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38641) The Fish Eyes Trilogy
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Fish Eyes is the story of Meena, a classically trained Indian dancer who, despite being obsessed with Bollywood movies and her dance career, just wants to be like the rest of her high-school friends. When she develops a massive crush on Buddy, the popular boy at school, Meena contemplates turning down an incredible opportunity to pursue him, even if he barely notices her.
Boys With Cars follows Naz, also a classically trained Indian dancer, who dreams...
38642) El Gran Parque
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Este libro incluye cinco obras teatrales de una de las dramaturgas más importantes de México: "El Gran Parque", "El parque I", "El parque II", "El parque III" y "El parque encantado". El espacio une y separa, reúne y convoca a personajes tipo de los parques del México de ayer y de hoy, pero también seres muy singulares que viven grandes y, en otros momentos, graciosas pasiones de ánimo en los parques de México.
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What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage-the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus-emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular...
38644) Le Fanatisme: Tragédie
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Extrait: "ZOPIRE: Qui? moi, baisser les yeux devant ses faux prodiges! Moi, de ce fanatique encenser les prestiges! L'honorer dans la Mecque après l'avoir banni! Non. Que des justes dieux Zopire soit puni Si tu vois cette main, jusqu'ici libre et pure, Caresser la révolte et flatter l'imposture! PHANOR: Nous chérissons en vous ce zèle paternel Du chef auguste et saint du sénat d'Ismaël; Mais ce zèle est funeste; et tant de résistance, Sans...
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“Russia, Freaks and Foreigners” is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald, who has cerebral palsy, these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within authority, offering various models of difference-physical, cultural, and moral-and their stories of dislocation. Their themes, contextualized here by companion...
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This study of Japanese music explore Nagauta or literally "long song"-the delicate and complex music that accompanies kabuki theater-in great detail. The Kabuki theater of Japan has achieved a growing reputation as one of the world's most brilliant achievements in the field of theater. And the number of studies made on the subject in the West has been considerable. Yet, in spite of the fact that so much of the unique brilliance of the kabuki stage...
38647) Reimagining American Theatre
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In his collection of essays and reviews, Robert Brustein makes the argument that the American Theatre is enjoying a renaissance that has not been unacknowledged.
38648) #OUCH!: An Accidental Comedy
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger... or crazy... or both. "#OUCH! (An Accidental Comedy)" is a hilarious account of one woman's adventure in the modern American health care system. From the moment her dog leaves her broken in the mud, it's a wild ride. At the mercy of policemen who legally can't touch her and EMTs who legally can drug her, she winds up in trauma surgery at a hospital where a mystery rash is sweeping the wards. Between the missionary...
38649) The Government Inspector
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In "The Government Inspector," Gogol satirizes corruption and incompetence in a small Russian town. Mistaking a lowly clerk for a high-ranking government official, the townspeople go to great lengths to please him. The comedy unfolds as the imposter revel
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Extrait : " LE CHEVALIER, assis à gauche près de la table : Pasquin, o vas-tu ? PASQUIN, remontant vers le fond : Monsieur, je vais me jeter à l'eau. LE CHEVALIER, se levant : Attends-moi. Connais-tu dans le monde entier un plus malheureux homme que ton maître ? PASQUIN, revenant : Oui, monsieur, j'en suis un plus malheureux sans contredit. LE CHEVALIER : Et qui ? PASQUIN : Votre valet, monsieur, le pauvre Pasquin. LE CHEVALIER : En connais-tu...
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I am a person with Dystonia a rare muscle disorder that knocked me down a lot but never knocked me out. I am a storyteller, but when stories are told as truth it is a lie. This book is my redemption, also an apology to thousands of people I hope will find it in their heart to forgive me. I wrote this as an autobiography that will continue Lord willing for the next hundred years of my life.
38652) Pebble Stones
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**Title:** "Umut's Tale: A Journey of Hope"**Description:**In a world where stories of struggle, hope, and resilience often intertwine, "Umut's Tale: A Journey of Hope" unfolds as a poignant narrative that touches upon the intricate web of human emotions, relationships, and aspirations. Written by [Your Name], this heartfelt novel delves into the lives of Nurcan and Cesur, two individuals who find themselves navigating the depths of adversity, forging...
38653) The St. Leonard Chronicles
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From the award-winning author of stage hits Mambo Italiano and In Piazza San Domenico comes a delicious, saucy new comedy about Terry and Robert, a young couple with roots in the Italian neighbourhood of St. Leonard in Montreal. The couple's newly renovated duplex has barely a hint of gilded rococo--not just a cultural infraction, but also an ominous sign that all is not as it should be. Eager to break free of family ties that are bound too tight,...
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Colored Flames presents five original plays from the mind of Florence J. Mills. These plays tug on the human heartstring. They make you laugh and they make you cry. You get a glimpse into the lives of characters who may very well resemble someone you know because the situations are very realistic and riveting. Each play looks at life from a different perspective. Ms. Mills draws on her experience with life as well as her observation of life and moves...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
Le 5 mai 1664, la cour de France se rend à Versailles pour assister aux Plaisirs de l'île enchantée, la première des grandes fêtes du règne de Louis XIV. Pendant près de dix jours, démonstrations équestres, festins, feux d'artifice et représentations théâtrales se succèdent...
38656) La Joie fait peur
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Extrait: "Un petit salon. Au fond, une porte à deux ballants ouvrant sur le théâtre; de chaque cté de la porte, un canapé. A droite, dans l'angle, une fenêtre à balcon avec de grands rideaux. Au premier plan, une cheminée; une table servant à dessiner est près de la fenêtre; un fauteuil sur le devant de la scène."
38657) The Blue Light
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Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. A thought-provoking contemplation on art, politics, and the seduction of fascism, and a theatrical examination of a woman who danced one perfect dance with the devil and forever changed the way films are made.
Leni Riefenstahl was...
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Extrait: "BAPTISTE, seul; il est au fond près du mur, et regarde dans la campagne. Quel est ce nuage de poussière? Serait-ce déjà la voiture de madame Césarine de Rouvres? On m'en verrait surpris, car il n'est pas midi, et M. Durandin n'attend cette dame qu'à deux heures. Mais ce n'est point une voiture. (Regardant avec plus d'attention.) Des jeunes gens avec de grandes pipes, des jeunes filles avec de grands chapeaux!..."
38659) Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar
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Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), Paul Laurence Dunbar earned a reputation as an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and examine the diversity of the African American experience. In her poems, plays, and stories, Alice Dunbar Nelson explores...
38660) Job
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El teatro dentro del teatro no es un artificio en esta obra, sino parte intrínseca de su universo moral. En apariencia sólo se cuestionan las más frívolas maneras de la ética y la estética teatral; pero Job encierra una sorpresa: resulta que un viejo actor es un inmortal que ha sobrevivido al tiempo para hacerse una y otra vez las preguntas esenciales sobre el sentido de la vida. "¡Qué absurdo pensar en un ser absurdo!" exclama poco antes...
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