Cambodian Rock Band

Cambodian Rock Band
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Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Total Pages : 111
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ISBN-10 : 9780573707247
ISBN-13 : 0573707243
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Cambodian Rock Band by : Lauren Yee

Cambodian Rock Band is not yet available to license. By clicking the Request License button, you can sign up to be notified when this title becomes available. In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter, Neary. Jumping back and forth in time, thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter are forced to face the music of the past. From playwright Lauren Yee (King of the Yees, The Great Leap) comes a story filled with horror, humor, pathos, and songs by the best unknown rock band in Cambodia!

Cambodian Rock Band

Cambodian Rock Band
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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages : 96
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1559369817
ISBN-13 : 9781559369817
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Cambodian Rock Band by : Lauren Yee

Part comedy, part mystery, part rock concert, this thrilling new play toggles back and forth in time as a father and daughter face the music of the past.

King of the Yees

King of the Yees
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 99
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ISBN-10 : 0573707251
ISBN-13 : 9780573707254
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis King of the Yees by : Lauren Yee

For nearly twenty years, playwright Lauren Yee's father, Larry, has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association, a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American men's club formed a hundred fifty years ago in the wake of the Gold Rush and the building of the transcontinental railroad. But when her father goes missing, Lauren must plunge into the rabbit hole of San Francisco Chinatown and confront a world both foreign and familiar. At once bitingly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest, King of the Yees is an epic joyride across cultural, national, and familial borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee. -- Publisher website.

Posting Peace

Posting Peace
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780830847815
ISBN-13 : 0830847812
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Posting Peace by : Douglas S. Bursch

Why is everyone so angry online? Pastor and former radio host Douglas Bursch provides a spiritual examination of why social media divides us and how Christians can address polarization through a ministry of peacemaking. Unpacking how technology radically changes our communication, Bursch offers practical examples of how to handle online conflict in redemptive ways.

The Great Leap

The Great Leap
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 88
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0573707286
ISBN-13 : 9780573707285
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Leap by : Lauren Yee

When an American college basketball team travels to Beijing for a "friendship" game in the post-Cultural Revolution 1980s, both countries try to tease out the politics behind this newly popular sport. Cultures clash as the Chinese coach tries to pick up moves from the Americans and Chinese-American player Manford spies on his opponents. Inspired by events in her own father's life, Yee "applies a devilishly keen satiric eye to...her generation (and its parents)." (from publisher's website)

Plenty

Plenty
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Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages : 100
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0573619182
ISBN-13 : 9780573619182
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Plenty by : David Hare

Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.

Year of the Rabbit

Year of the Rabbit
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Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages : 380
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781770465121
ISBN-13 : 177046512X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Year of the Rabbit by : Tian Veasna

One family's quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country’s major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens. Cartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge takeover, as his family set forth on the chaotic mass exodus from Phnom Penh. Year of the Rabbit is based on firsthand accounts, all told from the perspective of his parents and other close relatives. Stripped of any money or material possessions, Veasna’s family found themselves exiled to the barren countryside along with thousands of others, where food was scarce and brutal violence a constant threat. Year of the Rabbit shows the reality of life in the work camps, where Veasna’s family bartered for goods, where children were instructed to spy on their parents, and where reading was proof positive of being a class traitor. Constantly on the edge of annihilation, they realized there was only one choice—they had to escape Cambodia and become refugees. Veasna has created a harrowing, deeply personal account of one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies.

Ching Chong Chinaman

Ching Chong Chinaman
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Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages : 85
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780573698545
ISBN-13 : 0573698546
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Ching Chong Chinaman by : Lauren Yee

The ultra-assimilated Wong family is as Chinese-American as apple pie: teenager Upton dreams of World of Warcraft superstardom; his sister Desdemona dreams of early admission to Princeton. Unfortunately, Upton's chores and homework get in the way of his 24/7 videogaming, and Desi's math grades don't fit the Asian-American stereotype. Then Upton comes up with a novel solution for both problems: he acquires a Chinese indentured servant, who harbors an American dream of his own.

The Fever

The Fever
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 52
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0822203987
ISBN-13 : 9780822203988
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fever by : Wallace Shawn

THE STORY: The nameless narrator of this blistering monologue lies ill and alone in a dreary hotel room in a poverty-stricken country. A political execution is about to take place beneath his window. Far from the glib comforts of his own life, he s

Your Band Sucks

Your Band Sucks
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780670026593
ISBN-13 : 067002659X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Your Band Sucks by : Jon Fine

"Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame.' Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour ... diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, despite creeping middle-age obligations of parenthood and 9-to-5 jobs, testament to the remarkable staying power of the indie culture that the bands predating the likes of Bitch Magnet--among them Black Flag, Mission of Burma, and Sonic Youth --willed into existence through sheer determination and a shared disdain for the mediocrity of contemporary popular music"--Amazon.com.