Author: The 24 Hour Plays
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350187569
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent. Featuring original monologues by writers such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christoper Oscar Peña, Jesse Eisenberg and Monique Moses this is a rich collection that can be enjoyed by actors, writers and those looking for creative responses to the global COVID-19 crisis. With over 50 monologues from the first three weeks of the project, edited by Howard Sherman, this is an important collection that documents an unprecedented moment in history whilst also offering practical resource for actors and performers.
The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues
Author: The 24 Hour Plays
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350187569
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent. Featuring original monologues by writers such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christoper Oscar Peña, Jesse Eisenberg and Monique Moses this is a rich collection that can be enjoyed by actors, writers and those looking for creative responses to the global COVID-19 crisis. With over 50 monologues from the first three weeks of the project, edited by Howard Sherman, this is an important collection that documents an unprecedented moment in history whilst also offering practical resource for actors and performers.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350187569
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent. Featuring original monologues by writers such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christoper Oscar Peña, Jesse Eisenberg and Monique Moses this is a rich collection that can be enjoyed by actors, writers and those looking for creative responses to the global COVID-19 crisis. With over 50 monologues from the first three weeks of the project, edited by Howard Sherman, this is an important collection that documents an unprecedented moment in history whilst also offering practical resource for actors and performers.
Mañana, Iguana
Author: Ann Whitford Paul
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"A comical takeoff on the familiar Little Red Hen story, this upbeat read-along is brought vividly to life through Brian and Rosi Amador's tandem narration. ...Soft Latin background music is a lilting accompaniment." -Booklist
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"A comical takeoff on the familiar Little Red Hen story, this upbeat read-along is brought vividly to life through Brian and Rosi Amador's tandem narration. ...Soft Latin background music is a lilting accompaniment." -Booklist
Mañana
Author: William Hjortsberg
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497680727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The life of an American hippie in Mexico is upended by a gang of ex-cons in this thriller full of “wild surprises” (Carl Hiaasen). All Tod remembers when he wakes up next to a dead prostitute is that he had his first shot of heroin the night before. He and his wife, Linda, were partying with their new neighbors, a trio of parole violators who fled to Mexico after robbing a Beverly Hills jewelry store. Now the place is empty, stripped clean except for Tod’s hunting knife, which is covered in blood. Did he kill the woman, or was he left behind as the fall guy? Convinced that his junkie friends abducted Linda to keep her from talking to the police, Tod buys a gun and prepares to do whatever it takes to get his wife back before he makes a run for the border.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497680727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The life of an American hippie in Mexico is upended by a gang of ex-cons in this thriller full of “wild surprises” (Carl Hiaasen). All Tod remembers when he wakes up next to a dead prostitute is that he had his first shot of heroin the night before. He and his wife, Linda, were partying with their new neighbors, a trio of parole violators who fled to Mexico after robbing a Beverly Hills jewelry store. Now the place is empty, stripped clean except for Tod’s hunting knife, which is covered in blood. Did he kill the woman, or was he left behind as the fall guy? Convinced that his junkie friends abducted Linda to keep her from talking to the police, Tod buys a gun and prepares to do whatever it takes to get his wife back before he makes a run for the border.
