Other books that might interest you

• 

  Disgraced

  Ayad Akhtar

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Amir has left his Pakistani heritage behind in an attempt to make partner at his corporate law firm, but his wife Emily doesn’t share his negative feelings about Islam - she’s encouraged Amir to help with the case of a controversial imam. When they throw a dinner party for Amir’s colleague Jory and her husband Isaac, the hard truths revealed lead to the unraveling of their carefully constructed lives. 
   
  Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring: 
   
  Geoffrey Arend as Isaac 
   Behzad Dabu as Abe 
   Hari Dhillon as Amir 
   Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris as Jory 
   Emily Swallow as Emily 
   
  Directed by Brian Kite. Recorded live at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in April 2018.

  Show book

• 

  American Dreams

  Velina Hasu Houston

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  After World War II, an African-American war vet brings home his Japanese bride. The family must learn to be tolerant of their new family member, while dealing with prejudice in the outside world.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Peter A. Jacobs, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Don Reed, Charlie Robinson and Patricia Thompson.Directed by Peggy Shannon. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in January, 1991.

  Show book

• 

  Shibboleth (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stacy Gregg

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.
  Development. Hotels, spas, Nando's, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers.
  A group of construction workers is building an extension to the Peace Wall that separates Them-ens from Us-ens. When Polish worker ri's daughter starts having serious problems with her boyfriend, they rally round in support. But good intentions can easily go too far…
  Shibboleth premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, as part of the 2015 Dublin Theatre Festival

  Show book

• 

  Captain Craig

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  "In 1921, Edwin Arlington Robinson was only 52 and many of the pieces in his Collected Poems were written long before that. Yet he shows gifted understanding of old age, the passage of time, the slow decline that everyone must suffer, and the final cease and release of death. Isaac, in Isaac and Archibald, puts it very well to the poet's twelve-year-old alter ego: ""But even unto you, and your boy's faith,Your freedom, and your untried confidence,A time will come to find out what it meansTo know that you are losing what was yours,To know that you are being left behind;And then the long contempt of innocenceGod bless you, boy I don't think the worse of itBecause an old man chatters in the shadeWill all be like a story you have readIn childhood and remembered for the pictures.""The title poem of the book, ""Captain Craig,"" is a series of monologues by a cranky, iconoclastic, perceptive and sometimes brilliant old eccentric, now in his final days, as he converses and entertains a set of younger men who befriend him. The old man is fascinating as he intertwines his themes of life and joy with his knowledge of his own approaching end.The other poems in the book are short studies in love, life and death, often from surprising points of view. Throughout the book, his portraits of men and women come vividly to life; the insights into personality and character he found almost a century ago ring just as true today. His instinct for human nature, his understanding of the great issues that shape life and fate, and his ability to find deep meaning in the commonplace make his work as intriguing today as it was in his own day - a day in which he won no less than three Pulitzer Prizes.Enjoy!"

  Show book

• 

  Robert Holman: Plays (NHB Modern...

  Robert Holman

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Robert Holman writes plays of startling beauty, combining close observation of the way people behave with a thrilling and often fiercely uncompromising mastery of dramatic form. He is the playwright most admired by other playwrights. To Simon Stephens, he is 'My favourite living writer'.
  Here, in this selection from Holman's first decade of playwriting, a monkey is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community; the inhabitants of a Greek island reside under the shadow of the atom bomb; and a group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors.
  With a new introduction by Holman himself, this volume contains The Natural Cause (Cockpit Theatre, London, 1974), Mud (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1974), Other Worlds (Royal Court, 1983), Today (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1984) and The Overgrown Path (Royal Court, 1985).
  'Holman's instinct for truth, and an unaffected ability to spot what's poignant in it, is what one remembers: that, and a paradoxical impression of spare richness, astringent abundance' - The Times

  Show book

• 

  Hernani by Victor Hugo - French...

  Victor Hugo, David Serero

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Hernani is a drama by the French romantic author Victor Hugo (Les Misrables, Ther Hunchback of Notre Dame de Paris..etc). 
  The play was given its premiere on 25 February 1830 by the Comédie-Française in Paris. Today, it is more remembered for the demonstrations which accompanied the first performance and for being the inspiration for Giuseppe Verdi's opera Ernani than it is for its own merits. Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognized the play as a direct attack on their values. 
  This Cast Album Recording is the first recording of the English version of this important french theater classic. 
  Starring French actor David Serero as Hernani, Lisa Monde (Dona Sol), Ron Barba (Don Carlos), David Mohr (Don Ruy Gomez), Kristyn Vario (Josepha). 
  Adapted in the English language by David Serero.

  Show book