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22 produkter
King of Thieves
E-bok, 2012
209 kr
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New York City, 1928. Master-thief Mac must join an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt bankers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue – at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Street where financiers conspire. This trenchantly satirical play was first produced at the Stratford …
Heaven
E-bok, 2013
168 kr
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Heaven is George F. Walker’s ‘millennium play.’ Well, sort of, if we can free ourselves from the expectation of the usual science-fiction-based projection and imposition of our current personal, cultural and spiritual values on the future of the coming millennium, considered almost mandatory for …
Dead Metaphor
Three Plays
E-bok, 2015
224 kr
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Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor , examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from …
Moss Park and Tough!
The Bobby and Tina Plays
E-bok, 2015
229 kr
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Canada’s top playwright takes on teen pregnancy in two comic dramas for young people. Moss Park It’s been twenty years since the debut of Tough!, but only two years have passed in the lives of Tina and Bobby, the main characters. Of course the poverty trap, which grips them both, is ageless. In …
We the Family
A Play
E-bok, 2016
209 kr
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Canada’s master playwright applies his trademark black humour and incredibly crisp dialogue to the family and multiculturalism. We the Family follows the ripple effects within two culturally and racially divergent families when their children wed. The list of characters in We the Family reads like …
Suburban Motel
E-bok, 2016
335 kr
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Six plays, united only by the fact that they take place in one and the same suburban motel room: Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta, and The End of Civilization. Transients, lovers, the haunted, the hunted, the desperate, the dumb, each strut …
People Live Here
The Parkdale Trilogy: The Chance, Her Inside Life, and Kill the Poor
Häftad, 2019
256 kr
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People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada’s king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama. The Chance is a funny, quirky, and suspenseful play portraying three aspiring but economically deprived women living in a …
People Live Here
The Parkdale Trilogy: The Chance, Her Inside Life, and Kill the Poor
E-bok, 2021
283 kr
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People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada’s king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama. The Chance is a funny, quirky, and suspenseful play portraying three aspiring but economically deprived women living in a …
After Class
Parents Night and The Bigger Issue
E-bok, 2022
229 kr
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Sit your butt down and learn your three Rs: ranting, resisting, and respect. In two new plays, Canada‘s king of black comedy takes on the failing education system. Both Parents Night and The Bigger Issue are set in public-school classrooms after hours and involve confrontations between stressed-out …
And So It Goes
E-bok, 2022
213 kr
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Newly unemployed baby boomers Gwen and Ned appear to be completely different people: Gwen, a practical, down-to-earth Latin teacher; Ned, an impractical investment advisor constantly dreaming up new ventures for making money. But appearances can be deceiving, as their son Alex, who left home years …
We the Family
Three Plays, including Parents Night, We the Family, and The Bigger Issue
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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