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Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors by Susannah Carson Publisher Comments Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture. We... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Five @ Fifty by Brad Fraser Publisher Comments A raw and darkly comedic look at turning fifty in contemporary society, and at the friendships we can't live without. When Olivia loses control at her birthday party, her friends decide to intervene once and for all, but perhaps each of these five women... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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Buchanan Dying: A Play by John Updike Publisher Comments To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blink (Oberon Modern Plays) by Phil Porter Publisher Comments This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same.... (read more) Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper
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It Is Solved by Walking by Catherine Banks Publisher Comments Winner of the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. After learning of the death of her former husband, Margaret begins to unearth the blissful and painful memories of their marriage, all through the lens of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Little Years by John Mighton Publisher Comments Kate could be a gifted mathematician, but it's the 1950s and she is hindered by the prejudices of her time. A heartbreaking tale of chauvinism, the nature of fame, and the passing of time from renowned playwright John Mighton, three-time winner of the... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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A Bomb in the Heart by Wajdi Mouawad Publisher Comments Wahab endures a blistering snow storm and irritating bus driver as he travels to his dying mother's hospital room. This new play from internationally-acclaimed Québécois playwright Wajdi Mouawad explores a young man's relationship... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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Leave of Absence by Lucia Frangione Publisher Comments A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare Made French by Jean-francois Ducis Publisher Comments An exciting collection of Jean-François Ducis' radical reworkings of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, penned on the eve of the French Revolution. Following the rules of French neoclassicism, the result is a trio of almost totally... (read more) Your price: $21.25 New - Trade Paper
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Lincoln: The Screenplay by Tony Kushner Publisher Comments "Splendid. . . . This is among the finest films ever made about American politics."The New York Times "A brilliant, brawling epic. . . . Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. .... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia by Timothy P. (edt) Daniels Publisher Comments The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are famous for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. Using ethnographic methods to analyze performance text, social and historical context, and local perspectives, the contributors... (read more) Your price: $85.00 New - Hardcover
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The Freud Scenario by Jean-paul Sartre Publisher Comments In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life when he abandoned hypnosis and invented psychoanalysis.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lovely Head and Other Plays by Neil Labute Publisher Comments Neil LaBute is arguably the most challenging, provocative, and acclaimed playwright of his generation. Lovely Head and Other Plays brings together his most masterful and affecting recent shorter works. The title play, which had its American premiere at... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Theatrical Improvisation, Consciousness, and Cognition by Clayton D. Drinko, Ph.d. Publisher Comments Improvisation teachers Viola Spolin, Del Close, and Keith Johnstone knew that with structure and guidelines, the human mind could be trained to be effortlessly spontaneous and intuitive. Cognitive studies is finally catching up with what improvisers have... (read more) Your price: $67.50 New - Hardcover
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Blue Box by Carmen Aguirre Publisher Comments Interweaving recollections of her revolutionary life in Chile under Augusto Pinochet's regime with her fleeting attempts to realize a "vision" of love in Los Angeles, Carmen Aguirre's one-woman show Blue Box is a fiery proclamation of carnal yearning... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Weavers of Dreams, Unite!: Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America by Sean P. Holmes Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite! explores the history of actors' unionism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the onset of the Great... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet by Nick Payne Publisher Comments Fifteen-year-old Anna is bullied by her classmates for being overweight. Her mother, Fiona, decides to transfer her to the school where she teaches, but that only makes things worse. Annas father, George, is no help—hes too obsessed... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee Publisher Comments One of Edward Albee's most celebrated works, A Delicate Balance premiered on Broadway in 1966 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, the first of three he has received for his work. The play revolves around wealthy middle-aged couple Agnes and... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Richard Barr: The Playwright's Producer by David Allison Crespy Publisher Comments In Richard Barr: The Playwright’s Producer, author David A. Crespy investigates the career of one of the theatre’s most vivid luminaries, from his work on the film and radio productions of Orson Welles to his triumphant—and final—... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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How to Act Like a Kid: Backstage Secrets of a Young Performer by Henry Hodges Publisher Comments Henry Hodges has spent the last twelve years either on stage or in front of a camera. From playing Chip in Beauty and the Beast to Jeremy Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Michael Banks in Mary Poppins, Henry literally has lived on Broadway for most... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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