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1) One
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Meet Adam – it's his fault whenever his football team loses, Angelina who sabotages her ballet classmates, Billy who can't sit still, Dora who has decided it's time to fall in love, Kathy who knows her own mind when it comes to fashion, Alice who starts a campaign to save the apricot tree in her backyard and Armellieery who has friends named 'Palooma, Cheetah and Paisleee with three e's'. These are a few of the characters who appear in One – a...
2) Buffoon
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Born to circus folk who prefer trapezing over parenting, Felix quickly learns to turn life's misfortunes into jokes. His longing for family and home is piqued at the tender age of seven when he falls hopelessly in love with an older woman, the beguiling Aja, who is eight. In the process, a clown is born, and we watch him grow into a middle-aged buffoon. Over time, Felix stops waiting for someone else to love him; his journey becomes one of loving...
3) Elle(s)
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Monologues pour comédiennes.
Tantt naïves, drles, caustiques ou révoltées, des femmes se racontent.
Elles attendent, espèrent, rêvent, dénoncent, questionnent.
Quelquefois le quotidien les a salement meurtries.
Mais elles ne perdent ni l'humour, ni la vitalité, ni la force d'affirmer qu'elles sont femmes avant tout, fières d'être femmes malgré tout.
Le prince charmant les a oubliées. Ou son cheval n'est pas passé très loin....
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Dans l'atelier parisien de Madame Suzanne, cantatrice sur le déclin et professeure de chant de renom, les jeunes chanteurs lyriques se réunissent pour une séance de travail collective : cours de chant et de technique vocale, o ils s'écoutent mutuellement. La soprano Clémence, le ténor Victor et le baryton Franck n'y chanteront finalement que brièvement, se faisant interrompre par des envies de confessions intimes et des visites et performances...
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Inside these pages, aspiring young performers will find 75 challenging monologues just right for kids. All of the pieces are about subjects appropriate for production in schools – much of it "serious and challenging" – which will interest child performers without offending administrators, teachers, or parents. Some are comical, some are dramatic, and some are seriocomic (a little bit of both). Most of the monologues are from plays, and some are...
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Pierre est un passionné de cinéma qui adore s'écouter parler, mais ne dit rien de lui.
Lucille est une femme réservée, hantée par la culpabilité de n'avoir pas su aimer son fils dès la naissance.
Hugo leur ressemble un peu à tous les deux. Entre la peur d'être jugé et la difficulté à reconnaître ses émotions, il cherche encore sa voix. Il peine à avouer son amour à Christopher et ne parvient pas à parler de ses sentiments à...
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Que se passerait il si le Pape rencontrait la vierge aujourd'hui ?
Qu'une vierge soit reçue, au Vatican, en audience par le Pape, ce n'est pas impossible, mais que cette vierge prétende être la nouvelle Vierge, enceinte, elle aussi du Christ, cela paraît totalement improbable !
Et pourtant, la pièce met en scène la confrontation entre Katia, jeune orpheline d'origine palestinienne adoptée par un couple d'orléanais, et Pierre II, vieux pape...
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The most comprehensive sourcebook of Shakespeare's monologues ever available in one volume.
A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the Speech! Contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance.
Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning,...
9) RessasseR
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Une soirée comme les autres... ou presque.
« N'importe qui » rentre d'un dîner, retrouve « Quelqu'un » sur son canapé et se rend compte que finalement, on est mieux chez soi plutt qu'avec les autres. Les autres, ceux que l'on croit connaître, ceux qui se disent bienveillants, ceux de notre famille aussi.
Dans un quotidien devenu difficile de construire à sa guise, loin de ses amis devenus trop intrusifs, de ses parents qui ne comprennent...
10) An Empty Stage
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"An Empty Stage-A Collection of Monologues" is a celebration of the solo performance that covers a wide range of short works for the theater. Whether you are an experienced reader of the form or simply dipping your toes into the uncharted territory of spoken word, this anthology serves as both a solid introduction and a source for one to return to time and time again.
Featuring the works of the following writers:
Paula Gail Benson
Mark Blickley
Nancy...
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De Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, on connaît le théâtre. Et encore ! La mère coupable qui clt la trilogie avec Le Barbier de Séville et Le Mariage de Figaro est très rarement jouée de même que son opéra Tarare. Qui connaît ses drames bourgeois ou son théâtre de foire aujourd'hui disparus ?
Celui qui est à l'origine de la SACD fut également homme d'affaires, espion, inventeur, agioteur, trafiquant d'armes, éditeur, courtisan...
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"You like movies because you're one of life's great watchers." So says Woody Allen's irked, soon-to-be-ex-wife in Play It Again, Sam, obviously having had enough of his sedentary lifestyle. Hmm, I think she would have left me, too. But, hey, do a female's myriad charms really stack up against the corny delights of Cocktail, the vicious cynicism of The Sweet Smell of Success, the dark ferocity of The Thing, the fantastic imagination of Westworld, the...
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From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana's Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.
In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up Films, a bit of tit trauma, ten of the best Starring Debuts, some macho idiots, a tribute to Michael Douglas' prime, and a glance at the most over the top performances in movie history.
Not to mention...
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Canada's top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor, examines the collision of a politician's personal and professional lives, complicated by a son's return from Afghanistan. In The Ravine, a mayoral candidate learns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. The Burden of Self-Awareness...
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Canada's most famous Aboriginal playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only connection to faraway places longed-for or imagined. Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron, Marie-Louise...
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Two friends pass the time together playing a made-up game in which they name people, places, or things and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers. Each friend seeks to defeat the other, and because one of these men grew up economically privileged and the other did not, the competition very quickly heats up.
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