The Childless Witch
'Don't have any children, ' the author's mother said, in response to the question: 'what's your greatest wisdom?' posed to her by her own daughter when she was 10. Forty years down the road this book springs out of investigating just what this wisdom is all about. The book thus offers reflections on the state of being childless. The author's own experiences of childlessness blend in with her analysis of childless artists and the part of their work that mirrors particularly the significance of being childless. In this book, either via personal encounters with the author or across the arts, we meet drummer Zohar Fresco, butoh dancer Carlotta Ikeda, opera singer Maria Callas as Medea through Pier Paolo Passolini's lens, and filmmaker Maya Deren. At the heart of the book is a simple investigation: Who poses true questions? The figure of the witch holds an interesting answer.
10 Top 10s From A 10 Percenter
Whether you're just starting out in the entertainment industry or are a seasoned pro, this book has valuable information every actor should know to help them level up their career, along with essential tips on how to navigate relationships with representation. With over 20 years of experience as a highly respected talent agent, Brianna Ancel has helped nurture the careers of countless successful actors for both TV and film. If you want to take more control of your career, then this book is essential.Learn: - How to get an agent- The elements of your perfect pitch- How to maintain a strong relationship with your agent- Common industry myths- What makes a great demo reel- And dozens more pro-active career tips... "Actors, rejoice! This is the one book you need to navigate your Hollywood career. Top talent agent Brianna Ancel pulls back the curtain to reveal how successful actors mastermind their careers - and shows you exactly how you can do it yourself. Read it before you call your agent!" - Adam Leipzig, CEO and Founder, MediaU"Brianna is one of the best in the biz! She has a keen eye for talent and is an expert at molding and shaping the careers of her actors. Her knowledge and experience in the industry is second to none." - Mike Page, Casting Director/Casting Executive"Not only does Brianna have an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge concerning the ins and outs of this ever changing industry, she also possesses a beautifully generous well of empathy and understanding for humans and human behavior, which makes her an absolutely invaluable resource for actors. Her book is such a blessing for performers of all levels!" - Andrea Bordeaux, Series Regular (Run The World)
The Trade Federation or Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels
THE TRADE FEDERATION, OR, LET'S EXPLORE GLOBALIZATION THROUGH THE STAR WARS PREQUELS. A play by Andy Boyd. A young experimental playwright named Andy Boyd pitches George Lucas his screenplay for a new Star Wars film. The concept: a prequel to the prequels that fleshes out the economic and social implications of the mysterious Trade Federation. Andy's script is a full-on Marxist allegory where The Trade Federation is The International Monetary Fund, the Gungans are the Zapatistas, and the Jedi are an international community reluctant to push for any real structural change - the UN, basically. Lucas thinks the movie sounds really boring and unceremoniously kicks Andy out of his office. Then things really get weird. This publication is from NoPassport Press (Caridad Svich, Founding Editor).
Experimental Music and Free Improvisation
Sol Nte wrote " Experimental Music and Free Improvisation " to be conceived as a follow-up to " Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond " by Michael Nyman and " Experimental Music Since 1970 " by Jennie Gottschalk . Sol Nte visually proposes the idea of music on paper: Lists of names combining classical composers, pop musicians or contemporary artists together with graphic scores, traditional music notations, comments on improvisations, music software lists and musical drawings. Readers unfamiliar with any of the names or concepts can search online and instantly connect the dots for a variety of experimental music ideas. This is experimental music in its purest form, the free association in the musician's head with a nod to the perennial inspiration of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and The Wire magazine as champions of experimentalism across time and genres. An essential read for people interested in: Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra, David Toop, David Byrne, Nurse with Wound, Michael Nyman, Experimental Music, Derek Bailey, Throbbing Gristle, Free Improvisation, Jennie Gottschalk, Thom Holmes, Electroacoustic Music, Pierre Schaeffer, The Wire Magazine, Eldritch Priest, Joanna DeMers, Steve Reich, The Velvet Underground, Terry Riley, Sonic Youth, La Monte Young, The Sex Pistols and Philip Glass etc. Sol Nte has been making art, music, and words for the "no-audience underground" since the late eighties. With the exception of being included in a handful of exhibitions, dalliances with Fluxus in the nineties, and an extremely modest streaming revenue for his Pharaoh Sol free jazz albums, he is a refreshingly obscure unknown artist.
