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  Bryan Callen: Complicated Apes

  Bryan Callen

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  Bryan Callen goes against our tendencies to turn each other into nouns like black, white, immigrant, Muslim, gay, straight, man, woman and instead suggests that the best way to navigate our current culture war is to think outside the box.

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  Contemporary Monologues for...

  Trilby James

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  Forty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
  Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh that's suited both to you – in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer – and to the specific purposes of the audition.
  In this invaluable collection you'll find forty speeches by leading contemporary playwrights including Annie Baker, Jez Butterworth, Nadia Fall, Ella Hickson, Arinzé Kene, Dawn King, Jessica Swale, Jack Thorne, Enda Walsh and Tom Wells, from plays that were premiered at many of the UK's most famous and respected venues, including the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Manchester Royal Exchange, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre, Traverse Theatre, the Young Vic, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten things you need to know about the character, and then five ideas to help you perform the monologue.
  This book also features a step-by-step guide to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.
  'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition… a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike' - Teaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition Guides

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  Mike Vecchione: Muscle Confusion

  Mike Vecchione

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  New York-based Mike Vecchione takes the stage in his first recorded stand up album, Muscle Confusion.

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  Alone Rewinding - 23 Years Of...

  Jonah Matranga

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  This is the story of raising my daughter while trying to be a worthwhile artist, and all the amazing people I met along the way who helped to make it happen. It's loosely based around 36 songs written over the years, and who I was when they were being written.

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  Tales of the Texas Rangers: Dead...

  Eric Freiwald, Robert Schaefer

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  It is 1:30 am December 4th, 1945. A single light glows in the living room of a farmhouse 4 miles to the town of Ashton in west Texas. Inside the house a frantic young woman tries to place a telephone call to the sheriff…

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  A Theologico-Political Treatise

  Benedict de Spinoza

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  Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's later work, Ethics, published posthumously in 1677, for which he anticipated harsh criticism.  In the treatise, Spinoza put forth his most systematic critique of Judaism, and all organized religion in general. Spinoza argued that theology and philosophy must be kept separate, particularly in the reading of scripture. Whereas the goal of theology is obedience, philosophy aims at understanding rational truth. Scripture does not teach philosophy and thus cannot be made to conform with it, otherwise the meaning of scripture will be distorted. Conversely, if reason is made subservient to scripture, then, Spinoza argues, "the prejudices of a common people of long ago... will gain a hold on his understanding and darken it."  He reinterpreted the belief that there were such things as prophecy, miracles, or supernatural occurrences.  He argued that God acts solely by the laws of "his own nature". He rejected the view that God had a particular end game or purpose to advance in the course of events; to Spinoza, those who believed so were only creating a delusion for themselves out of fear.  (Summary from Wikipedia)

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