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Now More Than Ever: An Edition
by Aldous HuxleyOver the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever.<P><P>Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalization of Britain's industrial base.
Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
by Tennessee Williams Thomas Keith"The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays--like firecrackers in a rope." --Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman's entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.
Now You See Her
by Jacquelyn MitchardFor Hope Shay the entire world is a stage. Really.Acting has been her dream for as long as she can remember. She will do anything, anything, to get a leading role. Okay, maybe faking her own abduction was extreme. But a true actress suffers for her art. And Hope is a born actress if ever there was one.
Now You See Her
by Jacquelyn MitchardFor Hope Shay the entire world is a stage. Really. Acting has been her dream for as long as she can remember. She will do anything, anything, to get a leading role. Okay, maybe faking her own abduction was extreme. But a true actress suffers for her art. And Hope is a born actress if ever there was one.
Null im Verhalten: Die Zeugnisse von drei Jahren Juventus-Spiele.
by Marco Edoardo SanfeliciDie Zeugnisse von drei Jahren Juventus-Spiele. Null im Verhalten Das Buch sammelt die besten Zeugnisse von Marco Edoardo Sanfelici. Die Urteile, die nach jedem Juventus-Spiel Fotos von der Leistung des Juventus-Teams machen, sind Urteile ohne Berufung. Aus dem brillanten und leidenschaftlichen Geist eines Fan-Kommentators sind hier die urkomischen Bewertungen, die das Verhalten Ihrer größten Idole auf dem Platz besser als jedes VAR-Bild bezeugen.
Nunsense
by Dan GogginMusical / 5f / Unit set Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Musical in its original New York production, this hilarious international hit was revived in New York with a male cast Nunsense A Men!. The show is a fund raiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Up dated with new jokes, additional lyrics, two new arrangements and a brand new song, this zany musical has been videotaped for television starring Rue McClanahan as the Mother Superior. "A hail of fun and frolic! Wacky and outrageous with a hysterical anything goes sense of fun!" N.Y. Times. "You don't have to be Catholic to love Nunsense!" Entertainment Tonight. "Inspired madness! Go see it!" Jewish Post and Opinion. "Guaranteed to lift your spirits...Very, very funny." National Catholic News.
Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version
by Dan GogginMusical . Characters: 1 male, 9 female, chorus, and extras . Unit Set . "Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version" is here! All the fun of the original "Nunsense" has been super-sized! If you're looking for a Large Cast Musical Comedy this award-winning show is the perfect choice. "Mega-Nunsense" starring the original five nuns features five new (male and female)characters including the never- before-seen infamous convent cook, Sister Julia, Child of God. In addition there is a large chorus of men, women and children. A new song ("One Last Hope") and two expanded dance numbers have been added as well as an optional guest spot for a local celebrity. "Nunsense", the winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Musical was called "A hail of fun and frolic" by the New York Times. And now it's bigger and better than ever! It would be a sin to pass up the opportunity to present it!
Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii
by Allan StrattonFarce comedy / 3m, 4f / One set / When Vivien Bliss, writer of Harlequin Romance novels, comes to spend a romantic weekend with respectably married school teacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a train of events which involves all the classic elements of farce confused identities, disguise, long lost relatives, ambushes, chases and glorious mayhem. How Vivien gets her new novel finished in the face of, behind the back of, in spite of and with the help of an advice columnist, a nosy reporter, a doctor in panty hose, an orphan with a cake and Helga the evil Russian physicist, is the story of this hilarious play.
The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic
by E. T. HoffmanOn Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for the children. While Fritz plays with the clock, Marie is taken aside and given another gift—a nutcracker. After Fritz grabs the nutcracker from Marie and breaks its jaw by cracking too many nuts, their playtime ends and they head off to bed. When the clock strikes twelve, magic makes its way into this enduring tale and an epic battle ensues. This timeless classic, featuring all-new full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist Arkady Roytman and abridged text by Gina Gold, is the perfect story to get anyone in the holiday spirit!
The Nutcracker
by Karen KainMisha and Marie are thrilled that Christmas is coming. It’s a frosty night, the neighbors are all invited, and Peter the stable boy is sweeping the barn in preparation for the dancing to come. But there’s a disappointment in store. Instead of the beautiful doll she’d hoped for, the only thing strange old Uncle Nikolai has for Marie is a wooden nutcracker. Marie thinks it’s a wonderful gift. Little does she know that it will lead her and her brother on the adventure of a lifetime.When Misha and Marie finally go to bed on Christmas Eve, they sleep fitfully and are beset by nightmares. In one particularly bad dream, they join forces — unusual for the squabbling children — and conquer an army that might harm the nutcracker. Their reward is splendid: they are swept to the realm of the Snow Queen for a night of wonders.James Kudelka, the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, is one of North America’s foremost dance artists. His vision of The Nutcracker is elegantly told by Karen Kain and beautifully rendered by artist Rajka Kupesic, herself a ballet dancer.
