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For the first time in almost 90 years, we can experience the origins of Jack Benny's radio comedy genius. Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts, brought up from Benny's subterranean vault [or the UCLA archives, almost as difficult to access!] finally share scripts of his earliest live radio programs-for which no recordings exist.
See how the soon-to-be-king of radio comedy moved from his vaudeville stand-up comedy background...
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Although he never left his native Kraków except for relatively short periods, Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland's greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century. Acropolis: the Wawel Plays, brings together four of Wyspiański's most important dramatic works in a new English translation by Charles S. Kraszewski. All of the plays center on Wawel Hill: the legendary seat of royal...
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The circus is failing. Ticket sales have been declining for years. Morale among the performers is low and many fear that they will soon be out of a job.
One performer, Tubby the Fat Clown, has little money, but a big appetite. He has begun to show up at children's birthday parties to steal the cake. Children, finding this funny, have come to adore the fat clown. Parents, though they disapprove, have turned a blind-eye to Tubby's antics.
To repay...
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A choice selection of one-act plays from the Nobel Prize for Literature and Academy Award winning playwright George Bernard Shaw. Includes: • Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce • The Dark Lady of the Sonnets • How He Lied to Her Husband • The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta • Overruled • Press Cuttings
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At the graveside of Chippums - beloved pet of Mrs. Tarleton - the unctuous proprietor of The Little Garden of Assisi is the model undertaker, consoling the bereaved owner and reassuring her of the dog's happy existence in the afterlife. But when the mourners have gone, it's a very different story. Happy to continue to dupe unsuspecting customers, and pocket the rewards, Dribone seems to lead a charmed existence: until the Mayor arrives with a very...
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Life Mountain
In the snowy
mountains of life.
Keeping the heart
warm is pivotal when
the cold winds start to pick up.
When beats skip don't trip flip the script and live on.
A Play
With a king refusing to be anything different,
than corrupt.
The court deems it necessary to act and rebel.
However,
they all might not have the same motive in mind.
Oh, and a jester might be the ring leader...
And a short story, action packed in America 2045, gripped...
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When Sergei Tretyakov's ground-breaking play, I Want a Baby, was banned by Stalin's censor in 1927, it was a signal that the radical and innovative theatre of the early Soviet years was to be brought to an end. A glittering, unblinking exploration of the realities of post-revolutionary Soviet life, I Want a Baby marks a high point in modernist experimental drama.
Tretyakov's plays are notable for their formal originality and their revolutionary content....
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August Strindberg's classic trilogy of plays entitled To Damascus (also known as The Road to Damascus) is known as his greatest work. A very complex and thought provoking play series, it follows the conversations between two characters: the Stranger and the Lady. An excerpt from the Introduction: The Road to Damascus might be termed a marriage drama, a mystery drama, or a drama of penance and conversion, according as preponderance is given to one...
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The Judgement of Karl Marx is a play, partly serious and partly comic, dealing with the reasons for the failure of Marxism. In act one, through an extraordinary arrangement, Karl Marx is allowed to confront the main 20th-century practitioners of his doctrines: Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, etc. He is not pleased at what they have done, but they themselves have found his ideas for building a better society somewhat lacking in realism....
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During their teenage years at high school, Joel and Emily fall in love. But the two young people's relationship will be tested, as they're driven to different paths by following their educational and artistic pursuits. At the age of thirty two, Joel and his family will be tested at all possible levels. His father is at the hospital, Joel is unemployed and family relationships are at risk. At Christmas parties with mutual friends, Joel and Emily find...
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In Volume Two of Jack Benny's Lost Broadcasts, (25 episodes from August 1 to October 26, 1932), Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn continue to craft a personality-based radio variety program. They draw on Benny's vaudeville style and explore new constructions of comedy characters and situations. Benny and Conn develop quirky-yet-likeable identities for the major performers-"Broadway Romeo" Jack, tightwad band leader George Olsen, sultry vocalist Ethel...
53) Agamemnon
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From the perspective of the townspeople and the queen, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon follows the emotional journey of grief, rage, and revenge. Agamemnon had dedicated much of his life to a war that his brother started. He vowed to do whatever it takes to win-committing war crimes and killing innocents. But, even in victory, Agamemnon feels unsatisfied and plagued by the bloodshed he caused. Because of this, he decides to perform a ritual to clear his conscience...
54) Forefathers' Eve
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Forefathers' Eve Dziady is a four-part dramatic work begun circa 1820 and completed in 1832 – with Part I published only after the poet's death, in 1860. The drama's title refers to Dziady, an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian feast commemorating the dead. This is the grand work of Polish literature, and it is one that elevates Mickiewicz to a position among the great Europeans" such as Dante and Goethe. With its Christian background of the Communion...
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"The Acorn-Planter - A California Forest Play" is a 1916 play in two acts by Jack London, originally intended to be sung and accompanied by an orchestra. John Griffith London (1876 – 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their...
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Diana's letter" explores tranquility, weaving a serene tapestry up to certain ideas. It delves into history, an ever-flowing river without a fixed point in time but with a known destination, anchored by vivid depictions of an alternate realm revolving around Princess Diana. Although the concept at play may evoke reminiscences of Philip K. Dick's opus, "The Man in the High Castle", the 'letter' does not venture into such magnitude. It adheres to a...
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Mr. Show fans rejoice! After all these years, Bob and David are finally back together with a collection of hilarious, never-before-seen scripts, sketches, and ideas that may have just been too good for Hollywood.
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of never-before-seen scripts and ideas that Hollywood couldn't find the gumption to green-light. Simply put... Hollywood...
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Diecinueve años después, el reencuentro de una pareja se lleva a cabo en Lima para concretar una separación. Marcados por el desamor y asuntos del pasado, aún sin resolver, Laura y Ramón son protagonistas de una historia de violencia. Entre la confrontación de las memorias y su reconciliación, el director y guionista Joel Calero relata con "La última tarde" una lectura alternativa sobre el olvido y el perdón en una sociedad en busca de respuestas.
Esta...