Performing Arts, Theater
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The BoxWhatBox Book
Acting for the 21st Century by Michael Devine
What if an actor possessed the expressive tools to work across cultures? Actor, director, and playwright Michael Devine (Playing Outside the Lines: Collected Plays I) has spent years bridging cultures in both performance and training. Through an ...
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When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre
Three Tragedies and Six Essays by Edwin Wong, Gabriel Jason Dean and Nicholas Dunn & Emily McClain
Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers: Defy the Smallness of the Stage With the Greatness of Your Daring Wong’s first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an ...
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Playing Outside the Lines
Collected Plays 1 by Michael Devine
Playing Outside the Lines: Collected Plays 1 is a compilation of theatre plays created by intercultural theatre artist Michael Devine. Produced in different countries, Devine created each of the ten plays working as an outsider far from his own ...
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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected by Edwin Wong
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial ...
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The Gootesnooters
by Aria Quill
The Gootesnooter story is fiction but with lessons. The Gootesnooter play is an easy read, in particular as a closet drama, which is a play better understood by reading; and/or as a play, script fashion, in two parts for either two short plays or ...
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A Letter For Adorabella
by Michael F. Corriere
When Adorabella states: "If love denied can break a heart, perhaps love received can mend it," she is contemplating the eternal question of life: where does happiness lie? Abandoned by her mother, rejected by her fiancé, fragile, insecure and ...
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Christmas Skits for Middle School Years
Enrichment for Grades 5, 6 and 7 by B. Smith
There’s an atmosphere of generosity, celebration and inclusion; and no one event in a school embodies the spirit of the season more than the Christmas pageant. The eight skits in this book are meant to enrich the education experience for the ...
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The Dance Gods
A New York Memoir by Kenny Pearl
When Kenny Pearl arrived in New York City, determined to succeed as a dancer, he was penniless, friendless and jobless. His memories shine against the backdrop of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, including Vietnam War protests, the military draft and ...
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Good Country Canada
Five Plays by John Ferth by John Ferth
The Stage is our world. We play our part in it, within the time allotted to us. When the time is up - down goes the curtain. Fate distributes the parts we play, we have no hand in the choosing. We are lucky sometimes. Olga believes she was ...
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