Lily-Butterfly
Author: D. O. Grant
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982249951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
LILY-BUTTERFLY – And The Path Of Life’s Experiences – The story began on the island of Kawomaya, in a remote valley village named Yaj. In part one of the story Lily-Butterfly was created from a onetime sexual encounter between her birth mother Gina and her step-father Ivan. Gina denied the pregnancy from beginning to the birth of Lily-Butterfly and beyond. At birth Gina gave Lily-Butterfly to her mother Leila, who was Ivan’s wife. Six years later Gina returned to demand that Lily-Butterfly come to live with her for her own secret and unresolved negative intentions. Lily-Butterfly’s birth mother Gina saw her as her secret shame and tried to demolish her spirit, soul, mind, body, and life. Throughout Gina numerous attempts Lily-Butterfly refuse to be destroyed. Lily-Butterfly survived regardless of the negative things her birth mother Gina did to her. Lily-Butterfly was successful in overcoming abuse, her passion for learning, and in all areas of her life. Part two of this story continues on with Lily-Butterfly moving from the island of Kawomaya to Somerville, Massachusetts in the United States of America to first live with her grandmother and mother; whom she decided to call Manana Leila. The journey continues with Lily-Butterfly improving her life, education, and professional career. Parenting her two daughters, and discovering her chosen destiny and life’s purpose career. To this day Lily-Butterfly uses her talents to serve as tools to assist mother and father-nature and humanity. Read LILY-BUTTERFLY – AND THE PATH OF LIFE’S EXPERIENCES – PART ONE AND TWO. They are like an entertaining movie series, and ancient visual oral tradition storytelling. These books can inspire, motivate, improve awareness on unconditional love and compassion, assist with positive transformation, transcending suffering, and teach patience. LILY-BUTTERFLY JOURNAL – PERSONAL LIFE STORY REVIEW is another book in the Lily-Butterfly series. This book can assist with your personal life story review. Enjoy.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982249951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
LILY-BUTTERFLY – And The Path Of Life’s Experiences – The story began on the island of Kawomaya, in a remote valley village named Yaj. In part one of the story Lily-Butterfly was created from a onetime sexual encounter between her birth mother Gina and her step-father Ivan. Gina denied the pregnancy from beginning to the birth of Lily-Butterfly and beyond. At birth Gina gave Lily-Butterfly to her mother Leila, who was Ivan’s wife. Six years later Gina returned to demand that Lily-Butterfly come to live with her for her own secret and unresolved negative intentions. Lily-Butterfly’s birth mother Gina saw her as her secret shame and tried to demolish her spirit, soul, mind, body, and life. Throughout Gina numerous attempts Lily-Butterfly refuse to be destroyed. Lily-Butterfly survived regardless of the negative things her birth mother Gina did to her. Lily-Butterfly was successful in overcoming abuse, her passion for learning, and in all areas of her life. Part two of this story continues on with Lily-Butterfly moving from the island of Kawomaya to Somerville, Massachusetts in the United States of America to first live with her grandmother and mother; whom she decided to call Manana Leila. The journey continues with Lily-Butterfly improving her life, education, and professional career. Parenting her two daughters, and discovering her chosen destiny and life’s purpose career. To this day Lily-Butterfly uses her talents to serve as tools to assist mother and father-nature and humanity. Read LILY-BUTTERFLY – AND THE PATH OF LIFE’S EXPERIENCES – PART ONE AND TWO. They are like an entertaining movie series, and ancient visual oral tradition storytelling. These books can inspire, motivate, improve awareness on unconditional love and compassion, assist with positive transformation, transcending suffering, and teach patience. LILY-BUTTERFLY JOURNAL – PERSONAL LIFE STORY REVIEW is another book in the Lily-Butterfly series. This book can assist with your personal life story review. Enjoy.
