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Drama, Canadian non-fiction
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À l'enterrement dun ami et collègue, un groupe d'acteurs et dactrices se souvient, se confie, se questionne, se recueille et…
parfois s'emporte, réfléchissant au vieillissement et à la mort, aux transformations de la société, à leur jeunesse, à leurs combats. Entre bilan et mise à nu, Marc, Pierre, Mireille, Henri et Monique mettent de côté les nombreux personnages qui ont jalonné leur carrière, et se livrent et échangent sur ce qui les fait rager, les enthousiasme, les étonne ou continue de les désespérer. Reprenant dansNeuf (titre provisoire)sa méthode de prédilection, où la pièce s'écrit au fil des répétitions avec la complicité des interprètes, l'auteur et metteur en scène Mani Soleymanlou se joue des codes scéniques et dramaturgiques pour interroger les fondements de notre identité individuelle et collective
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Drama
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David Mamet's gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal…
a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan their heist. But their fates, like the nickel's worn image of the beleaguered buffalo, may have been sealed long ago. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring Rich Hutchman as Donny DuBrow, Josh Stamberg as Walter Cole (Teacher), and Maurice Williams as Bobby. Directed by Brian Kite and recorded before an audience by L.A. Theatre Works
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Science fiction, Ghost and horror storiesDrama, Humour, Poetry
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Han Solo, entombed in carbonite at the end of The Empire Striketh Back (DB 79153), is artwork in the lair…
of Jabba the Hutt. Luke Skywalker and his band conspire to release Han. They then head to Endor, where they enlist the assistance of the native Ewoks. 2014
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Arts and entertainment, Drama
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Theater directors Bogart and Landau explain the theory behind the acting style called Viewpoints. Describes exercises used to build an…
actor's awareness of movement through space and time, how to use the philosophy in the creation of a theater ensemble, and ways writers can utilize the techniques. 2005
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Science fiction, Ghost and horror storiesHumour, Drama, Poetry
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After the events of William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (DB 77244), Luke Skywalker and friends retreat to…
the ice planet Hoth. Darth Vader schemes to destroy them, but Luke begins training with Yoda, a reclusive Jedi master. In Cloud City, deception awaits Luke's compatriots. 2014
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Music, Arts and entertainment, Journals and memoirs, Drama
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Cowriter for the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark chronicles its development and staging, which were plagued by cast…
injuries and other setbacks. Examines decisions made and relationships formed as cast and crew struggled with cost overruns and scathing reviews. Young adult appeal. 2013
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General fictionLiterature, Anthologies, Drama, Criticism
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Writings by the Oscar nominee Ephron (1941-2012) include essays, the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, the novel Heartburn, and…
her last unpublished play Lucky Guy. Topics range from the personal to the political. Introduction by New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb. Some strong language. 2013
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Science fiction, Ghost and horror storiesBestsellers (Non-fiction), Drama, Humour, Poetry
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The story of Star Wars: Episode IV; a New Hope told in the format of a Shakespearean play. Luke Skywalker…
purchases two droids, one of which carries a secret message from a captured princess. They draw Luke into a battle with the Empire. Young adult appeal. Some violence. Bestseller. 2013
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Drama
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In these dark fairy tales for young readers, two girls face danger head-on while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way.
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Drama
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A moving story of the joy and terror of awakening passion which shows how the love of a boy and…
girl can be perverted and twisted out of beauty and meaning by the corrupt values of their elders
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Science and medicine biography, Health and aging, Journals and memoirs, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
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From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and…
optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye—forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether. In The Beauty of Dusk , Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni's world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn't forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision found
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Psychology, Actors biography, Disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
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Growing up, Mickey Rowe was told that he couldn't enter the mainstream world. He was iced out by classmates and…
colleagues, infantilized by well-meaning theatre directors, barred from even earning a minimum wage. Why? Because he is autistic. Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage is Mickey Rowe's inspiring story. As an autistic and legally blind person, it was always made clear to Mickey the many things he was apparently incapable of doing. But Mickey did them all anyway—and he succeeded because of, not in spite of, his autism. He became the first autistic actor to play the lead role in the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, landed the title role in the play Amadeus, cocreated the theatre/philanthropy company Arts on the Waterfront, and founded the National Disability Theatre. Mickey faced untold obstacles along the way, but his story ends in triumph. Many people feel they are locked out of the world of autism—that it's impossible to even begin to understand. In Fearlessly Different, Mickey guides readers to that world while also helping those with autism to feel seen and understood. And he shows all people—autistic and nonautistic alike—that the things that make us different are often our biggest strengths
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Classic fiction, RomanceDrama
