Author: Buddy Thomas
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
"Based on an original script by Buddy Thomas."
Devil Boys from Beyond
Author: Buddy Thomas
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
"Based on an original script by Buddy Thomas."
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
"Based on an original script by Buddy Thomas."
Beyond Ridiculous
Author: Kenneth Elliott
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609389204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Beyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Limbo Lounge, a raffish club in the fringes of the East Village, but it would later become the longest-running non-musical in off-Broadway history. From 1984 to 1991, Busch starred in eight Limbo productions, always in outrageously fabulous drag. In Beyond Ridiculous, Elliott narrates in first-person the company’s Cinderella tale of fun, heartbreak, and dishy drama. At the center of the book is a young Charles Busch, an unforgettable personality fighting to be seen, be heard, and express his unique style as a writer-performer in plays such as Psycho Beach Party and The Lady in Question. The tragedy of AIDS among treasured friends in the company, the struggle for mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ theatre during the reign of President Ronald Reagan, and the exploration of new ways of being a gay theatre artist make the book a bittersweet and joyous ride.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609389204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Beyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Limbo Lounge, a raffish club in the fringes of the East Village, but it would later become the longest-running non-musical in off-Broadway history. From 1984 to 1991, Busch starred in eight Limbo productions, always in outrageously fabulous drag. In Beyond Ridiculous, Elliott narrates in first-person the company’s Cinderella tale of fun, heartbreak, and dishy drama. At the center of the book is a young Charles Busch, an unforgettable personality fighting to be seen, be heard, and express his unique style as a writer-performer in plays such as Psycho Beach Party and The Lady in Question. The tragedy of AIDS among treasured friends in the company, the struggle for mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ theatre during the reign of President Ronald Reagan, and the exploration of new ways of being a gay theatre artist make the book a bittersweet and joyous ride.
Oedipus at Palm Springs
Author: Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe)
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
"Irreverent theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers get their greasy prints on a classic. 'Oedipus at Palm Springs' follows the dark adventure of two couples on a retreat to the desert resort town. While new parents Fran and Con try desperately to jump-start their sex life, May-December love bunnies Prin and Terri can't keep their hands off each other. What begins as a hilarious, boozey weekend takes a horrific turn after a secret is revealed. Two parts comedy with a shot of tragedy shaken over ice, Oedipus at Palm Springs is a brave examination of the messy guts of relationships."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
"Irreverent theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers get their greasy prints on a classic. 'Oedipus at Palm Springs' follows the dark adventure of two couples on a retreat to the desert resort town. While new parents Fran and Con try desperately to jump-start their sex life, May-December love bunnies Prin and Terri can't keep their hands off each other. What begins as a hilarious, boozey weekend takes a horrific turn after a secret is revealed. Two parts comedy with a shot of tragedy shaken over ice, Oedipus at Palm Springs is a brave examination of the messy guts of relationships."--P. [4] of cover.
Devil in the Grove
Author: Gilbert King
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062097717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062097717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.
The Third Story
Author: Charles Busch
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697302
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandly bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the mother and son screenwriters to mend their fractured relationship. "Plays-within-plays require such intricate tailoring. So it's a pleasure to report that with The Third Story, the ever-captivating Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress." -Theatermania. "The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like such an energizing event." -Village Voice.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697302
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandly bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the mother and son screenwriters to mend their fractured relationship. "Plays-within-plays require such intricate tailoring. So it's a pleasure to report that with The Third Story, the ever-captivating Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress." -Theatermania. "The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like such an energizing event." -Village Voice.
