Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Drames et pièces de théâtre

Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.

The Old Wives' Tale is broken up into four parts, and the lives of two sisters are laid bare: one timid and unassuming, the other romantic and adventurous. From working as children in their family's drapery shop to their later years, Constance and Sophia's journey through life could not be more different. While one travels the world and defies male expectations, the other becomes a dutiful wife and mother.

Luke is in trouble. Skin and the gang have a job for him. They want him to break into Mrs Little's house and steal her jewellery box. They want him to prove that he's got what it takes - that he's part of the gang. But Luke finds more than just a jewellery box in the house. He finds something so unexpected it will change his life forever....

Here is a powerful, rich novel of love, loss, and healing from award-winning author Tim Bowler.

"Brother, you have often declared that you would not end your days in slavery. I see no possible way in which you can escape with us; and now, brother, you are on a steamboat where there is some chance for you to escape to a land of liberty. I beseech you not to let us hinder you. If we cannot get our liberty, we do not wish to be the means of keeping you from a land of freedom."

When Charlton Foyle is stranded on an unknown island in the Pacific, he finds himself facing the challenge of a lifetime. This isolated land is inhabited by goat-like homanids, large, semi-intelligent birds, the descendants of degenerate pirates from a century earlier, and the remnants of an ancient race of men with powers to forecast the future via their strange metal mirrors. There he also finds another recent exile - a young, beautiful French woman named Marcelle, who is quickly capture by the pirate leader.

Becoming Shakespeare begins with his death in 1616 and relates the fascinating story of his unlikely transformation from provincial playwright to universal Bard. Unlike later literary giants, Shakespeare created no stir when he died. Though he'd once had a string of hit plays, he had been retired in the country for six years, and only his family, friends, and business partners seemed to care that he was gone.

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

Mark Twain composed this short essay on the "art of lying" in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's "most faithful friend". The essay, Twain notes, was "offered for the thirty-dollar prize," but it "did not take the prize."

Meet Eric Bogosian's unforgettable characters - the stud, the drug dealer, the money-hungry guru, and the molecule-spewing derelict on the train. Bogosian performed these solos as well as some of his other favorite riffs from his OBIE-award winning shows, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee live at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on July 28, 2003. The Worst of Bogosian, Volume One is available only from Audible.

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the priesthood of Isis. The main character, Harmachis (the living descendant of this bloodline), is charged by the priesthood with overthrowing the supposed impostor - Cleopatra - driving out the Romans, and restoring Egypt to its golden era.

American writer Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain has given us some literary gems with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and his travel adventures in 19th-century Europe and to Australia and New Zealand. In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories.

This "lost race" novel begins as an exciting African adventure. Leonard Outram is a British adventurer who is in Africa seeking his fortune. He becomes part of the rescue of a Portuguese woman from a large slave camp. Leonard, his companion Otter, and the girl set off and find the people of the mist. They then impersonate gods and priests with the hope of getting the people's hoard of jewels.

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

Di e con Dario Fo e Franca Rame. Messo in scena dalla Compagnia Teatrale Fo Rame Musiche di Fiorenzo Carpi Introduzione di Jacopo Fo. Era inevitabile che prima o poi Dario Fo approdasse al circo, non inteso come puro spettacolo di evasione nell'irrazionale o nel fiabesco, ma reinterpretato secondo il suo solito anche a fini di protesta e di contestazione sociale. Va in scena per la prima volta nel 1967. La registrazione dalla quale è stato estratto l'audio è del 1977.

Appassionanti monologhi nei quali Franca Rame interpreta di volta in volta una vistosa casalinga frustrata e alienata, un'operaia in corsa affannosa contro il tempo mentre si prepara a portare il bambino all'asilo e andare al lavoro, una madre cattocomunista che diventa fricchettona per seguire il figlio contestatore fuggito di casa. Va in scena per la prima volta nel 1977.

Tre atti unici che puntano l'obiettivo sulla condizione della donna nella società contemporanea. In L'Eroina il tema è quello della droga, Grasso è bello! è dedicato invece alla rivalità fra donne nella carriera come nei sentimenti, in Una Giornata qualunque una donna tutta sola è alle prese con la telecamera cui tenta di affidare il suo ultimo messaggio per il marito fedifrago prima di suicidarsi. Va in scena per la prima volta nel 1991. Le registrazioni dalle quali è stato estratto l’audio sono del 1991 e del 1986.

Uno spettacolo scritto a tre mani da Franca, Dario e il figio Jacopo che, partendo dal racconto delle proprie esperienze personali, parla di amore e di sesso, del vuoto della conoscenza del proprio corpo, di tabù, paure e inibizioni. Uno straordinario monologo di Franca Rame che affronta temi delicati e intimi con un irresistibile contrappunto di commenti comici e grotteschi ma anche con grande delicatezza e pudore.

Storie paradossali raccontate da Franca Rame e Dario Fo: la creazione di Eva, figlia della Pazzia, e il peccato originale, l'affannoso risveglio di un'operaia che deve accudire il bambino e correre in fabbrica; la disperazione della madre di Michele Lu Lanzone, il sindacalista siciliano ucciso dalla mafia; un direttore di fabbrica trasformato in un pupazzo da prendere a ceffoni per dare modo ai suoi sottoposti, in particolare all'operaia Armida, di sfogare la rabbia troppo a lungo repressa.

Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.

Dario Fo porta in teatro la più celebre maschera della commedia dell'Arte ispirandosi alle presentazioni fatte in Francia quattro secoli fa dal comico italiano Tristano Martinelli davanti al Re e alla Regina. Un personaggio ben diverso dalla versione ufficializzata da Molière e Goldoni, più popolare e vicino semmai ai fabliaux dell'alto Medioevo e a Rabelais. Va in scena per la prima volta nel 1985.