The Com矇die-Fran癟aise from Moli癡re to ?ric Ruf
In this new book, the first of its kind in English, Simon Trowbridge traces the rich and sometimes turbulent history of France's national theatre company, the Com矇die-Fran癟aise, from its foundation in 1680 to the present day. The Com矇die-Fran癟aise has survived the vanity of kings and emperors. It has survived revolutions and wars. During all of its long history it has remained a true company, a society of actors. There have been good times and inevitable dips, but today this most legendary of theatres is also among Europe's most dynamic and most compelling.High quality production photographs, along with other images, illustrate the text and help to convey the style and quality of the Com矇die's recent work.Also available in hardback.
Discourse Markers and Beyond
This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, descriptive and critical (CDA) perspectives, and manual annotation and automatized analyses, the author argues that Discourse Markers (DMs) cannot be effectively studied in isolation, but must instead be contextualised with reference to other discourse-pragmatic devices and their language and genre backgrounds. This book will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of DM research and critical discourse studies, and will also appeal to scholars working in areas such as genre studies, second language acquisition (SLA), literary analysis, contemporary cinematography, Tolkien scholarship, and Bible studies.
Hong Kong Dark Cinema
This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today's Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. Nuancing the prototypical cinematic form and tragic sense of classical film noir, the recent Hong Kong cinema turns around the classical generic role of film noir at the turn of the century to convey very different messages--joy, hope or love. This book examines how the mainstream cinema, or pre-and-post-Hong Kong cinema in particular, applies a peculiar strategy that makes rooms for the audience to enjoy a pleasure-giving process of reflexivity and also critique the mainstream ideology. With new analytical approaches and angles, this book breaks new ground in offering transcultural and cross-genre analyses on the cinema and its impact in local and international markets. This book is the first major scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today's Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a refreshing discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. This book also revisits conceptual categories developed by Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and Butler.
A Method of Lighting the Stage 4th Edition
The McCandless Method, Groundbreaking and Timeless Theater Lighting DesignStage lighting is an essential element of the theater experience. Giving visibility where and when it is wanted, proper lighting stimulates the wonder of being there. In brightness and darkness, color and pattern create an atmosphere of inherent drama, allowing new horizons for artistic expression. Stanley McCandless was a Harvard-trained architect whose work and passion led him to become a pioneer in the field of theatrical lighting design. McCandless served amongst the first faculty at the Yale School of Drama, where he taught lighting design for almost 40 years. During his tenure at Yale he designed a system known as the McCandless Method, as outlined in A Method of Lighting the Stage, which is still widely used today.There are four steps to the McCandless Method: - Lighting the Acting Area - Blending and Toning the Acting Areas - Lighting the Background - Creating Special EffectsMcCandless also designed specific house lights for the Center Theater in New York's Radio City, which were later developed into the ellipsoidal reflector spotlight. This lighting fixture has become the staple for theater lighting inventories in America. By enhancing all aspects of theatrical lighting, from the engineering of lighting instruments to designing realized theatrical productions, McCandless truly earned his moniker, "The father of modern lighting design."This printing has remastered schematics showing lighting placement, builds, and parts. This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1635617138).
A Method of Lighting the Stage 4th Edition
The McCandless Method, Groundbreaking and Timeless Theater Lighting DesignStage lighting is an essential element of the theater experience. Giving visibility where and when it is wanted, proper lighting stimulates the wonder of being there. In brightness and darkness, color and pattern create an atmosphere of inherent drama, allowing new horizons for artistic expression. Stanley McCandless was a Harvard-trained architect whose work and passion led him to become a pioneer in the field of theatrical lighting design. McCandless served amongst the first faculty at the Yale School of Drama, where he taught lighting design for almost 40 years. During his tenure at Yale he designed a system known as the McCandless Method, as outlined in A Method of Lighting the Stage, which is still widely used today.There are four steps to the McCandless Method: - Lighting the Acting Area - Blending and Toning the Acting Areas - Lighting the Background - Creating Special EffectsMcCandless also designed specific house lights for the Center Theater in New York's Radio City, which were later developed into the ellipsoidal reflector spotlight. This lighting fixture has become the staple for theater lighting inventories in America. By enhancing all aspects of theatrical lighting, from the engineering of lighting instruments to designing realized theatrical productions, McCandless truly earned his moniker, "The father of modern lighting design."This printing has remastered schematics showing lighting placement, builds, and parts. This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1626540365).
