The Chair Plays

The Chair Plays
Author: Edward Bond
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 140817281X

'I am nothing. Nobody. One day I could forget what I have done. Then I am nothing with no past. My knife is to tell me who I am. It is my passport to myself.' The Chair Plays are three one-act plays that Edward Bond has combined into one continuous drama on the state of society towards the end of the present century. Faced with ecological disaster and economic chaos, governments have become authoritarian and repressive. Domestic family life struggles to survive in a world of fleeing refugees, mass suicides, ruined and deserted suburbs, and soldiers patrolling the streets. Authority decrees even the exact placing of furniture in rooms. There is a knock at the door - but it is not the secret police. It is something even more disturbing. In this broken world sheer human goodness and vision asserts itself in stubborn and radiant ways. A master dramatist creates a range of extraordinary characters, vivid situations and radical theatrical devices to stage the central problem of modern life.

The Bad Chair

The Bad Chair
Author: Dasha Tolstikova
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1773062476

A fresh and funny picture book about feeling left out and the power of friendship, from the author and illustrator of A Year Without Mom. Every evening before brushing their teeth and getting ready for bed, Vivi and Monkey play the game: Monkey hides under a sheet, and Vivi pretends to look for him. Every evening, Chair wishes more than anything that he could play, too. One night, Chair decides to make Monkey late for the game so that Vivi will look for Chair instead. But nothing goes quite according to plan. Instead of looking for Chair, Vivi grows increasingly worried about Monkey. She gathers witnesses for questioning, and Chair could be the key to her investigation. But if Vivi finds Monkey, will she still want to be friends with Chair? This sweet, funny story about friendship will encourage young readers to empathize with those feeling left out. Kids will delight in Dasha’s simple yet sophisticated illustrations. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

The Life of the Mind

The Life of the Mind
Author: Christine Smallwood
Publisher: Hogarth
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593229916

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, The Atlantic, Electric Lit, Thrillist, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews • A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction—“the glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) “[A] jewel of a debut . . . abundantly satisfying.”—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker As an adjunct professor of English in New York City with little hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels “like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had nowhere else to be but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise.” No one but her boyfriend knows that she’s just had a miscarriage—not her mother, her best friend, or her therapists (Dorothy has two of them). She wasn’t even sure she wanted to be a mother. So why does Dorothy feel like a failure? The Life of the Mind is a book about endings—of youth, of ambition, of possibility, but also of the meaning that an inquiring mind can find in the mess of daily experience. Mordant and remorselessly wise, this jewel of a debut cuts incisively into life as we live it, and how we think of it.

The Goodbye Chair

The Goodbye Chair
Author: Jo Carson-Barr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2013
Genre: Farewells
ISBN: 9780473238636

"Nannie is feeling sad. She has been looking after Nicholas for two weeks and is leaving to go home. Nicholas who is going back to preschool, comes up with a plan to make Nannie feel happy again"--Back cover.

Can I Play Too? (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

Can I Play Too? (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Author:
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423119913

Gerald the elephant and Piggie learn to play catch with their new friend Snake, even though Snake doesn't have any arms! By the author of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal-winning book, Are You Ready to Play Outside?

Indian Ink

Indian Ink
Author: Jacob Rajan
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780864734976

The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: Will I find love? How can I find happiness? and What is worth preserving? Western theatrical traditions fuse with Indian flavors in the telling of three stories that are accessible to all cultures.

The Chair

The Chair
Author: James L. Rubart
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1433671522

When an elderly woman gives an antiques dealer a chair she claims was made by Jesus Christ, strange healings follow, leading him on a spiritual journey full of unexpected twists.

A Chair for Always

A Chair for Always
Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062008994

Rosa is excited that her Aunt Ida is having a baby-she's going to have a cousin! But when the baby comes, Grandma suggests they get rid of the family's beloved armchair so that baby Benji can play on a nicer one. But Rosa puts her foot down: this chair is a member of the family, she says, and it will be with them always.

This is a Chair

This is a Chair
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

A stunning experimental short play by Caryl Churchill