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Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.

'A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN'Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on bail' DBC PIERREDebauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh.

The origins of many Scottish festivals, such as Beltane and Hallowe’en, lie deep in the pagan past, and although the significance of many festivals may now be long forgotten, they have continued to evolve and evolve to satisfy the needs of the time.

Bad clowns-those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us-have long been a cultural icon.

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.

In showbiz there has always been an unspoken law that whatever happens on the road stays on the road until now.

Everyone has an opinion about Matt Rife, who at twenty-eight years old is both the hottest and most controversial comedian in America.

Dies ist die Geschichte eines kleinen Jungen, der versucht, seinen Platz in der Welt zu finden.

For the first time in my life, everything was silent.

Empathy and Performance advances a study of empathy and enactments of power by examining works from author-actors whose performances explore the boundaries between two kinship positions.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des japanischen No-Theaters – eine der ältesten und geheimnisvollsten Bühnenkünste der Welt.

Drawing on thirty years of making theatre with objects, this field-defining book maps the terrain of applied puppetry.

If they expect me to run and hide, eat myself up, they can think again.

What unites humanity across cultures, continents, and centuries?

This volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, classical Japanese dance-drama.