Memos from a Theatre Lab
What does immersive theatre 'do'?By contrasting two specific performances on the same theme - one an 'immersive' experience and the other a more conventional theatrical production - Nandita Dinesh explores the different ways in which theatrical form impacts upon actors and audiences. An in-depth case study of her w
From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles
Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow, collects and explains their programme of workshop exercises, placing them i
Food and Theatre on the World Stage
Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical work from a wide range of locations, addressing w
Reframing Acting in the Digital Age
Reframing Acting in the Digital Age integrates original interviews with professionals and academics on contemporary training methods, experiential learning and industry standard to create an essential contribution to actor training studies.
Crazy Lady and Other Plays
The dramas in this collection are straightforward and honest. The plays are funny and heartbreaking and sometimes shocking. This collection of plays helps promote a kinder, gentler way of seeing marginalized, neglected, and traumatized people.
Eroding the Language of Freedom
Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in Harold Pinter's plays, arguing that the characters' failure to function as active members of society speaks volumes to his ideological preoccupation with society's own inadequacies.
Actors on Guard
Actors on Guard Second Edition is the most comprehensive book covering the current practices in learning, rehearsing and performing safe and dynamic swordfights with the single rapier and the rapier and dagger for both stage and screen.
Nikolai Demidov
At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be 'his only student, who understands the System'. Demidov's incredibly forward-thinking processes not only continued his teacher's pioneering work, but also solved the problems of an actor's creativity that Stanislavsky never conquered. This book brings together Demidov's
Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights
This book shows the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the 20th century, tracing ideological change in the reception of mainstream plays about HIV/AIDS. Studying the politics of performance, LGBT theatre, and mainstream theatre's political potential, it shows how radical ideas become mainstream an
Incapacity and Theatricality
Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatre made by actors with intellectual disabilities. This book offers an analysis of how these actors have emerged onto the main stage, and how their inclusion calls into question long-held assumptions about theatre and intellectual disability.
Hoe toon ik onderliggende machtsstructuren en maak ik een personage explicieter de Ander, door middel van taal?
Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: 15/20, course: Reflectief luik Masterproef, language: Dutch, abstract: Vervolgens analyseert Sietse hoe Aim矇 C矇saire met Une temp礙te en Jibbe Willems met zijn vrije vertaling van Othello het mensbeeld van de Elizabethaanse periode langs de meetlat legt van ons huidig mensbeeld. Beide theaterteksten tonen dat (institutioneel) racisme nog altijd voelbaar is in de huidige maatschappij, zij het op volstrekt andere wijzen. C矇saire geeft de Ander, Caliban uit The Tempest, in zijn bewerking Une temp礙te zijn individuele stem terug en laat hem een spreekbuis zijn voor het onrecht dat inwoners van gekoloniseerde landen is aangedaan. Willems zet het racisme in Othello juist vet aan. Door actuele racistische opmerkingen te verwerken, confronteert hij het hedendaags publiek met de geringe vooruitgang die is geboekt in de afgelopen eeuwen, op het gebied van racisme en ons mensbeeld van de Ander. Vervolgens bespreekt Sietse hoe deze postkoloniale bewerkingen een inspiratie vormden voor haar masterproef PAN, waarin racisme en wit privilege de belangrijkste thema's zijn. Tenslotte combineert Sietse haar bevindingen over postkoloniaal theater met feminist theory. Ze legt uit hoe deze combinatie haar inspireerde bij het ontwikkelen van het concept voor haar volgende voorstelling Het Temmen van de Feeks - een bewerking met bijdragen van Shakespeare, Hoeyberghs, Trump, Johnson, Baudet, Remmers e.v.a. welke, in het kader van Eigen Kweek, zal touren langs Vlaamse cultuurcentra in theaterseizoen 20/21.
