Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802199690
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
From one of theater’s most outrageous comic talents, two plays—one a Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist, the other a twisted take on Christmas classics. In this book, Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, presents two plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In Miss Witherspoon—named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by both Time and Newsday—Veronica, a recent suicide whose cantankerous attitude has not improved in the afterlife, discovers that the one thing worse than the world she left behind is having to go back for seconds. Ordered to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura,” Veronica resists being reincarnated (as a trailer-trash teen or an overexcited Golden Retriever), only to find that she may be mankind’s last, best hope for survival. In Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, a sassy ghost once again attempts to shake Scrooge from his holiday humbug, but the whole family-friendly affair is deliciously derailed by Mrs. Cratchit’s drunken insistence on stepping out of her miserable, treacly role. Morals are subverted, starving yet plucky children sing carols, and somebody’s goose is cooked as Durang lovingly skewers A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, and many more to create a brand-new, cracked Christmas classic.
Miss Witherspoon and Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802199690
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
From one of theater’s most outrageous comic talents, two plays—one a Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist, the other a twisted take on Christmas classics. In this book, Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, presents two plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In Miss Witherspoon—named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by both Time and Newsday—Veronica, a recent suicide whose cantankerous attitude has not improved in the afterlife, discovers that the one thing worse than the world she left behind is having to go back for seconds. Ordered to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura,” Veronica resists being reincarnated (as a trailer-trash teen or an overexcited Golden Retriever), only to find that she may be mankind’s last, best hope for survival. In Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, a sassy ghost once again attempts to shake Scrooge from his holiday humbug, but the whole family-friendly affair is deliciously derailed by Mrs. Cratchit’s drunken insistence on stepping out of her miserable, treacly role. Morals are subverted, starving yet plucky children sing carols, and somebody’s goose is cooked as Durang lovingly skewers A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, and many more to create a brand-new, cracked Christmas classic.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802199690
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
From one of theater’s most outrageous comic talents, two plays—one a Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist, the other a twisted take on Christmas classics. In this book, Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, presents two plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In Miss Witherspoon—named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by both Time and Newsday—Veronica, a recent suicide whose cantankerous attitude has not improved in the afterlife, discovers that the one thing worse than the world she left behind is having to go back for seconds. Ordered to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura,” Veronica resists being reincarnated (as a trailer-trash teen or an overexcited Golden Retriever), only to find that she may be mankind’s last, best hope for survival. In Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, a sassy ghost once again attempts to shake Scrooge from his holiday humbug, but the whole family-friendly affair is deliciously derailed by Mrs. Cratchit’s drunken insistence on stepping out of her miserable, treacly role. Morals are subverted, starving yet plucky children sing carols, and somebody’s goose is cooked as Durang lovingly skewers A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, and many more to create a brand-new, cracked Christmas classic.
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: In this departure from Dickens, young Scrooge's exclamations of Bah, humbug! are an undiagnosed kind of seasonal Tourette's Syndrome, and The Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a sassy African-American woman with enough attitude to portra
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: In this departure from Dickens, young Scrooge's exclamations of Bah, humbug! are an undiagnosed kind of seasonal Tourette's Syndrome, and The Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a sassy African-American woman with enough attitude to portra
The Elephant Man
Author: Bernard Pomerance
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802130419
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a favorite among the aristocracy and literati.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802130419
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a favorite among the aristocracy and literati.
Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
Author: Tom Mula
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219620
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
THE STORY: Marley was dead, to begin with...--and what happens to Ebenezer Scrooge's mean, sour, pruney old business partner after that? Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity. He's even given his own private tormentor: a ma
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219620
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
THE STORY: Marley was dead, to begin with...--and what happens to Ebenezer Scrooge's mean, sour, pruney old business partner after that? Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity. He's even given his own private tormentor: a ma
Starring Tracy Beaker
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407045431
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"I said, 'It's my life and it hasn't been very special so far, has it, so why shouldn't I write any old rubbish?" Tracy Beaker is BACK . . . and she's just DESPERATE for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the MAIN ROLE! Can she manage to act grumpy, difficult and sulky enough to play Ebenezer Scrooge? Well, she does have a bit of help on that front from Justine Pain-In-The-Bum Littlewood. As Tracy prepares for her big moment, Cam is the one helping her learn her lines. But all Tracy really wants to know is if her film-star mum will make it back from Hollywood in time to watch her in her starring role... A heartwarming story of one of the UK's favourite children's characters - Headteacher Update
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407045431
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"I said, 'It's my life and it hasn't been very special so far, has it, so why shouldn't I write any old rubbish?" Tracy Beaker is BACK . . . and she's just DESPERATE for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the MAIN ROLE! Can she manage to act grumpy, difficult and sulky enough to play Ebenezer Scrooge? Well, she does have a bit of help on that front from Justine Pain-In-The-Bum Littlewood. As Tracy prepares for her big moment, Cam is the one helping her learn her lines. But all Tracy really wants to know is if her film-star mum will make it back from Hollywood in time to watch her in her starring role... A heartwarming story of one of the UK's favourite children's characters - Headteacher Update
A Klingon Christmas Carol
Author: Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988873834
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? A stage play to be performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology. The Dickens classic tale of ghosts and redemption adapted to reflect the Warrior Code of Honor and the translated into tlhIngan Hol (That's the Klingon Language).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988873834
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? A stage play to be performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology. The Dickens classic tale of ghosts and redemption adapted to reflect the Warrior Code of Honor and the translated into tlhIngan Hol (That's the Klingon Language).
Mr. Timothy
Author: Louis Bayard
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061854182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln comes a different kind of Christmas story featuring a grown up Tiny Tim, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart. It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets. Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061854182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln comes a different kind of Christmas story featuring a grown up Tiny Tim, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart. It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets. Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.
Marly's Ghost
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014240912X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
When Ben's girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over. What could possibly matter now when Marly is gone? So when Valentine's Day approaches, it makes sense that this day that was once so meaningful to Ben leaves him feeling bitter and hollow. But then Marly shows up--or at least her ghost does--along with three others spirits. Now Ben must take a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future, and what he discovers will change him forever.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014240912X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
When Ben's girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over. What could possibly matter now when Marly is gone? So when Valentine's Day approaches, it makes sense that this day that was once so meaningful to Ben leaves him feeling bitter and hollow. But then Marly shows up--or at least her ghost does--along with three others spirits. Now Ben must take a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future, and what he discovers will change him forever.
Jacob T. Marley
Author: R. William Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609079154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A parallel account to Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol, recounting events from the point of view of Scrooge's partner, Jacob Marley"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609079154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A parallel account to Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol, recounting events from the point of view of Scrooge's partner, Jacob Marley"--Provided by publisher.
I Am Scrooge
Author: Adam Roberts
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575093552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Award nominated SF author Adam Roberts takes on Dickens in this festive zombie gorefest. Marley was dead. To begin with. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns! Just how did the happiest day of the year slip into a welter of blood, innards and shambling, ravenous undead on the snowy streets of old London town? Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde? It's the Dickensian Zombie Apocalypse - God Bless us, one and all!
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575093552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Award nominated SF author Adam Roberts takes on Dickens in this festive zombie gorefest. Marley was dead. To begin with. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns! Just how did the happiest day of the year slip into a welter of blood, innards and shambling, ravenous undead on the snowy streets of old London town? Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde? It's the Dickensian Zombie Apocalypse - God Bless us, one and all!