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A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to an American boxer and her wife. American father un-adopts boy by a single signature on a piece of paper. But just before he leaves the new house, ex-father discovers that the new parents, to whom he has "re-homed" his ex-son, are a lesbian couple. American ex-father spends the rest of the play trying to get the boy back. In his corner is Ryan, the boxer's coach and her wife's brother. Ryan doesn't like the new Korean boy, who is a bit weird. Wolf Play is a messy, funny, disturbing theatrical experience grappling with a wolf, a puppet and the very prickly problem of "What is a family, and what do we need from families today? Is it very different from what humans have needed from families before?"

Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom.<BR><BR>Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.<BR><BR>Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.

2016 marked the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two of the world's most famous authors, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. This comic romp through the lives of literary masters William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes charts their influence on the modern world. It contrasts the fortunes of two contemporaries whose native countries' - England and Spain - went from alliance to enmity in a short space of time and shows how different their fortunes were as they grappled with the politics of their age. Pioneering writer and director, Asa Palomera ("a powerhouse on Melbourne's independent theatre scene"): "I've tried to bring forth the sheer humanity of their lives, to present them as it were in their underwear, to show that the emotions we feel from their work are as human as the emotions they, in turn, experienced when they were alive." Productions of The Curious Lives of Shakespeare & Cervantes: Adam House Theatre (Edinburgh, 2010), Bloomsbury Theatre (London, 2010), Thai premiere (Bangkok Theatre Festival, 2014). Staged reading at Tara Theatre (London, November 2016).

In 'Imaginary Performances', visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. To these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay 'Confessions,' an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director.

"Dramatic History of India" is a 1917 work by Flora Annie Steel (1847 - 1929). Steel was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. In this volume, Steele offers a detailed history of India based upon its literature and dramatic works, including the Mahabharata and many others. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Indian history and literature, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Promised Land", "The Mahabharata", "The Parricides", "Great Conqueror", "The Rivals", "The Indian Constantine", "A House Not", "Made With Hands", "The Golden Age", "The Giftings Of The King", "The Idol-Breaker", "The Resistance Of The Rajputs", etc. Other notable works by this author include: "Tales of the Punjab" (1894), "The Flower of Forgiveness" (1894), and "The Potter's Thumb" (1894). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

La légende d'Ourashima, si populaire au Japon, n'est pas entièrement ignorée en Europe. Nos enfants mêmes ont pu la lire, en abrégé, dans une de ces traductions sur papier crêpe qui ont vulgarisé en Angleterre et en France les plus jolis contes japonais. Mais pour la bien connaître, il faut remonter à ses origines, plus que millénaires, et d'abord à un vieux mythe du Kojiki, la Bible japonaise, où l'on peut trouver déjà l'idée essentielle de ce récit fameux...

This collection of short stories is designed around the concept of learning languages through reading and communication, rather than through inneffective rote memorization of artificial and complex grammar rules. By acquiring Japanese through stories, learners develop a deeper understanding of the nuances of the language as they can see everything in context. This is the first of this series, and is designed for absolute beginners. - Each of the 5 chapters consists of 3 shorter readings and 1 longer reading - This is the Katakana/Kanji Edition - Hiragana only edition also available - Approx. 53 unique words* introduced gradually throughout - Introduces 39 of the 75 unique words* used in the novel "Lisa と にほん の がっこう" - On average, each unique word used 60 times.** - Teacher's pack** contains class story, and short comprehension check story for each chapter - Teacher's pack class stories gradually introduce the chapter's new vocab in the same order as the student stories *"Unique word count" does not include particles, multiple conjugations of same word, or Katakana words taken from English. **This count includes words used in class stories from the Teacher's Pack ***Sold Separately

This book is a collection of plays by Indian women playwrights and their interviews. The book discusses the challenges these women face including the role of censorship, lack of funding, and the influence of gender on the women in India.

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In Arab circles in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s, plays were staged not only to entertain but also to educate and to further the emancipation of the traditionally oriented Arab minority. Some plays were well received, others evoked protests. Fatimah was one of the plays which stirred up commotion, inciting riots throughout Java. The play and accompanying events make clear which kind of norms and values governed relations within the community and what kind of frustrations and aspirations members of the minority experienced. Original text of the play included.

