Ed and his friends accidentally sign up for a playwriting contest, a dangerous activity for someone who possesses the Silver Center, and what they write is pretty strange, but when it comes to actually performing the play, Ed's magic coin lends new meaning to the words "stage fright."

Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr. Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Jack Hibberd talks about bringing down the forth wall in Dimboola and the existential clown in A Stretch of the Imagination. Debra Oswald explores the ugly ducking story underlying...

Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Alice Pung discusses memoir, loosing her mother tongue in s, searching for her father's secrets in the Killing Fields of Cambodia in Her Father's Daughter and working on the project...

This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Clouds, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Johnston on facing pages, which will be useful to those wishing to read the English translation while referring to the Greek original, or vice versa.

Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Astrov. Reviews were lukewarm at first, but as the play continued to run, Uncle Vanya gained both popularity and critical prowess, and has since become one of the most influential dramas ever produced. When retired...

Cai Yuanpei A Musical Written in Chinese by Wang Haiping Translated into English by Ouyang Yu The topic and the theme: The New Culture Movement has a far-reaching impact in the modern history of China. Back then, the New Culture Movement, as the ideological foundation of the May Fourth Movement, played a role in ideological enlightenment and iberation. While the May Fourth Movement became the explicit state and the political form of radical revolution,...

In My Mothers Front Porch, four siblings celebrate their mother's life while struggling to deal with her declining years. Staying Connected offers an older persons frustrated yelp against technology mayhem. In 8th Grade Reunion, childhood friends discover who they are 35 years later. Brooklyn Rx follows a musical romance in a beloved neighborhood. In Sister Spirit, a chaplain nun makes a difference on Ricers Island. Homeland Security parodies a real...

Cheering and laughing throughout the audiences. You go! The audiences are screaming, cheering with the stomping of the feet throughout the auditorium. And the dancers of dance on fire are on stage, break dancing. Within seconds the boy dancers slide in front of the girls with their dance moves, pin down. As the audiences are jumping up and down screaming, " Go! " while some are screaming, dance on fire." At that moment, Kellisha steps in front of...

A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD is an invitation to consider how we make the world, together. It collects the voices of people who respond to this invitation with their living lives and prolific work: artists, social justice practitioners, cultural critics and public intellectuals - Cornel West, Taylor Mac, Alisa Solomon, Robin D.G. Kelley and Laura Flanders among them - whose own inquiries intersected with that of the award-winning Foundry Theatre...

The next books from the AUTHOR are : NO KING NO PRESIDENT BEFORE THE PEOPLE (COMIC SOCIAL POLITICAL PLAY ) NO DRUGS NO SEXY WOMEN (COMIC SOCIAL PLAY) dr.fawzymasaoud@yahoo.com