Author: Mahesh Dattani Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9351185990 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 185
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Mahesh Dattani’s work has shaped contemporary English theatre in India over the past twenty-five years, boldly exploring themes like homosexuality, religious fanaticism, child sexual abuse and gender bias while also raising the bar for theatrical innovation. In Me and My Plays, he eloquently reflects on the highs and lows of surviving in a system largely indifferent to professional theatre. Included in this edition are Where Did I Leave My Purdah?, which explores the life and travails of Nazia, a feisty actress now in her eighties, who is forced to confront her past demons when she attempts to stage a comeback, and The Big Fat City, a black comedy about the residents of an apartment complex in Mumbai who unwittingly become accomplices to a murder. Intense and hard-hitting, both plays deal with the lies that simmer beneath the surface of our daily lives.
Author: Mahesh Dattani Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9351181537 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 552
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Mahesh Dattani is the first Indian-playwright writing in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays bring Indian drama into the present day in their themes "sexuality, religious tension and gender issues" while still focussing on human relationships and personal and moral choices which are the classic concerns of world drama.
Author: Bekah Brunstetter Publisher: ISBN: 9780573705526 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 84
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Is there a heaven? Joe says no; it's all a bunch of hokum. His wife, Roberta, has always claimed to agree. But lately she's beginning to wonder, especially when they find themselves in church a lot, having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter, Ellie, doesn't have time in her own busy life to ponder the afterlife. But when mortality confronts them, her grandmother's claim to have gone to heaven and back doesn't sound so crazy after all. With thoughtful storytelling and quiet wit, Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endings--and an enigmatic angel.
Author: E. M. Foster Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1452078270 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 126
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Happiness. It is a hot commodity sought by millions of people. Some seek it in food, drugs, alcohol, or sex, and some even try to buy it. However, most people, especially women, look for happiness in relationships. We search for years, go from one man to another, and stay in loveless, abusive, or dysfunctional relationships, hoping to find this euphoric, drug-like sensation no matter how long it takes. But how much time do we have? Life is not guaranteed, yet we act as if we have a warranty, like if this life doesn't work or gets destroyed, we can return it for a a dangerous game we women play since there are no give-backs or do-over's. Once we're gone, we're gone. brand-new one.
Author: A. R. Gurney Jr. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0452265010 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 225
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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA In such critically acclaimed plays as The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A. R. Gurney has wittily captured the manners of upper-middle-class WASP America, but never as gracefully or with such dazzling economy as in Love Letters. Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written—and what is left unsaid—in their letters. A smash hit both off and on Broadway, Love Letters captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling that only Gurney can command. Two other, thematically related plays by Gurney, The Golden Age and What I Did Last Summer, are included, providing a trio of wry and affectionate paeans to love lost, found, and fleetingly glimpsed.
Author: Azure D. Osborne-Lee Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350179221 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 457
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Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology category The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This edited collection establishes a canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex. Edited by Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller and Leanna Keyes, the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study. Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen how to clean your room by j. chavez She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
Author: Amanda Noll Publisher: Flashlight Press ISBN: 1947277111 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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One night, when Ethan reaches under his bed for a toy truck, he finds this note instead: "Monsters! Meet here for final test." Ethan is sure his parents are trying to trick him into staying under the covers, until he sees five colorful sets of eyes blinking at him from beneath the bed. Soon, a colorful parade of quirky, squeaky little monsters compete to become Ethan's monster. But only the little green monster, Gabe, has the perfect blend of stomach-rumbling and snorting needed to get Ethan into bed and keep him there so he falls asleep—which as everyone knows, is the real reason for monsters under beds. With its perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this silly-spooky prequel to the award-winning I Need My Monster and Hey, That's MY Monster! will keep young readers entertained.
Author: Lee Blessing Publisher: Heinemann Drama ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 276
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This volume of Lee Blessing's most recent and some of his best work, includes: Patient A - a rethinking of the Kimberly Bergalis AIDS case; Two Rooms - the strain on families of hostages in the Middle East; Down the Road - a tale of a serial killer concerned with image; Fortinbras - a hilarious reexamination of Hamlet in a contemporary political context; and Lake Street Extension - an exploration of the dark theme of child molestation. All of these plays resonate with Blessing's characteristic depth of human feeling and his insistence that the personal is the political.
Author: Mahesh Dattani
Author: Adrienne Kennedy
Author: Mahesh Dattani
Author: Bekah Brunstetter
Author: E. M. Foster
Author: A. R. Gurney Jr.
Author: Azure D. Osborne-Lee
Author: Amanda Noll
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Lee Blessing