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Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Wake Up is Bogosian's meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. Once again the author offers a blisteringly funny and dead-on take of the chaos and alienation of post-modern life in the U. S. of the year 2000.
Author
Series
DHL/Shaw bibliography ; no. A137a
Language
English
Description
Three works by the famous twentieth-century Irish playwright.
Androcles and the lion: The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including the cultural clash between Jesus'...
23) Mona Lisa
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An ex-convict, thug and a high-class call girl make for an unlikely and dangerous couple in Academy Award-winner Neil Jordan's tale of frustrated love on the cruel streets of London's underworld. Features trailer.
24) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
25) About my father
Publisher
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancée to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nora and Mary only know the good life in Beverly Hills - shopping, posh parties, and more shopping - but they're in for a big shock when Daddy's fortune suddenly disappears. Thankfully, an aunt takes them under her wing but she lives on the other side of town. Laugh out loud as these princesses embark on the biggest adventure of their lives, without designer labels!
27) Bartholomew Fair
Author
Language
English
Description
The play is set at Bartholomew Fair, which from 1133 to 1855 was one of London's preeminent summer fairs. It opened on 24 August each year at Smithfield, in the northwestern part of the city. Smithfield, a site of slaughterhouses and public executions, was a fitting place for a fair that was part commerce and part spectacle. At once a trading event for cloth and other goods and a pleasure fair, the four-day event drew crowds from all classes of English...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It [the play] chronicles the life of two British families, from the eve of the 20th century to 1933. One family is upstairs, the other downstairs, but it's less a view of the class struggle than a remembrance of things past. People honeymoon on the Titanic, they fight in the war to end all wars, and they seem to entirely avoid the 1920s" --On container of film version.
29) Tess
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
33) Tess
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A timeless adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance. Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
The author's most successful comedy, he deals with love and honour in 18th-century Prussia. The play shows the protagonists' emancipation from the Prussian code of honour and from societal conventions of marriage.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
37) Belgravia
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge." --
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping saga of family, love, and friendship told against the backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years . . . In this adaptation for the stage, playwright Matthew Spangler reimagines the unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant"--
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate." --
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