Seeing as Practice
This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework.Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way of disclosing the apparent, perceptible world, conditioned by individual and cultural variations. In a peculiar way, the eye holds a middle position between inside and outside of the self and its relations towards itself and others. This book provides a way out of false alternatives by offering a third way with reference to concrete cases of aesthetical and ethical experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of the phenomenology and philosophy of perception and it will be valuable to students of philosophy, cultural studies and art.
Acting
In his beloved classic, Acting: The First Six Lessons, master acting teacher Richard Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a lively and accessible narrative form. Widely considered a must-have for beginning as well as established actors, Boleslavsky's work has long helped actors better understand the craft of acting and what it takes to grow as an artist. This enhanced edition includes additional exercises from Samuel Seldon's First Steps in Acting, which provide further opportunity to practice the techniques discussed in Acting: The First Six Lessons. Richard Boleslavsky's knowledge of the theater was based on an impressive depth and breadth of experience. A member of the Moscow Art Theater and director of its First Studio, he worked in Russia, Germany, and America as an actor, director and teacher. He was a leading Hollywood director in addition to producing plays and musical comedies on Broadway.
Amphitryon 38
La ravissante Alcm癡ne, reine de Th癡bes, 矇pouse d'Amphitryon, est l'objet du d矇sir de Jupiter qui souhaite l'enfanter d'Hercule. Jupiter aime en Alcm癡ne l'amour humain que celle-ci porte ? son 矇poux et son infaillible fid矇lit矇 le trouble. Avec Mercure il fomente une diversion pour tromper Alcm癡ne en envoyant Amphitryon ? la guerre et en prenant sa forme humaine, sachant qu'il s'agit du seul stratag癡me possible pour parvenir ? ses fins. Mercure, incarn矇 sous la forme de Sosie, annonce ? la reine que son mari, reviendra secr癡tement le soir m礙me du champ de bataille pour passer la nuit aupr癡s d'elle. Alcm癡ne le croit et l'attend dans la p矇nombre au balcon. Jupiter, sous la forme d'Amphitryon, passe une divine nuit avec Alcm癡ne qui ne se doute de rien...
Laugh up and Crack up Jokes
Just a joke book. A book to bring joy and happiness to others, with what has been going on for so long now.
American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century
In the first anthology of this series, Chicago and Baltimore playwrights share short plays written for the stage. Performance-ready new ideas, contained within insightful dialogue and monologues span, the pages of this anthology. Since America earned its title as "the melting pot" by most historians, Future Publishing House combines with playwrights and theatre artistry to create this unequivocally dynamic collection of work. As artists living with the freedom to create meaningful new work, the plays in this first volume inform the beginning of a millennia of performance art. Plays comment on universal themes: Emma Rund's characters in To Fix a Dinosaur deal with conditional forgiveness. The struggle of political power to overcome scientific knowledge comes through in John Joseph Enright's Starry Night. Women's liberation ideas are featured in Easy as Pie by Melania Coffey. Gentrification is discussed in poetic verse in Alexander Scally's Chalked. Jealousy, envy, and the future of humanity are addressed in Dylan Kinnett's Party Planet.A scene from a play by Cameron Sheppard is dramatic and biographicSome pieces in this anthology fall into symbolism, surrealism, and absurdism, such as Barbara Bryan's Leaving the Universe. Other plays are written as melodramas, such as Love, Lust, Lyrics & Stamps by Matt Brown and Andre Thespies.With an introduction by editor Shaun Vain.
