Author : Athol Fugard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573640391
A white South African teenager's relationships with his parents and, more particularly, with two of their Black servants--Willie and Sam--have a painful, tragic outcome
Author : Athol Fugard
Publisher : Everbind
Page : pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780784837740
Author : Lee Blessing
Publisher : Heinemann Drama
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This volume of Lee Blessing's most recent and some of his best work, includes: Patient A - a rethinking of the Kimberly Bergalis AIDS case; Two Rooms - the strain on families of hostages in the Middle East; Down the Road - a tale of a serial killer concerned with image; Fortinbras - a hilarious reexamination of Hamlet in a contemporary political context; and Lake Street Extension - an exploration of the dark theme of child molestation. All of these plays resonate with Blessing's characteristic depth of human feeling and his insistence that the personal is the political.
Author : Roberto Athayde
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573618635
Estelle Parsons created a sensation in New York as the title character, a teacher who runs her classroom with an iron fist, velvet glove not included! Banned, then censored in Brazil (the playwright's homeland), Miss Margarida's Way is a searing drama that looks deeply into the heart of power. Audiences and critics in over fifty countries have cheered this allegory about totalitarianism that uses a classroom as its central metaphor. Miss Margarida teaches, teases, and taunts her eighth-grade cla
Author : Joseph N. Tylenda
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681490161
Saint Ignatius of Loyola was a man who saw above and beyond his century, a man of vision and calm hope, who could step comfortably into our era and the Church of our time and show us how to draw closer to Christ. Ignatius' autobiography spans eighteen very important years of this saint's 65-year life...from his wounding at Pamplona (1521) through his conversion, his university studies and his journey to Rome in order to place his followers and himself at the disposal of the Pope. These critical years reveal the incredible transformation and spiritual growth in the soul of a great saint and the events that helped to bring about that change in his life. This classic work merits a long life. Apart from providing a splendid translation of the saint's original text, Father Tylenda has included an informative commentary which enables the modern reader to grasp various allusions in the text-and to gain a better view of a saintly man baring his soul.
Author : Liu Jung-En
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket of Confucianism, the Chinese made the most of recent developments in poetry and drama. Yuan plays were a tonic, an amazing spectacle—colorful outbursts of singing, dancing, music, acting and mime. They poured new life into old stories—oppressors were ridiculed, servants became masters, scenes changed, day followed night in the twinkling of an eye—and audiences flocked to enjoy what must have been complete entertainment. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN :
Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316202614
Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die. In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be possible. This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed Ship Breaker is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.
Author : Athol Fugard
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559366958
Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
Author : Athol Fugard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573640032
Blood Knot is a parable of two brothers who share a one-room shack near Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Zachariah is dark-skinned and Morris, light-skinned. They share the same mother but find their differences lead them to a common bond as brothers and men. Saving to buy a farm where they may retire Morris is the "slave", cooking and cleaning while Zach earns money for them both. When Morrie joins a lonely hearts club on his brother's behalf, they find themselves awaiting the visit of a White woman who will never arrive.
