Dramatic Duets
Afraid Of The Dark
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Callahan. From the play. 10 min. Scene: Death Row. Characters: warden, chaplain, and three prisoners: A Mexican, afraid to die, but strengthened in faith by the Captain; the Captain-'a gentleman but for one mistake,' and a hardened criminal who is last to go to chair. In spite of his 'wisecracks,' he succumbs to fear, then turns to God as he tries to recall the Lord's Prayer. ISBN 1-60045-112-8
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Antigone
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By Sophocles, greatest of Greek poets. Adaptation from the tragedy. 10 min. Antigone defies decree of Creon, the king, that her dead brother should not be buried. Her sister, Ismene, fearfully and unwillingly offers to help, but Antigone refuses her aid and buries him by herself, and thus meets king's wrath. ISBN 1-60045-106-3
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Antony And Cleopatra
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Shakespeare. An arrangement from the tragedy. 10 min. The death scenes of both Antony and Cleopatra with all their drama and pathos are here portrayed. Several characters. ISBN 1-60045-163-2
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Ase's Death
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Ibsen. From the play, 'Peer Gynt.' 10 min. Peer arrives home just in time to make his mother's last minutes easier. For her, he enacts scenes of his childhood. ISBN 1-60045-219-1
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Bad Seed
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Maxwell Anderson. From the spinetingling, chilling play. One of Broadway's outstanding successes. 10 min. Mother of drowned boy visits school he attended. Adult characters. ISBN 1-60045-046-6
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Brutus And Cassius
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Shakespeare. From 'Julius Caesar.' 10 min. The two characters speak. ISBN 1-60045-341-4
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Caesar And Cleopatra
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Shaw. From the play. 10 min. Caesar comes, by moonlight, to the Sphinx and finds there, Cleopatra, the sixteen-year-old Queen of Egypt. She has come there 'because the Romans are coming to eat us all.' Caesar persuades her to go back to her throne to meet the Romans in bravery. She does not know who he is until the soldiers salute him. A most delightful piece. 1-60045-342-2
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Cherry Orchard
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Chekov. An outstanding reading from this famous author's greatest play. 10 min. We consider this the best of the Chekov readings. Several good characters. ISBN 1-60045-049-0
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Comedy And Tragedy
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W.S. Gilbert. from the drama. 10 min. To keep the knowledge from their guests that her husband is fighting a duel in garden. Clarice improvises, in comedy and tragedy, many impersonations. A challenge to the best talents. ISBN 1-60045-137-3
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Dark Victory
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Brewer-Bloch. From play that was produced in New York with Tallulah Bankhead, and as motion picture with Bette Davis. 10 min. The story of the transformation love wrought in the life of young woman. It portrays the sacrifice she makes when she knows that death is coming suddenly. Characters: society woman, the doctor and the servant. ISBN 1-60045-267-1
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