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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet . His history of the play in the theatre is followed by a lucid commentary which alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and staging. For this updated edition Thomas Moisan has added an account of the number of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years.
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
During the 1950's Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
Legendary playwright August Wilson's powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But a new spirit of liberation is...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
7) Joyful noise
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, G.G. Sparrow thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old.
8) The humans
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds...
9) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
10) Clarissa
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Based on the 18th century novel by Samuel Richardson, this is th original tale of fatal attraction and dangerous liasons. A wealthy young heiress, famed for her virtue, is sought by a man wishing to seduce and destroy her reputation. For the first time in his life he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey, and sows the seeds of his own fate.
11) Fences
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life and death of Troy, an man in his fifties employed as a garbage collector, and the the alienation of his family as a result of his decisions.
12) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Series
Publisher
ACMRS Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This new version of Romeo and Juliet, written in accessible modern English, breathes new life into Shakespeare's famous tragedy. By closely examining the familiar language and focusing on the subtleties of the text, Jung illuminates a surprising and more nuanced world in the well-known tale of star-crossed lovers"--
13) Footloose
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After big-city kid Ren McCormick moves to the sleepy Midwest he finds himself looking for some fun. When he hears the town's minister has banned dancing, Ren decides to take a stand. With his best friend, and the minister's daughter, Ren wages a fight for their right to shake, rattle and roll.
14) Joe
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. A friendship grows between a wealthy executive and a blue-collar welder due to their common fear and frustration with the "liberals" and "hippies" who are ruining the country.
15) Joe
Series
Publisher
Legacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend and in the ensuing argument kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe.
16) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education in association with Penguin
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Shakespeare's beautiful tale is still as popular today as it was more than 400 years ago.
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
With three grown children and a lifetime of memories, Penelope Keeling realizes that something is missing: the simple joy she knew as a child playing on the beach. So she embarks on a journey to discover the secret of happiness for her friends, her family and herself.
19) The big cube
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"A former actress and a widow to a wealthy tycoon who died in an accident off the coast of Mexico is targeted by her spoiled step-daughter for the inheritance." --
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most acclaimed comedy series of all time returns for an eighth season with Archie still as irascible and highly opinionated as ever, arguing with his liberal son-in-law, 'Meathead', and taking refuge in his long-suffering wife, Edith, who tries her best to understand Archie's conservative ways and outdated beliefs. In this season, Archie buys a bar he can't afford, Edith questions her faith, and the Stivics plan a move to California."...
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