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  • The Doctor’s Dilemma
    George Bernard Shaw
    The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation. ...
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    20,68 €

  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession
    George Bernard Shaw
    Mrs. Warren, a former prostitute and current brothel owner, is described as 'on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman.' Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman who has just graduated from university, has come home to get acquainted with her mother for the first time in her life. The play focuses on how their relationship changes wh...
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    20,71 €

  • Pygmalion
    George Bernard Shaw
    Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion play is named after a Greek mythological figure. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and its film vers...
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    20,68 €

  • Arms and the Man
    George Bernard Shaw
    The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes. On the night after the Battle of Slivnitza, a Swiss mercenary soldier in the Serbian army, Captain Bluntschli, climbs in through her bedroom balcony window and threatens to shoot Raina if ...
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    20,57 €

  • Hidden You
    Mabel Elsworth Todd
    2018 Reprint of 1953 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Mabel Elsworth Todd is considered the founder of what came to be known as 'Ideokinesis', a form of somatic education that became popular in the 1930s amongst dancers and health professionals.  Todd's ideas involved using anatomically based, creat...
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    18,26 €

  • Man and Superman
    George Bernard Shaw
    Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts Jack Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, possibly a little mad. In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesn't want the positio...
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    20,24 €

  • Understanding Comedy through College Comedies
    Norman Kagan
    Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where the Boys Are, Ball of Fire, Sterile Cuckoo); famous comedian comedies (Horse Feathers, The Nutty Professor, The Klumps); intergenerational college comedies (That’s My Boy, Back to Sc...
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    50,40 €

  • Duffy’s Tavern
    Jr. Martin Grams / JrMartin Grams
    Soon after Duffy's Tavern premiered over the radio in 1941, Hollywood celebrities flocked to the microphone for a guest appearance and accepted what was rarely heard of in network broadcasting: celebrities were roasted in the form of insults that were praised by critics and raved by radio listeners. Duffy's Tavern was so popular it helped spawn a hit song, "Leave Us Fac...
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    44,87 €

  • A Doll’s House
    Henrik Ibsen
    Nora is leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself.Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as the father of realism and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include: An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wi...
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    20,70 €

  • Hedda Gabler
    Henrik Ibsen
    Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa from her honeymoon. Her husband is an aspiring, young, and reliable academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. Hedda has never loved him and married him because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over. Jealousy, murder and controversy follows, providing us with much ...
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    20,58 €

  • An Enemy of the People
    Henrik Ibsen
    A successful entrepreneur Stockmann, a popular citizen of a small coastal town turned into a villain as he discovers that the town's source of pride and income is contaminated. The town has invested a large amount of public and private money towards the development of baths, a project led by Stockmann and his brother, Peter, the Mayor. The town is expecting a surge in touri...
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    20,58 €

  • Humour, Comedy and Laughter
    Lidia Dina Sciama
    Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of ami...
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    44,69 €

  • Geschichten verstehen und bewerten. Eine kleine Einführung in die Erzählkunst
    Albrecht Behmel
    Storytelling mag ein Modewort sein, doch das Geschichtenerzählen ist eine uralte und mächtige Kulturtechnik, mit der sich jeder vertraut machen sollte, der sich mit Medien beschäftigt - als Konsument, als Beobachter oder als Produzent. Seit jeher haben einflussreiche Menschen Geschichten eingesetzt, um Werte, Ideen und Visionen zu vermitteln. Aktuell ist so auch der Begriff des...
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    25,70 €

  • Side By Side
    Michael J. Hayde / Michael JHayde
    “A treasure trove for any fan of Dean and Jerry, packed with valuable information, behind-the-scenes stories, and a dizzying array of rare photos. I couldn’t put this book down!”– Leonard Maltin Michael J. Hayde is the author of My Name’s Friday: The Unauthorized But True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb, Chaplin’s Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Spec...
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    42,32 €

  • Side By Side
    Michael J. Hayde / Michael JHayde
    “A treasure trove for any fan of Dean and Jerry, packed with valuable information, behind-the-scenes stories, and a dizzying array of rare photos. I couldn’t put this book down!”– Leonard Maltin Michael J. Hayde is the author of My Name’s Friday: The Unauthorized But True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb, Chaplin’s Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Spec...
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    32,15 €

  • Right Angles
    Nicholas Divine C P
    Set in a snowy New England mill town, Right Angles is a comedy that centers around the matriarch of a Polish American family, Kasia Angielski. Kasia is deeply concerned about doing the right thing for the right reason within the moral and cultural parameters of her fellow Poles; she’s also trying to understand the baffling customs of her new country. Join Kasia and her eccentri...
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    11,22 €

  • Honest
    Scott Tyrrell
    Honest features all of Scott Tyrrell’s warmth, wit and frank openness delivered with the bittersweet edge of a middle-aged creative who may be having a mid-life crisis or an existential revelation. With dad jokes and badgers. And buttons. ...
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    16,57 €

