Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019

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Alice Kingsleigh is a young woman at a crossroads. Not knowing what she wants from life, she is being pushed, pulled, strong-armed, and confused into doing what everyone expects of her. A marriage proposal in front of friends and family pushes Alice over the edge and down the rabbit hole into a place she hasn't visited since her father died 10 years before. Only problem is, she's now a very different person, has no memories of Underland, and is somehow...

2) Alice in Wonderland

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Series

Alice in Wonderland

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A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

3) Hairspray live!

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Set in 1962, Tracy Turnblad becomes an overnight sensation after appearing on a Baltimore TV dance show. With her newfound popularity, she twists and shakes her hometown, teaching them a thing or two about racial equality, and of course, the power of big hair.

4) hairspray motion picture 2007

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5) All's well that ends well

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Works

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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"Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic play about gender, desire, and sexual love. This volume also includes more than a hundred pages of exclusive features: An original Introduction to "All's Well That Ends Well"; Incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work; Commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors,...

6) As you like it

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Graphic Shakespeare (Magic Wagon)

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explantions and full desciptions of each character.

7) The comedy of errors

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Graphic Shakespeare (Magic Wagon)

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...

8) Macbeth

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Timeless Shakespeare

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Book, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...

9) Hairspray live!: original soundtrack of the NBC television event

Author

Shaiman, Marc

10) The elimination: A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields

Author

Rithy Panh

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A Khmer Rouge memoir, for those who want to know more about Cambodian Rock Band.

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"From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor's autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only eleven years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides...

11) Never fall down: a novel

Author

McCormick, Patricia

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A teen novel about life under the Khmer Rouge. Share with teens who have or will seen Cambodian Rock Band.

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Soldiers march into Arn's hometown in Cambodia and he is separated from his family and sent to a labor camp. He plays revolutionary songs for the soldiers, which saves his life, but puts him in the center of the Killing Fields.

12) When broken glass floats: growing up under the Khmer Rouge, a memoir

Author

Him, Chanrithy

Notes

A Khmer Rouge memoir, for those who want to know more about Cambodian Rock Band.

13) As you like it

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Rosalind is the daughter of banished Duke Senior and is being raised at the court of Duke Frederick, with her cousin Celia. She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia goes with Rosalind. Disguised as the boy Ganymede, Rosalind enters the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing...

14) Retablos: stories from a life lived along the border

Author

Solis, Octavio

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By the playwright of Mother Road

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"Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border" --

15) The grapes of wrath

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Notes

Mother Road is inspired by Grapes of Wrath

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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...

16) Hairspray

Author

Shaiman, Marc

17) Hairspray

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Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.