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by Jules TascaHarry panics when a black family moves in next door. He and some friends engage in every provocation to force them to move. When he enlists some unsavory characters to burn down their house, they torch the wrong place Harry's. The arsonists are caught and Harry is implicated. He ends up in prison with a black cellmate.
Outside
by Paul DunnDaniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced with acknowledging what drove them apart. At his new school, Daniel speaks to the Gay-Straight Alliance about the bullying and depression that forced him to move. He looks back fondly at the bond he formed with Krystina and Jeremy in history class and the trauma he faced from anonymous text messages. At his former school, Krystina and Jeremy are setting up for their first GSA meeting while grappling with the guilt of not doing more to help their friend. For the first time Daniel has an appreciative audience, but his friends face an empty room. The narratives intertwine as Daniel gains more confidence in his queer identity and Krystina and Jeremy try to assess their boundaries as straight people who want to create a safe space. By talking about mistakes, abuse, a suicide attempt and a move, the teens find comfort in perspective and power in numbers.
Outside Mullingar
by John Patrick Shanley"In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as absolute as it is illusory."--BOMB magazineFor Anthony and Rosemary, introverted misfits straddling forty, love seems unlikely. In this very Irish story with a surprising depth of poetic passion, these yearning, eccentric souls fight their way towards solid ground and happiness. Their journey is heartbreaking, funny as hell, and ultimately, deeply moving. Set in the Irish countryside, Outside Mullingar has been dubbed the "Irish Moonstruck" and will premiere on Broadway in 2014, starring Debra Messing and Brian F. O'Byrne and helmed by Doug Hughes, the Tony Award-winning director of Doubt.John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. His plays include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, and Dirty Story. His trilogy Church and State began with Doubt, followed by Defiance and Storefront Church. For his play Doubt, the playwright received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He has nine films to his credit, including the five-time Oscar-nominated Doubt with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. Other films include Five Corners, Alive, Joe Versus The Volcano, and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For Moonstruck, he received both the Writers Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The Writers Guild of America awarded Shanley the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing.
Outside Play (Hodder Cambridge Primary English Ser.)
by Ruth PriceExplore, support and consolidate communication and language and literacy skills with a colourful non-fiction book for ages 4-5, containing key concepts and practice opportunities. Practise key communication, language and literacy skills and concepts with simple question prompts on each page and activities at the end of the book. Support the themes covered in Activity Book A and the Teacher’s Pack. Outside Play What can we play outside today? Books in the Hodder Cambridge Primary English series for the Foundation Stage: Activity Book A – 9781510457249 Activity Book B – 9781510457256 Activity Book C – 9781510457263 Reading Book A FICTION No Nap for Grandad – 9781510457270 Reading Book B FICTION The Floating Market – 9781510457294 Reading Book C FICTION How Zebra got his Coat – 9781510457300 Reading Book A NON-FICTION Outside Play – 9781510457287 Reading Book B NON-FICTION Ring-a-Ting-Ding! – 9781510457331 Reading Book C NON-FICTION Let’s Pretend – 9781510457348 Teacher’s Pack – 9781510457379 HODDER EDUCATION e: education@bookpoint.co.uk w: hoddereducation.com
Over The Checkerboard
by Fred CarmichaelComedy / 4m, 4f / Interior / Villagers in a picturesque Vermont town hope an unusual bequest will give them the financial means to fight off a developer who plans to build a shopping mall that will destroy the character of their town. A novelist who once lived there has died leaving the village an unpublished work entitled Over the Checkboard which promises to be his best novel since his only successful work won a Pulitzer thirty five years ago. Controversy erupts when the book turns out to be a steamy look at a small town not unlike theirs with characters startlingly similar to their neighbors, friends and selves.
