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  2. The Son of Umbele - Wikipedia

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    The Son of Umbele is a tragedy played out in front of the home of a fisherman [1] in which the principal character, Joshua, becomes the victim of his own flaws. The play is in three acts. The first act introduces us to the household of Sumako and his children with their sick mother. The second act is about the love affair between Joshua and ...

  3. Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Children's Script

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    Tony Geiss – Sesame Street ("The Bountiful Tree") (PBS) Gary Cooper and Allan Neuwirth – The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss ("The Great Mystery of Lake Winna-Bango") (Nickelodeon) Will Ryan and Craig Shemin – The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss ("The Road To Ka-Larry") (Nickelodeon) 1999: Christine Ferraro – Sesame Street ("Telly as Jack ...

  4. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

  5. The Diary of Anne Frank (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Diary of Anne Frank (play) The Diary of Anne Frank. (play) The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the posthumously published 1947 book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955. Its script also primarily formed the basis of the Academy Award -winning 1959 film adaptation .

  6. My Neighbour Totoro (play) - Wikipedia

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    Synopsis. In 1950s Japan, two girls, Satsuki and Mei, whose mother has been hospitalised with tuberculosis, relocate to a village in the countryside. Their new house, in which they live with their professor father, Tatsuo, is haunted with soot spirits, susuwatari, and they encounter Totoro, a "forest spirit who looks like the result of an experimental breeding programme involving a chinchilla ...

  7. The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays - Wikipedia

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    The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays is a collection of transcriptions written by The Firesign Theatre for the title tracks of each of their first four albums. The book also contains some introductory material that is serious as well a few pieces that parody introductory material. Photos of the group—childhood photos, casual snapshots ...

  8. Waiting for Godot - Wikipedia

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    Waiting for Godot ( / ˈɡɒdoʊ / ⓘ GOD-oh [1]) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. [2] Waiting for Godot is Beckett's reworking of his own original French-language play ...

  9. Riders to the Sea - Wikipedia

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    This play is an examination of that idea as he has a set of deeply religious characters who find themselves at odds with an unbeatable force of nature (this being the sea). While the family is clearly Catholic, they still find themselves wary of the supernatural characteristics of natural elements, an idea very present in Celtic paganism.