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1) Plays
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Plays features "There are Crimes and Crimes," a play about intoxication and failure, which the author said was his triumph after a crisis at age fifty, and "Miss Julia," a complex work about power in all its forms-including love. Also included are "The Stronger," "Creditors," and "Pariah."
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TRIFLES - First performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Mass., August 8, 1916. GEORGE HENDERSON (County Attorney), HENRY PETERS (Sheriff), LEWIS HALE, A neighboring farmer. MRS PETERS, MRS HALESCENE: The kitchen is the now abandoned farmhouse of JOHN WRIGHT, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in order-unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the table-other...
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Immerse yourself in the world of Oscar Wilde with the collection: "The Plays of Oscar Wilde." Containing all of Wilde's plays, this collection is a must-have for every bookshelf. Oscar Wilde was born in mid-1800's Dublin to highly intellectual parents. He found a niche in the growing trend of aestheticism and was mentored by Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Although he dabbled in short stories and poems at the beginning of his career, Wilde was taken...
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From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness—a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether you're an extrovert or introvert, socially adept or socially anxious.
Can you judge a book by its cover?
Is a friend in need truly a friend indeed?
Does love...
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Our first ever collection of plays with multiple roles for large casts. Suitable for schools, colleges, youth theatres, amateur dramatic societies and community groups to perform. This great collection of critically acclaimed plays has been produced internationally.
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Twice Upon a Time
Somewhere in the distant future a creature deceives a young warrior into entering the Otherworld. Can he find
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Plays Pleasant George Bernard Shaw - "Plays Pleasant" is a collection of four plays by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1898: Arms and the Man; Candida; The Man of Destiny; and, You Never Can Tell.
One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour...
11) Plays of Praise
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Dear Reader,
Plays of Praise is a compilation of plays to be preformed in churches or religious settings. These plays are intended to portray serious issues confronting the church in today's society. The care of our loved ones in senior care living facilities, the premarital sex decision, the forgive vs. retaliation dilemma, and the consequences of sexual lust, are examined in these plays.
The church cannot hide these issues in the storage room,...
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"There's an irresistible joy to reading these plays...examining them at leisure without the urgent propulsive forward movement of the theater, reveals beauties and resonances uniquely literary." -Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater, from his foreword
Plays for The Public includes:
The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah)
Idiot Savant
Old-Fashioned Prostitutes
This volume features the two plays sumptuously produced...
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She got more than she'd expected when she took this job!
Paisley Szuzman came to the Laurel Ridge Ranch in Daly, Wyoming to interview for an administrative position, but she's shocked, and secretly aroused, to find that the job might entail more than she envisioned. Anyone filling this spot must meet the criteria of plays well with others, and the "others" are the joint owners of the ranch- four hunky cowboys who are pure, rugged temptation. Bohemian...
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This 1873 collection displays Kingsley's wide-ranging interests. In the title essay, he suggests that Victorian attitudes toward art resemble those of the Puritans. The book also includes "Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time," and a review of James Anthony Froude's history of England.
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Mark W. Lee's award-winning plays premiered in New York, London and Los Angeles. Four of these plays can be found in this collection along with essays that describe how, and why, each play was written.
CALIFORNIA DOG FIGHT
Four men and two women meet at an illegal dogfight on the Sacramento delta. Written in the 1980's, the play presaged the growing rage, resentment and violence that dominate American politics and culture in the twenty-first century.
REBEL...
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Sometimes one needs to indulge in the pastel whimsies of Dunsany. This mood overtakes me every so often. It happened recently, so I read this substantial book of his plays. I found each piece to be enchanting, humorous, witty at times, fairly clever and pleasingly ridiculous. The first and longest of the plays, entitled simply 'If', is the best and the most inventive. It's a time travel story that involves a wish and a chance to change one incident...
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Plays for Today by Women
A wide-ranging collection of plays by women dealing with contemporary subjects such as sexual abuse, recession, war, poverty and the complexity of modern women's lives.
Many roles for women and girls provided. Suitable for study or for performance or as part of courses in Women's Studies or Feminist Theatre Studies.
All the plays have been produced and performed in the UK to acclaim and are written by commissioned playwrights....
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Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century. In addition to his famous fantasy stories he was also an accomplished playwright. Collected here are four of his plays: 'The Laughter of the Gods', 'The Queen's Enemies', 'The Tents of the Arabs', 'A Night at an Inn'. Fantastic settings combined with vivid characters make these plays most memorable.
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Four short plays by the acknowledged master of fantasy in which the simple language is at variance with the profundity of the themes. A must read for fantasy fans, particularly turn of the 20th century fantasy with its unique blend of history, real world locations and Ruritanias, aristocrat heroes and ruffian anti-heroes.
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