Louisa May Alcott - Merry's Monthly Chat: A Happy New Year
Julia Alvarez - Snow from
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Hans Christian Anderson -
The Little Match Girl
Ambrose Bierce - An
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
Elizabeth Bowen - Home for
Christmas
Elizabeth Barret Browning -
Sonnets from the Portuguese XLII
Truman Capote - A Christmas
Memory - Available in Holiday
Sampler
and Merry
Kwanzanukamas
Lewis Carrol -
Alice In Wonderland
- 1 hour
Raymond Carver - 1 hour
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STORIES - Cathedral, Popular Mechanics, What We Talk
about When We Talk About Love
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POEMS - Why Honey?, A Haircut, The Ashtray, My Dad's
Wallet, Plus, Waiting, Your Dog Dies
Anton Chekhov
#1 Dear Author...Dear Actress: the Letters of Anton
Chekhov & Olga Knipper - 50 minutes
#2 A collection of short stories
- 1 hour
Emily Dickinson -
A Word is Dead..., I'm wife..., I cannot live with you..., Nature...
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young
Girl - 25 minutes
Robert Frost - Ten
Stories - 45 minutes
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like
White Elephants
Langston Hughes - Salvation from The
Big Sea: An Autobiography, Theme for English B, The Weary Blues
Shirley Jackson - Trial by Combat
James Joyce - Evaline
Carson McCullers - A
Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Ogden Nash - The Boy who
Laughed at Santa Claus, The Party Next Door
O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi -
Available in Holiday Sampler
Dorothy Parker - You Were Perfectly
Fine - Available in A
Valentine's Show
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart,
Annabel Lee
Saki (H.H. Munro) - Down
Pens, The Boar Pig, The Open Window
Shakespeare - Taming
Shakespeare: Your Word Against His
1 hour
This interactive program explores the themes and
language of Taming of the Shrew.
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Language Insult Name Game - The best way to experience
Shakespeare's language is to use it. So...we have gathered a list,
using some of Shakespeare's most vibrant language - the insults. Each
audience member devises a three-word Shakespearean insult and then
gets to hurl it at another audience member.
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Modern English Translation - Two actors perform a
scene from the play, while two audience members provide a Modern
English translation that underscores the original text.
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Inner Thoughts Monologue - An actor recites a
monologue from the play while revealing the inner thoughts of the
character.
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Subtext Chorus or What Motivates You - While the
actors act a scene from the play, the audience, divided into groups,
reflects the hopes and fears of the characters by responding with
actions or phrases that say what's really going on.
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Sit-com Battle of the Sexes - The famous Kate and
Petruchio battle is interwoven with a modern-day sit-com.
Shel Silverstein -
The Giving Tree, Ma and God
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
The Snow in Chelm, Zlateh the Goat Available in The Fools of
Chelm
John Steinbeck - Of Mice
and Men
Paul Theroux - Yard Sale
James Thurber - If Grant
had been Drinking at Appomattox, The MacBeth Murder Mystery
Mark Twain - Aurelia's
Unfortunate Young Man
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -
Harrison Bergeron, Long Walk to Forever, Slaughterhouse Five
Loudon Wainwright -
The Annual Crisis of Love
Edith Wharton - Roman
Fever
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