Over Here!
by Richard M. Sherman10 m, 8 f plus orchestra \ Various sets. \ From the composers of Mary Poppins, Over Here! is a choo-choo ride into the past-to wartime America of the 1940s-and it brought the two surviving Andrews Sisters to Broadway and renewed acclaim. An affectionate lampoon of the brassy big band era of World War II America, the original cast in support of the fabled Andrews Sisters included John Travolta, Marilu Henner, Ann Reinking and Treat Williams. On a train full of draftees heading for Europe, the 'DePaul' sisters are looking for a third singer to transform their duo into a trio. They find her in Mitzi-a down-home girl with a secret: she's a Nazi spy with a slinky Dietrich accent and a microphone conveniently hidden in her lipstick. Seventeen rollicking Big Band numbers evoke the originals of the period while gently spoofing musical memories of the wartime era. \ "Engaging and devilishly clever."-Clive Barnes
Over-Scheduled Andrew
by Ashley SpiresDebate. French film club. Bagpipes. Can Andrew do it all? From the award-winning creator of The Most Magnificent Thing comes a book about an charming chickadee who learns – with the help of a &“deer&” friend - that busy isn&’t always better.Andrew loves putting on plays so he decides to join the drama club at school. Determined to make his performance the best it can be, he joins the debate club to practice his public speaking. He signs up for dance and karate to help with his coordination. Then he's asked to play for the tennis team and edit the school newspaper. Before long he's learning to play the bagpipes, attending Spanish classes and joining the French film club. Suddenly Andrew doesn't have time for anything or anyone else, not even his best friend Edie. And he definitely doesn't have time to sleep. Will Andrew figure out how to balance all his favorite activities and his best friend at the same time? A hilarious look at over-scheduling, a common issue many kids today face.
Over the Moon
by Jake Van Leer Jodi Picoult Ellen WilberMaster storyteller and bestselling author Jodi Picoult teams up with Jake van Leer and Ellen Wilber to bring you an original musical, sure to breathe life into any middle-school and high school drama curriculum. Part Shakespearean comedy and part Fractured Fairy Tales, Over the Moon is all fun. Narrated by a cross-dressing Hairy Godmother (no, that's not a typo), the story begins when Luna (the moon) descends to a small town on earth disguised as a boy, and sets out to help humans find love. But Luna herself falls in love with Prince Jack... who's in love with Felicity... who has fallen for Luna. On the way to happily ever after are a steady stream of clever puns and topical jokes about American Idol, universal health care, Bernie Madoff, and just about every fairy tale creature you've ever heard of! With nineteen original hum-worthy songs and plenty of spots to tailor the play to any city or town, Over the Moon is the perfect choice for every school looking to perform an energetic show that's fresh, funny, and timeless.
Over the Top
by Alison HughesFrom an award-winning author Alison Hughes comes a new funny, honest middle grade novel following Diva Cleopatra as she tries to adapt to her new home and school while coming face-to-face with the school's mean girls. When eleven-year-old Diva Pankowski's family moves, she is horrified (but not surprised) that her mother's new dream home is a bright pink, castle-themed house. She's used to her Mom's excesses; after all, she's lived her whole life with the name "Diva Cleopatra," and her nine-year-old brother deals with "Hero Augustus." But the pink palace is only the beginning of a series of new humiliations. While acting as a glitzy mermaid-mascot for her Mom's party planning business, Diva is spotted by the class mean girls. Then, when she works up the courage to audition for her new school's production of The Wizard of Oz, she's cast in the baffling role of The Yellow Brick Road. But it's DIVAPALOOZA!, the splashy, mammoth-sized, surprise, birthday party her family throws for her (inviting everyone in sixth grade) where things really lurch toward disaster. How on earth can Diva stay true to her quiet, introverted, under-the-radar self in an in-your-face, over-the-top world?
The Ovidian Vogue
by Daniel D. MossThe Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete within late Elizabethan literary culture.Moss explains how in the 1590s rising stars like Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare adopted Ovidian language to introduce themselves to patrons and rivals, while established figures like Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton alluded to Ovid's works as a way to map their own poetic development. Even poets such as George Chapman, John Donne, and Ben Jonson, whose early work pointedly abandoned Ovid as cliché, could not escape his influence. Moss's research exposes the literary impulses at work in the flourishing of poetry that grappled with Ovid's cultural authority.
