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Book Street Mime

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Gousseff
  • Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780871291752
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Street Mime written by James W. Gousseff and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Down These Strange Streets

Download or read book Down These Strange Streets written by George R. R. Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear... In “Death by Dahlia,” #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers to a lavish party that turns deadly. And with so many creatures of the night in attendance, Dahlia will have a hard time identifying the most likely suspect! #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs thrills in “In Red, with Pearls,” as a werewolf PI races to crack a case involving zombies, witches, and the most horrifying creatures of them all—lawyers. In “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,” New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon follows Lord John as he journeys to the beautiful but faintly sinister island paradise of Jamaica, where he’s soon investigating a mystery with no shortage of spiders, snakes, revolutionaries, and, of course, zombies. With these and thirteen more original tales, Down These Strange Streets takes you to the cities where fantasy and mystery collide and where private eyes who have seen it all find something lurking that is stranger still...

Book Anthropology of the Performing Arts

Download or read book Anthropology of the Performing Arts written by Anya Peterson Royce and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry, and how artists interplay with audience, aesthetics, and style. To support her case, she examines artists as diverse as Fokine and the Ballets Russes, Tewa Indian dancers, 17th century commedia dell'arte, Japanese kabuki and butoh, Zapotec shamans, and the mime of Marcel Marceau, adding her own observations as a professional dancer in the classical ballet tradition. Royce also points to the recent move toward collaboration across artistic genres as evidence of the universality of aesthetics. Her analysis leads to a better understanding of artistic interpretation, artist-audience relationships, and the artistic imagination as cross-cultural phenomena. Over 29 black and white photographs and drawings illustrate the wide range of Royce's cross-cultural approach. Her well-crafted volume will be of great interest to anthropologists, arts researchers, and students of cultural studies and performing arts.

Book Getting Even

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Grambs
  • Publisher : Citadel Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780806528083
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Getting Even written by Alison Grambs and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you. . . Spend too much time saying yes when you want to say no Do things you don't want to do just to please your friends Feel like a total pushover . . .then you need this book! If you feel like a doormat, you don't have to take it anymore! The Smart Girl's Guide to Getting Even gives you the 411 on how to stop being a pushover and start being fabulous: The Are You a Pushover? Quiz: A smart assessment to get you started The Three Levels of Revenge: The Subtle Approach, the Not-So-Subtle Approach, and the You're Going to Hell Approach Gifts That Keep On Giving: Great "gift" ideas for the pesky people in your life Smart Girl Tricks of the Trade: Tips for getting even by getting over The Smart Girl Commandments: Advice every woman knows for keeping her sanity at work, in love, and everywhere else From awful office experiences to backstabbing BFF's to first dates from hell, this hip little handbook will show you how to come out on top and have a damn good time doing it. Because anyone can get even, but it takes a smart girl to get it right! Alison Grambs is a graduate of Haverford College and has written several children's joke books as well as comedy material for the Friars Club in New York. Her acting credits include Annie, Chicago City Limits and a bunch of commercials no one ever saw. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, a member of the N.Y.P.D., and annoys her parents on a regular basis.

Book Mime s the Word

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence J. Corneck
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2009-03-10
  • ISBN : 1452033862
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Mime s the Word written by Lawrence J. Corneck and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Senseless and Dark Space New Tear-Jerker describes a stagnant space between voices and sounds of life and dismal silence NEW YORK – “If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck,” proclaims Mime in Lawrence J. Corneck’s new screenplay, Mime's the Word . Mime becomes mixed up with a sympathetic priest and a confused, embittered young couple when he finds a baby left to die in a trash can. Mime's the Word follows unsavory, eccentric, ruthless, puzzling and disturbing characters in Corneck’s riveting Game of Life saga. Mime's the Word features the ultimate anti-hero as Mime regresses into the solitude of silence to escape the adversities of a life. Father Warhola becomes drawn into the sudden darkness of Mime’s world. A brutal crime brings Mime and Warhola closer together and strengthen their resolve that there in no escape from life. Zoe Rex is a spoiled rich girl who doesn’t care about the consequences of throwing life away. Her boy toy, Yoshi, is naïve and easily sucked into Zoe’s manipulations. An intense investigation is put underway by Serena Knight, a weary, cynical, relentless detective. What evolves from the investigation can only be seen as senseless and dark, a stagnant space between the voices and sounds of life and dismal silence. Corneck is the author of Existential Hell: A Screenplay Trilogy; Big Cigar, small d**k; FAT FAT Snitch; Geezer Pleaser and Bald Lubavitcher, all part of the same Saga. More screenplays based upon earlier characters, including Bubble Catcher, Asphalt Bungle, B**** Fight at the KO Corral, Spy with the Beautiful Frown and Killing Time as Time Kills will follow. Each screenplay will be written in a different genre: cat and mouse, domestic drama, high adventure, coming of age, comedy, romance, horror, tear-jerker, show biz, caper, western, spy and science fiction.