Clown Yourself
CLOWN YOURSELF is a useful manual for both clown students and facilitators. Within its pages Caroline shares what she has been exploring with her students since publishing her first book, The Clown In You. The first part is packed with valuable information, exercises and examples, whilst the second offers ideas on how to practice different aspects of the art of clowning in your daily life. Clown Yourself aims to reinforce and broaden your understanding of clown technique, as well as encourage you to think and behave in clown-like ways in your daily life. Part 1 is full of useful and interesting information such as: why it's so important to keep digging into the depths of our stupidity, the clown games that never fail to work, how having problems can enhance the comedy, why telling lies is so vital to creativity, what strategies to apply when things aren't going as planned, etc. All, of course, peppered with exercises, examples and quotes.Part 2 offers four weeks of "clown practices", fun experiments you can make in your everyday life. They are designed for you to maximize your clown creativity during the week so as not to lose momentum between courses or performances. PART 1 Chapter 1 gives you an overall view of the book's content and an explanation of how the daily life clown practices came into being.Chapter 2 contains a whole stack of persuasive reasons why to clown and keep practising regularly.Chapter 3 tackles the thorny issue of identity and explains in depth why maintaining a concrete idea of "who you think you are" will only limit your clown's ability to be generous with who you really are.Chapters 4 to 7 cover specific areas of clown technique . Each chapter contains explanations of the reasons for, and reasoning behind, each element of the technique, plus exercises and examples of how it all works on a practical level.Chapter 8 details the many challenges you face when improvising and offers a series of blueprints to facilitate your ability to make better, bolder and more comic choices. PART 2 Four weeks of Monday to Friday clown practice options to keep you homing in on your clown skills and throwing yourself into the comic fray... day after day. ____FAQ_____IS IT FOR ME? This book is for clown and theatre students, clown teachers, voluntary hospital clowns, professional clowns, comedians, actors, laughter therapists, anyone interested in clowns or clowning and anyone looking to understand in greater depth the techniques, games and practices contemporary clowns are using to, win over their audiences and create laughter. WHY BUY IT? Caroline has worked with clowning from the inside out and the outside in. She writes from the perspective of a life spent investigating her art, both as a professional clown and as an international clown teacher. After writing her first clowning manual, she created many new courses offering students different chunks of information regarding technique. The insights she gleaned from leading these courses and the students who took them proved too compelling not to be documented. This manual took six years to write and it may take you the same amount of time to assimilate all that it contains! CREDITS First edition, November 2020Barcelona, Spain(c) Caroline Dream, 2020 Published by Ediciones Clownplanet www.clownplanet.com/ediciones www.clownyourself.comGeneral Editor: ?lex NavarroLayout & design: ?lex NavarroText Revision: Richard LesliePrinted by AmazonISBN-13: 978-84-09-24848-3MAYBE YOU'RE ALSO INTERESTED IN CAROLINE DREAM'S FIRST BOOK: THE CLOWN IN YOU
Laugh up and Crack up Jokes
Just a joke book. A book to bring joy and happiness to others, with what has been going on for so long now.
Quantum Theatre
Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare is bigger than my own creations. It is a way for each Theatre practitioner to clarify and purify their deepest and highest purpose of Creativity. This allows for infinite and unique visions of theatre. To get to that infinite and unique expression the artist must expand their consciousness beyond what is fed to them in school, in the media, in specific interest groups. The artist must learn to make quantum leaps in their thoughts.
Mein ganz pers繹nliches Theater-Alphabet
In 57 kurzen Essays unternimmt der Theater- und Filmschauspieler Gerd Lohmeyer einen Streifzug durch die Gebiete der Schauspielkunst. Theater mit seiner zweieinhalb tausendj瓣hrigen Tradition wird von innen heraus, teilweise aus ganz neuen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet, Philosophisches, Ausbildungstechnisches wird mit Anekdotischem und Erlebnissen gew羹rzt. All die Gebiete werden pointiert und kurzweilig beschrieben. Sein Theater- ABC bietet tiefe Einsicht und gute Unterhaltung.
Astrid’s Diary 3
Can you imagine a girl as selfish, as shallow, as Astrid, as Astrid, taking care of a kid as clever and above average as Justin? me neither. Follow this new mom and this diamond in the rough as they become a dynamic duo and face every curve ball life throws at them.
Between Tomorrow And Yesterday
"The Ghost that is in All to whom Man appeals when he needs deliverance/solace from the consequences of his behavior. He cries out for the Peace he so willfully dismissed. He negotiated away his serenity and his future for the immediate. Now he must deal with it."
