The Second Assistant
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The Second Assistant
Elizabeth is the second assistant at a talent agency in Hollywood, where her immediate supervisor (the first assistant) is a woman named Lara. Their boss is the volatile and druggy Scott. The extremely undemanding nature of the job gives Elizabeth plenty of time to fall in love--and to follow her own personal dream: to make the definitive film of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. The authors, Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare, are Hollywood folks themselves: both are well-known film producers.
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Spinning into Butter
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Spinning into Butter
The college campus where this play is set was filled with people who considered themselves tolerant and open, like the dean of the school who is the play's main character. But a clear-cut example of racial discrimination surprises the school and the dean out of their complacency and forces them to examine the racial attitudes they've long held but rarely acknowledged. The play premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in May 1999.
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Miss Wyoming
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Miss Wyoming
A novel about a relationship between a former beauty queen and a movie producer.
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Doctor Faustus
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Doctor Faustus
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Dr. Faustus famously asks of Helen of Troy when he conjures her at the suggestion of his students in this major work, written in 1588. A master scholar, Faust, dissatisfied by the limitations of book learning, seeks higher knowledge through black magic, which leads to a private audience with
Mephostophilis, Satan's courier. Faust agrees to sell his soul to the devil in return for 24 years of Mephostophilis's bidding. With the dark compact sealed, the play presents the conflict
between Renaissance man's drive for knowledge and God's ultimate mystery. There is a long textual history of the character Faustus in literature, manifesting in particular as source material for Marlowe in a 1587 Frankfurt piece which describes an apparently actual Dr. Faustus, practitioner of the blackest arts.
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The Figaro Trilogy
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The Figaro Trilogy
The works of the French comic dramatist Beaumarchais provided the basis for both Mozart`s MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Rossini`s BARBER OF SEVILLE. This volume includes both plays, along with another, THE GUILTY MOTHER (which did, in fact, inspire an opera in 1991, THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES).
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers.Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.An allegory of modern India,Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history.In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.
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The Movies of My Life
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The Movies of My Life
Writing his memoirs, a man named Beltran Soler compares the episodes in his life to films. Writing about his tormented adolescence, his family`s moves from California to Chile, their money troubles and breakup, the political strife in Chile--everything reminds him of a film, and he uses those links as a way of further understanding what has happened to him.
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