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101) She plays lacrosse
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Beginning readers are introduced to lacrosse for girls.
102) She plays volleyball
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Beginning readers are introduced to volleyball for girls.
103) She plays softball
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Beginning readers are introduced to softball for girls.
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For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their...
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For more than 70 years, “The Best American Short Plays” has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights—Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others—who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.
“The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014” takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks,...
106) Salome
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Oscar Wilde's play Salome is a twist on the execution of John the Baptist, fuelled by motives of lust and slaughter. Wilde's interpretation is deeply rooted in the Biblical story of Salome's dance to please Herod and her mother's plea for John the Baptist's head. Wilde's twist on the biblical story focuses on the personality of Salome and the hypersexual implications.
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short...
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Anton Chekhov's iconic plays including some of the unfamiliar short pieces such as The Wedding, and some of the more established classics such as The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov revolutionised world literature influencing generations of playwrights, screenwriters and actors. George Bernard Shaw described Chekhov's work as a fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes.
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. This volume, Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor, illustrates how well...
110) Henry IV, part 1
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The second play in William Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays which also includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part 2", and "Henry V", "Henry IV, Part 1" is believed to have been written no later than 1597. A history play, the drama concerns the unquiet reign of Henry Bolingbroke. Following the usurpation of the throne, Henry IV is plagued with guilt over his role in the imprisonment and death of King Richard II. In order to resolve himself of this internal...
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The first book finds our central character, Jason Bottelli, hard at work in his first job as Impervious College's Head of Music. Challenged to win the Annual Talent Contest with a fledgling band, he succeeds beyond doubt, winning a recording contract, despite the many trials and tribulations along the way.
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Looking for a large cast comedy play script with plenty of female roles for your next festival or drama competition? The Fourth Orange is a zany fairy tale mash-up with a modern citrus twist!
There were only supposed to be three oranges. All Franceschina had to do was deliver one measly basket of sausages to the witch and go on her way. But, no, she had to play the hero and ended up cursed and forgotten, caught in the crossfire of someone else's...
113) Colorado Ghost Story
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Trevor is an exchange student whose dream of the American west did not include a goat farm with a vegetarian host family. They won't even let him explore, especially at night.
But Trevor and his friend soon find out there's a reason his host family is so protective.
This engaging and suspenseful drama will get students talking about the difference between dreams and reality, as well as the realities of life away from the big city. They'll be practicing...
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An omnibus of Yvonne's successful When The Sax Man Plays fictional series. We learn about our central character, Jason Bottelli, following him from his first tutoring job as Head of Music at London's Impervious College right through to a superstardom of his own.
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This collection of award-winning plays by Tess Onwueme feature the provocative concerns and experiences of global women and youth in today's struggle with poverty, environmental pollution, cultural imperialism, exploitation, race, gender and class inequities, along with the unresolved historical relationship matters between peoples of African descent in Africa and the Diaspora, dramatized in the contexts. SHAKARA: THE BREAK DANCER: The teenage Shakara...
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This follow on story from the popular When The Sax Man Plays series follows the lives of our characters after the loss of Jason.When Georgie meets a producer who wants to make a film of her late husband's life, it is ironic that they meet on the fifth anniversary of Jason's death. Promising minimal stress and involvement for the rest of the family, she agrees to the idea only if she can oversee it.Christopher is adamant that he will also be involved....
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"These scripts will give students the opportunity to confidently practise language in a safe and structured setting where they can enjoy playing roles and bringing the story to life. ... they'll be having so much fun that they won't even realise that they are learning!"-David Farmer, NILE training consultant, theatre director, and author, Learning Through Drama and 101 Drama Games and ActivitiesIn Just Desserts, a baking competition pits an award-winning...
118) Strange Medicine
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These scripts will give students the opportunity to confidently practise language in a safe and structured setting where they can enjoy playing roles and bringing the story to life. ... they'll be having so much fun that they won't even realise that they are learning! David Farmer, NILE training consultant, theatre director, and author. Strange Medicine is an original short play about a mysterious scientist doing secretive research while renting a...
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Looking for a large cast comedy play script with plenty of female roles for your next festival or drama competition? You'll find a winning combo of slapstick and sentimentality in “The Myrtle!” When a trio of sneaky suitors steal a beautiful myrtle tree and gift it to the prince, they don't know it transformers into a fairy maiden at sundown. But now the prince must right the wrong and reunite myrtle and mother at the risk of losing the woman...
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Looking for a large cast, comedy play script, with plenty of female roles for your next festival or drama competition? It's time to get Goosed!
When two poor sisters save a goose from the butcher, the animal is so grateful it produces them piles of gold. But when, their greedy neighbors want the treasure for themselves, they discover this goose isn't so easily cooked. From a bloodthirsty fowl with golden stool to a careless prince who gets it in the...
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