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“ann marie fleming”

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  • The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

    by Ann Marie Fleming ...
    A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.Who was Long Tack Sam?He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West ambassador. A mentor to Orson Welles. He was considered ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Rock, Paper, Scissors

    And Other Stories

    by Maxim Osipov, Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Alex Fleming ...
    The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story.Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories

    by Maxim Osipov, Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Narrated by Daniel Gamburg ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, who has been profiled in the New YorkerMaxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Applied Theatre: Aesthetics

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  • Murder by Accident

    Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions

    by Jody Enders ...
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  • Susan Glaspell's Poetics and Politics of Rebellion

    by Emeline Jouve ...
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  • Circus Bodies

    Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

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  • A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

    by Graham Ley ...
    Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles.Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, ... Read more

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    Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910

    by Daphne A. Brooks ...
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  • Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan

    City, Body, Memory

    by P. Eckersall ...
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  • World Theories of Theatre

    by Glenn A. Odom ...
    World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre.Identifying major debates in theatrical theory from around the world, combining discussions of the key theoretical questions facing theatre studies with extended excerpts from primary materials, specific primary materials, case studies and ... Read more

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