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  • City of Light
    Anthony Clarvoe
    'I despaired that any playwright, no matter how skilled, could wrestle this teeming narrative about Buffalo’s grand days at the turn of the last century into an effective script for the theater. I needn’t have worried.   CITY OF LIGHT is a remarkable adaptation. Working closely with Belfer, Clarvoe has managed to condense the 500-plus-page book by focusing tightly on the theme ...
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    17,78 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    Anthony Clarvoe
    from Anthony Clarvoe’s introductory notes:  This project started because, on rereading The Great Gatsby at the suggestion of Kip Gould, Publisher of Broadway Play Publishing Inc, [because it had just come into the public domain] I said, 'This is a story about white fragility'...  The Great Gatsby is about a hundred years old.... Only in the last fifty years or so, with the wide...
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    17,90 €

  • People Where They Are
    Anthony Clarvoe
      'In the spring of 1955, much of the Southern U S was a simmering kettle of racial segregation, civil rights repression, and worker/workplace abuses-one that was on the verge of boiling over into a full scale struggle against those economic and civil rights injustices. With that time and atmosphere of conflict as a starting point, playwright Anthony Clarvoe has focused in on t...
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    17,72 €

  • The Living
    Anthony Clarvoe
       “Beautifully written… There is light of understanding cast on the human condition in this play. That light concerns the simple heroism of people who do not abandon their fellows in the dark hours.”Marilynne S. Mason, Christian Science Monitor   “Set in London as the Black Plague sweeps the city claiming more than 100,000 lives, THE LIVING is not about death. Rather this rema...
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    17,63 €

  • Let’s Play Two
    Anthony Clarvoe
       “Elegantly written…it evolves into a moving argument for that eternal gamble with terrible odds: taking a chance on love. The pleasure…is its unexpected depth. The intimacy of the conversation draws the audience in; before LET’S PLAY TWO is over, you may find yourself in tears over Grace’s delicate emotional condition and, more significantly, Phil’s capacity for acceptance a...
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    17,47 €

  • Show And Tell
    Anthony Clarvoe
       “All school kids—and their parents—know about ‘Show and Tell.’ Bringing objects from home is not only a lesson in history, but also an experience in contact, of one person reaching for another and the other reaching back. Playwright Anthony Clarvoe understands it too, and his drama is a powerful tale of contact, and of discovery, and of what it takes to survive. Corey teache...
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    17,41 €

  • Gunpowder Joe
    Anthony Clarvoe
       “As Gunpowder Joe begins, Mary Priestley urges her world-famous husband to flee as a mob approaches their home in Birmingham, England. But the scientist, whose political writings have inflamed his foes previously, isn’t perturbed.    `It will be fine’, Joseph Priestley tells his worried wife. `They have been content to hang me in effigy for years.’   `They may be done preten...
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    17,47 €

  • Walking Off The Roof
    Anthony Clarvoe
    Couplehood and infidelity are subject to scrutiny in Anthony Clarvoe’s oblique ode to LA RONDE.    “Mr Clarvoe, previously represented in New York by PICK UP AX, a comedy about corporate intrigue in Silicon Valley that got good reviews when it was produced by 29th Street Rep in 1995, finds himself in an unusual position for a young playwright: two of his works are running conc...
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    15,90 €

  • Ghosts
    Anthony Clarvoe / Henrik Ibsen
    Ibsen’s 1881 masterpiece finds a fresh interpretation in Anthony Clarvoe’s taut adaptation in which a woman has to face her legacy of religious and sexual repression when her grown son comes home to tell her that he has an incurable sexually transmitted disease and asks her to help him die with dignity. ...
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    17,78 €

  • Ctrl + Alt + Del
    Anthony Clarvoe
    Tech whiz kid Eddie Fisker joins forces with a new technology leader to create what amounts to a billion dollar house of cards. Surrounded by corporations that remember books as 'little paper websites' and remind each other of various characters from the Muppets, the two try to survive the shockwaves, real and imagined, that threaten to topple their new product’s success. ...
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    17,78 €

  • Ambition Facing West
    Anthony Clarvoe
    Three generations of a family move ever westward, restless, seeking. As they migrate from Croatia, through Wyoming, and on to Japan, the land of opportunity keeps moving, and the past keeps catching up. This unforgettable family provides an exquisitely rendered commentary on the human condition.'Smart, funny, provocative, a bit elliptical ... Anthony Clarvoe’s account of the im...
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    17,87 €

  • The Art Of Sacrifice
    Anthony Clarvoe
    An American chess master returns home for a defining emotional match with his challenging and unpredictable father, who years ago coached him to success. A taut, true and ultimately forgiving play about the negotiations we all make as parents and children, this intricate drama beautifully delineates the complexity that exists within the strict boundaries of a chessboard or a fa...
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    17,35 €

  • The Brothers Karamazov
    Anthony Clarvoe
    This literary masterpiece by one of the world's greatest authors is brought to vibrant life in this new adaptation. Four estranged brothers unexpectedly come together in their father's village, knowing that one intends to commit a terrible crime, but not knowing which of them will do it. Every fact, every motive, every belief about human nature, faith and redemption are...
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    17,87 €

  • Plays By Anthony Clarvoe
    Anthony Clarvoe
    This collection includes three full-length plays: LET'S PLAY TWO, THE LIVING, and SHOW AND TELL. LET'S PLAY TWO: A simple story about two total opposites falling in love. THE LIVING: In 1665 the plague brought London to its knees. The play concerns Londoners who have remained in the city as they struggle to find meaning. LET'S PLAY TWO '... LET'S PLAY TWO, Anthony Clarvoe's ...
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    20,36 €

  • Pick Up Ax
    Anthony Clarvoe
       “PICK UP AX…has a smart, sassy script that’s studded with bright, funny dialogue…   Clarvoe’s very hip script centers on the fortunes of two bright young men, Keith Rienzi and Brian Weiss, who have bootstrapped themselves from a free-wheeling, penny-ante operation into a multi-million dollar computer software corporation through Keith’s inventive brilliance and Brian’s busin...
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    14,08 €