"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - KrappSamuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century’s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp’s Last Tape(1958)with a general reader in mind.Structured around a series of questions, five approachable sections contextualize the play in the larger career of its Nobel-Prize-winning writer, exp...

In the dark of the blackout before the curtain rises, the theater holds its many worlds suspended on the verge of appearance. How can a performance sustain this sense of potentiality that grounds all live production? Or if a stage-world does begin, what kinds of future might appear within its frame? Conceiving of the theater as a cultural institution devoted to experimenting with the future, this book begins and ends on the dramatic stage; in between it traverses literature, dance, sculptu...

Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection, asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre. These many possible worlds circle around questions that include:...

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THIS GAME, EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS. Acclaimed creators Zac Thompson (Into the Unbeing—Parts 1 & 2) and Daniel Irrizari (Judge Dredd, XINO) enter an synapse-shredding new level of the groundbreaking science-horror hybrid that began with CEMETERY KIDS DON'T DIE! One year ago, four friends barely escaped the unrelenting terror of the video game called Nightmare Cemetery. After spending endless hours locked into the innovative Dreamwave—the first gaming console played entirely whi...

Inspired by firsthand accounts of paranormal encounters, Oni Press’ startling five-part experiment in comic book storytelling continues with an enthralling new 40-page chapter from SpectreVision co-founder and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah, acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Run Rabid), and fast-rising star Noah Bailey (Station Grand, Double Walker) diving headlong into the dimly lit borderlands of human experience, where overlapping phenomena like UFOs, hauntings, and inexpl...

[LOADING] An all-new injection of cyberpunk terror awaits input as Zac Thompson (Into the Unbeing—Parts 1 and 2) and Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dredd) conduct another unethical experiment at the frontier of biotech entertainment! Inside and outside of The Blighted Sprawl—the newest DLC update to the video game that nearly killed them all a year ago—the Cemetery Kids are on edge as they watch one of their own degenerate toward more and more irrational violence. Meanwhile, the other members of t...

YOU'RE ONLY ALIVE IF YOU'RE ONLINE . . . The twenty-first century sucks hard, but it's been made somewhat tolerable by the latest media innovation to finally unseat the iPhone. Enter the Dreamwave: the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep. Now the obsession of millions around the globe, it's also the one point of solace for four friends whose lives have been marred by trauma and dysfunction. Together, this group of ultra-online Cemetery Kids spend their nights roaming the o...

The 21st century sucks hard, but it's made somewhat tolerable by the latest and greatest media innovations. Enter the Dreamwave: the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep. The obsession of millions around the globe, it's also the one point of solace for four friends known as the “Cemetery Kids,” who spend their nights roaming the endless maps of the most brutal horror game ever created as they seek to dethrone the “King of Sleep—the Dreamwave's biggest, baddest, and most mys...

"Enter: The Blighted Sprawl! The acclaimed cyberpunk horror hit from creators Zac Thompson (Into the Unbeing—Parts 1 & 2) and Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dredd) is about to reach fever pitch! Under the influence of Blud, the Cemetery Kids set off to discover the truth about the connection between Pik and the King of Sleep. It has become increasingly clear that something came back with Pik, and that revelation will forever alter their reality. As they descend through the dark highways of the Art...

THE FINAL LEVEL! The King of Sleep awaits as Birdie, Wilson, and Enid ready themselves for the final battle to save Pik. But the outcome may not be what anyone expected in Zac Thompson (Hunt for the Skinwalker) and Daniel Irizarri’s (Holy West) kinetic, heart-pounding conclusion to 2024’s genre-defying sci-fi/horror hybrid!

Bloomsbury presents The Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks, read by Daniel Epstein.‘Aims to define nothing less than a basis for religiously sensitive civilisation.’Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury‘The Dignity of Difference has a central and compelling vision: the magnificence and inspiring human diversity of our world ... The Chief Rabbi has made a convincing case for respecting people o...

Bloomsbury presents Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places by Jonathan Sacks, read by Daniel Epstein.Following the painful loss of his father, former Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way.Based, in part, on Rabbi Sacks’s collection of columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is a series of reflections on subjects such as morality, friendship, listening to others and giv...