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| 2 1/2 Jews | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By Alan Brandt Published By: Broadway Play Publishing "Nathan Minter is one of those overbearing men who believe that success in their chosen professions makes them, without further effort, successful sons, husbands and fathers. As Alan Brandt sets out to demonstrate in 2 1/2 JEWS, his understanding and compassionate debut play, which bares a man's flaws but shies from tragedy, Nathan Minter is a winner as a humanitarian lawyer but a loser in his personal relationships. Oh, his 78-year old immigrant father, Morris, may refer to him as the `Jewish Clarence Darrow,' and his Yale-educated son, Marc, may call him the `Albert Schweitzer of the legal profession,' but the descriptions are drenched in bitterness.... 2 1/2 JEWS, sprinkled with lighthearted moments, remains an easy-to-watch cautionary tale." Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times
"Winning hit comedy...a happy surprise" NY1-TV
"A triple mitzvah!" New York Law Journal Website: http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/TWOHALF.HTM |
| 25 Years of the Jewish State Theatre in the Polish People's Republic | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By Arkady 25 Years of the Jewish State Theatre in the Polish People's Republic (Finf-un-tsvantski yor Yidisher melukhe-teatre in Folks ).Warsaw. Book Condition: Very good- In Polish & Yiddish; legends also in English. 2 booklets, one in Yiddish & one in Polish plus 25 folding leaves in 1 portfolio title cont: -Poyln) (25 Lat Panstwowego Teatru Zydowskiego W Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej) The folding leaves are: information about the plays, cast and pictures, some in color. Text in Polish, English & Yiddish. Top corner of the portfolio bumped hard. Oblong 4to.
Website: http://www.schwartzjudaica.com/cgi-bin/sjb455/001307.html |
| A brief history of Jewish Dress | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By Ruth M. Green Published By: Safira Publications This Brief History is packed with enough information to fill a book twice as long.
for it covers Jewish dress from the Bible to modern times.
Introduced by a distinguished Rabbi, it will intrigue anyone intersted in social history as well as those with an interst in things Jewish. Fully illustraited, by Zena Flax, the text is enlivened with nummerous first hand , contemporary stories that bring it to life, which nobody else hase cared to do.
A very recommended handbook to anyone working on productions to do with Jewish characters on stage. Phone:020-7267 3117
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| A Collection of Critical Essays | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By Leslie Kane Published By: Greenwood Publishing Group; (September 1994) This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work. The 13 essays--12 original and one revised and expanded for this volume--present the most timely and provocative thinking on Horovitz's canon (more than 50 plays), and address such subjects as ethnicity; violence; feminism; social commitment; the role of mythology; the influence of Aeschylus, Beckett, Ionesco, O'Neill, and Albee; and Horovitz's contribution to American drama. Also included are an interview with the playwright conducted by the editor specifically for this collection, a comprehensive chronology of his life and productions, and the most current primary and selected secondary bibliography.
About the Author
LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature.
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Website: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0313291470/104-8808365-5094341?v=glance#product-details |
| A Dog's Best Friend: An Activity Book for Kids and Their Dogs | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By Lisa Rosenthal Published By: Chicago Review Press "Gives ideas for fun safe activities for you and your dog to do together." --The Boston Globe
"A real treat for dogs and their kids." --School Library Journal
"Novel ideas to strengthen the canine/child connection." --Dog World Magazine
"Good basic advice, simply stated, is interspersed with enough fun projects to hold the attentions of youngsters both two-legged and four-legged." --Betty White, actress and dog lover
Over 60 inventive activities build a long-lasting friendship between kids and their dogs. Includes a children's reading list, Web site listings, pet-care resources, animal organizations and events, amusing trivia for dog lovers, and much more. Contact: Lisa Rosenthal
E-mail: lisa@lisarosenthal.com
Website: www.lisarosenthal.com |
| A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By S. Ansky, Adapted and Translated by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel Published By: Theatre Communications Group Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man’s daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. This volume features Tony Kushner’s remarkable, imaginative adaptation and an afterword by Harold Bloom. Also included is a selection of stories, fairy tales and parables translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating many aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration parables and miracles. Website: http://www.tcg.org/ecommerce/showbookdetails.cfm?ID=TCG631 |
| A Short History of Western Performance Space | Avg. Rating: None | Rate this | | By David Wiles Published By: Cambridge University Press This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be ‘theatres’. He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that do not figure in standard accounts of theatre history. Drawing on the cultural geography of Henri Lefebvre, the book identifies theatrical performances as spatial practices characteristic of particular social structures. It is not a history of contexts for dramatic literature, but the history of an activity rooted in bodies and environments. Wiles uses this historical material to address a pressing concern of the present: is theatre better performed in modern architect-designed, apparently neutral empty spaces, or characterful ‘found’ spaces?
Contents
Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Sacred space; 3. Processional space; 4. Public space; 5. Sympotic space; 6. The cosmic circle; 7. The cave; 8. The empty space; Select bibliography; Index.
Contact: Ruth Austin
Phone:44 (0)1223 326050
Fax:(+44 (0)1223 326111
E-mail: cais@cambridge.org
Website: http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521012740 |
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