A comic look at Physical Theatre - the need for slow motion, non-linear structure and much, much repetition...The text can be used as a script for 15-minute Ensemble-based play (to be performed as a physical theatre piece of course!) or can be read as a light, satirical (but warm) look at physical theatre. Includes notes for use in the classroom.Professor Phillipe Hoffmanonsky, from the LeyCoke Institute of Bodily Mimed Expressive Arts takes us through the characteristics of physical theatre and the qualities of the physical theatre performer.This brief "lecture" takes a comic look at Physical Theatre - the need for slow motion, non-linear structure and much, much repetition...The text can be used as a script for a short, Ensemble-based play (to be performed as a physical theatre piece of course!) or can be read as a light, satirical (but warm) look at physical theatre. Notes have been included of how to use this text to introduce students to the devising process and physical theatre. (This script is also included in Your Handy Companion to Physical Theatre and Five Plays to Play With.) Views: 478
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . *** Pre-order HEROES by Stephen Fry now ***___________There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes.Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery,... Views: 477
In the bitter arctic cold, a young adventurer feels the heat as criminals close in . . . Teenager Beck Granger is north of the Arctic Circle, and a harsh Swedish winter is closing in. He is enjoying a break from adventure, working with environmental action group Green Force—until a chance encounter with an old family acquaintance changes everything. Beck is thrust in the path of a band of criminals that will stop at nothing to keep their secret safe. A secret that, if revealed, could change Beck's life forever. Beck's survival skills are put to the ultimate test as he is forced to flee through the arctic wilderness. The enemy remains unknown, but their goal is clear: they want Beck dead—in this thrilling novel by the host of Running Wild with Bear Grylls. Views: 476
An expatriate English couple and a West Indian would-be revolutionary yield to infidelity, sexual abuse, murder, and irrevocable mental and moral decay on a socially fragile, post-colonial Caribbean island.
A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence. Views: 476
P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humorists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, I began to write for pay in the spring of 1970. To tell the truth I didn't even mean to be a writer, I meant to be a race car driver, but I didn't have a race car."Fortunately for us, he had to settle for writing. From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone's International Affairs editor in the 80s and 90s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P.J. has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane prose, a gonzo Republican attitude and a rare ability to make you laugh out loud. Chris Buckley once described his work as S.J. Perlman on acid" and when Penguin first published its Dictionary of Modern Humorist Quotations PJ had more entries than any living writer.For the first time Thrown Under the Omnibus... Views: 473
One stolen kiss......and they're both in deep water!Sensible Annalise has always played it safe, but when she accepts a job as nurse aboard a cruise ship, her guard is instantly disarmed by the ship's playboy doctor! She's never felt so alive and liberated, but Hugh Patterson has no interest in putting down roots. Their fling may be temporary, but is falling for Hugh a complication she's ready to embrace? A Medics, Sisters, Brides novelMedics, Sisters, Brides duetBook 1 — Awakening the Shy Nurse Book 2 — Saved by Their Miracle Baby "Overall, Ms. Roberts has delivered a delightful read in this book where the chemistry between this couple was strong from the moment they meet...the romance was heart-warming...."—Harlequin Junkie on Melting the Trauma Doc's Heart"I read this in one sitting. This was such a heart-felt story. I loved the characters. The author really did a fantastic job.... I highly... Views: 473
Surrounded by lies. Haunted by questions. One man's quest for truth could expose the treason of the century. London, 1984. Michael Thorley, Jr. regrets never knowing his father. Taken from him by the war before he was born, Michael consoles himself by helping families track down the final resting places of lost soldiers. But when he's flooded by requests for unlisted conscripts from a non-existent regiment, he's plunged into a treacherous forty-year-old mystery powerful figures would rather remain buried...Shaken by the revelation, Michael has barely begun to unearth the facts when an alluring woman turns up on his doorstep begging to speak with his late dad. And now convinced his father's death was suspicious, the two follow a trail leading to deceitful double lives and shocking Soviet secrets that could get them both killed. Can Michael uncover a blood-drenched conspiracy before he's sent to his own unmarked grave?... Views: 473
Beloved guide to Italian culture and history Tim Parks traces Garibaldi's famous journey across the Apennines in search of the country's past and present.In the summer of 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary hero of guerrilla wars and future architect of a united Italy, was finally forced to concede defeat to the French in his defense of a revolutionary Roman republic. But determined to turn defeat into moral victory, he set out from Rome with 4,000 men one July evening to continue the struggle for national independence. Hounded by both French and Austrian armies, he crossed the Italian Apennines and after endless skirmishes and adventures arrived in Ravenna a month later with just 250 survivors.Tim Parks, the author of four best-selling accounts of Italian life, retraced Garibaldi's steps in the summer of 2019. In The Hero's Way he delivers a superb travelogue that combines a memorable portrait of Garibaldi and the country before unification... Views: 471
Chuck Veal has not heard from his brother in Georgia in over a week and nobody answers the home phone or cell. An employee at the timber mill his brother owns gives him run around answers and the local Sheriff refuses to post a missing person report. With his gut instincts screaming "trouble,"Chuck Veal has not heard from his brother in Georgia in over a week and nobody answers the home phone or cell. An employee at the timber mill his brother owns gives him run around answers and the local Sheriff refuses to post a missing person report. With his gut instincts screaming "trouble," Chuck spills his fears to a female co-worker who unexpectedly offers to help. She wants to go with him to Georgia and lend a hand searching for his brother. Little does Chuck realize, she is ESP sensitive and already knows more than she can tell.With few clues to go by, Chuck starts following his brother's clues, starting at the old family cemetery and things go downhill from there. His presence creates a head on collision with small town influencers and power brokers that have left a deadly trail of murder, deceit, and mayhem. Everything from the Atlanta drug cartel to the murderess of his Grandfather sixty years earlier, comes into play."The Beginning" anchors a full boatload of Whispering Pines books ahead about the Veal family trials and tribulations. It is a fast paced, edge of your seat thriller for all ages. Rated PG. Views: 471
The Comet Riders is the story of an alien race of explorers who visit other worlds. Eventually, one of the aliens will invent computerized immortality, by channeling his soul's essence, his memories, into the body of a machine.The Comet Riders, book five of the "Seeds of a Fallen Empire" series, tells the story of alien explorers on another world. Long ago, that world was visited by aliens called "the comet riders". The Comet Riders tells of the rise of an intergalactic Federation and of the mechanization of a humanoid alien named Marankeil, who channels his mind and memories into the body of a mechanized unit. He will one day rule the galaxies... Views: 470
Brandon, a surfer from San Diego, takes a business trip to Boston, where he meets a mysterious woman on the beach.Brandon, a surfer from San Diego, takes a business trip to Boston, where he meets a mysterious woman named Una on Constitution Beach. Views: 470
