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Aliens in America

Sandra Tsing Loh

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LA Theatre Works

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...Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must...

Community Arts and Creative Well-Being for Dementia

Beth Luxmoore

Beth Luxmoore

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Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

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...Dementia and creativity Dementia is fast becoming one of the most prevalent conditions across the globe. In the UK, 850,000 people are living with dementia. The likelihood of developing dementia increases...

Introduction

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

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...‘Of all realities [old age] is perhaps that of which we retain a purely abstract notion longest in our lives’, says Proust with great accuracy. All men are mortal: they reflect upon this fact. A great many of them become old: almost none...

Kindertransport

Diane Samuels

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...As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many Jews tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families...

Mothers

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson

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LA Theatre Works

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...The story of two single mothers—one Japanese, the other Appalachian—who struggle to raise their mixed-race children in a Chicago tenement. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Lira Angel as Penny, Takayo Fischer...

Afterword

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

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...Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing as a collection explores the complex needs of a diverse group in contemporary Western society. In doing so, it examines the work of contemporary applied theatre in relation to those needs. Including both...

From Islands to Networks: Using Improvisation to Build Relationships among Individuals and Systems

Anne Davis Basting

Anne Davis Basting

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Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

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...This chapter is the story of a theatre research project, the Islands of Milwaukee (IoM), which I co-facilitated from 2012 to 2014. My goal here is to share the journey of IoM as a case study and, in so doing, point out several unique...

OYAKOSHINJU: DEATHBOND

Sachi Oyama

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LA Theatre Works

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...A young divorcee named Keiko moves from Hiroshima to America to start a new life with her ambitious husband. But when he takes a mistress and leaves her, Keiko takes drastic and irreversible actions to preserve her dignity and that of her...

Dog

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Steven Berkoff

~playauthor~Written by~ Steven Berkoff

Faber and Faber, 1994

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

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...London in the 1980s: A racist English football hooligan’s relationship with his beloved pitbull terrier, Roy, gets him into trouble and changes his life. This short one-man show takes a satirical look at the working class...

Tea

Velina Hasu Houston

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LA Theatre Works

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...Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea uses history and poetic writing to weave a drama about Japanese “war brides” living in Kansas. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye and Diana...