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Oberon Play House's director and leading men are off at war with
the Axis. Determined to press on, the director's wife sets out to
produce an all-female version of Shakespeare's Henriad, assembling
an increasingly unexpected team united in desire, if not actual
theatre experience. Together they deliver a delightful celebration
of collaboration and persistence when the show must go on!
An emotional puzzle-play that skips back and forth in time as it
tells the story of a living room and its three sets of inhabitants,
all struggling to overcome the tragedy that took place within its
walls.
From the award-winning playwright of Elephant's Graveyard, George
Brant, comes the story of an ace fighter pilot who's career in the
sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to
operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las
Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each
night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the
boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and
the one she patrols half a world a
Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music, Sister
Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her time and a huge influence on
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and Ray Charles. Marie
and Rosetta chronicles her first rehearsal with a young protegee,
Marie Knight, as they prepare to embark on a tour that would
establish them as one of the great duos in musical history.
Drama / 10m, 3f -casting may vary / Simple Set Winner of the 2008
Keene Prize for Literature Winner of the 2008 David Mark Cohen
National Playwriting Award Elephant's Graveyard is the true tale of
the tragic collision of a struggling circus and a tiny town in
Tennessee, which resulted in the only known lynching of an
elephant. Set in September of 1916, the play combines historical
fact and legend, exploring the deep-seated American craving for
spectacle, violence and revenge. This abridged version, which runs
about 40 minutes in length, is perfect for high schools looking to
perform the play at theatre competitions or for producers looking
for a shorter version of the original script. Adapted by the
author, it maintains the haunting drama of the award-winning full
length play. "The script is, like the best art, microscopically
specific with echoes that radiate outward across time. Elephant's
Graveyard buzzes with truth about the consequences of
misunderstanding, the invisible but enormous gap between artists
and their audiences, and the infernal beauty of vaudeville." -The
Stranger, Seattle "A theatrical masterpiece." -Columbia City Paper
"The most striking production in the (NSDF) festival." -Times of
London "Deeply moving...has the audience in stitches at the open
and tears at the close." -TheSunCoast.com
Winner of the 2008 Keene Prize for Literature Winner of the 2008
David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award Characters: 10m, 3f,
flexible casting (Roles may be played by any race or gender except
when specified.) / Drama Elephant's Graveyard is the true tale of
the tragic collision of a struggling circus and a tiny town in
Tennessee, which resulted in the only known lynching of an
elephant. Set in September of 1916, the play combines historical
fact and legend, exploring the deep-seated American craving for
spectacle, violence and revenge. "The script-based on a true story
about a traveling circus that, in 1916, stumbled into gory disaster
in a muddy Tennessee town-is, like the best art, microscopically
specific with echoes that radiate outward across time. It conjures
a world with its own atmosphere and terrible internal logic. It's
mesmerizing...symphonic in its emotional variations on a tragic
theme. Elephant's Graveyard buzzes with truth about the
consequences of misunderstanding, the invisible but enormous gap
between artists and their audiences, and the infernal beauty of
vaudeville." -The Stranger, Seattle "A theatrical masterpiece." -
Columbia City Paper "The most striking production in the (NSDF)
festival." - Times of London "Deeply moving...has the audience in
stitches at the open and tears at the close." - TheSunCoast.com
Title: Notes on a Map of the World. Fasciculus I. On the
configuration of continents. With a map.]Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
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British Library Smith., George Brent; 1850. 16 p.; 8 . 10001.c.5.
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