Twelve Angry Men (Samuel French Edn) by Reginald Rose
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Acting Edition S.
SHADOWLANDS by William Nicholson
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
William Nicholsons Tony nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC Teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and childrens author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. Shadowlands shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great mans relationships, even with God. A full-cast ...Show more
Haunted by Edna O'Brien
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Haunted: quaint, sherry-tippling English matrimonial misery. Mr. Berry is a randy old codger with itchy feet and a tendency to wax nostalgic. Mrs. Berry, a long-suffering harridan, toils thanklessly in a doll factory. Enter Hazel, a pert waif with immaculate ingenue credentials (impoverished, do-gooder ...Show more
Theatre by David Mamet
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in "Theatre", the acclaimed author of "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed the Plow", calls for nothing less than the ...Show more
Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard in a Version by Andrew Upton by Andrew Upton
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Hear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, watch. Just you watch. I will build holiday villas, as far as the eye can see. I will build a place for everyone to come and enjoy. For the future. And this wil ...Show more
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" op ...Show more
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, "Endgame" was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM - Clov! CLOV - Yes. HAMM - Nature has forgotten us. CLOV - There's no more nature. HAMM - No more nature! You exaggerate. CLOV In the vicinity. H ...Show more
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. "Contested Will" unravels the mystery of when and why s ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Reading Level: very good
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, "Antigone" - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.
Harold Pinter Plays 4 by Harold Pinter
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
This fourth collection of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's work includes the plays BETRAYAL, MONOLOGUE, ONE FOR THE ROAD, MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE, FAMILY VOICES, A KIND OF ALASKA, VICTORIA STATION, PRECISELY, THE NEW WORLD ORDER, PARTY TIME, MOONLIGHT, ASHES TO ASHES, and CELEBRATION. First published 1993; ...Show more
Philip Larkin - Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun ...Show more