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"A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the transformative power of drag--perfect for fans of RuPaul's Drag Race and Pumpkin. Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors about him are becoming more elaborate by the day. Meanwhile, his best friend Alan (aka teen drag queen Aggie Culture) is...
2) Cut loose!
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Thirteen-year-old Nat jumps at the chance to participate in the middle school regional theater competition where the winner gets to perform on Broadway, but when stressful rehearsals negatively impact her friendships, she starts to wonder if it is worth doing theater at all.
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Good sports league volume 2
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Annabella Donatello loves softball and performing so she is thrilled when she gets cast in the school play, on top of being pitcher of her softball team, but when when practice conflicts with opening night of the show she hatches a plan putting her softball and acting skills to the test.
4) The Pass
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In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream. Goals, girls and glory. Tomorrow they make their first-team debut. But the game starts before you've even walked out the tunnel.
Twelve years. Three hotel rooms. One last gamble.
An agile new story about sex, fame and how much you're willing to lose in order to win, The Pass premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2014.
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The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Victorian performers and managers were used for such a purpose, with the British newspapers covering the good, the bad and the ugly side of life on the stage during the nineteenth century. Viewed through the prism of Victorian newspapers, and in particular through...
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¿Qué relación hay entre voluntad y fe? ¿Qué hace que algo sea verosímil? ¿Qué papel ocupa la voluntad en la sugestión? El dramaturgo y director de escena Pablo Messiez escribe y dirige La voluntad de creer, una obra que toma como punto de partida Ordet, la película de Dreyer, para aproximarse a la muerte y la resurrección. Como protagonista encontramos al menor de una familia de hermanos que sostiene ser Jesús de Nazaret. Sus hermanas...
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Dracula stalks the stage in this two-act thriller freely adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. Perfect for any company or community looking for a Halloween play requiring a large ensemble cast. (8 Male, 6 female, and 2 children - casting can be flexible) This version of the classic vampre tale focuses on Mina Murray, a suffragette and proto-feminist fighting social mores and facing an encroaching force for evil.Suspenseful, smart, and surprising.Includes...
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El volumen I de 'El ciclo ruso' reúne dos obras de Matei Visniec ambientadas en la Rusia estalinista. En la primera de ellas, 'La historia del comunismo contada a enfermos mentales', Yury Petrovsky, un escritor oficialista, acude a un sanatorio para elaborar un relato sobre las bondades del régimen que puedan comprender los enfermos mentales. La segunda, 'Ricardo III no tendrá lugar o Escenas de la vida de Meyerhold', nos muestra al conocido director...
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In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change.
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Los montes son tuyos reúne dos piezas del director de escena, dramaturgo y performer Alberto Cortés: El Ardor (2021) y One night at the golden bar (2022).
En palabras de Rodrigo García Marina, autor del epílogo: «En el teatro de Alberto Cortés no aparecen animales drogados o muertos, nadie se hiere gratuitamente, los efectos especiales de la sangre y los fluidos son innecesarios. No está pensado para un presupuesto millonario, ni participan...
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A Comedy Murder Mystery Play in 2 Acts. Nothing much ever happens in the small town of Meridosa near Dead Man's Holler, nothing until now. A notorious outlaw Sergio Van Cleef is being kept in the jail for the night until Marshall Tucker can transport him to the train station to catch the 3:10 to Yuma. Mrs. Peacock, president of the Ladies Ethics Guild is none too happy about the arrangement, nor is she happy that the new Saloon "entertainer", Sadie...
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Cet ouvrage offre un récit inédit de Toronto, ville d'art et de culture traversée par la diversité linguistique. Le contact entre les langues laisse des traces, des documents et des souvenirs, notamment dans le domaine du théâtre auquel l'autrice porte ici toute son attention. En se penchant sur la dynamique matérielle du « voisinage linguistique » qui anime le devant et le derrière de la scène théâtrale, elle décrit le virage médiatique...
13) La imaginación mítica y el actor. Ejercicios, inspiración y consejos para el actor del siglo XXI
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La autora explora un enfoque diferente de actuación metódica con énfasis en lo mítico; ofrece una formación actoral sustentada en sus experiencias profesionales como actriz, dramaturga, directora de cine y docente. En el libro presenta indicaciones y formas de interpretar con objeto de que los actores pongan en práctica sus fuentes creativas más profundas.
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The origin, philosophy and work of Roy Hart Theatre is profound, in particular its research into the extended 'human voice', and it has been the subject of many books and serious disertations. Yet the story of Roy Hart Theatre at Malérargues has been equally dramatic, tragic, comic, touching, thrilling and entertaining as anything they have ever done on stage.
In 1974 forty-seven members of Roy Hart Theatre began their move from the gentile Hampstead...
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"Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child star who continued her pursuit for fame in a Manhattan...
16) Cupid's revenge
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2024.
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Unlike her friend Teddy, sixteen-year-old Tilly is not looking for a girlfriend, but when Teddy forms a crush on Katherine Cooper-Bunting, his co-star in their community theater production, Tilly finds herself also swooning over her.
17) The Promise
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It's the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel-the first practicing Jew ever to sit in a British Cabinet-dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine after 1800 years. However, his cousin, Edwin Montagu-also in the Cabinet-is implacably opposed to the idea, a conflict complicated by Montagu's passion for the beautiful aristocrat, Venetia Stanley, a confidante of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.
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18) Adúltera
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Adúltera es una obra polémica y moralizante, escrita por José Martí a los diecinueve años, durante su primer destierro de Cuba, en España. En medio de una exigencia extrema de lealtad, el autor retrata diferentes aristas de la especie humana a través de personajes de marcado carácter alegórico.
Adúltera tiene un final trágico: el amante muere a manos del marido traicionado y enloquecido. Martí escribió después sobre el asunto que lo...
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Este volumen reúne cinco obras dramáticas tempranas de Matei Visniec, escritas en rumano antes de que se exiliara a Francia en 1987. Las tres primeras tienen como eje central una espera que alude, más o menos discretamente, a la Rumanía autoritaria en que fueron escritas, pero también indagan en lo mejor y lo peor del ser humano y en las paradojas que lo envuelven. En 'Se contrata payaso viejo', tres viejos amigos que han leído un mismo anuncio...
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Comedy Murder mystery play. Return to the Golden age of the 1940s and the famous night club Chez Mort which was the scene of an unusual crime. As newspapers of the day reported: "Ingenue 'Sweet Sue' Blutowsky was mysteriously and fatally cut short during her debut singing performance. Inspector Constantine was quick on the scene to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the shocking events. In attendance that night was the infamous hoodlum...
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