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"Romeo and Juliet", one of William Shakespeare's most iconic tragedies, tells the poignant tale of young love and family conflict. Set in Verona, Italy, the story revolves around the passionate romance between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, members of feuding families.
The star-crossed lovers meet at a masquerade ball and quickly fall deeply in love, despite their families' bitter rivalry. Their secret relationship leads to a series of events...
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William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is a gripping political drama that delves into the complex themes of power, betrayal, and the consequences of ambition.
Set in ancient Rome, the play unfolds in the wake of Caesar's triumphant return from war. As the city celebrates his victories, a group of senators, including Brutus and Cassius, grows increasingly concerned about Caesar's growing influence and potential tyranny. They plot his assassination...
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"Set in Messina, the play begins as Don Pedro’s army returns after a victory. Benedick, a gentleman soldier, resumes a verbal duel with Beatrice, the niece of Messina’s governor, Leonato. Count Claudio is smitten by Leonato’s daughter, Hero. After Don Pedro woos her in disguise for Claudio, the two young lovers plan to marry in a week. To fill in the time until the wedding, Don Pedro and the others set about tricking Benedick and Beatrice into...
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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
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Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, directors, stage managers, producers, and event planners understand every aspect of technical theater-from scenery, lighting, and sound to props, costumes, and stage management. In this thoroughly revised new edition, the popular guide firmly embraces the digital age with new content about digital audio, intelligent lighting, LED lighting, video projection, and show control systems, all explained...
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One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...
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Stanislavski was the first person to develop a cogent and practical system of acting. Throughout his life he sought the answers to such fundamental questions as: "What is great acting?" and "How can you find inspiration in every performance?" Stanislavski remains the most important influence on actor training today, and yet many of his ideas are little known, or even misunderstood. Stanislavski For Beginners charts the development of the Stanislavski...
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A "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip, the re-hash, what to avoid, and taxes.
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A guide to the history, use and manufacture of Marionette dolls, chapters include, the marionette its family tree, choosing your play, making your stage, making your marionette, training your puppeteers and much more. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...
12) Tissarel
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René Tissarel dirige à Clermont l'usine de tournevis héritée de son père. Personnage haut en couleurs, il pilote à sa manière son entreprise en proie à de grandes difficultés financières.
Sa femme Marguerite, son meilleur ami Marcel, les politiques vont tout tenter pour que cette entreprise ne connaisse pas la banqueroute.
Mais c'est sans compter sur... Jacques, le fils de son ami Marcel et... Tissarel lui-même !
13) The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
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Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging lights, setting cues, and operating sound. They'll...
14) Adelaide
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This entire play takes place in Adelaide Australia. The main plot outline of the play is that it is about a woman (Adelaide) who meets a man (Jimmy) and the two fall in love. The two both decide they want to marry each other but when a friend of Jimmy meets Adelaide for the first time, he decides that he is attracted to her as well. After devising a plan, he sets out to break the two apart and convince Adelaide to marry him instead.
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Originally published in 1952, this classic guidebook provides a complete treatise on sleight of hand coin conjuring, making an excellent companion for those who want to impress and entertain with some classic magic tricks. Complete with instructional diagrams, it explains a variety of coin act techniques, including vanishing, sleeving and cuffing. The final chapter helps you to prepare the routine for your coin magic performance. Contents include:...
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The theme of the play is an unorthodox imaginary family compound of heretical characters which many of them, if combined by twos, are the ends of a conscience and a lesson about life to excess of.
Agatha, the chatelaine invites her family in England to celebrate her birthday and tell them who will inherit her huge mansion.
Her brother and her sister, her lifelong friend and physician are some guests of the list. Carl (a psychiatrist), Lou (a linguist...
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Marco Bodoni est écrivain. Auteur de romans policiers aux tirages fabuleux!
Il veut se débarrasser de cette étiquette. Il veut être reconnu à sa « juste valeur ». Il veut tuer son héros, l'Inspecteur Davies. Et passer à autre chose.
Après un dernier ouvrage dans lequel son personnage perd la vie (pas encore publié), il écrit uniquement pour le théâtre... Un jour, lors d'un voyage international en train, une jeune femme vient squatter...
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À l'instar des grandes adaptations qui ont été réalisées, notamment pour le cinéma par Murnau ou Coppola en passant par Herzog, celle-ci met l'accent sur les rapports humains qui égrènent le roman fleuve de Bram Stoker - ce qui pourrait apparaître comme gageure pour une fiction qui traite de morts-vivants!
Il s'agit pourtant ici des rapports d'amitié entre les jeunes Mina et Lucie, des rapports paternels entre le vieux sage Van Helsing...
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Act I is brimming with comedy and sarcasm as the characters play upon each other eccentricities. In Act II the true meaning of the gathering becomes evident. Einstein has placed people together like a chess master to challenge their views, beliefs and faith, forcing the recalcitrant, the merciless and the irreconcilable to view another way of thinking and acting. Alliances are forged between the most unlikely pairs.
Act II: the guests file out, expressing...
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