetypical Corporation is holding its annual meeting. CEO Gordon Mullens believes profits are looking up. But shareholder Anne Stratton insists the company is cooking the books and has evidence to prove it! If only they could find someone to hook up the overhead projector.But before anyone can find assistance, the meeting is interrupted by the Golden Guild Used Book Club. They also have reserved the room. Now if they could find someone to straighten...
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In his new play, Chaucer in Rome, it is the year 2000, and Ron and his wife come to Rome to search for their son. And with his inimitable wit and understanding, Guare has written a scathingly funny satire on the warping hunger for fame, and the betrayal involved in creating art.
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When a young Indian woman named Cornelia Sorabji stepped into a law class at Oxford's Somerville Hall in 1891, the male students and faculty assumed she was there to serve them tea... or to commence searching for a suitable English husband.
They were gravely mistaken on both counts.
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With the paranormal becoming so mainstream in the last decade between television, books, and movies, is the craze actually brand new? Before there was the entertainment industry that we know of today, plays and musicals were one of the primary forms of expression and reflections of societys beliefs of their time. This book will cover an analysis of the belief in the supernatural throughout the course of humanitys existence and showing that in a way,...
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. This volume, Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor, illustrates how well...
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short...
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Elaine Stritch: The End of Pretend is a book about an extraordinary life. It chronicles the twilight of actress Elaine Stritch's career, offering a rare first-person and no-holds-barred glimpse into the private persona of a Broadway legend.
Told primarily in Stritch's own words, The End of Pretend provides an unvarnished portrait of this brutal and most honest truth teller. Her personality commands the page with full force.
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Descubrir a Susan Glaspell, una de las voces más carismáticas y originales de principios del siglo XX, es una apasionante sorpresa. Cofundadora de los Provincetown Players, se dejó arrastrar por los sueños e ideales de su marido, para crear un teatro vanguardista genuinamente norteamericano. Las consagradas dotes de esta dramaturga enmarcan en el espacio temporal de la conducta humana las cuatro breves obras recogidas en este volumen escritas...
60) Original Sin
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Angel, a spell-bindingly beautiful boy, is plucked from the streets to be the plaything of a wealthy newspaper proprietor. This street-boy turned socialite moves with ease between the worlds of privilege and poverty in 1890s Paris and London. Angel's rapid success turns as swiftly into self-destruction as he is caught in a downward spiral of obsession, money, murder, suicide and white slavery.
Original Sin premiered at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre...
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