Astrid’s Diary 3
Can you imagine a girl as selfish, as shallow, as Astrid, as Astrid, taking care of a kid as clever and above average as Justin? me neither. Follow this new mom and this diamond in the rough as they become a dynamic duo and face every curve ball life throws at them.
Between Tomorrow And Yesterday
"The Ghost that is in All to whom Man appeals when he needs deliverance/solace from the consequences of his behavior. He cries out for the Peace he so willfully dismissed. He negotiated away his serenity and his future for the immediate. Now he must deal with it."
Astrid’s Diary 3
Can you imagine a girl as selfish, as shallow, as Astrid, as Astrid, taking care of a kid as clever and above average as Justin? me neither. Follow this new mom and this diamond in the rough as they become a dynamic duo and face every curve ball life throws at them.
Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows
In the early days of television, "comedy" often meant stale vaudeville routines and stand-up. Then, in 1950, a new comedy-variety show debuted on NBC--Your Show of Shows. Its gifted and mercurial star, Sid Caesar, talented ensemble cast and superb writing staff--including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Lucille Kallen and Mel Tolkin--would create comedy designed for the new medium and provide a template for successful shows that followed. With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.
Silent Films/Loud Music
Silent Films/Loud Music discusses contemporary scores for silent film as a rich vehicle for experimentation in the relationship between music, image, and narrative. Johnston offers an overview of the early history of music for silent film paired with his own first-hand view of the craft of creating new original scores for historical silent films: a unique form crossing musical boundaries of classical, jazz, rock, electronic, and folk. As the first book completely devoted to the study of contemporary scores for silent film, it tells the story of the historical and creative evolution of this art form and features an extended discussion and analysis of some of the most creative works of contemporary silent film scoring.Johnston draws upon his own career in both contemporary film music (working with directors Paul Mazursky, Henry Bean, Philip Haas and Doris D繹rrie, among others) and in creating new scores for silent films by Browning, M矇li癡s, Kinugasa, Murnau & Reiniger. Through this book, Johnston presents a discussion of music for silent films that contradicts long-held assumptions about what silent film music is and must be, with thought-provoking implications for both historical and contemporary film music.
Conducting Chaos
Conducting Chaos is the ultimate guidebook for teaching improv to children! It's filled with practical tips, easy-to-follow templates, and down-to-earth wisdom from author Jessica Arjet's 15 years of experience developing and running improv classes for kids from kindergarten through high school as the Youth Programs Director at the Hideout Theatre in Austin, Texas, one of the largest youth programs in the nation. This book is an excellent resource for teachers of drama and improv, and everyone who works with kids and wants to add a little fun into their teaching and creativity into their classroom!
Olanda
I've been happy since the morning. Delighted, even. Everything seems so splendidly transient to me. That dust, from which thou art and unto which thou shalt return - it tempts me. And that's why I wander about these roads, these woods, among the nearby houses, from which waft the aromas of fried pork chops, chicken soup, fish, diapers, steamed potatoes for the pigs; I lose my eye-sight, and regain it again. I don't know what life is, Ola, but I'm holding on to it. Thus speaks the narrator of Rafal Wojasiński's novel Olanda. Awarded the prestigious Marek Nowakowski Prize for 2019, Olanda introduces us to a world we glimpse only through the window of our train, as we hurry from one important city to another: a provincial world of dilapidated farmhouses and sagging apartment blocks, overgrown cemeteries and village drunks; a world seemingly abandoned by God - and yet full of the basic human joy of life itself. Our English translation of Olanda, which includes the radio play Old Man Kalina, brings one of Poland's great contemporary writers of fiction to the wider world for the first time. These narratives may not contain the entire world, just like a village at the end of a dirt road running through ponds, that floods after a heavy rain, does not contain all that may be found in Warsaw. But the world they contain is an intriguing one, in which everyone, from aging beauties through gravedigger philosophers, defrocked seminarians and even the occasional politician, is welcome.Translated from the Polish and introduced by Charles S. Kraszewski. This book has been published with the support of the (c)POLAND Translation Program. Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor.
