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Book agua de luna  psalms for the rouge

Download or read book agua de luna psalms for the rouge written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AGUA DE LUNA (PSALMS FOR THE ROUGE) is a new play by Caridad Svich that traces the personal lives of three couples living in southwest Detroit. Written in close-ups snapshots of ache, hunger, passion and hope, the play speaks to the search for a bit of magic in the everyday. This play premiered at Matrix Theatre Company in Detroit, which commissioned the piece. This is a Santa Catalina Editions publication.

Book The Hour of All Things and Other Plays

Download or read book The Hour of All Things and Other Plays written by Caridad Svich and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four plays by playwright/theatre-maker Caridad Svich (OBIE for Lifetime Achievement) - The Hour of All Things, The Breath of Stars, Upon the Fragile Shore and Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge) - explore the rough and necessary waters of citizenship under the effects of globalization and threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. The Hour of All Things tells the story of an ordinary person trying to figure out how to take a stand against systemic oppression; The Breath of Stars is a radical, atomized reconfiguration of Shakespeare's The Tempest seen through the lens of global capitalism in the digital age. Upon the Fragile Shore spans the stories of individuals in eighteen countries to focus on human-made environmental and human tragedies and their effects. Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge) looks at the tough and tender lives of immigrants and their adult children in Detroit as they struggle to relocate the power of myth in their everyday lives. With an introduction by Welsh playwright and director Ian Rowlands and essays by practitioners Zac Kline, Blair Baker, Neil Scharnick, Carla Melo and Sherrine Azab, this wide-ranging, daring collection of plays refuses to settle the complex and thorny questions of existence.

Book The Hour of All Things and Other Plays

Download or read book The Hour of All Things and Other Plays written by Caridad Svich and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four plays by playwright/theatre-maker Caridad Svich explore the rough and necessary waters of citizenship under the effects of globalization and threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. The Hour of All Things tells the story of an ordinary person trying to figure out how to take a stand against systemic oppression; The Breath of Stars is a radical, atomized reconfiguration of Shakespeare’s The Tempest seen through the lens of global capitalism in the digital age. Upon the Fragile Shore spans the stories of individuals in eighteen countries to focus on human-made environmental and human tragedies and their effects. Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge) looks at the tough and tender lives of immigrants and their adult children in Detroit as they struggle to relocate the power of myth in their everyday lives. With an introduction by Welsh playwright and director Ian Rowlands and essays by practitioners Zac Kline, Blair Baker, Neil Scharnick, Carla Melo and Sherrine Azab, this wide-ranging, daring collection of plays refuses to settle the complex and thorny questions of existence"--Page 4 of cover.

Book Spark

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caridad Svich
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2016-03-24
  • ISBN : 132999681X
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Spark written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPARK is a play by Caridad Svich about three sisters living in the US caught in the mess of a recent war's aftermath. It is about what happens when soldiers come home, when women of little economic means must find a way to make do and carry on, and the strength, ultimately, of family. A contemporary US story of faith, love, war, trauma, and a bit of healing.

Book Upon the Fragile Shore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caridad Svich
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2015-12-10
  • ISBN : 1329752260
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Upon the Fragile Shore written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPON THE FRAGILE SHORE is a play for four actors by Caridad Svich that explores human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath. The play centers on stories from the United States, Nigeria, Syria, Malaysia, sub-Sahara, and Venezuela. Seven interlocking stories. Fourteen characters played by four actors. All of us living on the fragile shore. A play-conversation about tragedy, hope, faith, and who we are as audience.

Book The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night  Vol 1

Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol 1 written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol 1 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Sir Richard Francis Burton Introduction: Story Of King Shahryar and His Brother - a. Tale of the Bull and the Ass 1. Tale of the Trader and the Jinni a. The First Shaykh's Story - b. The Second Shaykh's Story c. The Third Shaykh's Story - 2. The Fisherman and the Jinni - a. Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban ab. Story of King Sindibad and His Falcon ac. Tale of the Husband and the Parrot ad. Tale of the Prince and the Ogress b. Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince 3. The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad a. The First Kalandar's Tale - b. The Second Kalandar's Tale - ba. Tale of the Envier and the Envied - c. The Third Kalandar's Tale d. The Eldest Lady's Tale - e. Tale of the Portress Conclusion of the Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies - 4. Tale of the Three Apples - 5. Tale of Nur Al-din Ali and his Son - 6. The Hunchback's Tale - a. The Nazarene Broker's Story b. The Reeve's Tale - c. Tale of the Jewish Doctor d. Tale of the Tailor - e. The Barber's Tale of Himself - ea. The Barber's Tale of his First Brother eb. The Barber's Tale of his Second Brother - ec. The Barber's Tale of his Third Brother ed. The Barber's Tale of his Fourth Brother - ee. The Barber's Tale of his Fifth Brother - ef. The Barber's Tale of his Sixth Brother - The End of the Tailor's Tale. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience

