Educational: Drama and performance arts

From A Midsummer Night's Dream's Puck to Othello's Desdemona, this new edition of Speaking Shakespeare gives you all the necessary tools to bring any of Shakespeare's eclectic characters to life.

Auditions can often be the most feared aspect of being an actor and yet, as the author points out, casting directors are on the side of everyone who auditions for them.

How do you choose a musical to direct that suits your amateur theatre group's needs?

King Henry the Sixth, Part 1 William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry VI), is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.

Der Fächer der Lady Windermere Oscar Wilde - Szene: Morgen-Zimmer in Lord Windermeres Haus in Carlton House Terrace.

Three Short Works Gustave Flaubert - "e;Three short works"e; by Gustave Flaubert.

Baumeister Solneß: Schauspiel in drei Aufzügen Henrik Ibsen - Baumeister Solneß ist ein Stück von dem Schriftsteller norwegischen Dramatiker Henrik Ibsen geschrieben.

Immensee Theodor Storm - Vor den Augen eines einsamen alten Mannes zieht die Geschichte seiner unerfüllten Liebe vorüber.

Das goldene Vließ Franz Grillparzer - Kolchis.

Sonnets William Shakespeare - How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets?

Hernach Wilhelm Busch - Sly wit and black humour mixed with seemingly innocent images -- those are the hallmarks of Wilhelm Busch's works.

The Post Office Rabindranath Tagore - The Post office is a story of an eight-year-old boy who is terminally ill and is confined inside his house by the family physician.

Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman - Ben Jonson - Epicoene: or, The Silent Woman (1609) is considered one of his greatest comedies, upon which, along with Volpone (1607), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), his reputation rests.

Der Bär: Groteske in einem Aufzug Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Erster Auftritt.

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen - First performed in 1882, Henrik Ibsens An Enemy of the People is the story of the animosity that can befall someone whose actions, while in the best interest of the public good, threaten the economic well being of a community.

Gertrud Hermann Hesse - Gertrud ist ein Roman von Hermann Hesse, in der endgültigen Fassung 1910 erstmals erschienen.

Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788.

The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

'Mother and Daughter' can be read as one of Lawrence's diatribes against women.

"e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e; is a short story written by F.

Der Neffe als Onkel Friedrich Schiller - Valcour tritt eilfertig herein, und nachdem er sich überall umgesehen, ob Niemand zulegen, tritt er zu einem von den Wachslichtern, die vorn auf einem Schreibtisch brennen, und liest ein Billet.

Der Herr Hofrat - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - 1830 als Freiin von Dubsky auf Schloß Zdislavic bei Kremsier in Mähren geboren, genießt Marie eine klassische geistige Bildung, bereits mit siebzehn unternimmt sie erste literarische Versuche.

Der Doppelgänger Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski - Protagonist ist der schüchterne Beamte Jakow Goljadkin in Sankt Petersburg, der durch einen plötzlich auftauchenden Doppelgänger aus seinen Positionen verdrängt und am Ende seiner zwischen Realität und Einbildung oszillierenden Krankheitsgeschichte in eine Psychiatrie eingeliefert wird.

Der Sohn des Bärenjägers Karl May - Den beiden Westmännern Jemmy und Davy gelingt es, einen gefangenen Indianerjungen namens Wokadeh zu befreien.

Ihr Traum Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Freifrau Marie Ebner von Eschenbach (* 13.

Die toten Augen von London Edgar Wallace - Der steinreiche Gordon Stuart verlässt seine Theaterloge und treibt kurz darauf tot in der Themse: Selbstmord.

Ein echter Narzisst geht nicht zur Tanztherapie?

Ein Mensch muss sich, stellvertretend für die Menschheit, vor dem Gericht der Tiere für all das verantworten, was Menschen seit je den Tieren antun.

In den 1980er- und 1990er-Jahren steckte die HipHop-Kultur noch in den Kinderschuhen.

Breakdance ist als Teil der Hip-Hop-Bewegung 1969 in der Bronx von New York entstanden.

Within this third work of Baum's Land of Oz series, Dorothy's story is continued with her beloved companions and given further life with inventive new characters, including a talking hen named Billina and the Hungry Tiger.

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An unlucky Munchkin boy named Ojo must travel around Oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the Liquid of Petrifaction which has turned his beloved uncle Unc Nunkie and the wife of the Liquid's creator into marble statues.

The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honour of Ozma's birthday in this spellbinding and classic tale.

The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth Oz book.

Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto.

The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo.

Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel.

The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu.

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance.

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.