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A Ghost in My Suitcase
Adapted by Vanessa Bates from Gabrielle Wang's award-winning novel, A Ghost in My Suitcase is an action-packed adventure story that crosses cultural and spiritual worlds. %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##% Twelve-year-old Celeste - 'half French, half Chinese and all Australian' - travels to China to scatter her mother's ashes. There she meets her grandmother, Por Por, a quirky and wise woman with an unusual skill. Por Por is a ghost-hunter and her services are much in demand. %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##% When Celeste learns she may have inherited her grandmother's talent, she must decide whether to acknowledge her gifts and use them to save her family and friends, and if she has the strength needed for the job. %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##% Filled with fantastical characters from this world and the next, A Ghost in My Suitcase is a beautifully told tale of mystery, grief, difference and acceptance. %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##% WINNER: 2019 AWGIE Award for Theatre for Young Audiences. %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##% ' A Ghost in My Suitcase is superb family theatre - a stylish, big-hearted and vibrant adaptation of a much-loved children's book.' The Age %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##% 'This is a sophisticated and poetic rendition adapted by Vanessa Bates, ostensibly for children, but calibrated also for an adult sensibility.' ArtsHub
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Love in the time of cholera
\"Based on the novel by acclaimed writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera is the evocative story of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza who, in youth, fall passionately in love. Fermina's father, however, has bigger plans for his daughter and forbids her to marry a lowly telegraph operator. He separates the two, sending Fermina to live with relatives in a remote jungle town. Years pass and when Fermina finally returns, she dismisses Florentino's love and chooses to marry Juvenal Urbino, a wealthy, well-born doctor. Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Juvenal dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends his funeral. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again. Lauded as one of the greatest love stories of all time and set amid the lush, romantic backdrop of early 20th century Colombia, Love in the Time of Cholera is about the heartache of unrequited love and a man who is willing to wait forever for the woman he loves\"--Copyright description.
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The Assembled Parties
\" The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed.\"-- New York magazine \"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know.\"-- Newsday Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an opulent apartment overlooking Central Park, former movie star Julie and her sister-in- law Faye bring their families together for a traditional holiday dinner on a night when things don't go as planned. Twenty years later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs's seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble. An incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a new millennium, The Assembled Parities premiered on Broadway in 2013 to rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Richard Greenberg has written two dozen plays in his thirty-year career, including Take Me Out (Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award, NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award), The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award), Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), The American Plan, the book for a musical adaptation of Far From Heaven, and many more. He has received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career.
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Long day's journey into night
James Tyrone, a semiretired actor, is vain and miserly; his wife Mary feels worthless and retreats into a morphine-induced haze. Jamie, their older son, is a bitter alcoholic.
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Only Our Own
How do you survive in a land that no longer has a place for you? Playwright Ann Henning Jocelyn follows three generations of an Irish family up until the present day, examining their struggle for identity against an ever evolving cultural, political and social landscape. It's also the story of Ireland, ready at last to rise above age-old bitter divisions.
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Madea's big happy family
Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter, and the revelation of a long-buried family secret.
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