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Amazing Maya volume 6
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English
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Maya is crestfallen when she receives a small part in the community center show chorus, but she soon learns she does not need to be onstage to feel like a star. Includes activity tips.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Bertie, who is blessed with word magic, and her fairy sidekicks, seek to save Nate, who has been kidnapped by the Sea Witch, but Bertie is torn between Nate and Ariel, an air spirit who loves Bertie enough to die for her.
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"Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child star who continued her pursuit for fame in a Manhattan...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Bertie thinks that to complete her quest to have a true family she need only reunite her father, the Scrimshander, with her mother, Ophelia, but complications arise and she is torn between her responsibilities and the dream of flying free, just as she is torn between Nate and Ariel.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Grishka has grown up in the closed world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart--his best friend needs an operation, financial difficulties are forcing people out, his homosexual friend Sam, the jester, is leaving for Holland and Grishka no longer knows what role he himself is playing.
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Atria Books
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2023.
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English
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When a dead body interrupts the rehearsals for their holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk, Fairway Players Femi and Charlotte page through letters, emails and police transcripts to identify both the victim and killer before its curtains for their production-permanently.
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Wild child volume 2
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English
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When Forest, who was raised in the woods with no parents, starts third grade he encounters many challenges, especially after being cast in a play with his friend Olive.
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Los montes son tuyos reúne dos piezas del director de escena, dramaturgo y performer Alberto Cortés: El Ardor (2021) y One night at the golden bar (2022).
En palabras de Rodrigo García Marina, autor del epílogo: «En el teatro de Alberto Cortés no aparecen animales drogados o muertos, nadie se hiere gratuitamente, los efectos especiales de la sangre y los fluidos son innecesarios. No está pensado para un presupuesto millonario, ni participan...
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Cet ouvrage offre un récit inédit de Toronto, ville d'art et de culture traversée par la diversité linguistique. Le contact entre les langues laisse des traces, des documents et des souvenirs, notamment dans le domaine du théâtre auquel l'autrice porte ici toute son attention. En se penchant sur la dynamique matérielle du « voisinage linguistique » qui anime le devant et le derrière de la scène théâtrale, elle décrit le virage médiatique...
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El volumen I de 'El ciclo ruso' reúne dos obras de Matei Visniec ambientadas en la Rusia estalinista. En la primera de ellas, 'La historia del comunismo contada a enfermos mentales', Yury Petrovsky, un escritor oficialista, acude a un sanatorio para elaborar un relato sobre las bondades del régimen que puedan comprender los enfermos mentales. La segunda, 'Ricardo III no tendrá lugar o Escenas de la vida de Meyerhold', nos muestra al conocido director...
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In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change.
14) Murs
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Au lendemain d'une épidémie qui décime presque toute la population, des survivants errent à la recherche d'un monde meilleur. Éric et Zoé, frère et sœur, ont quitté leur ville pour se rendre, lentement et dangereusement, jusqu'à Portland dans le Maine, voulant savoir si leur père a aussi survécu. À leurs trousses, Sara, imprévisible, armée de sa carabine. Et plus loin, un homme mystérieux et visionnaire qui tente de trouver sa place...
15) The Pass
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In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream. Goals, girls and glory. Tomorrow they make their first-team debut. But the game starts before you've even walked out the tunnel.
Twelve years. Three hotel rooms. One last gamble.
An agile new story about sex, fame and how much you're willing to lose in order to win, The Pass premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2014.
16) La imaginación mítica y el actor. Ejercicios, inspiración y consejos para el actor del siglo XXI
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Español
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La autora explora un enfoque diferente de actuación metódica con énfasis en lo mítico; ofrece una formación actoral sustentada en sus experiencias profesionales como actriz, dramaturga, directora de cine y docente. En el libro presenta indicaciones y formas de interpretar con objeto de que los actores pongan en práctica sus fuentes creativas más profundas.
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From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, “The Theatre of Black Americans” offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch—Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele—Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF—The...
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Renowned editor Larwrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Jonathan Yukitch, Don Nigro, Lloyd Su, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Carlyle Brown, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Steven Hayet, David MacGregor,...
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¿Qué relación hay entre voluntad y fe? ¿Qué hace que algo sea verosímil? ¿Qué papel ocupa la voluntad en la sugestión? El dramaturgo y director de escena Pablo Messiez escribe y dirige La voluntad de creer, una obra que toma como punto de partida Ordet, la película de Dreyer, para aproximarse a la muerte y la resurrección. Como protagonista encontramos al menor de una familia de hermanos que sostiene ser Jesús de Nazaret. Sus hermanas...
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The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Victorian performers and managers were used for such a purpose, with the British newspapers covering the good, the bad and the ugly side of life on the stage during the nineteenth century. Viewed through the prism of Victorian newspapers, and in particular through...
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