Ownerless World
by Anthony KoontzThis is a book about power, politics, sex, religion and science. It presents a future world where the economy is declining and various corporations are fighting each other for global power. Meanwhile, a revolutionary new technology is being born: an artificial deity willing to help people defeat those who are controlling capital and the planet. It’s everything conspiracy theories never talk about. If God doesn’t exist, you must create Him.
Owning Our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition (Routledge Voice Studies)
by Margaret Pikes Patrick CampbellOwning Our Voices offers a unique, first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes, an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre. This dynamic publication fuses Pikes’ personal account of her own vocal journey as a woman within this, at times, male-dominated tradition, alongside an overview of her particular pedagogical approach to voice work, and is accompanied by digital footage of Pikes at work in the studio with artist-collaborators and written descriptions of scenarios for teaching. For the first time, Margaret Pikes’ uniquely holistic approach to developing the expressive voice through sounding, speech, song and movement has been documented in text and on film, offering readers an introduction to both the philosophy and the practice of Wolfsohn-Hart voice work. Owning Our Voices is a vital book for scholars and students of voice studies and practitioners of vocal performance: it represents a synthesis of a life’s work exploring the expressive potential of the human voice, illuminating an important lineage of vocal training, which remains influential to this day.
Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage
by Jane WesselIn 1710, England’s first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in a cultural and legal environment that treated print differently from performance. As ownership became a central concern for many, actors fought to possess their dramatic parts exclusively, playwrights struggled to control and profit from repeat performances of their works, and managers tried to gain a monopoly over the performance of profitable plays. Owning Performance follows the careers of some of the 18th century’s most influential playwrights, actors, and theater managers as they vied for control over the period’s most popular shows. Without protection for dramatic literary property, these figures developed creative extra-legal strategies for controlling the performance of drama—quite literally performing their ownership. Their various strategies resulted in a culture of ephemerality, with many of the period’s most popular works existing only in performance and manuscript copies. Author Jane Wessel explores how playwrights and actors developed strategies for owning their works and how, in turn, theater managers appropriated these strategies, putting constant pressure on artists to innovate. Owning Performance reveals the wide-reaching effects of property law on theatrical culture, tracing a turn away from print that affected the circulation, preservation, and legacy of 18th century drama.
Owning William Shakespeare
by James J. MarinoCopyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not even view print copyright as the most important of their authorial rights. A rich vein of recent scholarship has examined the interaction between royal monopolies, which have been identified with later notions of intrinsic authorial ownership, and the internal copy registration practices of the English book trades. Yet this dialogue was but one part of a still more complicated conversation in early modern England, James J. Marino argues; other customs and other sets of professional demands were at least as important, most strikingly in the exercise of the performance rights of plays.In Owning William Shakespeare James Marino explores the actors' system of intellectual property as something fundamentally different from the property regimes exercised by the London printers or the royal monopolists. Focusing on Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other works, he demonstrates how Shakespeare's acting company asserted ownership of its plays through intense rewriting combined with progressively insistent attribution to Shakespeare. The familiar versions of these plays were created through ongoing revision in the theater, a process that did not necessarily begin with Shakespeare's original manuscript or end when he died. An ascription by the company of any play to "Shakespeare" did not imply that it was following a fixed, authorial text; rather, Marino writes, it indicates an attempt to maintain exclusive control over a set of open-ended, theatrically revised scripts.Combining theater history, textual studies, and literary theory, Owning William Shakespeare rethinks both the way Shakespeare's plays were created and the way they came to be known as his. It overturns a century of scholarship aimed at re-creating the playwright's lost manuscripts, focusing instead on the way the plays continued to live and grow onstage.
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
by Gerald BordmanAn abridgment of the massive original volume (1984), eliminating many entries on minor plays and figures but preserving those articles that are of the widest general interest. In addition, this volume updates information on contemporary topics and includes a number of new articles. Some 2,000 entries, accessibly arranged in a two-column, A-Z format.