ESMERALDA 2 Version English
Second part of ESMERALDA. A short youth-style novel where the themes of Friendship, Love, Revenge, Magic, Werewolves, Ghosts ... A reading that will make you have a good time.
?lectre
Agamemnon, Le Roi des Rois, a sacrifi矇 sa fille Iphig矇nie aux dieux. Sa femme Clytemnestre, aid矇e de son amant, ?gisthe, l'assassine ? son retour de la guerre de Troie. Oreste, le fils est banni. Reste ?lectre, la seconde fille: Elle ne fait rien, ne dit rien. Mais elle est l? . Aussi ?gisthe veut-il la marier au jardinier du palais afin de d矇tourner sur "la famille des Th矇ocathocl癡s tout ce qui risque de jeter quelque jour un lustre f璽cheux sur la famille des Atrides". Sur ce grand mythe de l'Antiquit矇, Jean Giraudoux a 矇crit sans doute sa meilleure pi癡ce. ?lectre poss癡de une force tragique surprenante, sans jamais perdre cet esprit 矇tincelant, cet humour qui ont fait de Jean Giraudoux un des plus importants dramaturges du xxe si癡cle.
Mauro Giuliani
Here are 18 Compositions, Les Vari矇t矇s Amusantes Opus 43 & 54, and Tres Rondos Opus 8 from the Romantic Era by Mauro Giuliani transcribed for the baritone ukulele. Most are also playable on the tenor and soprano ukulele and, of course, may also be played on the guitar. The pieces are fairly easy, to begin with, and progress to more difficult pieces as you learn. They were composed to help you improve your skills as a performer and take you to the next level. Recommend for practiced beginner and intermediate performers.
Positive Stories for Negative Times
Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space. Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, these five plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 8-25. These original and innovative plays are: Is This A Fairytale? by Bea WebsaterA new play that rips apart the traditional fairy tale canon and turns it on its head in a surprising, inventive and unconventional way. Ages 8+ Hold Out Your Hand by Chris ThorpeA dynamic text asking questions about place, where we are now and the moment we are living through. Ages 13+ The Pack by Stef SmithA playful and poetic exploration about getting lost in the loneliness of your living room and trying to find your way home. Ages 13+ Ozymandias by Robbie Gordon and Jack NurseA contemporary story inspired by Percy Shelley's 19th century poem of the same name, exploring power, oppression and racism through the eyes of young people. Ages 16+ Bad Bored Women of the Rooms by Sabrina MahfouzA storytelling adventure through the centuries of women and girls who have spent a lot of time stuck in a room. Ages 18+ The accompanying handbook includes step-by-step guidance on how to produce the plays either online or live in the space, and bespoke exercises and instructions on how to approach directing each play.
The Botanic Garden and My Old Kentucky Plays
Kentucky. Known today for its bluegrass, horse racing, and bourbon; it's very name, embedded in Iroquois history, means Land of Tomorrow. The song birds are the sweetest, thoroughbreds fleetest, wrote James Mulligan, "The landscape is the grandest--And politics-the damnedest In Kentucky." It's a hard look that we must face at European settlers, frightened by differences in heritage, religion, and skin, unable to respect the beauty in other races. They did not understand the sexual orientation of God's creation. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," wrote George Santayana. We romanticize the old days maybe because they are behind us and can no longer harm us. And from the good that was there, we build a better tomorrow. Here are five historical dramas of Kentucky: The Botanic Garden Horace Holly arrives in Kentucky with dreams to create his own university which is deemed to be the Harvard of the West. The faculty he chooses includes an eccentric European botanist who believes that every great university must have its own botanical garden. Dreams collide within the struggles between religion, government, and ambition. A play about Constantine S. Rafinesque and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Sabbath of the Soul Three weary travelers meet one evening at a railroad station awaiting arrival of the train carrying the one person most influential to them. Remembrances of this one exceptional life help them come to terms with their own mortality and purpose. A play about the life of Emily H. Tubman and Frankfort, Kentucky. Emma of Elmwood An architect, hired to demolish and replace a beloved house, is haunted into rebuilding his own life. A play about Emma P. Watts and Eastern Kentucky University of Richmond, Kentucky. The Dust of Summer A woman imprisoned by her domestic life discovers a runaway soldier seeking refuge from himself, both trapped between courage and duty. A play about Pleasant View Farm and The Battle of Richmond in Madison County, Kentucky. The Two Villages After years of engagement and unable to set a date for a wedding, a struggling painter is confronted by his fianc矇 as they journey to understand the obstacles that have plagued their relationship. Being true to one's art comes with a price. A play about Kentucky's own impressionistic painter Paul Sawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky.