Book The Dictator s Seduction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lauren H. Derby
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-17
  • ISBN : 0822390868
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book The Dictator s Seduction written by Lauren H. Derby and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.

Book The Industrial Arts in Spain

Download or read book The Industrial Arts in Spain written by Juan Facundo Riaño and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Thesaurus of English Word Roots

Download or read book A Thesaurus of English Word Roots written by Horace Gerald Danner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.

Book Inside the Latin  Experience

Download or read book Inside the Latin Experience written by N. Cantú and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinos comprise the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and this interdisciplinary anthology gathers the scholarship of both early career and senior Latina/o scholars whose work explores the varied and unique latinidades, or Latino cultural identities, of this group.

Book The Early Modern Hispanic World

Download or read book The Early Modern Hispanic World written by Kimberly Lynn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.

Book Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart

Download or read book Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart written by Caridad Svich and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rave Fable. This play hurls one of Greek tragedy's most compelling sagas into a sleek netherworld of sex, drugs and trance music. Iphigenia is the daughter of a political celebrity who embraces sensuous excess with a transgendered glam rock star named Achilles in a desperate attempt to flee her inevitable fate. "Svich's text is a unique language spoken by beings that inhabit the intermediate world that she creates. It vacillates between poetry and realism, composing a theatrical intercultural dialogue that fuses aspects of modern Latin American slang with US media lingo and original rock lyrics." -Chiori Miyagawa, The Brooklyn Rail "Sacrificial women haunt the darkling world created by Caridad Svich in her bold play. It creates a transfixing vision of hell on earth, buttressed by Svich's fractured poetic voice and her unblinking laser gaze at the ethical costs of cheap labor and disposable celebrity. Svich cunningly twists our expectations of class and gender roles." -Kerry Reid, The Chicago Tribune "Caridad Svich's IPHIGENIA ... A RAVE FABLE is an exhilarating play. The narrative subtlety is what makes Svich's redux of Euripides's IPHIGENIA IN AULIS so stirring. Through video projections, throbbing music and brand-name chemicals may offer escape, they punish the soul. Svich's remarkable poetry and crackling words reveals that the ravers, now permanently numb, also want Iphigenia dead. A play of mythic power." -Mark Blankenship, Variety "Caridad Svich's play has gorgeous, drunken poetry ... This 'rave fable' re-invents the story of Agamemnon's doomed daughter as one of modern political exigency. In the chorus (of dead girls of Ciudad Juarez) Svich layers elegy and comedy, the shame and fear she feels for these lost girls. Svich makes the anonymous city stand in for the gods of ancient drama just as unforgiving, just as hungry, just as brutal." -Helen Shaw, N Y Sun"

Book A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs

Download or read book A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gatherings from Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Ford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1846
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Gatherings from Spain written by Richard Ford and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twelve Ophelias  a Play with Broken Songs

Download or read book Twelve Ophelias a Play with Broken Songs written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published in the anthology Performed the here and now: an introduction to contemporary theater and performance edited by Chris Danowski ... and also in the independent literary journal CallReview (issue #2, 2004)"--T.p. verso.

Book The Northmen  Columbus and Cabot  985 1503

Download or read book The Northmen Columbus and Cabot 985 1503 written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orphan Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caridad Svich
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-11-25
  • ISBN : 1387394789
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book The Orphan Sea written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ORPHAN SEA by Caridad Svich. This is a story of us, here, now, and also of who we were once. It is a story of those that cross rivers and seas and those that wait for them, of a lover who searches for one lost years ago, and of someone called Penelope, who may be waiting for someone called Odysseus. Told in poetry, song, film and dance, a play for anyone that dares to dream. This play was commissioned and produced by the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Theatre and first directed by Kevin Brown. This single edition of the text is published by Santa Catalina Editions, an imprint of NoPassport.