Nutrition for Dancers: Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips
by Liane Simmel Eva-Maria KraftDancers are top performance athletes on stage – to keep fit andhealthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dancetraining. Nutrition for Dancers provides the principles of nutritionfor dancers of all genres. Authors Liane Simmel and Eva-Maria Kraft clarify widespread nutritional mistakes and giveadvice on how a healthy diet can be incorporated into the everydaylife of dancers.
Nuts
by Tom ToporTom ToporFull Length, DramaCharacters: 6 male, 3 female. Interior Set. A Broadway hit, Nuts has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Set in a courtroom in New York's Bellevue Hospital, the story follows a high-priced call girl incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent "john". The State, represented by a court appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As testimony from experts, physicians and her parents unfolds, with her psyche and childhood dissected, she proves to the judge that she isn't "nuts" and stands legally sane at trial for manslaughter. . "[Has] the audience rooting for the good guys and hating the bad guys, as if the whole event was the most beautifully professional wrestling match you have ever seen. Nuts is a play that moves you ... you are in court watching a woman fight for what she believes is her total future."-New York Post
The Nuttalls
by Michael HealeyLiving in relative seclusion, Ev and Ec rely on the kindness of strangers as they struggle with their own internal and external problems. Ev not only suffers from agoraphobia, she believes she is dying from a fatal degenerative disease. Ec, who is obsessed with his eleventh toe (which he has named Toto), is grieving over his estranged fiancée who left him at the altar. Although Ev declares that hell hath no fury like a mother's love, the Nuttalls prove that sometimes family can be your worst enemy.
Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater
by Patricia HerreraThe Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café’s performances—poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama—have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and ’80s performeras and how they challenged the Café’s gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics.
O Câncer do Amor
by Mohmmed Alsofi Thayller Weverton BarpSim!! O Amor é como um câncer, porque ele o prende a alguém e a imagem dele/dela fica presa em sua mente, além disso, essa pessoa se torna seu coração, quando ele/ela se sente feliz você se sente feliz e quando ele/ela se sente triste você se sente triste, nada mais importa, a não ser dar a ele/ela qualquer coisa que ele/ela precise, mesmo se essa coisa custe sua própria felicidade, sim, isso é o amor!!
O Florim Negro
by Marco Del Pasqua Sandra SantosUmberto é um médico milanês, agora, prestes a se aposentar. Por pura curiosidade, investiga sobre a origem do seu sobrenome e descobre uma distante origem nobre toscana. O seu ancestral gibelino se refugiou em 1285 em um castelo em Siena com o bispo de Arezzo. Guglielmo, da família nobre Ubertini, instigou uma rebelião contra a cidade de Siena, que terminara meses depois, com um banho de sangue.O protagonista, fascinado pelas belezas do lugar, decide comprar uma casa nas vizinhanças do castelo, abandonado e inacessível por anos. Deixa Milão para se mudar e passar a velhice. Durante os trabalhos de restauração encontra, ao acaso, uma moeda antiga fiorentina, um florim de cobre, também chamado de florim negro, e Cesira, uma clarividente, percebeu que a moeda pertencia a um personagem muito importante: Dante Alighieri, e fora perdida em circunstâncias tumultuadas e dramáticas.O romance narra a história de Riccardo, um soldado de infantaria fiorentino, que ficara ao lado do jovem cavaleiro Dante Alighieri durante o terrível cerco ao castelo. A história do jovem Riccardo, no século XIII, se cruza com a de Umberto até os dias de hoje, para ambos, os eventos que acontecem naquele castelo mudarão a vida para sempre.Umberto, como Riccardo séculos antes, descobrirá o amor naquele mesmo lugar.Dois protagonistas de épocas diferentes, um paralelo entre eles, que desafiam o desconhecido, descobrindo novas e inesperadas paixões. Uma história aventurosa de homens, armas e amor, que se entrelaça entre a Idade Média e os dias atuais.
An O. Henry Christmas (Musical)
by Peter EkstromTwo one-act musicals / 2m, 2f or 3m, 3f / Simple set / Two heart-warming one-act musicals based on the classic O. Henry stories capture the true spirit of giving ( The Gift of the Magi and The Last Leaf ). This holiday favorite is set in turn-of-the-century New York City.
