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Dracula stalks the stage in this two-act thriller freely adapted from the Bram Stoker novel. Perfect for any company or community looking for a Halloween play requiring a large ensemble cast. (8 Male, 6 female, and 2 children - casting can be flexible) This version of the classic vampre tale focuses on Mina Murray, a suffragette and proto-feminist fighting social mores and facing an encroaching force for evil.Suspenseful, smart, and surprising.Includes...
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Cet ouvrage offre un récit inédit de Toronto, ville d'art et de culture traversée par la diversité linguistique. Le contact entre les langues laisse des traces, des documents et des souvenirs, notamment dans le domaine du théâtre auquel l'autrice porte ici toute son attention. En se penchant sur la dynamique matérielle du « voisinage linguistique » qui anime le devant et le derrière de la scène théâtrale, elle décrit le virage médiatique...
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A Comedy Murder Mystery Play in 2 Acts. Nothing much ever happens in the small town of Meridosa near Dead Man's Holler, nothing until now. A notorious outlaw Sergio Van Cleef is being kept in the jail for the night until Marshall Tucker can transport him to the train station to catch the 3:10 to Yuma. Mrs. Peacock, president of the Ladies Ethics Guild is none too happy about the arrangement, nor is she happy that the new Saloon "entertainer", Sadie...
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Comedy Murder mystery play. Return to the Golden age of the 1940s and the famous night club Chez Mort which was the scene of an unusual crime. As newspapers of the day reported: "Ingenue 'Sweet Sue' Blutowsky was mysteriously and fatally cut short during her debut singing performance. Inspector Constantine was quick on the scene to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the shocking events. In attendance that night was the infamous hoodlum...
5) Dead Air
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Radio station WEZ-Y established a winning format in the 1950s and has stuck with it ever since. Ever since the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, etc. Nothing has changed. Not the music nor the annual "Live Broadcast" hosted by Guy Godfry; 'Your voice in the night.' This particular Anniversary show proves to be a wee bit different. First of all, rumor has it the station is about to be purchased by a large media conglomerate. Secondly, Guy seems to be having...
6) Pieces
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The first collection of plays by Merlin Goldman. It includes Killing Rainbows (Alma Tavern Theatre, Bordeaux Quay and the White Bear Pub, 2016-17), Our Kid (2016), Tick-Tock and TANK (Alma Tavern Theatre, 2017), A Game of Two Halves (Theatre Royal Bath, 2019), Hit Points (2019), Chainsaw (The King's Arms Theatre, 2020) and Loud Mouth (2016-20). Merlin Goldman (www.magnetical.com) writes about duality, disability, and injustice. He has written plays,...
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"you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun."
On the Subject of Fallen Things is an addictive, Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological, absurd, and dripping with black humour. James Kearns' speaker keeps company with Lazarus, an inept psychic, and a deceased superhero, but finds himself increasingly alone-lost in dialogue with mortality, both personal and anthropological....
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Apocalypse, Pacific Daylight Time - Armageddon comes to suburbia in this dark comedy about a married couple who awaken to the sounds of imminent war. As Bill and Debra come to grips with impending doom and struggle with ways to survive, they reflect on their lives together, their regrets, and their feelings for one other.
• Waiting For Valet - A parody of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" set in a parking garage.
• Dining, First Person Singular -...
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The high school or college English class offers a long list of technical terms: Symbolism, Irony, Metafiction, Allegory, Metaphor… With such a barrage, it can be tough to sort them all out. Yet here's the list, from Absurdity to Zeugma, all defined through the clever wordplay of Hamilton. In fact, musicals use all the rhythm and rhyme patterns of history's top poets, and the literary skill of crafting characters and straddling genre. Further, the...
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Hamilton, the hip-hop rap musical, has revolutionized theater. It's the story of an immigrant, "young, scrappy, and hungry," who kicked off the Revolutionary War and built the central government of today. Within this book appears the musical's backstory with many deeper insights. How do the Schuyler Sisters' signature colors reveal their personalities? Which stage equipment best amplifies the themes? What of the words like "Satisfied" and "My Shot,"...
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This antique text contains a fascinating and detailed treatise on the production a of play, written by Joseph Capek and originally published in 1928. A comprehensive exposition of Capek's ideas on the subject, this text will be of great value to anyone with an interest in theatre production and constitutes a great addition to collections of theatrical literature.
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Act out the story of a group of children who need to set rules for their camping trip! They use the U.S. Constitution as an example, discovering the reasons it was written, what it means for democracy in our country, and how it gives citizens rights, laws, and freedoms. Will the children be able to make a camping constitution of their own? This Spanish script includes six roles, each of which match a different reading level. Teachers can apply differentiation...
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Have a large cast? Need speaking roles for everyone?Want everyone to shine? Love the classics but want something new and challenging as well?Here are ten short plays for large casts in which everyone gets a spot IN THE LIMELIGHT ! Volume One in the Short Plays for Large Casts Series:Aesop's Fabulous Fables (Cast of 21-23 - Running time ~8-10 minutes)The Boy Who Cried Wolf on Old MacDonald's Farm (Cast of 21-24 - Running time ~15 minutes)The Bremen...
14) Torero / Sexapil
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Torero
Antonio quiere llegar a ser un torero reconocido, como lo fue su abuelo. Su papá es un carnicero que no tiene nada que ver con ese "toreo sin sentido". Quiere que su hijo Antonio trabaje junto a él en la carnicería. Algún día el abuelo de Antonio se sentirá orgulloso de él. Y su abuela también aunque ella ya no esté. Antonio cree que ella puede verlo desde el cielo. Antonio está enamorado de María. María le dice: "enséñame que...
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In the summer of 1864, an entrepreneur built an observation tower just outside the walls of the federal prison at Elmira, New York. He charged 15 cents for citizens to climb the tower and observe the Confederate prisoners below. Ginger cakes and drinks were sold. The venture paid for itself in a matter of weeks. Then winter came.
Shortly afterward another observation tower was constructed by another business interest, and competition being what...
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Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera.
This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy and...
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Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus the King is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg.
Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, Oedipus the King is the ancient world's most shocking and memorable tragedy; the story of Thebes's resilient hero and his royal family brought to...