  • Tugging on the Sleeve of Fame (hardback)
    Gary Craig
    Gary Craig, actor, singer, and renowned radio personality, amused audiences on stage, film, television and radio. He punked Walter Cronkite and tricked Whitney Houston.  He shadowed Larry King,  enthused Larry David, and acted with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale.  Hartford’s #1 morning radio personality finally pulls the mask from the myriad of myths surro...
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    34,24 €

  • Tugging on the Sleeve of Fame
    Gary Craig
    Gary Craig, actor, singer, and renowned radio personality, amused audiences on stage, film, television and radio. He punked Walter Cronkite and tricked Whitney Houston.  He shadowed Larry King,  enthused Larry David, and acted with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale.  Hartford’s #1 morning radio personality finally pulls the mask from the myriad of myths surro...
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    24,06 €

  • Volpone
    Ben Jonson
    2018 Reprint of 1958 Edition.  Much-studied and frequently performed, this comedy by the great Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson satirizes the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society. In Volpone (1605), a crafty rich man attempts to augment his wealth by feigning a mortal illness. His wealthy neighbors, spying the opportunity for an i...
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    8,33 €

  • Southern Belle To Hollywood Hell
    Jennifer Ann Redmond
    Winning the Fame and Fortune Contest of 1920 made Corliss Palmer a star.It was the worst thing that ever happened to her.Come along as the author of Reels & Rivals: Sisters in Silent Film charts Corliss and publisher Eugene Brewster’s attempt to fashion a Jazz Age empire, only to end up ruling the gossip columns. Over 70 images, including never-before-seen photos from the Palme...
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    22,26 €

  • The Funniest Scenes in the World
    Gunnar Todd Rohrbacher
    The Funniest Scenes in the World is a valuable tool that is badly needed in today’s fast-paced, competitive marketplace: a book of original scenes that are worthy of being performed for agents, managers, casting directors and network executives. A book of scenes that are worthy of being shot and broadcast on television and are formatted like proper scripts used by professional ...
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    14,62 €

  • Inside Improvisation
    Richard Bennett / Richard J Bennett
    Inside Improvisation explains how improv comedy works inside our brain and body, and how many of the concepts we take for granted in improv have a scientific basis. As improvisors, once we know the science behind something, we can find better ways to improve. For example, the concept of group mind is real and is caused by brain effects that can be studied and controlled, and is...
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    23,37 €

  • Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia
    Barnaby King
    Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns in the urban landscape of Bogotá. In doing so it brings a fresh and updated perspective on what clowning is as well as what it does in the 21st century. Featuring descriptions of mo...
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    60,02 €

  • A Year In The Life Of Ike Avelli...And It Ain’t Pretty
    Ike Avelli
    A Year In The Life Of Ike Avelli...And It Ain’t Pretty! Inspired by Joan Rivers 'Diary Of A Mad Diva' and Andy Cohen’s 'The Andy Cohen Diaries', Ike Avelli decided to put pen to paper throughout 2017, without knowing there were going to be some highs and lows during the year. Take a trip with Ike as he hangs out/performs with some of NYC’s brightest entertainers, and follow him...
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    16,26 €

  • The Baby Snook Scripts Volume 3 (hardback)
    Philip Rapp
    Welcome, gang, to the third edition of Baby Snooks Scripts!Let the applause herald Frank Morgan, Meredith Willson, Hanley Stafford, and Fanny Brice in rompers as the one and only… Baby Snooks!You might notice some strange things in this edition. These scripts are from a variety of times and typewriters, but as a completest myself, I like to keep things as close to how they were...
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    31,99 €

  • The Baby Snook Scripts Volume 3
    Philip Rapp
    Welcome, gang, to the third edition of Baby Snooks Scripts!Let the applause herald Frank Morgan, Meredith Willson, Hanley Stafford, and Fanny Brice in rompers as the one and only… Baby Snooks!You might notice some strange things in this edition. These scripts are from a variety of times and typewriters, but as a completest myself, I like to keep things as close to how they were...
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    23,36 €

  • Redeemed Restored Set Free
    Linda L. Braggs / Linda LBraggs
    'Linda’s poignant and humorous stories testify to the power of family and faith to guide us through life’s peaks and valleys. Enjoyable! Inspiring!' Margaret Burk - President, Illinois Storytelling, Inc.Told by a master storyteller, the stories of Linda Braggs’ book are an invitation to share the deeply personal life experience of a daughter of rural Mississippi. I’ve never rea...
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    16,15 €

  • STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION
    Mitch Ditkoff
    If you are wondering why I chose to call my book: STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION: The Ultimate Uprising of Insight, Wisdom, and Love – a title some people might think is incendiary, inflated, or overly dramatic, here's why: We need a revolution. We do. But the revolution I'm inviting you to join is not a political one. It has nothing to do with a change of government, ...
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    14,28 €

  • Killing For A Living
    JT Habersaat
    Jump in the van with the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, as headliner JT Habersaat and a rotating assortment of underground comedy diehards zig-zag across the nation over a span of two full years. From the debaucherous streets of Las Vegas to the scenic coasts of Mexico, sleazy Hollywood rock clubs to New York City dive bars and literally every venue in between, Killing For A Liv...
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    14,38 €