A bold and singular collection of six plays by Arab and Jewish playwrights explores the human toll of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Admission by Motti Lerner, Scenes From 70* Years by Hannah Khalil, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi, Urge for Going by Mona Mansour, The Victims by Ken Kaissar, and The Zionists by Zohar Tirosh-Polk. Rather than striving to achieve balance and moral equivalency between "competing" narratives, the plays investigate themes of identity, justice, occupation, exile, history and homeland with honesty and integrity. The plays do not "take sides" or adhere to ideological orthodoxies but challenge tribalism and narrow definitions of nationalism, while varying widely in thematic content, dramatic structure, and time and place. Where politicians and diplomats fail, artists and storytellers may yet succeed--not in ratifying a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine, but in building the sort of social and political connectivity that enables resolution.

The first four decades of the national art theater in Indonesia (1926-1965) were a period of fascinating experimentation undertaken by elite intellectuals heavily influenced by, and attempting to come to terms with, the forms and styles of western theater. These experiments ranged chiefly from hybrid anti-colonial allegories and grand historical epics to psychological and social realisms. The present volume contains a selection of dramas representative of this exciting and pivotal era in the construction of Indonesia's modern national art theater. It begins with nationalist allegories, then moves to psychological and social-realist works. The plays at the end of the period covered by this volume will later influence a new direction of theater; a new dominant current of drama that would flow into the New Order period, beginning in 1966.

As the New Order government became increasingly authoritarian, censoring and crushing public opposition openly and often brutally, there was a clear shift in playwriting style from allegorical fairytales of wordplay, humor and oblique reference to a more direct engagement, interrogation, and call to arms. All in all, Indonesian drama during the New Order provides a fascinating window into a society caught between the legacy of tradition, the challenge of repression, and a strong desire for democratization.

When Mina's father dies, she returns to Korea to visit a family she barely knows, desperately looking for some answers. But her mother is reluctant to discuss the past, especially the war, or the reasons that Mina was sent so far away as a child, to America. Her younger sister seems unable to grow up and it doesn't help that their nosy neighbor is always on their doorstep. Secrets and lies divide them all irrevocably. When the truth is finally revealed, it is both shocking and redemptive, allowing Mina and those around her to see themselves anew and break free from years of pain and guilt.

A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000, this anthology contains nine emblematic scripts from twentieth and twenty-first century Asian theatre. Opening with a history of modern Asian drama and a summary of the plays and their contexts, it features nine works written between 1912 and 2009 in Japan, China, Korea, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.<BR><BR> Showcasing fresh contemporary writing alongside plays central to the established canon, the collection surveys each playwright's work, and includes:<BR> Father Returns by Kikuchi Kan <BR> Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech by Okada Toshiki <BR> Sunrise by Cao Yu <BR> I Love XXX by Meng Jinghui, Huang Jingang, Wang Xiaoli, Shi Hang <BR> Bicycle by O Tae-sok<BR> The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore<BR> Hayavadana by Girish Karnad <BR> The Struggle of the Naga Tribe by W. S. Rendra <BR> Truong Ba's Soul in the Butcher's Skin by Luu Quang Vu <BR><BR><BR> The chronological and geographical breadth of the anthology provides a unique insight into modern Asian theatre and is essential to any understanding of its relation to Western drama and indigenous performance.

"There's a hint of Margaret Atwood in Chauhan's fictional world, and a great deal of the intractable issues that gnaw away at feminists." - Guardian "Chauhan playfully inverts the assumed power struggles in a polyandrous society ...a satisfyingly intriguing premise and Chauhan's writing builds up this odd situation so that our perspectives are constantly shifting." - Time Out London It's Aya's wedding day. Her third. Her current two husbands aren't too fussed. In a society in which there are few women, that's just what happens. But as the household prepares for the wedding feast, a stranger arrives - one who threatens to challenge everything they believe in. Against a backdrop of modern rural India, Sharmila Chauhan weaves an extraordinary tale of love and wonder. From the preparation of luxury food and the sacrifice of the lamb to the dressing of the bride and the dance to end all dances, this will be an exuberant, joyful and challenging piece of theatre. "In parts of India, polyandry has become a necessity. Gendercide, as a consequence of the ancient preference for boys, the modern desire for smaller families and the increasing availability of ultrasound techniques to detect the gender of a baby still in the womb means that the number of females is declining. I wrote The Husbands both as a response to this but also as an exploration of the complexity of love, intimacy and trust between one woman and three men where gender differences and expectations are amplified. In a sense this play is as much a warning as an allegory for the fate of women in The West today." - Sharmila Chauhan Sharmila Chauchan's play Born Again/Purnajanam was performed at Southwark Playhouse. A reading of When Spring Comes was performed in association with the South Asian Lit Fest. Her play White Turns to Grey is being developed with Angelic Tales (Rikki Beadle Blair and John Gordon). The Husbands - a tale of polyandry and feminism - has been commissioned by Kali and Pentabus Theatre for tour in 2014.