Book All about Mime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maravene Sheppard Loeschke
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780130228635
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book All about Mime written by Maravene Sheppard Loeschke and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools of mime - The mime performer - Literal mime - Abstract mime - Gestures and illustrations - Mime walks ___

Book Lucky Dogs

Download or read book Lucky Dogs written by Jerry E. Strahan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When walking the French Quarter and watching a Lucky Dog salesman set up that colorful cart and call out to entice customers, don't you wonder how such a business works? As a knowing review in Rolling Stone stated, "People have always loved the cart and harbored a mysterious need to ride it. Revelers have been known to climb on top of the rolling wienies, screaming 'Yippee kaya!' as vendors stoically push them back to the barn at 4 a.m." Since 1947 the red and yellow carts have trumpeted good fortune and sustenance. Jerry E. Strahan recounts the wild adventures of the Bourbon Street wienie salesmen but also takes readers well beyond New Orleans. In fact, he takes them halfway around the world, where this unique pushcart business maneuvered its way through the bureaucratic red tape of a communist country to become a licensed corporation in the People's Republic of China. In China, two points quickly became apparent to Strahan. First, 99 percent of the Chinese population had no idea what a Lucky Dog cart represented. One elderly passerby declared it to be a missile. Second, the success or failure of any joint venture in the Asian nation is directly proportional to the political clout of that company's local partner. Lucky Dogs also recounts how the business and its vendors survived Hurricane Katrina. Miraculously, it reopened only six months after the storm in a city where more than 80 percent of the landmass had been flooded and where less than 40 percent of the population had returned. To reestablish itself in what many described as Third World conditions, the company had to transform its operation. This work mixes business history, autobiography, survival story, and an insider's look at the bizarre lives of some of Bourbon Street's most quirky characters--the dauntless Lucky Dog vendors. Both humorous and tragic, though it may read like fiction, it is, for better or worse, all fact.

Book The Woman Road Warrior

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Ameche
  • Publisher : Agate Publishing
  • Release : 2009-03-01
  • ISBN : 1572846313
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Woman Road Warrior written by Kathleen Ameche and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored specifically to the needs of modern businesswomen, this completely revised resource breaks down travel and accommodation options and offers expert help with problems faced on the road. Author Kathleen Ameche covers every aspect of the business-travel process, from using a travel agent vs. self-planning to navigating airport hassles to finding alternative transportation options in the destination city. Ameche pays particular attention to maintaining comfort and safety during solo travel, eating right and staying fit while on the road, and managing family life and household operations while away.

Book A Writer s Paris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Maisel
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2019-08-14
  • ISBN : 0486843599
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book A Writer s Paris written by Eric Maisel and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Paris not as a tourist destination but as a stopover on your creative journey. More than 30 brief essays offer practical and inspirational advice for a spirit-renewing adventure.

Book Creative Teaching Methods

Download or read book Creative Teaching Methods written by Marlene D. LeFever and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a step-by-step plan for effectively using drama, role-play, music, art, and much more in the classroom to reach every one you teach. An outstanding resource for anyone involved with guiding and educating students of all ages.

Book No Kidding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald McManus
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780874138085
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book No Kidding written by Donald McManus and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the way the clown has been used as a serious character by important playwrights and directors in twentieth-century theater. Experiments with Clown by Jean Cocteau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Giorgio Strehler, Dario Fo, and Roberto Begnini are examined.

Book Impossible Vacation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Spalding Gray
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-11-02
  • ISBN : 0307800687
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Impossible Vacation written by Spalding Gray and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having detailed the agonies of writing a book in his monologue Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray now gives us the monster itself: a convulsively funny, unexpectedly moving novel about a man eternally searching for a moment of protected pleasure even as he is permanently incapable of finding it. Brewster North witnesses his mother's madness but misses her suicide; searches frantically for enlightenment in the Poconos and zipless sex in India; suffers family ennui in Rhode Island and a nervous breakdown in Amsterdam. In the process he emerges as a hilariously complex everyman. And as Gray narrates his hero's free fall, he confirms his own stature as one of our funniest, most eccentric, and most engaging storytellers.

Book Confessions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Docherty
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2012-05-24
  • ISBN : 1849666792
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Confessions written by Thomas Docherty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of 'transparency'. In a postmodern 'transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, 'here I take my stand'. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims 'I confess') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.

Book Jump the Kennebec

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Kalkstein
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2003-11
  • ISBN : 0595303315
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Jump the Kennebec written by Paul Kalkstein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people jump from bridges? The hero of Jump the Kennebec, a young teacher named Jeremy Fischer, confronts this question as he gradually wakes to the horrible realization that his family history of mental illness has begun to show in him. His increasingly bizarre behavior at a small prep school in Maine peaks in a wild trip to New Orleans that leaves him in a mental hospital. The novel explores the depressive and manic sides of bipolar disorder, climaxing in a trip to the top of the bridge from which Jeremy's aunt had leaped to her death many years ago.

Book From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond

Download or read book From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond written by Annette Lust and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement theatre, this book develops the meaning and evolution of mime and pantomime from the Greeks to the 20th century, depicting the role of mime in dance, clowning, the cinema, and verbal theatre throughout the centuries. It is also an in-depth study of twentieth-century mime masters, including Jacques Lecoq, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Marceau. In addition to defining and tracing the history of mime, Lust documents present-day training programs in North America and Europe, providing contact addresses and information on mime festivals and centers. A filmography lasting mime and mime-related films and an extensive bibliography contribute to the usefulness of the book. With over 60 illustrations, this world-wide study is indispensable for the student, teacher, or fan of mime.

Book The Edinburgh Festival

Download or read book The Edinburgh Festival written by David Pollock and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True, the city's many summer festivals each maintain their own identities. And yet 'The Festival' has stuck as a shorthand which captures the truly eclectic experience of 'doing Edinburgh' which has made the city's very name synonymous with world-leading culture and performance. This book is the first to tell the complete history of the Edinburgh Festival. Arts writer David Pollock paints an extraordinary portrait of the growth, glory years and struggles of this global cultural phenomenon. He introduces a wide cast of key individuals and shows, including Fleabag, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Joseph Beuys, The Fall and Six The Musical. The Edinburgh Festival: A Biography provides a unique perspective on the social and cultural history of Scotland and its capital in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It will delight and intrigue all who have experience of the greatest festival in the world.