Author: David Saar
Publisher: Anchorage Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780876023525
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A young boy concludes his bedtime ritual pretending to be a yellow boat sailing up to the sun.
The Yellow Boat
Author: David Saar
Publisher: Anchorage Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780876023525
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A young boy concludes his bedtime ritual pretending to be a yellow boat sailing up to the sun.
Publisher: Anchorage Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780876023525
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A young boy concludes his bedtime ritual pretending to be a yellow boat sailing up to the sun.
Czech Plays
Author: Barbara Day
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854590749
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
With the emergence of a dissident playwright as the President of Czechoslovakia in 1989, the Czech tradition by which theatre mirrors political life came full circle. Ranging back over the three decades preceding the Velvet Revolution, these four plays show modern Czech writers skilfully commenting on current realities through historical and domestic themes. Published here for the first time in English, Vaclav Havel's Tomorrow!, written anonymously in 1988, is a historical comedy about the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. Games by novelist Ivan Klima shows a house party going badly wrong as old guilts break the surface. In Joseph Topol's Cat on the Rails two lovers wait for a train that never comes. And Dog and Wolf by the leading woman playwright Daniela Fischerova takes Francois Villon as exemplar of the clash between artist and society.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854590749
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
With the emergence of a dissident playwright as the President of Czechoslovakia in 1989, the Czech tradition by which theatre mirrors political life came full circle. Ranging back over the three decades preceding the Velvet Revolution, these four plays show modern Czech writers skilfully commenting on current realities through historical and domestic themes. Published here for the first time in English, Vaclav Havel's Tomorrow!, written anonymously in 1988, is a historical comedy about the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. Games by novelist Ivan Klima shows a house party going badly wrong as old guilts break the surface. In Joseph Topol's Cat on the Rails two lovers wait for a train that never comes. And Dog and Wolf by the leading woman playwright Daniela Fischerova takes Francois Villon as exemplar of the clash between artist and society.
Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545540666
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545540666
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Discovering a New Audience for Theatre, Vol. I
Author: Nat Eek
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865346607
Category : International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Eek presents the history of the International Association of Theatre for Children and Youth (ASSITEJ) from its founding in 1965 to present day. (Performing Arts)
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865346607
Category : International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Eek presents the history of the International Association of Theatre for Children and Youth (ASSITEJ) from its founding in 1965 to present day. (Performing Arts)
Anna in the Tropics
Author: Nilo Cruz
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458781240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new ''lector (who reads Tolstoys Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458781240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new ''lector (who reads Tolstoys Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
Drama: A Graphic Novel
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545779960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. And when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545779960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. And when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!
The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays
Author: Naomi Paxton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408176580
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This anthology presents eight exciting comic pieces that arose from the the Suffrage Movement. Terrific for performance, it provides a variety of strong female parts, while also offering invaluable sources from the period, bringing history to life.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408176580
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This anthology presents eight exciting comic pieces that arose from the the Suffrage Movement. Terrific for performance, it provides a variety of strong female parts, while also offering invaluable sources from the period, bringing history to life.
Homebody/Kabul
Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458781380
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our time.''--John Heilpern, New York Observer In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes and is now the definitive version of the text.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458781380
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our time.''--John Heilpern, New York Observer In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes and is now the definitive version of the text.
Guts: A Graphic Novel
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545852536
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face -- and conquer -- her fears.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545852536
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face -- and conquer -- her fears.