LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tom jacobson

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  • Tasty Little Rabbit
    Tom Jacobson
    Is it pornography or is it art? TASTY LITTLE RABBIT tells the true story of a 1936 Fascist Italian investigation of pornography charges in Taormina, Sicily. The investigation uncovers a much darker secret of a love triangle between poet Sebastian Melmoth, photographer Wilhelm Von Gloeden, and an 18-year-old Sicilian boy. What will be sacrificed to protect secrets of the heart?'...
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    17,38 €

  • Plunge
    Tom Jacobson
      “Water is a vivid metaphor in Los Angeles. We live in a desert beside an ocean, an existence of simultaneous want and plenitude.    Another, lesser-known water source inspires The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a trio of plays by local playwright Tom Jacobson. Bimini was a popular swimming and spa complex at the site of hot springs one block east of Vermont Avenue between 1st and 2n...
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    15,88 €

  • Tar
    Tom Jacobson
      “Water is a vivid metaphor in Los Angeles. We live in a desert beside an ocean, an existence of simultaneous want and plenitude.    Another, lesser-known water source inspires The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a trio of plays by local playwright Tom Jacobson. Bimini was a popular swimming and spa complex at the site of hot springs one block east of Vermont Avenue between 1st and 2n...
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    15,85 €

  • Mexican Day
    Tom Jacobson
      “Water is a vivid metaphor in Los Angeles. We live in a desert beside an ocean, an existence of simultaneous want and plenitude.   Another, lesser-known water source inspires The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a trio of plays by local playwright Tom Jacobson. Bimini was a popular swimming and spa complex at the site of hot springs one block east of Vermont Avenue between 1st and 2nd...
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    17,50 €

  • Walking To Buchenwald
    Tom Jacobson
       “Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In life, death, and in playwright Tom Jacobson’s world view, these familiar five stages to acceptance are missing the one that is most important for survival: Laughing. Life is funny. People are funny. If God exists, He, She, They, or It must have a sense of humor—however twisted and brutal.    The 'shattering comed...
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    16,05 €

  • The Orange Grove
    Tom Jacobson
       “It takes a special leap of imagination—a leap of faith, even—to look at a mild-mannered Lutheran pastor and see in him Madame Ranevskaya, the disastrously sentimental widow of Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Or, by extension, to compare the current senescence of mainline Protestantism to the destabilizing decline of Russia’s landed gentry a hundred and twenty years ago....
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  • The Devil’s Wife
    Tom Jacobson
       “It wouldn’t be the first time a reckless marriage led straight to hell. Rarely, however, has a spouse—however demonic—turned out to be literally Satan. Which somewhat raises the stakes for three sisters hoping a mysterious suitor will rescue them from desperate financial straits in THE DEVIL’S WIFE…   Loosely adapted from an ancient Italian folk tale…playwright Tom Jacobson...
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    17,30 €

  • Captain Of The Bible Quiz Team
    Tom Jacobson
       “Good humor, earnestness and lots of heart. Pastor Sorenson ended up in tears and, judging by the sniffles, so did much of the audience.”Los Angeles Times   “…it can hardly be denied that stage shows and formal Christian worship both revolve around the theatrically purposed performance of a text in front of an audience. Part of what’s so exciting about CAPTAIN OF THE BIBLE Q...
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    18,13 €

  • Sperm
    Tom Jacobson
    Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI. He seduces Marie Antoinette and sets the king on a path to destroy France and ultimately humankind. A tragicomedy in rhymed couplets. 'SPERM is Tom Jacobson's adaptation of Jacques Miroir's 18th-century play CACHALOT. Right - just try to find any pl...
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    16,37 €

  • The Beloved Disciple
    Tom Jacobson
    Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.'Playwright Tom Jacobson is a linguistic gadfly. Often, you are tickled by him. Occasionally you are bedeviled by him. Once or twice, you just want to swat him. Linguis...
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    17,69 €

  • The Chinese Massacre (Annotated)
    Tom Jacobson
    Based on historical incident, the play chronicles the first race riot in Los Angeles history: the 1871 lynching of 18 Chinese men by a mob of 500 'people from all nations.' Tom Jacobson’s fiercely theatrical retelling brings to light the remarkable, culturally diverse 19th-century Wild West town that exploded into the metropolis we know today.'THE CHINESE MASSACRE (ANNOTATED), ...
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    17,80 €

  • The Twentieth-Century Way
    Tom Jacobson
    The true story of two actors who hired themselves out to the Long Beach Police Department in 1914 to entrap 'social vagrants' in public restrooms. Thirty-one men were arrested, and the ensuing scandal led to an ordinance against 'oral sodomy' in California. 'Tom Jacobson's exceptional THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAY ... is meta-theatre - dense and accurate and mysterious. While obvi...
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    16,10 €

  • House Of The Rising Son
    Tom Jacobson
    When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his father and homophobic grandfather, the family’s demons come slithering into the light. Watchful ghosts, sinister hustlers, and a myriad of parasites lead Felix on a Southern Gothic journey to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.'Tom Jacobson’s galvanic drama HOUSE OF THE RISING SON, boasts some of his trademark qualities, such as shr...
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    17,66 €

  • The Friendly Hour
    Tom Jacobson
    Based on the actual minutes of a women’s club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the ’30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium.'Tom Jacobson has paid exemplary homage to real-life American heroes from a less jaded period in our history, using transcript...
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    17,89 €

  • Tainted Blood
    Tom Jacobson
    Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. 'Jacobson's clever play balances repressed Victorian sexuality, historical anecdote, over-the-top hilarity and vampire melodrama into an intoxicating brew.' -L A Weekly 'Tom Jacobson's clever satiric pastiche pits Oscar Wilde, Bram...
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    16,24 €

  • Ouroboros
    Tom Jacobson
    Two American couples get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Stigmata, alchemy, adultery, and St. Catherine of Siena's severed head plague a nun and a minister in this circular love story that is a comedy if performed forward and a tragedy if performed backward. 'Critic's choice ... Either direction's a rewarding trip, the reversible OUROBOROS provides two...
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    16,13 €

  • Bunbury
    Tom Jacobson
    What if Blanche Dubois didn’t go crazy? Or the Three Sisters actually made it to Moscow? When he discovers he’s fictitious, a never-seen character in an Oscar Wilde play, Bunbury joins forces with Rosaline, Romeo’s never-seen obsession from ROMEO AND JULIET. Together they infiltrate and alter classic literature, including giving ROMEO AND JULIET a happy ending.'In essaying a ’p...
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    17,47 €

  • Eat The Runt
    Avery Crozier / Tom Jacobson
    A satirical piece which turns its sharp eye on political correctness, office politics, sexual harassment, religious persuasions, and societal and cultural norms. The actors don’t know which role they’ll play until the audience decides for them at each performance. The actors forge their own unique interpretations in any one of the 40,320 possible casting combinations that could...
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    17,26 €

  • The Bauhaus Project I
    Tom Jacobson
    Five struggling Southern California art students create a dramatic presentation on the founding of the famous Bauhaus school in order to save themselves from being kicked out. ...
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    17,57 €

  • The Bauhaus Project II
    Tom Jacobson
    Defunded by the city of Weimar, the Bauhaus moves to Dessau and becomes the most influential art school in history. ...
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    16,27 €

  • The Bauhaus Project III
    Tom Jacobson
    After Hitler shuts down the Bauhaus, some of the faculty emigrate to Los Angeles, where scores are settled between the founder Walter Gropius, his ex-wife Alma Mahler and composer Arnold Schönberg. ...
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    17,38 €