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television
by Thomas S. HischakFrom the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to see An American in Paris or Chicago, lined up for tickets to West Side Story or Rent, or crowded around their TVs to watch Cinderella or High School Musical can finally turn to a single book for details about them all. For The first time, this popular subject has an engaging and authoritative book as thrilling as the performances themselves. With more than two thousand entries, this illustrated guide offers a wealth of information on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists, producers, choreographers, and much more. Biographical entries range from early stars Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, and Mae West to contemporary show-stoppers Nathan Lane, Savion Glover, and Kristin Chenoweth, while composers Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Andrew Lloyd Webber all have articles, and the choreography of Bob Fosse, Tommy Tune, and Debbie Allen receives due examination. The plays and films covered range from modern hits like Mamma Mia! and Moulin Rouge! to timeless classics such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and Show Boat. Also, numerous musicals written specifically for television appear throughout, and many entries follow a work--Babes in Toyland for example--as it moves across genres, from stage, to film, to television. The Companion also includes cross references, a comprehensive listing of recommended recordings and further reading, a useful chronology of all the musicals described in the book, plus a complete index of Tony Award and Academy Award winners. Whether you are curious about Singin' in the Rain or Spamalot, or simply adore The Wizard of Oz or Grease, this well-researched and entertaining resource is the first place to turn for reliable information on virtually every aspect of the American musical. THOMAS HISCHAK is Professor of Theatre at the State University of New York College at Cortland. He is the author of sixteen books on theatre, film, and popular music, including The Oxford Companion to American Theatre; the textbook Theatre as Human Action; and the award-winning American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia. He is also the author of twenty published plays.
Oxford Reading Tree, Level 17, TreeTops Classics, Pack A: Macbeth
by William ShakespeareNo dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his "masculinity" by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters' prophecy and kill his king-and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare's compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Oxopetra Elegies
by Odysseas Elytes David ConnollyFirst Published in 1997. 'Geographically speaking 'Oxopetra' is a promontory on the island of Astypalaea. It is the 'other rock'. For me, it is the farthest point of the land in the sea, the farthest point of our era in another era, and the farthest point of my life in death... Odysseus Elytis.' Odysseus Elytis was born in Crete in 1911 and published the first of his poems in 1935. He was influenced by French Surrealism and travelled widely, and in post-war years lived in France with many other leading poets and artists of his generation. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature. The Oxopetra Elegies is a recent collection and is considered by many Greek critics to contain some of the finest and most important poems he has ever written. The Greek Poetry Archive features monographs on key modern Greek poets, from the nineteenth century to the present, and a bilingual collection of their poetry translated into English.
P Is For Perfect
by Fred CarmichaelFarce / 5f / Interior / To relieve the boredom of their "perfect" lives as executive wives Mary, Millicent, and Violet invent a game. They prepare "surprises" for each other. Today it's Mary's turn and with the aid of Cora and Ms. Pex, two "ladies" from the top secret department of her husband's firm, she materializes the ultimate surprise. The strange and fascinating Ms. Pex is a robot-- a perfect woman. Or is she? Her honesty shows up the girls and makes them laugh, cry, get furious, start fights and threaten to leave their husbands. The unguessable final plot twist will leave the audience laughing.
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!
by James KirkwoodFull Length, Comedy / 3 m, 1 f / Int. / In the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired from a play, has a cat on the critical list, a girl friend who's leaving, and he discovers a burglar hiding in his loft. To avenge his life, he ties "Vito" to the kitchen sink and keeps him prisoner over the long New Year's Eve. / "A darkly hued comedy...Raunchily funny. Wonderful show-biz dialogue that crackles." -L.A. Free Press
Pablo se pleidooi
by Erick Carballo"Pablo se pleidooi" is 'n roman waarin die eensaamheid, afknouery, ondeug en selfsug van 'n vader verweef is, en die onverskilligheid van 'n moeder wat haar seun aan sy lot oorlaat om 'n nuwe lewe met 'n man wat 'n belowende toekoms verseker. Pablo is 'n agtjarige seun wat net een vriend het wat hy kan vertrou, maar 'n reeks gebeure lei hom tot 'n tragiese lot.
