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Fallen Angel : The Passion of Fausto Coppi
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Country Music : The People, the Places and Moments That Shaped the Country Sound
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Conversations With Myself
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Huzir Sulaiman: Collected Plays 1998-2012
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This anthology consists of twelve plays by Huzir Sulaiman, Checkpoint Theatre’s Joint Artistic Director. Based in Singapore, Huzir is one of Southeast Asia’s preeminent playwrights. The twelve plays in this collection bear testimony to his gift of imagining characters and deploying language to offer unexpected insights into the personal, the social and the political. Huzir Sulaiman: Collected Plays 1998 – 2012 offers readers an opportunity to acquaint themselves with an impressive body of work that has lit up the stage over the past 14 years, and to discover for themselves the virtuosic use of language and impeccable craft which have cemented Huzir Sulaiman as one of the most important playwrights of his generation. The collection is edited by and contains an introductory essay by Kathy Rowland, the respected theatre writer and researcher. Kathy co-founded and was managing editor of the online arts magazine, kakiseni.com, which launched the BOH Cameronian Arts Awards, Malaysia’s first Performing Arts Awards. She edited and introduced Krishen Jit: An Uncommon Position, published by the Contemporary Asian Arts Centre of Singapore.
Author: Huzir Sulaiman, Kathy Rowland (Ed.)
Format: Soft cover
Publisher: Checkpoint Theatre, Singapore
Publication Date: 2013
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The Great Shark Hunt : Strange Tales from a Strange Time
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The Corpse Walker : Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
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Speaking Truth To Power: Singapore's Pioneer Public Servants
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The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister
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Nelson Mandela
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A Midwife's Tale : The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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Sven: My Story
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More Than a Woman
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Hitler's Vienna : A Dictator's Apprenticeship
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Chinese American Literature without Borders : Gender, Genre, and Form
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Cloistered War : Behind the Convent Walls During the Japanese Occupation
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Griffith Review 33: Such is Life
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Heaven Is For Real For Kids - A Little Boy's Astounding Story Of His Trip To Heaven And Back
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The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys : Great Writers on Great Places
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A Drink with Shane Macgowan
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The Wealth Creators : 5 Success Styles of the Multi-Millionaires
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Studying Singapore's Past : C.M. Turnball and the History of Modern Singapore
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Warriors : Portraits from the Battlefield
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A Cook's Tour : In Search of the Perfect Meal
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Memoirs
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Spiritual Leadership - Completely Updated Text with Study Guide
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The Saudis : Inside the Desert Kingdom
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Within Changi's Walls - A Record Of Civilian Internment In World War II
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Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator
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A Drifting Life
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Never Enough
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Later Auden
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Not Quite the Diplomat : Home Truths About World Affairs
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Tangled Worlds : The Story of Maria Hertogh
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Chicken Soup for the Soul : Children with Special Needs
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Heaven is So Real
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Means Of Ascent
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My Land and My People
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Einstein - The Life And Times
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