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A collection of plays spanning all five decades in playwright Barbara Field's remarkable career in the American theatre. This volume celebrates Field's dramaturgical versatility (opera, musical, adaptation, and original dramas) as well as her theatrical imagination. The eight works include The Renaissance of Barnabe Barnes, Rosina, Playing With Fire, Scaramouche, The Skinflint, House of the Seven Gables, The Dwindles and The Crackatook.
This biographical study illuminates the important yet misunderstood figure of Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winning geneticist. Comfort replaces the myth with a new story, rich with new understandings of women in science.
THE STORY: As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he be
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THE STORY: Using a simple set (which is carefully described in the playbook) and making resourceful use of a brilliantly theatrical storytelling technique, the play conveys all the energy and warmth of Dickens' richly human story with cinematic quickness
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