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Classic sixteenth-century romantic tragedy about Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers from rival families who fall in love. Romeo's sentence of…
exile and Juliet's impending arranged marriage separate the couple. A friar suggests a ruse to accomplish their union, but a miscommunication has dire consequences. Translated from English. Spanish language. 2007
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Psychology, Women biography, General non-fiction, Drama
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Playwright of The Vagina Monologues creates fictional monologues that are interspersed with facts about girls and aimed at empowering young…
women to give voice to their emotions. Explores abuse, activism, self-image, sex, slavery, teen pregnancy, and more. Violence and some descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2010
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Literature, Arts and entertainment, Drama, Criticism, Anthologies
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In this collection of essays, Williams writes about the theater and the lives of the great writers, directors, and actors that he knew and worked with
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Literature biography, Drama
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Bill Bryson sorts through the muddle of facts and wild suppositions about one of the most celebrated writers in the…
English language. He documents the efforts of respected academics and eccentrics and gives his own witty and genial take on the life of William Shakespeare
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General fictionGeneral non-fiction, Drama
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« Pour les dominants, le plus souvent, la politique est une question esthétique : une manière de se penser, une…
manière de voir le monde, de construire sa personne. Pour nous, c'était vivre ou mourir. » Édouard Louis. Ce texte bref est d'une extrême intensité, due à la violence des sentiments exprimés, plus aimants que haineux. La haine, si haine il y a, est adressée aux « dominants », aux responsables politiques et économiques de la souffrance individuelle d'un homme qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde et qui veut aimer sans le pouvoir : le père de l'auteur. Revenant sur son enfance, mais partant des derniers mois où il a revu son père physiquement détruit, et pourtant fier que son fils ait publié des livres et soit devenu célèbre, l'auteur se remémore des épisodes clés de son enfance et de son adolescence, tentant de comprendre le couple de ses parents et l'amour distordu qu'ils lui ont porté, effrayés par la personnalité hors du commun de leur fils, dont ils admirent l'intelligence, mais regrettent la singularité, qui en même temps les flatte. Qui a tué mon père sera mis en scène par Stanislas Nordey en mars 2019 au Théâtre de la Colline puis au Théâtre National de Strasbourg
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Drama
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A play about a young blind man, whose overly solicitious mother allows him to leave home for a two-month test…
period. The nextdoor neighbor, a zany girl, makes his mother's surprise check-up visit somewhat alarming
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Women biography, Actors biography, Drama
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"A lively, illuminating new biography...Wojczuk reveals the force and vitality of this woman, on the stage and off." —Nina MacLaughlin,…
The Boston Globe "Once the empress of the stage, the indomitable 19th-century superstar Charlotte Cushman has been lost to us. Tana Wojczuk resurrects her here, charisma and originality intact. A brisk, beautifully crafted life of a pioneering actor who—on and off the stage—indeed seems to have been, as Wojczuk puts it, 'a better man than most men.'" —Stacy Schiff, bestselling author of The Witches and Cleopatra For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve , this illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays her radical lifestyle that riveted New York City and made headlines across America. All her life, Charlotte Cushman refused to submit to others' expectations. Raised in Boston at the time of the transcendentalists, a series of disasters cleared the way for her life on the stage—a path she eagerly took, rejecting marriage and creating a life of adventure, playing the role of the hero in and out of the theater as she traveled to New Orleans and New York City, and eventually to London and back to build a successful career. Her Hamlet, Romeo, Lady Macbeth, and Nancy Sykes from Oliver Twist became canon, impressing Louisa May Alcott, who later based a character on her in Jo's Boys , and Walt Whitman, who raved about "the towering grandeur of her genius" in his columns for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle . She acted alongside Edwin and John Wilkes Booth—supposedly giving the latter a scar on his neck that was later used to identify him as President Lincoln's assassin—and visited frequently with the Great Emancipator himself, who was a devoted Shakespeare fan and admirer of Cushman's work. Her wife immortalized her in the angel at the top of Central Park's Bethesda Fountain; worldwide, she was "a lady universally acknowledged as the greatest living tragic actress." Behind the scenes, she was equally radical, making an independent income, supporting her family, creating one of the first bohemian artists' colonies abroad, and living publicly as a queer woman. And yet, her name has since faded into the shadows. Now, her story comes to brilliant life with Tana Wojczuk's Lady Romeo , an exhilarating and enlightening biography of the 19th-century trailblazer. With new research and rarely seen letters and documents, Wojczuk reconstructs the formative years of Cushman's life, set against the excitement and drama of 1800s New York City and featuring a cast of luminaries and revolutionaries who changed the cultural landscape of America forever. The story of an astonishing and uniquely American life, Lady Romeo reveals one of the most remarkable forgotten figures in our history and restores her to center stage, where she belongs
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Drama, Canadian non-fiction
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Combattre le why-why / C'est pas du théâtre / Mais c'est un peu du théâtre / Mais pas comme d'habitude…
/ Cest des mots qui ont existé dans un théâtre / Des poèmes ou quelque chose comme ça / Mais c'est pas de la poésie / Ou en tout cas / Pas comme d'habitude / C'est un témoignage d'amour peut-être / Mais à personne en particulier / Juste un gros JE T'AIME à la complexité humaine / Parce que c'est pas si facile / Vivre / Ou en tout cas / C'est pas du théâtre / C'est pas de la poésie / C'est un cri / Un genre de WHY-WHY lancé / La face vers le ciel / Les mains désespérément offertes à la pluie / WHY ME