Beyond the Devil's Triangle
Author: Aamy Malavika
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1637814941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
New York, the city that never sleeps, the city of dreams, fashion, writers and aristocracy. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this city? Siya Agarwal and Sameera Tripati also had the same aspiration. Who said girls from a middle-class Indian family cannot dream of such a city? And what would be more appealing than Yale to do their post graduation. They know that New York is not just like any other city in the USA. Sameera has something in her mind when she agreed to accompany Siya to Yale. But never did they know that they would end up in the devil’s triangle. So, let’s see what awaits these girls in New York. Whatever it is…it’s Destiny.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1637814941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
New York, the city that never sleeps, the city of dreams, fashion, writers and aristocracy. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this city? Siya Agarwal and Sameera Tripati also had the same aspiration. Who said girls from a middle-class Indian family cannot dream of such a city? And what would be more appealing than Yale to do their post graduation. They know that New York is not just like any other city in the USA. Sameera has something in her mind when she agreed to accompany Siya to Yale. But never did they know that they would end up in the devil’s triangle. So, let’s see what awaits these girls in New York. Whatever it is…it’s Destiny.
Beyond the Devil's Road
Author: Jeremy Beer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806195002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of Spanish imperial expansion. Beyond the Devil’s Road tells, for the first time, the full story of this extraordinary man’s epic life and journey and his critical place in the history of the American Southwest. From the moment he took up residence at the lonely mission of San Xavier del Bac in 1768, Garcés stood out among his fellow Spaniards for both the affection he showed the region’s Native peoples and his bravery. Traveling thousands of miles through modern Arizona, California, and Nevada to gather information for his superiors and preach to the unbaptized, he engaged the Indians of the Southwest with a respect for their ways and customs unprecedented among his peers, presaging a new—and better—model for cultural encounters. Along the way, he contacted more Indigenous groups than any other missionary of his time, often as the first European to do so. Garcés also paved the way and served as a guide for the famous expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza in 1774 and 1775–76, bringing the first Spanish settlers to California—before the road he’d helped to open led to his death in the Quechan uprising of 1781. Consulting archives on three continents, including previously untapped sources and Garcés’s extensive diaries and letters, long obscured by unyielding language and handwriting, Beer crafts a nuanced and thoroughly engaging account of this incomparable explorer, groundbreaking missionary, and central actor in New Spain’s final sustained effort to expand its dominion into the lands that would become the American Southwest.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806195002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of Spanish imperial expansion. Beyond the Devil’s Road tells, for the first time, the full story of this extraordinary man’s epic life and journey and his critical place in the history of the American Southwest. From the moment he took up residence at the lonely mission of San Xavier del Bac in 1768, Garcés stood out among his fellow Spaniards for both the affection he showed the region’s Native peoples and his bravery. Traveling thousands of miles through modern Arizona, California, and Nevada to gather information for his superiors and preach to the unbaptized, he engaged the Indians of the Southwest with a respect for their ways and customs unprecedented among his peers, presaging a new—and better—model for cultural encounters. Along the way, he contacted more Indigenous groups than any other missionary of his time, often as the first European to do so. Garcés also paved the way and served as a guide for the famous expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza in 1774 and 1775–76, bringing the first Spanish settlers to California—before the road he’d helped to open led to his death in the Quechan uprising of 1781. Consulting archives on three continents, including previously untapped sources and Garcés’s extensive diaries and letters, long obscured by unyielding language and handwriting, Beer crafts a nuanced and thoroughly engaging account of this incomparable explorer, groundbreaking missionary, and central actor in New Spain’s final sustained effort to expand its dominion into the lands that would become the American Southwest.
Brave Smiles
Author: Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe)
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697035
Category : Lesbian theater
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"In Brave smiles ...another Lesbian tragedy, master satirists the Five Lesbian Brothers turn their merciless eyes on the history of lesbians in theater, film, and literature. From their dismal yet erotically charged beginnings at the orphanage under the grip of a sadistic headmistress, our five heroines cross continents and a century to face their absurdly tragic ends. Along the way, they experience alcoholism, suicide, loneliness, pill popping, blacklisting, and a malignant brain tumor. Students of the lesbian art of misery will recognize gleeful skewerings of The Well of Loneliness, The Group, Maedchen in Uniform, and The Children's Hour in this rollicking, hilarious, and smart multicharacter classic"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573697035
Category : Lesbian theater
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"In Brave smiles ...another Lesbian tragedy, master satirists the Five Lesbian Brothers turn their merciless eyes on the history of lesbians in theater, film, and literature. From their dismal yet erotically charged beginnings at the orphanage under the grip of a sadistic headmistress, our five heroines cross continents and a century to face their absurdly tragic ends. Along the way, they experience alcoholism, suicide, loneliness, pill popping, blacklisting, and a malignant brain tumor. Students of the lesbian art of misery will recognize gleeful skewerings of The Well of Loneliness, The Group, Maedchen in Uniform, and The Children's Hour in this rollicking, hilarious, and smart multicharacter classic"--P. [4] of cover.
