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1) Richard II
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Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II". This edition features a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. The play is the first in Shakespeare's tetralogy chronicling the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and covers the battle for power between King Richard and Henry Bolingbroke (who would eventually be Henry IV). Embezzlement, exile and an uprising...
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On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
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The story is built around a Jamaican family who chose to leave Jamaica in search of a different life in another island; a small island as is referred to by many Jamaicans in condescension. They face challenges generated by their new environment and issues having its genesis in their own island. It is filled with intrigue, love, determination, and exposes the vagaries of our political systems. It forces us to think about our relationships with one...
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With Slight Pepper details the social education of Ronald "Tulum" Jones, as he navigates childhood to adulthood, having grown up in a conservative household and national culture that romanticized horn, a uniquely Trinidadian infidelity. Ronald's early experience with Trini-horn saw him tragically and violently lose his close mentor in a love triangle. Later, he discovered sexual voyeur and disappointment when he stumbled upon, respected neighbor,...
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Young Skylar Brocklin wants to have an adventure more than anything. He lives with his parents on a beautiful Caribbean island but thinks life there is boring. That all changes one day after a hurricane roars through and he finds a gold coin on the beach.
He befriends an old mountaineer named Jack Bonnier, better known to islanders as Mad Jack, who has had a lifetime of adventures in the mountains and now just wants to drink and relax. Skylar is...
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Since 1959, Derek Walcott has directed and written for the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The Joker of Seville, a comedy based on Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla, was commissioned by England's Royal Shakespeare Company. Walcott's sensitivity to the pacing, meter, and lyricism of the original makes his first attempt at adaptation an extraordinary accomplishment. O Babylon! brings life the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica, which grew during Marcus Garvey's...
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The three plays in this collection form a triptych--the central play, a farce, is flanked by two dramas. Together they span the last four decades of Trinidad's social and political history, beginning, in The Last Carnival, with the colonial life-style of a French Creole family faced with the emergence of the Black Power movement, and ending, in A Branch of the Blue Nile, with the conflict among members of a small theatre company in contemporary Port-of-Spain....
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Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate
On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into...
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Feeling the Gaze explores the visual elements in eight contemporary Argentine and Chilean theater performances. Gail A. Bulman shows how staged images can awaken spectators' emotions to activate their intellect, provoking nuanced and deep contemplation of social, historical, and political themes. Ranging from simple props, costumes, body movements and spatial constructions to integrated media and digital images, the aesthetic components in these pieces...
11) Mala & Modesta
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Wilian Arias, gracias a su estilo poético atrae de alguna forma al lector, su carácter de oralidad representa un arma poderosa haciendo referencias muy concretas de interesarlo en lo que dice con la magia de lo narrativo; inunda la obra de vida y acción, le da calor, o movimiento, poder enigmático sobre el lector. Por otra parte sirve para desprender de esas situaciones, observaciones sociales que muestran un peligro de vida cotidiana del habitante...
12) Saying Yes
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A short play by a leading Argentine playwright, telling the shocking story of an everyday trip to the hairdressers.
Taken from the collection, Latin American Plays, an essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, “Saying Yes” by Griselda Gambaro is a grotesque comedy about man's inhumanity to man.
The full collection features new translations of five contemporary plays written by some of the region's...
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Three siblings plot to kill their parents in this controversial masterpiece. In the game-playing scenarios the siblings invent, they play the parts of the parents, policemen and judges. This play provides a dramatic allegory of the political situation in Cuba in the 1960s, with its call to revolution echoed in the children's need to overcome their fear and turn convention upside down.
Taken from the collection, “Latin American Plays”, an essential...
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Under the watchful eye of Steven, their choirmaster, Connie, Ben, Diane and Bruno gather every week in the village hall to practise their accomplished acapella singing. They are a motley crew, but whatever their differences, whatever the problems they may have at home, all are happily bound together in their shared love of music.
Until one day Maggie knocks on the door. Soon she is urging them to enter Talentfest, a potentially life-changing route...
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A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
A blackly comic play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father. Locking him in the coalshed as retribution for years of sniping, bullying and pain, they are both aching to use their fists on him for once. But he's not defeated. Yet... First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1999.
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A powerful exploration of machismo and sexual desire, by Peru's most acclaimed writer.
A Peruvian desert town in the 1940s. When a young girl disappears, it seems that only La Chunga, the barwoman, knows the truth, but refuses to tell. Undeterred, the local men make up their own version of what happened in an attempt to extract the full story.
Taken from the collection, “Latin American Plays”, an essential introduction to the fascinating but largely...
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"En una charla con Amón, él puede recitar de una sola sentada los poemas de Lezama Lima o algún pasaje del Talmud en hebreo, cosas que son lo que se piensa opuesto a este libro. Poesía irónica, amable, divertida, con toques de lo que algunos podrían considerar no apropiado para una escritura que llamaríamos "poética". Estos versos son una ruptura con muchos de esos parámetros que están ya establecidos. Pero sabemos que hay poemas que nos...
18) Dramatis sanguis
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La tríada dramatúrgica de Jorge Fábregas, Teófilo Guerrero y Víctor Castillo entrega cada siete años un Dramatis... y en esta tercera ocasión el tema es ideal para la renovación del ritual: la sangre.
Víctor Castillo recrea en "Y así" una ficción política verosímil que bien podríamos confirmar su autenticidad si tan sólo lográramos atisbar lo que sucede debajo del agua, bajo la mesa de la vida pública mexicana.
Teófilo Guerrero,...
19) Estación Juárez
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En esta tríada de "partituras dramáticas unipersonales" se emprende un viaje por la experiencia del individuo a través de su propia voz: por ello estas obras de teatro pueden leerse como relatos en primera persona, con sus singulares efectos explícitos de ambientación.
La unipersonalidad ofrece al actor una amplia libertad de interpretación, un espacio para que se involucre plenamente con su personaje, multiplicando así la diversidad de reacciones...
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En "Café para intelectuales" se reúnen cinco obras breves de Teófilo Guerrero que, de tan verosímiles, no precisarían un teatro para ser representadas debido a la engañosa sencillez de la vida cotidiana que ronda por sus diálogos.
El director teatral Fausto Ramírez define así su escritura: "En una asombroso juego de malabarismo, nos va llevando a rincones insospechados y a la vez que factibles, con una lógica que nos empuja a pensar, sin...
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