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Two plays from Governor General's Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen.
A powerful and eye opening play by Governer General's Literary award winner Vern Thiessen.
Professor Ilya Zbarski embalmed Lenin two months after his death. This text reveals the story of his family and of those who worked in the mausoleum laboratory. It also contains archival and contemporary photographs.
Same as the old version (same cover, copy and reviews), except it has some revised text.
After Vladimir Lenin's death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin's body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it's the gulag ƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚" or worse. Based on real events, Vern Theissen's nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin. Lenin's Embalmers is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Starring, in alphabetical order: JD Cullum, Gregory Harrison, Simon Helberg, Jon Matthews, Rufus Sewell, John Sloan, Mark Jude Sullivan, and Jocelyn Towne. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Recording Engineer and Editor, Erick Cifuentes. Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Directed by Martin Jarvis.
Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen Massicotte's Mary's Wedding, and Frances Itani's Deafening, the book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that the Canadian nation was born in the trenches of the Great War. In contrast to British and European remembrances of WWI, which tend to regard it as a cataclysmic destroyer of innocence, or Australian myths that promote an ideal of outsize masculinity, physical bravery, and white superiority, contemporary Canadia...
A new, fresh edition. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.
The theme for Shakespeare Survey 63 is 'Shakespeare's English Histories and their Afterlives'.
This title presents criticism, commentaries, and creative responses to Carl Djerassi's literary texts, taking the author's achievements far beyond 'the Pill'
Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.