Finding Manana
Author: Mirta Ojito
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593835263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A vibrant, moving memoir of prizewinning journalist and New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito and her departure from Cuba in the Mariel boatlift—an enduring story of a family caught up in the tumultuous politics of the twentieth century. Mirta Ojito was one teenager among more than a hundred thousand fellow refugees who traveled to Miami during the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift. Growing up, Ojito was eager to fit in and join Castro’s Young Pioneers, but as she grew older and began to understand the darker side of the Cuban revolution, she and her family began to aspire to a safer, happier life. When Castro opened Cuba’s borders for those who wanted to leave, her family was more than ready to go: they had been waiting for the opportunity for twenty years. Now an acclaimed reporter, Ojito tells her story and reckons with her past with all of the determination and intelligence—and the will to confront darkness—that carried her through the boatlift. In this stunning autobiography, she sets out to find the people who set this exodus in motion, including the Vietnam vet on whose boat, Mañana, she finally crossed the treacherous Florida Strait. In Finding Mañana, Ojito and tell the stories of the boatlift’s key players in superb and poignant detail—chronicling both individual lives and a major historical event.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593835263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A vibrant, moving memoir of prizewinning journalist and New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito and her departure from Cuba in the Mariel boatlift—an enduring story of a family caught up in the tumultuous politics of the twentieth century. Mirta Ojito was one teenager among more than a hundred thousand fellow refugees who traveled to Miami during the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift. Growing up, Ojito was eager to fit in and join Castro’s Young Pioneers, but as she grew older and began to understand the darker side of the Cuban revolution, she and her family began to aspire to a safer, happier life. When Castro opened Cuba’s borders for those who wanted to leave, her family was more than ready to go: they had been waiting for the opportunity for twenty years. Now an acclaimed reporter, Ojito tells her story and reckons with her past with all of the determination and intelligence—and the will to confront darkness—that carried her through the boatlift. In this stunning autobiography, she sets out to find the people who set this exodus in motion, including the Vietnam vet on whose boat, Mañana, she finally crossed the treacherous Florida Strait. In Finding Mañana, Ojito and tell the stories of the boatlift’s key players in superb and poignant detail—chronicling both individual lives and a major historical event.
My Mañana Comes
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573704093
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Just beyond the elegant dining room of an Upper East Side restaurant, four busboys angle for shifts, pray for tips, and cling to dreams to life beyond their dingy back-of-house grind. Expertly juggling delicate entrees, fussy customers and beer-swilling line cooks, the young men face off with management and each other. As tensions reach a boiling point, how far will each of them go to see his own mañana come?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573704093
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Just beyond the elegant dining room of an Upper East Side restaurant, four busboys angle for shifts, pray for tips, and cling to dreams to life beyond their dingy back-of-house grind. Expertly juggling delicate entrees, fussy customers and beer-swilling line cooks, the young men face off with management and each other. As tensions reach a boiling point, how far will each of them go to see his own mañana come?
Mañana Means Heaven
Author: Tim Z. Hernandez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816599238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an aspiring young writer traveling across the United States. When they meet, Franco is a migrant farmworker with two children and a failing marriage, living with poverty, violence, and the looming threat of deportation, while the “college boy” yearns to one day make a name for himself in the writing world. The significance of their romance poses vastly different possibilities and consequences. Mañana Means Heaven deftly combines fact and fiction to pull back the veil on one of literature’s most mysterious and evocative characters. Inspired by Franco’s love letters to Kerouac and Hernandez’s interviews with Franco, now in her nineties and living in relative obscurity, the novel brings this lost gem of a story out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816599238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an aspiring young writer traveling across the United States. When they meet, Franco is a migrant farmworker with two children and a failing marriage, living with poverty, violence, and the looming threat of deportation, while the “college boy” yearns to one day make a name for himself in the writing world. The significance of their romance poses vastly different possibilities and consequences. Mañana Means Heaven deftly combines fact and fiction to pull back the veil on one of literature’s most mysterious and evocative characters. Inspired by Franco’s love letters to Kerouac and Hernandez’s interviews with Franco, now in her nineties and living in relative obscurity, the novel brings this lost gem of a story out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
Adiós Mañana
Author: Burt H. Slaughter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514418177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Tomorrows Possible Headlines Today! Are you concerned about what happens on our southern border with Mexico? If not, perhaps you should be! The following plausible tale underscores the real danger we all face when the action of our government go awry and lead to the radicalization of two Iraqis, Mukhtar and Jamila, who are sent to the United States on a mission of Jihad. Big things of a cataclysmic nature are in store for the unsuspecting people of central Texas. A testament to how forgiveness, and love, can sometimes conquer the forces of darkness. A nail-biting finish! John Cansler, PI extraordinaire, at his best!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514418177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Tomorrows Possible Headlines Today! Are you concerned about what happens on our southern border with Mexico? If not, perhaps you should be! The following plausible tale underscores the real danger we all face when the action of our government go awry and lead to the radicalization of two Iraqis, Mukhtar and Jamila, who are sent to the United States on a mission of Jihad. Big things of a cataclysmic nature are in store for the unsuspecting people of central Texas. A testament to how forgiveness, and love, can sometimes conquer the forces of darkness. A nail-biting finish! John Cansler, PI extraordinaire, at his best!