The Botanic Garden and My Old Kentucky Plays
Kentucky. Known today for its bluegrass, horse racing, and bourbon; it's very name, embedded in Iroquois history, means Land of Tomorrow. The song birds are the sweetest, thoroughbreds fleetest, wrote James Mulligan, "The landscape is the grandest--And politics-the damnedest In Kentucky." It's a hard look that we must face at European settlers, frightened by differences in heritage, religion, and skin, unable to respect the beauty in other races. They did not understand the sexual orientation of God's creation. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," wrote George Santayana. We romanticize the old days maybe because they are behind us and can no longer harm us. And from the good that was there, we build a better tomorrow. Here are five historical dramas of Kentucky: The Botanic Garden Horace Holly arrives in Kentucky with dreams to create his own university which is deemed to be the Harvard of the West. The faculty he chooses includes an eccentric European botanist who believes that every great university must have its own botanical garden. Dreams collide within the struggles between religion, government, and ambition. A play about Constantine S. Rafinesque and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Sabbath of the Soul Three weary travelers meet one evening at a railroad station awaiting arrival of the train carrying the one person most influential to them. Remembrances of this one exceptional life help them come to terms with their own mortality and purpose. A play about the life of Emily H. Tubman and Frankfort, Kentucky. Emma of Elmwood An architect, hired to demolish and replace a beloved house, is haunted into rebuilding his own life. A play about Emma P. Watts and Eastern Kentucky University of Richmond, Kentucky. The Dust of Summer A woman imprisoned by her domestic life discovers a runaway soldier seeking refuge from himself, both trapped between courage and duty. A play about Pleasant View Farm and The Battle of Richmond in Madison County, Kentucky. The Two Villages After years of engagement and unable to set a date for a wedding, a struggling painter is confronted by his fianc矇 as they journey to understand the obstacles that have plagued their relationship. Being true to one's art comes with a price. A play about Kentucky's own impressionistic painter Paul Sawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky.
La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu
La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu est une pi癡ce de th矇璽tre de Jean Giraudoux, jou矇e la premi癡re fois le 22 novembre 1935 au Th矇璽tre de l'Ath矇n矇e sous la direction et avec Louis Jouvet. Cette oeuvre cherche ? d矇chiffrer les motivations fratricides de la future Seconde Guerre mondiale, comme un avertissement. L'auteur y met en relief le cynisme des politiciens ainsi que leur manipulation des symboles et de la notion de droit. La pi癡ce met en lumi癡re le pacifisme de Giraudoux qui avait combattu en France et ? la bataille des Dardanelles mais aussi sa lucidit矇 devant deux b礙tises, celle des hommes et celle des 矇l矇ments
L’Impromptu de Paris
L'Impromptu de Paris est une pi癡ce de th矇璽tre en un acte de Jean Giraudoux cr矇矇e le 4 d矇cembre 1937, au Th矇璽tre de l'Ath矇n矇e, dans une mise en sc癡ne de Louis Jouvet. Le titre se r矇f癡re ? la pi癡ce de Moli癡re, L'Impromptu de Versailles. Dans cette pi癡ce, Giraudoux d矇fend ses id矇es sur le th矇璽tre qui n'est pas un th矇or癡me, mais un spectacle, pas une le癟on, mais un filtre. C'est qu'il a moins ? entrer dans votre esprit que dans votre imagination et dans vos sens, et c'est pour cela, ? mon avis, que le talent de l'矇criture lui est indispensable, car c'est le style qui renvoie sur l'璽me des spectateurs mille reflets, mille irisations qu'ils n'ont pas plus besoin de comprendre que la tache de soleil envoy矇e par la glace.
