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2) Uncle Vanya
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Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Astrov. Reviews were lukewarm at first, but as the play continued to run, Uncle Vanya gained both popularity and critical prowess, and has since become one of the most influential dramas ever produced.
When retired...
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Although he never left his native Kraków except for relatively short periods, Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland's greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century. Acropolis: the Wawel Plays, brings together four of Wyspiański's most important dramatic works in a new English translation by Charles S. Kraszewski. All of the plays center on Wawel Hill: the legendary seat of royal...
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“The Tragedy at Cambria”, a three-act play written in rhyming iambic pentameter, tells a story of love, deception, and power. In the medieval kingdom of Cambria, aging King John faces a grave decision. His forebearers created extremely strict laws regarding unwed pregnancy, and now a sixteen-year-old girl, Plain Jane, is guilty of being with child. Either Jane or the baby must die. At Queen Beatrice's urging, King John assigns their teenage son...
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Plays Worth Remembering is a two-volume set of 14 plays and two silent film screenplays by celebrated turn-of-the-20th century American playwright George Ade. Many of these works have never been published before and some do not exist in complete form anywhere else. Ade's plays offer a valuable and funny commentary on politics, community and social norms in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
This set also contains Ade's brief autobiography, a description...
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The Savior, the Flood, and the Beast, are three different plays all with various themes.
The Savior, or The Carpenter, is about a young Carpenter, working in the porn industry for his brother, who ends up falling for the lead porn star, but his brother becomes secretly jealous of their affair. To the point that he won't let her quit the industry, either.
The Flood, or The Parable of Defeat, is about a young girl whose life is destroyed by a rape...
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The theme of the play is an unorthodox imaginary family compound of heretical characters which many of them, if combined by twos, are the ends of a conscience and a lesson about life to excess of.
Agatha, the chatelaine invites her family in England to celebrate her birthday and tell them who will inherit her huge mansion.
Her brother and her sister, her lifelong friend and physician are some guests of the list. Carl (a psychiatrist), Lou (a linguist...
9) Deadly Seven
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Deadly Seven is a combination of monologues and 'light' script engagement of a psychologist with her seven clients, who each represent a deadly sin. Once the psychologist realizes she lacks control over each of her clients' lives, she decides to put an end to their madness. All characters represent an obsession, which ultimately destroys them; leading to their deaths.
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Mise en scène de la fin de vie de Jack Kerouac, entre déchéance et bonheur du triomphe.
Pierre Glénat met ici en scène une des allégories les plus dramatiques qui soit. Celle o le succès de toute une vie arrive trop tard, lorsque les amis sont partis, ceux que l'on aime ne sont plus là, ou lorsque la déchéance physique et mentale éponge tout le bonheur du triomphe qui s'invite à l'improviste.
Jack Kerouac est à l'origine de la plus...
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Deadly Seven is a Psychological Thriller and Gothic screenplay based on a psychologist's seven clients, who each represent a deadly sin. As Amanda Burke, the psychologist, begins to lack control over guiding her clients' thoughts and actions, she allows their obsessions to take over their life and lead them to ultimate chaos and destruction.
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Act I is brimming with comedy and sarcasm as the characters play upon each other eccentricities. In Act II the true meaning of the gathering becomes evident. Einstein has placed people together like a chess master to challenge their views, beliefs and faith, forcing the recalcitrant, the merciless and the irreconcilable to view another way of thinking and acting. Alliances are forged between the most unlikely pairs.
Act II: the guests file out, expressing...
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Nadezhda Ptushkina's plays reflect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters that reflect the myriad ways people are affected by today's turbulent world. Often writing strong female roles, she does not shy away from exploring the sometimes tragic implications that lie behind her comical, almost farcical scenes.
Ptushkina questions the nature of love, and explores the boundaries between the spiritual and the base, the constructive...
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Que se passerait il si le Pape rencontrait la vierge aujourd'hui ?
Qu'une vierge soit reçue, au Vatican, en audience par le Pape, ce n'est pas impossible, mais que cette vierge prétende être la nouvelle Vierge, enceinte, elle aussi du Christ, cela paraît totalement improbable !
Et pourtant, la pièce met en scène la confrontation entre Katia, jeune orpheline d'origine palestinienne adoptée par un couple d'orléanais, et Pierre II, vieux pape...
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Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the way, he has also written screenplays for film including Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, as well as the award-winning Sunshine, James Dean, and The Strawberry Statement. At the age of 75, he directed an adaptation of his play My Old Lady, starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas....
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Imagine this! You sell a "spec" screenplay to a major Hollywood studio. Maybe this is a new idea that just occurred to you, or perhaps it's something you've thought about for some time. Of course, you realize that hundreds of thousands of books are published every year but fewer movies are produced and a self-produced movie is rare. But fortunately for aspiring screenwriters there are many newer entities buying and making original motion pictures...
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