The Theater Of Night

Author : Alberto R’os
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321458

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The Theater of Night by Alberto R’os Pdf

Ê“In this rhapsodic series of poems, R’os presents the story of Ventura and Clemente R’os, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . R’os’s project [is] indebted to magic realism but rooted in naturalism.”—The New Yorker “R’os creates the feeling of enchanted or intimate lore within a family [and] evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.”—The Washington Post Now in paperback, and following the success of his National Book Award nomination, Alberto R’os’ new book is filled with magic, marvel, and emotional truth. Set along the elusive southern border, his poems trace the lives and loves of an elderly couple through their childhood and courtship to marriage, maturity, old age, and death. Like the best of storytellers, R’os charms his readers, making us care deeply—even love—these people we read. From “The Chair She Sits In”: I’ve heard this thing where, when someone dies, People close up all the holes around the house- The keyholes, the chimney, the windows, Even the mouths of the animals, the dogs and the pigs. It’s so the soul won’t be confused, or tempted . . . Alberto R’os, the poet laureate of Arizona, teaches at Arizona State University. He is the author of eight books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir.

Author : Vikram Paralkar
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948226547

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Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar Pdf

A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist debut novel set in rural India, called “otherworldly” and “a haunting contemplation of life, death, the liminal space in between, and the dogged search for resurrection” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Fleeing scandal in the city, a surgeon accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise. So begins a night of quiet work, “as if the crickets had been bribed,” during which the surgeon realizes his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. By dawn, he and his assistant have gained knowledge no mortal should have. In this inventive novel charged with philosophical gravity and sly humor, Vikram Paralkar takes on the practice of medicine in a time when the right to health care is frequently challenged. Engaging earthly injustice and imaginaries of the afterlife, he asks how we might navigate corrupt institutions to find a moral center. Encompassing social criticism and magically unreal drama, Night Theater is a first novel as satisfying for its existential inquiry as for its enthralling story of a skeptical physician who arrives at a greater understanding of life's miracles.

Author : Lawrence Casler
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780573694912

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A Night in the Theatre by Lawrence Casler Pdf

Margaret and Stanley Locker and their friends, Donna and Walter Pace, are at the theatre for their weekly dose of culture. This week's ordeal is Hamlet. After they seat themselves with some confusion, the play consists of their incessant and hilarious chatter about themselves, their children, a dead friend and even occasionally Shakespeare's play. Secrets emerge and friendships unravel amid the audiences's laughter. You may even recognize these rude playgoers as the obnoxious people who sometimes sit behind you. This comedy with bite can be simply staged with a single set four adjacent theatre seats, or it can be enhanced with an abbreviated, mimed version of Hamlet that provides six additional non speaking roles. In this version, the audience sees but does not hear Hamlet and hears but does not see the Lockers and the Paces. - Publisher's note.

Author : International Shakespeare Association. Congress
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874132177

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Shakespeare, Man of the Theater by International Shakespeare Association. Congress Pdf

This volume presents a sampling of the more than 250 papers presented at the Congress of the ISA held at Stratford-upon-Avon in August 1981. Most of the papers are concerned with Shakespeare as a writer for the theater. Other essays deal with Shakespeare as a literary, rather than theatrical, writer. Several of the offerings cover subjects usually neglected, and develop fresh insight into his work.

Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786442324

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American Presidents Attend the Theatre by Thomas A. Bogar Pdf

Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.

Author : Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : UCSC:32106014247842

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Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater by Lois-Ann Yamanaka Pdf

This is a work of fiction during which the characters interact in the form of poetic novellas. Born on the island of Molokai and presently living in Kahalu'u, Yamanaka's poems have appeared in such journals as BAMBOO RIDGE: THE HAWAII WRITER'S QUARTERLY, Michigan Quarterly Review, PARNASSUS, Puerto del Sol and Zyzzyva. "Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a fresh new voice in poetry and prose: irreverent, sensual, street-smart, and passionate. She refuels the English language with her own brand of island music--rich in distinctive rhythms and magical insights"--Jessica Hagedorn. Poetry. Fiction. Asian American Studies.

Author : Chiara Atik
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822239468

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Five Times in One Night by Chiara Atik Pdf

In this comedic quintet, five couples explore the delights and disappointments of their sex lives. Whether they are the first two people on Earth or the last two, modern partners with shifting needs, exes on the eve of a life-altering event, or twelfth-century pen pals, following those most natural desires uncovers truths about their humanity. Altogether, FIVE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT is a hilarious examination of intimacy through the ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Theater
ISBN : NYPL:33433081662862

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The Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027733398

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The Theater by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Sean Good
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781604736960

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We Saw Lincoln Shot by Timothy Sean Good Pdf

On the evening of 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers - who by chance saw one of the truly pivotal events in U. S. history. Providing minute first-hand details recorded over a span of ninety years, We Saw Lincoln Shot explores a subject that will forever be debated. With a sharp focus upon the circumstances reported by one hundred actual witnesses, We Saw Lincoln Shot provides vivid documentation of a momentous evening and exposes errors that have been perpetuated as the assassination has been rendered into written histories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428990418

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Lucrative targets : the U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135965242

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Acts of Literature by Jacques Derrida Pdf

First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. Comprising pieces spanning Derrida's career, the collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history. Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, and offers suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and function of literature in Western culture. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the field of literary theory and criticism and continental philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022104129

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Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021058164

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Employment of Minors Within the District (theater). by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia Pdf