Guards At The Taj And Mr Wolf

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619028555

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Guards at the Taj and Mr. Wolf by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

Set in India in 1648, Guards at the Taj introduces two young Imperial Guards, Humayun and Babur, as they stand watch in front of the city walls. New to their roles and just recently out of training, they have been assigned the less-than-exciting “dawn watch” leaving them plenty of time for discussion about the great Tajmahal—which they have heard much about, but have never seen until now. According to rumor, Shah Jahan has issued a royal decree that anyone who took part in the building of this majestic “city within a city” must have their hands chopped off, so as to ensure that “nothing so beautiful as the Tajmahal shall ever be built again.” Humayun and Babur’s repartee takes a somber turn as they realize that they will be the guards tasked with carrying out this violent judgment. Mr. Wolf is a powerful play about child abduction told from the point of view of various characters: Michael and Hana’s daughter was kidnapped fourteen years ago. Julie also had a child kidnapped around a similar time. Theresa was kidnapped when she was three and knows nothing of the world except that which her captor selectively revealed to her over the years. These four lives, once altered by tragedy, now must face that nightmare once again.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786821447

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Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

It's 1648. Agra, India. Imperial guards keep watch as the final touches are put to the mighty Taj Mahal behind them. The emperor has decreed that no one shall turn to look at the building until it is complete. Now, as the building nears completion and the first light catches on the pure white domes behind them, the temptation to steal a glance at the most beautiful monument the world has ever seen grows stronger. Guards at the Taj takes as its starting point an enduring legend and prompts contemporary audiences to revisit questions about art and privilege.

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476663357

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Text & Presentation, 2016 by Graley Herren Pdf

Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. A variety of approaches and formats--including twelve research papers, five book reviews and one transcript--cover topics ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America. A highlight is the keynote conversation featuring the great American playwright Tony Kushner.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781593762940

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Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

Gathering together three major works of acclaimed playwright Rajiv Joseph, this collection features the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, alongside the critically acclaimed Gruesome Playground Injuries and Animals Out of Paper Gruesome Playground Injuries charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another’s love and what the cumulative effect is of such damage; Animals Out of Paper, a subtle, elegant, yet bracing examination of the artistic impulse and those in its thrall, follows a world-famous origamist as she becomes the unwitting mentor to a troubled young prodigy, even as she must deal with her own loss of inspiration; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a darkly comedic drama that looks on as the lives of two American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, and a tiger intersect on the streets of Baghdad.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786823779

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Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

WINNER - Best American Play, Obie Awards 2018 In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. In 1990, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia over the course of ninety years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822229322

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The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

In this riveting psychological thriller, a high-school vice principal and a Middle Eastern–born transfer student engage in a politically and emotionally charged game of cat and mouse, with dangerous consequences.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573633959

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Huck & Holden by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

Receiving rave reviews for both its New York and Los Angeles productions, Rajiv Joseph¿s Huck & Holden tells the story of Navin, an Indian college student who¿s fresh off the boat and trying to remain focused on his studies while the temptations of America and college life start beating down his door. When Navin falls for Michelle, a young African-American woman, he finds that his perceptions of the world begin to expand¿ and crumble. Called ¿¿a coming-of-age story with comedy, pathos, and a distinct emotional core,¿ by offoffline.com, Huck & Holden is a romantic comedy that wrestles with cultural stereotypes, racism, The Kama Sutra, The Catcher in the Rye, and how losing our innocence doesn¿t always make us wiser.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Artists
ISBN : 082222335X

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Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

THE STORY: When a world-renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she discovers that life and love can't be arranged neatly in this drama about finding the perfect fold.

Author : Robin Sharma
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781443456630

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The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma Pdf

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness. Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through: How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed “Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781951627706

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That Time of Year by Garrison Keillor Pdf

With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Author : E. B. Havell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547355205

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A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by E. B. Havell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood" by E. B. Havell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Robert B. Jansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Dam safety
ISBN : MINN:31951P00662201H

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Dams and Public Safety by Robert B. Jansen Pdf

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573633940

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All This Intimacy by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

"Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: His ex-girlfriend, his 40-something married next-door neighbor, and his 18 year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure of his life, and as the women in his world converge and figure out what's happened, Ty realizes that his life is adrift, and that he only has a limited time to try to piece it back together. All This Intimacy, which according to The New York Times has "a certain can't-look-away pull," is a comedy about friendship and lust and how the two don't mix."--Publisher's website.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0822225298

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Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph Pdf

THE STORY: Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.

Author : Fredrik T. Olsson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316334990

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Chain of Events by Fredrik T. Olsson Pdf

THE EXPLOSIVE, APOCALYPTIC FIRST THRILLER BY THE AUTHOR OF Acts of Vanishing. The future of humankind rests in the hands of a disgraced military code-breaker and a journalist--his ex-wife. William Sandberg, once a well-respected military cryptologist, is a ruined man. His career is in shambles, his marriage is over, and he's succumbed to a deep depression. But William's talents haven't gone unnoticed. A nameless, top-secret organization abducts him and tasks him with a daunting mission: decode a message that will reveal the disastrous prophecies hidden in our DNA before it is too late. Meanwhile, William's ex-wife Christina sets out to find him. She connects with an eccentric group at a mysterious chateau in the Alps, where the secret organization is plotting the destruction of humankind--unless the ex-lovers can reunite and put a stop to the plan. A thrilling, globe-spanning novel about humanity on the verge of crisis, Chain of Events explodes and then reconfigures the ties that bind us to one another.