Carpe Mañana
Author: Leonard Sweet
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310239478
Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The Message Never Changes. But Our Methods Must. If God so loved the world . . . then we ought to, too. But how? While the church dreams of old wineskins, the future is arriving, and the world around us has undergone a radical transformation. Those of us over thirty are no longer natives of a modern culture, but immigrants in a postmodern society that speaks the language of cyberspace, grapples with the implications of robotics, nanotechnology, and bioengineering, and looks everywhere but to the church for spiritual and moral guidance. But the gospel sun, far from setting, is poised to shine on this new frontier--provided we'll seize tomorrow and its unprecedented opportunities. The possibilities are limitless for those of us who choose to live as Jesus lived, as people of our time and culture. Carpe Manana helps us go native. In nine 'naturalization classes,' Leonard Sweet speeds us toward influence in this postmodern world--a world hungry to encounter the God who knows its soul, speaks its language, and loves it with an all-transforming love.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310239478
Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The Message Never Changes. But Our Methods Must. If God so loved the world . . . then we ought to, too. But how? While the church dreams of old wineskins, the future is arriving, and the world around us has undergone a radical transformation. Those of us over thirty are no longer natives of a modern culture, but immigrants in a postmodern society that speaks the language of cyberspace, grapples with the implications of robotics, nanotechnology, and bioengineering, and looks everywhere but to the church for spiritual and moral guidance. But the gospel sun, far from setting, is poised to shine on this new frontier--provided we'll seize tomorrow and its unprecedented opportunities. The possibilities are limitless for those of us who choose to live as Jesus lived, as people of our time and culture. Carpe Manana helps us go native. In nine 'naturalization classes,' Leonard Sweet speeds us toward influence in this postmodern world--a world hungry to encounter the God who knows its soul, speaks its language, and loves it with an all-transforming love.
Mañana College
Author: Shannon Fersner
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491747528
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Students have arrived from all over the world to attend Maana College in Atlanta, Georgia, ready to prepare for their future and unaware of the obstacles that lie ahead for each of them. Alaysia is a rich snob whose millionaire father gives her anything. Jaquez is a womanizer and rising star on the basketball court with lofty dreams. Lena is smart but is easily influenced by others. Malik is relying on his business mind while pursuing a singing career. Mellissa, not known for her intelligence, loves to live life on the edge. Shawn, who has wisely chosen college over jail, is all about getting money the fast way. Lamont is harboring a secret he fears will change everything. Patrice is a levelheaded student leader who does her best to keep everyone on track. As the students embark on separate journeys through a semester filled with lies, sex, drugs, and betrayal, it soon becomes evident that the college experience for each of them has become much more than just studying in the library, taking exams, and partying all night. In this compelling drama, students at an Atlanta college do all they can to survive their challenges, overcome their unique obstacles, and make it through another semester.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491747528
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Students have arrived from all over the world to attend Maana College in Atlanta, Georgia, ready to prepare for their future and unaware of the obstacles that lie ahead for each of them. Alaysia is a rich snob whose millionaire father gives her anything. Jaquez is a womanizer and rising star on the basketball court with lofty dreams. Lena is smart but is easily influenced by others. Malik is relying on his business mind while pursuing a singing career. Mellissa, not known for her intelligence, loves to live life on the edge. Shawn, who has wisely chosen college over jail, is all about getting money the fast way. Lamont is harboring a secret he fears will change everything. Patrice is a levelheaded student leader who does her best to keep everyone on track. As the students embark on separate journeys through a semester filled with lies, sex, drugs, and betrayal, it soon becomes evident that the college experience for each of them has become much more than just studying in the library, taking exams, and partying all night. In this compelling drama, students at an Atlanta college do all they can to survive their challenges, overcome their unique obstacles, and make it through another semester.