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.

Sylvia

Author: Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214960
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
A romantic comedy on midlife relationships and a pet dog.

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Author: Joanna Cannon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501121901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong.

Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004394710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist. They consider not only Albee’s award-winning plays and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama, but also his important influence to the American theatre as a whole, his connections to art and music, and his international influence in Spanish and Russian theatre. Contributors: Jackson R. Bryer, Milbre Burch, David A. Crespy, Ramon Espejo-Romero, Nathan Hedman, Lincoln Konkle, Julia Listengarten, David Marcia, Ashley Raven, Parisa Shams, Valentine Vasak

Sheep and Goat

Author: Marleen Westera
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425819
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Sheep and Goat have heated discussions about everything from earthly affairs to Goat's birthday and Sheep's family. Sheep and Goat know what matters in life.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff—the FULL Story

Author: Richard Jackson
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN: 1481415735
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
The classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff gets a cheeky twist in this picture book retelling. Trip trap, trip trap. “ACH! Who is that tap-tap-tapping on my bridge?” The story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and the way they outwitted a hungry bridge troll is one of our most well-known fairy tales…but how exactly did it become so? It turns out, the cleverness of the Brothers Gruff isn’t limited to tricking trolls—they are also genius self-promoters! (Keep those goats away from Instagram!) Find out the rest of the story in this wily retelling.

Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 0822223171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets...[Ives] add The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty...in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama...a piercing portrait of the contemporary social architecture, in which the distance between people can be widened or collaps

Edward Albee's Occupant

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573663807
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
New York sculptor Louise Nevelson's life was marked by intrepid triumphs and deep inner turmoil. Both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. The result is a touching, humorous, and honest tribute to a woman who was a pioneer for free-thinking females everywhere, but also stood on her own as one of the 20th century's greatest artistic minds.

The Play about the Baby

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN: 9780413773845
Category : Parent and child
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
The first British publication of a brilliant new Albee play If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? In THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY, a young couple who are madly in love with each other, have a child - the perfect family - that is, until an older couple steal the baby. Through a series of mind games and manipulations, they call into question both couples' sense of reality and fiction, joy and sorrow in this devastating black comedy which invites parallels with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. "You're unlikely to find a more intriguingly structured, provocative or entertaining new play" - Curtain Up "The Play about the Baby rockets into that special corner of theatre heaven where words shoot off like fireworks into dazzling patterns and hues" - New York Times

Consent

Author: Nina Raine
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848426306
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Matt take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.