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A Life Less Ordinary
John Hodge
He's a down-on-his-luck janitor with aspirations of writing the great American trash novel. She's the spoiled, sharp-tongued boss's daughter, always looking for a creative way to spice up her boring life. Normally, these two would never meet, but a higher power has different plans for both of them. The major motion picture from 20th Century Fox starring Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz and Holly Hunter hits the box office in October.
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A Midsummer Night\'s Dream
William Shakespeare
A dramatic exploration of the nature of love and marriage.
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Girl
John Quinn
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl is a collection of portraits of childhood in Ireland by nine women writers. The portraits reveal the early influences and environment which shaped the lives of these nine women. Authors include Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Polly Devlin, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Mary Lavin, Joan Lingard and Dervla Murphy.
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Army of Shadows
John Harris
the bombing mission had gone well. the crew of the lancaster bomber began to relax. then the Messerchmitt came out of the darkness, its guns blazing. of the nine-man crew only neville and Urquhart survived, parachuting into the heart of occupied France. now, for both of them , the testing time had begun
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Brilliant Lies
David Williamson
A two-act play script dramatising the current male backlash against feminism and men trying to cope with the new social order. Includes short introductory essays by Aubrey Mellor and Greg Tillett. The playwright has written many successful plays during his 23 years of writing including 'The Removalists' and 'Don's Party'(which were both made into films), 'The Department' and 'The Club' (which broke box office records), and more recently 'Money and Friends'. He is the recipient of several Australian Film Institute and Australian Writers' Guild Awgie Awards.
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Cambridge Student Guide to King Lear
Celeste Flower
This guide to 'King Lear' has been written for advanced level students of English literature.What is King Lear about? This Cambridge Student Guide will help students to evaluate the historical, social and cultural contexts for a broader understanding of Shakespeare's play. Contents include an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.
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Children and Drama
Nellie McCaslin
Leading historic and contemporary educators in the field of children's drama education describe personal experiences and field research in drama education in the US, the UK, and the British Commonwealth. The layout is dense and uninviting, with a few poor-quality bandw photos. The book has a plastic comb binding. This third edition represents contemporary practices throughout the English-speaking world. McCaslin teaches in the Program in Educational Theater at New York University. c. Book News Inc.
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Cloudstreet
Tim Winton
Cloudstreet is a sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name.
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Drama in Performance
Raymond Williams
Reprint of revised edition of 1968 with a new introduction and bibliography. Dramaturgical analysis of the works of key periods from the Greek to contemporary film. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Educating Rita
Willy Russell
Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is "simply a marvelous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending."-Sunday Times "Like Roots and Pygmalion ... a touching play about the melancholic ways education often pulls people apart instead of bringing them together."-Guardian "Mr. Russell has taken a look at two segments of English society and engineered a collision that is as full of regret as it is of promise ... the deft moments of its best comedy are splendidly refreshing."-The Times Educating Rita premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in June 1980. Voted Best Comedy of 1980, it was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.
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Entertaining Mr Sloane
Joe Orton
Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a year before Joe Orton's untimely death - that theatre audiences and critics began to more fully appreciate the originality of Orton's elegant, alarming and hilarious writing. Introduced by John Lahr, the author of Orton's biography Prick up Your Ears, Entertaining Mr Sloane is now established as an essential part of the repertoire of the modern theatre.
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Four Little Girls
Pablo Picasso
Picasso wrote his two plays, DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL and THE FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, just after the Second World War. THE FOUR LITTLE GIRLS is just as devoid of plot, in the acceptable sense of the word, as DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL. It communicates a feelilng of the unexpectedly evil side of childhood, explored in strange verbal symbolism and bizarre and disturbing visual imagery. Its effect is powerful, disturbing and brilliant. Picasso\'s illustrations, contained in this volume, perfectly complement the changing moods of the text.
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare's "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script.
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How to Make It in Hollywood
Linda Buzzell
Renowned psychotherapist and career counselor Linda Buzzell is the expert in knowing how to create and develop a career in Hollywood. With this book, she shows you how to look at your personality, your strengths, your weaknesses, your special skills, and your talents in order to target your personal goals and maximize your career success. She then explains all the jobs in Hollywood and how to find them, get them, and advance through each stage in your career. How To Make It in Hollywood includes everything you need to know about agents, managers, lawyers, the casting couch, chutzpah, schmoozing, networking, Godfather Calls, rhino skin, Power Rolodexes, handling rejection, constant unemployment, and keeping yourself on the track to your dreams when real life keeps telling you to give it all up and move back to Cincinnati!
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Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde
Wilde\'s drama combines epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This collection of his plays includes five of his wittiest and best-known plays, including Lady Windemere\'s Fan, his first great stage success, and Lord Alfred Douglas\'s translation of Salome, which Wilde originally wrote in French. Of The Importance of Being Earnest, his most famous play, Wilde wrote: \'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.\'
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Inside 01
Margaret Cameron
Collection of five plays in the Curretn Theatre series. 'bang! a critical fiction' is a quirky journey through the private musings of a cowboy. 'Public Dancing' portrays group house mentality, unemployment and rave culture. 'Svetlana in Slingbacks' is a comedic portrayal of Russian migrants in Australian suburbia and their struggle for dignity in a foreign land. 'Seven Days of Silence' maps seven meetings over seven days between a young and an old man, which escalate into a power struggle. 'Knowledge and Melancholy' explores questions of absence and presence. 'Ancient Enmity' explores the life of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker. Includes theatre program.
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