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Un idioma es la declaración de las palabras del fuego. Son los truenos que despedazan los tallos, los cráteres en las lilas. Meter las manos en la tierra, sembrar, por si la lluvia también quiere alimentarse. Un idioma es la velocidad de la resistencia, la intención del grito. El poder de encenderse, de hacer del fuego un rito, y del rito un idioma.
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2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical!
NEW JERSEY, 1999. Kimberly is about to turn sixteen and has recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Suffering from a disease that causes her to age four and a half times faster than her high school peers, surrounded by a dysfunctional family (and possible felony charges), Kimberly is also navigating her first teenage crush. Ever the optimist, Kimberly
...3) Ada
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'You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!'
Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada's future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.
ADA is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her...
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The Complete Works of a Lost Girl is a collection of playlets and poems which capture the beauty, tragedy, tension and freedom that is the human experience. This work contains seven playlets ranging from a Greek tragedy to dystopian fiction and sixteen poems of different styles. Over a decade ago the words which make up this body of work were given a voice and encouraged to find their way out of a tumultuous mind and flow out into the world through...
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Country girls trilogy volume 1
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Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.
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Lorsque la tante Irène décède, tout l'équilibre familial est menacé...
« Irène est morte... et toi tu chantes ! » c'est la réplique que lance Alice, indignée, à sa mère qui lui a annoncé, quelques instants plus tt, le décès de sa tante.
Face à l'insouciance de sa mère et au cynisme de son père, Alice va se confier à Vincent, son frère cadet. Des confidences sur sa vie, ses regrets, ses doutes, son nouvel amour, mais aussi sur...
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Inspirada en la tragedia de Eurípides, extrae de los encuentros y desencuentros de los personajes la materia para una obra que revela los caminos del amor en los que los amantes no son correspondidos. Se vuelve ácidamente cómica cuando empieza de nuevo con los sentimientos invertidos. Un tema clásico de la mitología griega es reinterpretado en nuestra actualidad, tendiendo lazos entre el mito y las relaciones humanas, ya que la autora ha transformado...
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An interactive comedy play about the value of art in society.
Entrepreneur Vince Fine and his small team are launching Artworks, a new initiative to help get unemployed people engaged in making Art. Unfortunately for Vince, the launch is dogged by infighting among his team, surprise guests and the fact that his girlfriend is pregnant and upset...What else could possibly go wrong?
Exploring issues of how society views those living on welfare benefits,...
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Plays for Today by Women
A wide-ranging collection of plays by women dealing with contemporary subjects such as sexual abuse, recession, war, poverty and the complexity of modern women's lives.
Many roles for women and girls provided. Suitable for study or for performance or as part of courses in Women's Studies or Feminist Theatre Studies.
All the plays have been produced and performed in the UK to acclaim and are written by commissioned playwrights....
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Colored Flames presents five original plays from the mind of Florence J. Mills. These plays tug on the human heartstring. They make you laugh and they make you cry. You get a glimpse into the lives of characters who may very well resemble someone you know because the situations are very realistic and riveting. Each play looks at life from a different perspective. Ms. Mills draws on her experience with life as well as her observation of life and moves...
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Past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life. Combining the elements of No theatre and Bunraku with contemporary Western sensibilities, Vogel's Ride is a mesmerizing homage to the works of Thornton Wilder, including Our Town. A moving and memorable study of the American family careening near...
14) An Empty Stage
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"An Empty Stage-A Collection of Monologues" is a celebration of the solo performance that covers a wide range of short works for the theater. Whether you are an experienced reader of the form or simply dipping your toes into the uncharted territory of spoken word, this anthology serves as both a solid introduction and a source for one to return to time and time again.
Featuring the works of the following writers:
Paula Gail Benson
Mark Blickley
Nancy...
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Not your typical book of monologues, this new collection embodies the mission of The Kilroys, an advocacy group founded in 2013 to raise awareness for the underutilized work of female and female-identifying playwrights. The collection is comprised of monologues from "The List"-- the result of an industry survey to locate the most highly-regarded, underproduced plays by women and trans playwrights.
16) Blue Box
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Interweaving recollections of her revolutionary life in Chile under Augusto Pinochet's regime with her fleeting attempts to realize a "vision" of love in Los Angeles, Carmen Aguirre's one-woman show Blue Box is a fiery proclamation of carnal yearning and social conviction. As ever, Aguirre is assertive, sexy, and wryly political, sharing the sacrifices of her life with humor and courage.
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Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established...
18) The Secret Game
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Is killing ever justified? This gripping drama examines the terrible choices of a teenage terrorist and a young mother in an exploration of contemporary morality. On her way home from a traumatic weekend, Chris is seeking solace with her aunt near the Northern Irish border. Parking her car, Chris disturbs a terrorist hide-out in her aunt's barn. As Chris is held captive through the night, it becomes apparent that her terrorist captor is not the only...
19) Beds
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A theater piece in two acts, Beds brings together mime, music and dialogue to explore Irish attitudes towards sex, marriage, love, death and sexual fantasy centering on the common theme of beds.
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Cet ouvrage invite à suivre au plus près les mouvements d'oscillation de l'écriture de Marguerite Duras — d'un genre médiatique à l'autre — et les modulations d'une trame narrative présente d'une œuvre à l’autre: la romance, la jeune fille et l'amant, le bal... La « nature indécise » de la langue durassienne est ici révélée, décortiquée, par une relecture attentive et enthousiaste de l'auteure. Celle-ci met au jour un aspect...
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