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22 produkter
Fever
Häftad, 2009
142 kr
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A traveller falls ill in a poor country and plummets into a feverish self-examination.But something's been hidden from me, too. Something - a part of myself - has been hidden from me, and I think it's the part that's there on the surface, what anyone in the world could see about me if they saw out …
Evening at The Talk House
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of Walter Barclay is long gone.A playwright, a …
Evening at The Talk House
E-bok, 2015
131 kr
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At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of Walter Barclay is long gone.A playwright, a …
What We Did Before Our Moth Days
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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And so yes, well, I'd simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I'd dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and down it had gone into the city's sewers, and no one ever saw it again. Set in a rather privileged world of intelligent and gentle people, a father, mother, son …
Aunt Dan and Lemon
A Play
Häftad, 1994
277 kr
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This title portrays the strange relationship that develops between a reclusive young woman and an eccentric professor.
Designated Mourner
E-bok, 2010
223 kr
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“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” – Time “Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” – Los Angeles Times “In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the …
Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts
Two Plays
E-bok, 2007
223 kr
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“[ Our Late Night is] a short play, but a savage one...Neurosis, panic and sexual surreality underlie Shawn’s startling vision of New Yorkers at play.”— Guardian Wallace Shawn’s OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, …
Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
E-bok, 2017
228 kr
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"Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at seventy-two, still comes across as precocious—probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in …
Final Edition
Volume 1, no 1 (the last issue)
Av Wallace Shawn, Wallace Shawn
Häftad, 2004
93 kr
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Essays
Av Wallace Shawn, Wallace Shawn
Inbunden, 2009
496 kr
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A collection of beautiful essays in which Wallace Shawn takes readers on a revelatory journey where the personal and the political become one. Shawn often focuses on contradictions, even when unpleasant, and finds humour in the political and personal challenges of everyday life. AVAILABLE FROM JUNE …
Essays
Häftad, 2010
189 kr
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With his distinctive brand of humour and insight, acclaimed playwright and beloved actor Wallace Shawn takes his readers on a revelatory journey through high art, war, culture, politics and privilege with his first non-fiction collection, which received immense critical acclaim when published in …
Night Thoughts
E-bok, 2017
178 kr
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This "acerbic yet compassionate" meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers "curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on …
Final Edition
E-bok, 2011
114 kr
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Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little …
Night Thoughts
An Essay
Häftad, 2020
215 kr
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In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that follow one another in an apparently random chain. Ultimately a point of view begins to emerge. In a world dominated by privileged killers, how should we …
Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky
Essays 1985-2021
Inbunden, 2022
210 kr
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“Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking.” TONI MORRISON"Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle." PANKAJ MISHRASLEEPING AMONG SHEEP UNDER A STARRY SKY is a collection of essays written over the course of the last thirty-five years.Shawn seems to start from the premise that the world …
Nachtgedanken
E-bok, 2020
140 kr
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"Aufhören, nachdenken. Und noch einmal anfangen. Anders." Wallace ShawnMännlich, weiß, ein wohlhabendes und gebildetes Elternhaus: Dem US-Amerikaner Wallace Shawn wurden die Privilegien in die Wiege gelegt. Doch was passiert, wenn man anfängt, das, was selbstverständlich erscheint, zu hinterfragen …
Marie and Bruce
Häftad, 1994
229 kr
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When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the other current clichés about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce through …