Beyond the Devil's Teeth Dyslexic edition
Author: Tahir Shah
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291497013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Forty-five million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwanaland split apart. This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge landmass was named after the Gond people of India. Meeting a Gond storyteller on a visit to Bombay, Tahir Shah heard their ancient saga. He vowed to visit all three parts of Gondwanaland. As he travelled he met an extraordinary range of wanderers and expatriates, attended magical ceremonies and sought mythical treasures. Roughing it most of the way, Shah's expeditions move through sweltering India and Pakistan, Uganda and Rwanda, Kenya and Liberia, Brazil and finally Argentina's Patagonian glaciers. Roughing it for most of the journey, Shah shared his travels and his tales with a diverting mix of eccentric and entertaining characters, from Osman and Prideep, Bombay's answer to Laurel and Hardy, to Oswaldo Rodrigues Oswaldo, a well turned out Patagonian version of Danny De Vito.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291497013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Forty-five million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwanaland split apart. This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge landmass was named after the Gond people of India. Meeting a Gond storyteller on a visit to Bombay, Tahir Shah heard their ancient saga. He vowed to visit all three parts of Gondwanaland. As he travelled he met an extraordinary range of wanderers and expatriates, attended magical ceremonies and sought mythical treasures. Roughing it most of the way, Shah's expeditions move through sweltering India and Pakistan, Uganda and Rwanda, Kenya and Liberia, Brazil and finally Argentina's Patagonian glaciers. Roughing it for most of the journey, Shah shared his travels and his tales with a diverting mix of eccentric and entertaining characters, from Osman and Prideep, Bombay's answer to Laurel and Hardy, to Oswaldo Rodrigues Oswaldo, a well turned out Patagonian version of Danny De Vito.
Beyond Devil’s Dream
Author: Daniel A. Saviers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493156659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Mount Rainier looms over the skyline of the Pacific Northwest as a beacon for thrill seekers, but also for those looking for an escape from everyday existence. Four men have decided to backpack on the Wonderland Trail looping around the mountain for very different reasons. Josh is on a pilgrimage to his favorite place in the world in hopes of steering his life back on course. Chris is on a quest for one last wondrous sunset. After searching for his missing wife for the last three months, Scott goes to the mountain as a tribute to Diane and a faint hope that he might find her there. Marvin is trying to escape from his present situation and past deeds. With each step on the trail they learn that they can’t outrun the demons that haunt their lives, or even their dreams, and the mighty volcano is not a passive participant to their plans. Beyond Devil’s Dream camp the journey spirals out of control, as the splendors around them refresh the spirit, the physical dangers challenge their mortality. In the end, only two of the men will be left to make the final race to Paradise.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493156659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Mount Rainier looms over the skyline of the Pacific Northwest as a beacon for thrill seekers, but also for those looking for an escape from everyday existence. Four men have decided to backpack on the Wonderland Trail looping around the mountain for very different reasons. Josh is on a pilgrimage to his favorite place in the world in hopes of steering his life back on course. Chris is on a quest for one last wondrous sunset. After searching for his missing wife for the last three months, Scott goes to the mountain as a tribute to Diane and a faint hope that he might find her there. Marvin is trying to escape from his present situation and past deeds. With each step on the trail they learn that they can’t outrun the demons that haunt their lives, or even their dreams, and the mighty volcano is not a passive participant to their plans. Beyond Devil’s Dream camp the journey spirals out of control, as the splendors around them refresh the spirit, the physical dangers challenge their mortality. In the end, only two of the men will be left to make the final race to Paradise.