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Much like The Evolution of Nora, Darlene takes a young girl through
her trials in life. She is seduced by a teacher as a teenager and
that haunts her until she seeks psychiatric help. The help she
receives is a good story. Darlene becomes a lawyer in New York City
and has many interesting stories of her law cases. She has some
interesting friends who help develop the story.The story deals with
social problems and alternative life styles. It also has a few love
stories which are intertwined with Darlene's life in New York.
Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone shares a
secret. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on
the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's
mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police.
Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone's never felt
like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a
hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Caryl
Churchill's play Love and Information was first performed at the
Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2012.
Launching Global News Channel in 2005 was Mitch and Amanda McGill's
first return to normalcy since Matthew's death in 2002. Its
avant-garde venue provided the media podium they envisioned for a
cable network.Persevering Anne McGill's unrelenting comments was
easy compared to Amanda not understanding the change in her
husband. Mitch had become unpredictable, irrational and not the man
she married. She was astounded when he informed her he did not want
to remain at GNC's helm five years after its inception, choosing
again to travel to the world's hot spots "to get the story."
Singled out by print media to challenge President Barack Obama in
2012, Mitch chose to make his own decision. Meanwhile, Amanda's
Micah Foundation flourished. Its efforts in New Orleans, Haiti,
Tuscaloosa and Joplin as well as over a thousand programs receiving
grants, changed countless people's lives. Her efforts would also
have a profound impact on childhood nutrition.However, no one could
have anticipated the confluence of events directly impacting them
by a homegrown terrorist seeking revenge. And then terror reared it
heinous head again just four months later.Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
was Amanda's remedy for healing their family. To her it was and had
always been "God's Country." Was she being fair to Mitch with her
decision to take their children there? That remained to be seen
when all was said and done.
A teenage, pregnant, junkie named Danielle ... a barren, divorced
Nurse named Betty ... a middle-aged, family-oriented Cardinal named
Gary ... a powerful, three-member clandestine organization called
the Concilium Tria, which is overseen by the strongest, evilest
force known to man since its inception almost 2000 years ago, are
all connected. It all begins with Nurse Betty's reoccurring dream
night after night until it becomes a shocking, sudden reality. A
male, newborn is kidnapped from the hospital shortly after being
delivered. Danielle almost dies giving birth. After decades of
faithful service, Cardinal Gary abruptly leaves the Catholic Church
when he decides to go against what he is asked to do by the Pope.
The Concilium Tria starts its desperate search for the last
prophet. A war involving every soul-living and dead-will happen if
the Concilium Tria discovers the whereabouts of the last prophet.
Humanity's only chance is the last prophet not being found. A
dangerous, deadly storm is on the horizon. Will man's innate
capability for benevolence conquer its lewd desire for the
materialistic?
The good The bad It s got to be ugly when these two forces meet.
There are heroes and villains and you decide which is which Who
will win and who will lose everything Our loving couple prepare for
a bright future and without trying hurt everyone around them in
some way Are they the villain? Humm Maybe A man who s life has come
crashing down in every way in a very short period of time. Can he
be the hero? Again Humm Gavin s revenge promises to intrigue you
completely and will have you demand another chapter in this saga.
Your wish will be our command
Winner of the London Hellenic Prize 2020 The Greek Trilogy of Luis
Alfaro gathers together for the first time the three 'Greek' plays
of the MacArthur Genius Award-winning Chicanx playwright and
performance artist. Based respectively on Sophocles' Electra and
Oedipus, and Euripides' Medea, Alfaro's Electricidad, Oedipus El
Rey, and Mojada transplant ancient themes and problems into the
21st century streets of Los Angeles and New York, in order to give
voice to the concerns of the Chicanx and wider Latinx communities.
From performances around the world including sold-out runs at New
York's Public Theater, these texts are extremely important to those
studying classical reception, Greek theatre and Chicanx writers.