O iphihletšeng?: UEB Contracted
by Lesiba MaphosoO iphihletšeng? Mma o hlokofetše ge ke fetša marematlou, tate a gana go nkiša sekolong, fela ka fetša ke ile ntle le yena ... tate o rekišitše dikgomo mola ka gae a re bolaiša dikgakgaripane, megwapa ya dikgomo tšago ota ya go bola le moratha, fela re a fepega ... kgaetšedi le mogadibo ga ba šome, fela tate o rekelwa sellathekeng ... kgaetšedi o utswa dikgomo mola dikgomo tša tate di fela, fela lehodu la tšona ga se yena ... Yo mongwe o dira mošomo wo mobotse ka gare ga nyaganyaga ye, ka fao o swanelwa ke go lebogwa, fela motho yoo ga a itšweletše ... O iphihletšeng? “Motswako wa maikemišetšo le leratorato ka gare ga bongame le tshegišo, di ngwadilwe ka maatlakgogedi a go dira gore o phetle letlakala ka letlakala go fihla ka la mafelelo.” Vicky Seja Moletja - Mogaši wa dipapadi wa Thobela FM, o realo ka diteng tša tiragatšo ya Lesiba Maphoso.
O iphihletšeng?: UEB Uncontracted
by Lesiba MaphosoO iphihletšeng? Mma o hlokofetše ge ke fetša marematlou, tate a gana go nkiša sekolong, fela ka fetša ke ile ntle le yena ... tate o rekišitše dikgomo mola ka gae a re bolaiša dikgakgaripane, megwapa ya dikgomo tšago ota ya go bola le moratha, fela re a fepega ... kgaetšedi le mogadibo ga ba šome, fela tate o rekelwa sellathekeng ... kgaetšedi o utswa dikgomo mola dikgomo tša tate di fela, fela lehodu la tšona ga se yena ... Yo mongwe o dira mošomo wo mobotse ka gare ga nyaganyaga ye, ka fao o swanelwa ke go lebogwa, fela motho yoo ga a itšweletše ... O iphihletšeng? “Motswako wa maikemišetšo le leratorato ka gare ga bongame le tshegišo, di ngwadilwe ka maatlakgogedi a go dira gore o phetle letlakala ka letlakala go fihla ka la mafelelo.” Vicky Seja Moletja - Mogaši wa dipapadi wa Thobela FM, o realo ka diteng tša tiragatšo ya Lesiba Maphoso.
O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
by Amanda Eubanks WinklerIn the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered from bodily disorders (melancholics, madmen, and madwomen). While these theoretical correspondences seem straightforward, in theatrical practice the musical portrayals of disorderly characters were multivalent and often ambiguous.O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note focuses on the various ways that theatrical music represented disorderly subjects--those who presented either a direct or metaphorical threat to the health of the English kingdom in 17th-century England. Using theater music to examine narratives of social history, Winkler demonstrates how music reinscribed and often resisted conservative, political, religious, gender, and social ideologies.
O Machado
by Antonio Morcillo Lopez Angela R. BarbosaDois mecânicos peculiares numa qualquer garagem de uma qualquer cidade de Espanha, descobrem, no carro que consertam, algo que modificará as suas monótonas vidas e que lhes fará revelar o seu lado escuro. A violência é cada vez mais presente no nosso dia-a-dia, no nosso local de trabalho, nas nossas relações sociais e especialmente nos media. Pouco a pouco, eventos sérios, como um ataque terrorista, fazem parte do pão de cada dia, tornando-nos cada vez mais insensíveis. Esta obra pretende ser um espelho no qual o espectador se observa e reconhece o lado escuros que nenhum de nós está disposto a ver: De verdade que não seria capaz de matar alguém? Somos todos tão cívicos ao ponto de não cruzar a linha que nos torna também terroristas? Que culpa tem a media em tudo isto? Em que medida somos capazes de exercer esta violência en nós próprios? Publicado por Ñaque, 1998. Estreia no Auditório de Albacete, Espanha. Novembro 1996.
O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance
by Holly Hughes David Román“Fresh, funny, sad, and sexy . . . [A] diverse collection of good, honest, and soundly structured monologue writing” (David Drake, Obie Award–winning actor and playwright). O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep—from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. Tim Miller, one of the NEA 4, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. And Carmelita Tropicana, the “national songbird of Cuba,” makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana. “A funny, personal, powerful primer of identity, performance and politics. O Solo Homo is a must read.” —Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of How I Learned to Drive “Naked passion, fiery intellect and dissatisfaction with the status quo mark all good performance art. This collection embodies those elements at their best. Each piece makes you sit up and listen.” —Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories “O Solo Homo represents the most significant and vibrant cross-section of queer solo performance since the gospels. A must-have field guide for the amateur and professional alike. Ten thumbs up!” —The Five Lesbian Brothers
An Oak Tree
by Catherine LoveFirst Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances (Performance Philosophy)
by Jamila M. H. Mascat Gregor ModerWhat is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives – both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects.In researching the object of comedy, the contributions gathered here encounter comedy as a philosophical object: instead of approaching comedy as a genre, the book engages with it as a language, a medium, an artifice, a weapon, a puzzle or a trouble, a vocation and a repetition. Thus philosophy meets comedy at the intersection of various fields (e.g. psychoanalysis, film studies, cultural studies, and performance studies) –regions that comical practices and theories in fact already traverse.