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Trace of the fireby Claudio CalzoniThere is a trace of the fire behind the death of so many people, the destruction of monuments that guard the memory of Humanity and a relic, the most important that Christianity has preserved for millennia. The chess game between Good and Evil has begun. The players move their pieces. Whoever puts the King in check will win. It is not easy to find but the trace of Fire is in the air...

Phil dAberdeen by Daniel FalcoA play in Anglo-Saxon sauce ...Phil daberdeenPhil the Scotsman, Phil the English, Phil the hero. Three different features for the same man who embodies the fundamental values ??of human life, seen as the only possibility of expressing himself in small and large enterprises, in hatred and love, in truth and falsehood, in courage and fear. Daniel Falcos theater comes to life, it dialogues with the actors, with the characters, with the scenes. And it does so through a curtain.

Sophie mochte das, was sich jede Frau wunscht. Eine Familie mit wunderbaren Kindern, einen Mann, der sie liebt und das perfekte Leben dazu. Doch es scheint, als wurde es das Schicksal nicht gut mit ihr meinen. Gepeinigt und gedemutigt muss sie die Attacken ihrer groen Liebe aushalten. Sie bricht mit ihren Eltern und wendet sich auch von anderen Familienmitgliedern ab. Schnell bereut sie diesen Entschluss und beginnt fur ihr Leben zu kampfen. Sophie begreift immer mehr, sie gehort niemanden! Sie ist wertvoll und sie hat ein Recht auf ihre Traume!Die Schicksalhafte Begegnung mit einem jungen Mann verandert sie. Endlich wachst sie aus sich heraus und beginnt sich auf den Weg zu machen, um ihre Ziele zu erreichen.

Vanja Kova?evi?, paziente della stanza 19, inizia il suo monologo narrativo davanti allo psichiatra rievocando il suo diciannovesimo compleanno, il giorno in cui come regalo gli misero in mano un fucile, per toccare molti punti chiave della sua infanzia, della crescita, della guerra, della paternita, della sopravvivenza e delle uccisioni. Ed e proprio quel contrasto tra le terrificanti confessioni del Vanja soldato e i teneri ricordi del Vanja dei tempi pre-bellici a mettere in evidenza un intero universo di possibilita che gli sono state tolte per sempre. Come in una sorta di macchina del tempo, Vanja ripercorre quella stessa vita che e cosciente di non poter mai piu riavere. Questo dolore di una giovinezza rubata lamentata dal paziente e considerato da molti tra le pagine piu struggenti della letteratura croata contemporanea.

La Schiava Isaura narra le avventure e le disgrazie di una bellissima schiava mezzosangue in cerca della sua liberta. Nel piu classico dei triangoli damore popolari: il cattivo Leoncio, leroina Isaura, e leroe Alvaro. Si enfatizza la pura bellezza bianca di Isaura, che non denuncio il suo status di schiava.

Captain Brassbounds Conversion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The play explores the relationship between the law, justice, revenge and forgiveness. Sir Howard Hallam, a judge, and his sister-in-law, Lady Cicely Waynflete, a well-known explorer, are at the home of Rankin, a Presbyterian minister. Sir Howard tells Rankin that his brothers property was illicitly seized after his death by his widows family, but Sir Howard has now recovered it. Lady Cicely decides to explore Morocco with Sir Howard. They are advised to take an armed escort.

Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short play by George Bernard Shaw. THE BEEFEATER: Stand. Who goes there? Give the word.THE MAN: Marry! I cannot. I have clean forgotten it.THE BEEFEATER: Then cannot you pass here. What is your business? Who are you? Are you a true man?THE MAN: Far from it, Master Warder. I am not the same man two days together: sommetimes Adam, sometimes Benvolio, and anon the Ghost.THE BEEFEATER: (recoiling) A ghost! Angels and ministers of grace defend us!Preview.

Arms and the Man is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Arms and the Man is a humorous play that shows the futility of war and deals comedically with the hypocrisies of human nature. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included The Man of Destiny, Candida and You Never Can Tell. Shaw titled the volume Plays Pleasant in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, Plays Unpleasant.

Press Cuttings is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Press Cuttings, is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a farcical comedy about the suffragettes campaign for votes for women in Britain. The play is a departure from Shaws earlier Ibsenesque dramas on social issues. Shaws own pro-feminist views are never articulated by characters in the play, but instead it ridicules the arguments of the anti-suffrage campaigners.

Mrs. Warrens Profession is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. They were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences as the traditional Victorian theatre was expected to but to raise awareness of social problems and to censure exploitation of the labouring class by the unproductive rich. The other plays in the group are Widowers Houses and The Philanderer.

Candida is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny and You Never Can Tell. Shaw titled the volume Plays Pleasant in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, Plays Unpleasant.

Man and Superman is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw. The series was written in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, whom Shaws stage directions describe as "prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable (mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open), possibly a little mad". In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her guardian, though Tanner doesnt want the position at all.

Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaws day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws.

The Devils Disciple is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Devils Disciple is Shaws eighth play, and it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devils disciple". In a twist characteristic of Shaws love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself in a Christ-like gesture despite his professed Infernal allegiance.

Augustus Does His Bit is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Augustus Does His Bit is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I.

Overruled is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Overruled is a comic one-act play written by George Bernard Shaw. In Shaws words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it." The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships.

Great Catherine is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Great Catherine is a play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot focuses on Captain Charles Edstaston, a very prim and proper British military attache who, in 1776, is assigned to the Imperial Russiancourt in Saint Petersburg, and brings his equally prim fiancee, Claire, with him. In the midst of court intrigue and palace politics, primarily instigated by Catherines favored statesman and military leader, the drunken, ill-mannered, but crafty Prince Patiomkin, the imperiously commanding, yet concurrently, voraciously intimate Catherine toys with the naive arrival, questioning his rigid beliefs, leading him to drop his guarded mannerisms and, in the process, she also learns certain philosophical truths.

How He Lied to Her Husband is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage framework by filling it in with an observed touch of actual humanity instead of with doctrinaire romanticism." The play has often been interpreted as a kind of satirical commentary on Shaws own highly successful earlier play Candida (which one of the characters gets tickets to see).

The Doctors Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Doctors Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation.

The Inca of Perusalem is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Inca of Perusalem is a comic one-act play written during World War I by George Bernard Shaw. The plot appears at first to be a fairy-tale like story about a fantastical "Inca", but it eventually becomes obvious that the Inca is Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.