This unique anthology features definitive editions of all three
plays alongside a comprehensive introduction which provides a
critical overview of Luis Alfaro's work, accentuating not only the
unique nature of these three 'urban' adaptations of ancient Greek
tragedy but also the manner in which they address present-day
Chicanx and Latinx socio-political realities across the United
States. A brief introduction to each play and its overall themes
precedes the text of the drama. The anthology concludes with
exclusive supplementary material aimed at enhancing understanding
of Alfaro's plays: a 'Performance History' timeline outlining the
performance history of the plays; an alphabetical 'Glossary'
explaining the most common terms in Spanish and Spanglish appearing
in each play; and a 'Further Reading' list providing primary and
secondary bibliography for each play. The anthology is completed by
a new interview with Alfaro which addresses key topics such as
Alfaro's engagement with ancient Greek drama and his work with
Chicanx communities across the United States, thus providing a
critical contextualisation of these critically-acclaimed plays.
When Bertie is sent away from the African farm of his childhood to
school in England, he leaves behind not only his beloved mother and
the beautiful land, swarming with wildlife, but also his best
friend - a white lion he rescued as a cub. Bertie's struggle to
adjust to his new life in harsh, grey England is alleviated only by
a chance friendship with the equally lonely Millie and his dreams
of his treasured lion, now trapped in a French circus. But their
remarkable journey is only just beginning, and the pair are
destined to meet again. The Butterfly Lion combines music, design
and puppetry to bring a magical adventure to life: celebrating
nature, friendship and the triumph of love. Based on Michael
Morpurgo's best-selling novel, which won the Smarties Prize and the
Writers' Guild Award, this stage adaptation was commissioned by
Chichester Festival Theatre and written by Chichester Festival
Theatre's Writer-in-Residence Anna Ledwich.
Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all
post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement) Offending
the Audience is "a dissection of our expectations about what ought
to happen in the theatre." Self-Accusation is "a cunning and ironic
attack on bureaucratic moral guilt" (Observer); Kaspar is based on
the true story of Kaspar Hauser, a sixteen year old boy who
appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught
to speak from scratch. Handke's play is a downright attack on the
way language is used by a corrupt society to depersonalise the
individual; My Foot My Tutor is a mime for two actors - "Handke has
here written an hour-long play without words that may at first look
like a piece of audience-provocation but that finishes up as sheer
theatrical poetry" (Guardian). In The Ride across Lake Constance, a
group of characters (known only by the names of the actors who
perform the parts) talk and play games together and skate over the
thin ice that separates them from unspoken danger. "Intensely
theatrical...an author for whom playwriting seems akin to tightrope
walking" (The Times). They Are Dying Out puts the pillars of the
bourgeoisie under the microscope to reveal an alien race,
suffocated by rationality, unable to cope with untamed subjective
impulses and shows an "uncanny knack for making the familiar seem
strange" (Plays and Players).
Bell has always known something is wrong. The darkness deep inside
her is deeply satisfying and sometimes makes her tingle all over.
As Bell grows up as an overweight and unattractive child next to
her beautiful sister, Dana, she embraces the darkness and even
allows it to grow as she tortures innocent animals and secretly
wishes her sister would give her the special attention she feels
she deserves. But as her anger intensifies, Bell loses control and
ends her sister's life in the blink of an eye, claiming it was an
accident. Bell has just gotten away with murder. As she embarks on
a quest to make others pay for things she perceives as wrongs
against her, she decides to form a plan for her life that includes
afflicting pain on living creatures, poisoning family members,
wreaking havoc on the community, and stealing from innocent
victims. After her husband leaves her and marries again, Bell's
behavior becomes increasingly cruel and reckless as she uses her
daughter as a pawn in her attempts to ruin their marriage. But when
Bell's daughter announces she is pregnant, Bell suddenly realizes
she has lost everything she has been trying so desperately to keep.
Intent on seeking revenge no matter what the personal cost, Bell is
about to make a horrifying decision that will forever change not
only her life, but also the lives of everyone around her.
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