Pablos Flehen
by Erick Carballo»Pablos Flehen« ist eine Geschichte, in der Einsamkeit, Mobbing, Alkoholismus, Egoismus und Grausamkeit eines Vaters verflochten sind mit der Gleichgültigkeit einer Mutter, die ihren Sohn seinem Schicksal überlässt, um ein neues Leben mit einem neuen Mann zu beginnen, der ihr eine neue Zukunft verspricht. Pablo ist ein achtjähriger Junge, der nur einen Freund hat, dem er vertrauen kann. Eine Reihe von Ereignissen führen zu einem tragischen Ende ...
Padre Nazista, Figlio Ebreo: L'incredibile storia del figlio di un eroe di guerra tedesco che si è convertito all'ebraismo ed è emigrato in Israele
by Lazaro DroznesQuesto drammatico racconto riflette l'incredibile storia basata su un caso realmente accaduto del figlio di un ufficiale tedesco della Wehrmacht insignito al valor militare durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, che si è convertito all'ebraismo, ha abbandonato la Germania ed è andato in Israele per diventare un cittadino israeliano. La sua partecipazione nella Guerra del Libano e il suo confronto con i palestinesi lo pone nello stesso dilemma che dovette affrontare suo padre 40 anni prima: il dilemma di ogni soldato: Tutti gli ordini sono leciti e bisogna obbedire a tutti? Qual è il limite di obbedienza dovuta? La disciplina militare esime il combattente dai suoi doveri morali ed etici? Tutte le responsabilità appartengono alla massima gerarchia di un'organizzazione militare o la responsabilità è condivisa dai livelli intermedi? Questa storia conferma ciò che i greci sapevano già: nessuno può evitare il proprio destino. Non importa ciò che facciamo, ci ritrova ugualmente.
Paganini
by Don NigroFarce / 7m, 5f, with doubling / Unit set / This wildly funny, demonic epic farce traces the bizarre career of virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini, a man so possessed during his performances that it was rumored he had sold his soul to the devil. Using Paganini's 24 Caprices for Violin as a haunting background, this nightmare play gallops through grotesque adventures as Paganini plays to spellbound audiences throughout Europe, the century's equivalent to a rock star. He leaves a trail of seduced women, enraged fathers and creditors and reportedly evades responsibility for a murder. A clockworks girl, a horrifying jack in the box, a trumpet blowing gorilla, a cymbals hanging bear, a barbershop quartet of murderous doctors, dead bird soup, Beethoven's ghost, an earsplitting diva, the king of France and other delights and horrors are encountered as Paganini moves toward his terrible destination. This inventive play employs theatrical conventions to tell the surreal story of a dark and twisted journey while probing the consequences of art and the nature of salvation for the artist.
Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation
by Vincent MurphyAt last, for those who adapt literature into scripts, a how-to book that illuminates the process of creating a stageworthy play. Page to Stage describes the essential steps for constructing adaptations for any theatrical venue, from the college classroom to a professionally produced production. Acclaimed director Vincent Murphy offers students in theater, literary studies, and creative writing a clear and easy-to-use guidebook on adaptation. Its step-by-step process will be valuable to professional theater artists as well, and for script writers in any medium. Murphy defines six essential building blocks and strategies for a successful adaptation, including theme, dialogue, character, imagery, storyline, and action. Exercises at the end of each chapter lead readers through the transformation process, from choosing their material to creating their own adaptations. The book provides case studies of successful adaptations, including The Grapes of Wrath (adaptation by Frank Galati) and the author's own adaptations of stories by Samuel Beckett and John Barth. Also included is practical information on building collaborative relationships, acquiring rights, and getting your adaptation produced.