Thomas è un regista teatrale tormentato alla disperata ricerca di un'attrice che interpreti Wanda, la protagonista femminile di un classico della letteratura erotica, Venere in pelliccia. Alla fine di una giornata di provini deludenti, nella sala ormai vuota entra una donna: indossa dei tacchi vertiginosi, sotto il soprabito fradicio di pioggia è vestita di cuoio e borchie. E si chiama Wanda. È una donna volgare e sboccata, troppo ignorante per impersonare un ruolo così sofisticato, che si...

This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right.Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England’s queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry’s second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne, was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign?In The Life and Death of Anne ...

This is the seventh annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 7 collects 24 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over ...

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" an...

Due effimere realizzano durante un appuntamento che hanno solo 24 ore da vivere e decidono di vivere la vita al massimo – se solo sapessero come. Così inizia Time Flies e altri corti teatrali, nove spiritosi e stravaganti atti unici. In questi atti un Adetto alle riparazioni si innamora di una perfetta lavatrice (dovrebbe dirlo alla sua ragazza?), un uomo decide di essere il pittore Edgar Degas per un giorno, due tipi guardano la TV (o è la TV a guardare loro?). Eccentriche e irriverenti, ...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross comes Some Recollections of St. Ives**, a masterful novel masquerading as the memoir of Charles Hollis—a fictional man whose life spanned continents and conflicts, culminating in a decades-long tenure at one of America’s most storied institutions: The St. Ives School.**Written in the final years of Hollis’s life, Some Recollecti...

A series of short comic vignettes from playwright David Ives, In the title work, two houseflies try to make the most out of their brief time on earth.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Shannon Cochran, Evan Gore, Arye Gross and Victoria Principal.Directed by Ron West. Recorded before a live audience in March, 1998.

Since his death in 1942, St Ives has become marinated in the spirit of the naive painter, Alfred Wallis. Naum Gabo, the Russian Constructivist, felt that Wallis's gift as an artist was that he never knew he was one. His unconventional approach and the innocence of his personal method of making art marked Alfred Wallis, even after his death, as a crucial figure in the modernist movement. The art scene in St Ives during World War II is depicted vividly in The Alfred Wallis Factor which illus...

A collection of four works from the American playwright known as "wizardly . . . magical and funny . . . a master of language" ( The New York Times).This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All in the Timing.Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nickname...

Die große Liebe hat immer eine Zugabe verdient!Die Theaterszene in Brighton steht Kopf: Viktor de Ruiter gibt sein Comeback auf einer der renommiertesten Bühnen in seiner Heimatstadt. Schon bei der ersten Pressekonferenz trifft er auf die Journalistin Hannah, die ihn am liebsten nie wieder begegnen würde, denn die beiden verbindet eine nicht gerade glückliche Vergangenheit. Obwohl es Jahre zurückliegt, hat Hannah nichts vergessen. Und jetzt soll sie die Proben für ...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month's cover art is by Galen Dara, illustrating the original fantasy short "Godmeat," by Martin Cahill. We also have an original fantasy short story from...

When Louisiana became a part of the United States the great wilderness to the westward of the Mississippi was the home of many native tribes, or groups of tribes, retaining their primitive manners and customs, little influenced by contact with Europeans. Their villages were scattered along the water courses or skirted the prairies, over which roamed vast herds of buffalo, these serving to attract the Indians and to supply many of their wants—food, raiment, and covering for their shelters.