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Speech and Debate

Stephen Karam

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LA Theatre Works

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...A fiercely funny and surprisingly timely new play by new playwright Stephen Karam. They may go to the same school, but misfits Solomon, Diwata and Howie have never met and their teachers and peers just don’t take them seriously – until...

Analytical Aspects in Children’s Performance of Music from Memory

Anna Maria Bordin

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Performing the Remembered Present : The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

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...Performance and piano pedagogy studies This case study deals with analytical and gestural aspects of children’s performance from memory. Three pianists, all aged ten, studied a piece they had neither played nor heard...

Master Harold and the Boys

Athol Fugard

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LA Theatre Works

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...Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him...

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

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LA Theatre Works

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...Balmy evenings in rural Maryland are fraught with danger, and seductions can happen anywhere from a river bank to the front seat of a car, where a young self-conscious girl is learning to drive. To Li’l Bit, the radio is the most important...

Merry Go Round

Wendy Kesselman

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LA Theatre Works

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...Michael and Anna, best friends and next door neighbors during childhood, accidentally meet again as adults. In an all-white room, two people reenact their childhood fears, fantasies and mutual love as a chilling secret is revealed. An L...

My Teacher Fried My Brains

Bruce Coville

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LA Theatre Works

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...Brains are sizzling in the seventh grade...The first day of seventh grade is probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien's hand in a Dumpster and then gets plugged into an alien...

The Night Watcher

Charlayne Woodard

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LA Theatre Works

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...Playwright/performer Charlayne Woodard is a force of nature, and in The Night Watcher she finds a new way to explore her “mother” nature. Woodard describes her life as half of a childless couple, finding herself mysteriously drawn...

Orphans

Lyle Kessler

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LA Theatre Works

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...In a rundown house in Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the reclusive, frightened Philip and the violent pickpocket thief, Treat. Into this savage and ferociously funny world enters Harold, a shadowy underworld figure of power...

Born Guilty

Ari Roth

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Peter Sichrovsky

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LA Theatre Works

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...Based on Peter Sichrovsky’s book of the same name, Born Guilty is a moving and elegiac play about one man's journey into the hearts of children raised by Nazi parents. As Peter, a Jewish journalist, digs into the past, he faces...

wonder.land

Damon Albarn

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Moira Buffini

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Rufus Norris

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National Theatre

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...Age recommendation: 9+ This archive recording was captured on 9th May, 2017. A new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic story, wonder.land is a coming-of-age adventure that explores the blurred boundaries between our online...