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iUniverse Commedia DellArte A Guide to the Primary and Secondary Literature
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iUniverse On Caravan The Masks of the Whale Spirits
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iUniverse You Could Drive a Person Crazy Chronicle of an American Theatre Company
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iUniverse Readers Theatre in the Classroom A Manual for Teachers of Children and Adults
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iUniverse The 39 Steps of SelfDivision A Structural Approach To the Depiction of Internal Conflict In Six Famous Dramatic Works
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iUniverse The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis As it was Presented privately during the Winter season in Norfolk Virginia in the year of Our Lord 2003
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iUniverse Writing 45Minute OneAct Plays Skits Monologues Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops Adapting Current Events Social Issues Life Stories News Histories
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iUniverse Church Dramas Volume 4 Comedies Dramas for the Sunday Service
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iUniverse Strange Child of Chaos Norman Treigle
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iUniverse Libretto Memories from a Shoebox
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iUniverse EthnoPlayography How to Create Salable Ethnographic Plays Monologues Skits from Life Stories Social Issues and Current Events For all Ages with Samples for Performance
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iUniverse A LIBERATED WOMAN FROM THE GHETTO One Woman Production
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iUniverse On Caravan The Masks of the Whale Spirits
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Big Toast Entertainment Improvise Freely
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Big Toast Entertainment Improvise Freely Laissez tomber les règles et libérez votre créativité
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ORiGiN Theatrical Dishlickers
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ORiGiN Theatrical Seven Little Australians
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Random House USA Inc No Exit and Three Other Plays
Book SynopsisNOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre''s best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
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Melted Blue ShePROV The Monologue Collection Book 1 Volume 1
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The OneAct Play Companion A Guide to Plays Playwrights and Performance
Book SynopsisColin Dolley is a past Vice-Chairman of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators (GODA) and has adjudicated at over 200 drama festivals. Rex Walford OBE is a theatre critic and Chairman of GODA, and has judged many one-act plays in over thirty years of adjudicating festivals.Trade Review'A truly entrepreneurial publishing feat...Rich in diverse content...a veritable cornucopia...I suggest that you order your copy of this indispensable work' Amateur Stage (April 2006) "This is a book I have no hesitation in recommending - my only complaint is that every time I pick it up I spend far too long pottering through its pages". "those of us who frequent festivals will recognise the expertise and enthusiasm [the authors] show...in this invaluable book." Prompt Magazine Avon Association (October 2006) '...a very interesting, challenging and creative book, which should provide an engaging and provocative stimulus for young people, teachers and youth theatre workers at a time of ever increasing interest in the teaching of drama in this country, and in the relationship between theatre and society at large.' Youth Drama Ireland (Summer 2008)
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Radical Theatre Greek Tragedy and the Modern World Classical Interfaces
Book SynopsisRush Rehm is Associate Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University and works professionally as an actor and director when he can. He is the author of The Oresteia: A Theatre Version (1978), Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Weddings and Funerals in Greek Tragedy (1994), and The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (2002).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Costume in Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisRosie Wyles is Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Nottingham.Trade ReviewThis introductory study is highly informative and is not restricted to costume alone but handles various issues relating to general theater topics. It is a well-focused monograph that attempts to furnish answers to various vexing questions that deal with costume. -- Marios Philippides, University of Massachusetts Amherst * New England Classical Journal *The first extended study of its kind in half a century, Rosie Wyles' Costume in Greek Tragedy synthesizes and in many areas advances scholarly discussion of fifth-century Greek tragic costume. With attention to detail, Wyles mines deeply the well-worked visual and verbal evidence, offering interpretations which take both theatrical semiotics and reception theory into account ... Costume in Greek Tragedy gives a crucial and complex component of Attic drama the modern, book-length study it deserves. -- Al Duncan, University of Utah * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Rlpg/Galleys Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance
Book SynopsisModern Japanese Theatre and Performance is a collection of sixteen essays on Japanese theatre, including historical overviews of twentieth century theatre, analyses of specific productions and individuals, and consideration of the intercultural nature of modern Japanese theatre. Also included is a new translation of a 'Superkyogen' play.Trade ReviewThis fascinating collection of essays commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of J. Thomas Rimer's seminal work,Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre (1974). The essays capture the complex strategies by which Japanese theatre artists, ranging from shingeki to the postmodern, exercise their craft. This edition is a must for those interested in the changing landscape of performing arts in Japan. -- Dr. Mari Boyd, Sophia UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Modern Japanese Theatre (Revisited) Part 2 Shingeki History Chapter 3 Why Did Sewamono Not Grow into Modern Realist Theatre? Chapter 4 The Rhetoric of the Real Chapter 5 Moment(um) of Memory: Metapatterns in Japanese Theatre Since the 1960s Chapter 6 The Quest for Salvation in Japan's Modern History: Four Plays by Akimoto Matsuyo Chapter 7 Poison Women and National Identity in Postwar Japanese Performance Chapter 8 Senda Koreya and the Tenko Paradigm Part 9 Experimental Theatre(s) and Border Crossings Chapter 10 Structureless in Structure: The Choreographic Tectonics of Hijikata Tatsumi's Buto Chapter 11 Terayama in Amsterdam and the Internationalization of Experimental Theatre Chapter 12 Super-kyogen: Radically Traditional Utopian Comedies Chapter 13 Classical Japanese Performance in a Contemporary Context: A Traditional Strategy of Juxtaposition Part 14 Specific Plays and Productions in Modern Japan Chapter 15 Illegitimate Child of Shingeki: Soganoya Gokuro and His Nonkina tosan (Easygoing Daddy) Chapter 16 Reflections of and on the Times: Morimoto Kaoru's A Woman's Life Chapter 17 Steeplechase: Mishima Yukio's Only Original Modern No Play Chapter 18 "Destroying the Audience's Alibi": Empathy and Ethics in Abe Kobo's Mihitsu no koi Chapter 19 Divine Memory and Abject Reality: Miyagi Satoshi's Tenshu Monogatari and Simizu Shinjin's Bye Bye: The New Primitive Chapter 20 From Scaretto to Kaze to tomo ni sarinu: Musical Adaptations of Gone with the Wind in Japan Part 21 A Super-kyogen Script Chapter 22 Mutsugoro (Mudskippers)
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DK Musicals Second Edition
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New Generation Publishing Too Tall for Annie
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University Press of America Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity
Book SynopsisDramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philosopher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examination of Marcel''s thought, highlighting facets that are sure to interest many different audiences. Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity presents a clear exposition of the nature of creative fidelity, a central theme in Marcel''s life and work. The distinctive contribution of this book, however, is its illustration of how theater and philosophy are complementary in Marcel''s investigation and reflective clarification of life''s existential questions. Each chapter of the book studies a play and a contemporary philosophic essay and examines how they relate to clarify a particular aspect of creative fidelity. Thus, this work communicates Marcel''s understanding of the nature of creative fidelity, illustrates the relationship that links theater and philosophy, and demonstrates the important rTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction by Paul Ricoeur Part 2 Foreword Part 3 Part One: Gabriel Marcel: Philosopher-Dramatist-Musician Chapter 4 Chapter I. Introduction to Gabriel Marcel's Philosophic Quest Part 5 Part Two: Dramatic Approaches to Creative Philosophy Chapter 6 Chapter II. The Unfathomable: A Search for Presence Chapter 7 Chapter III. The Lantern: and The Light of Truth Chapter 8 Chapter IV. Dot the I: An Existential Witness of the Light of Truth Chapter 9 Chapter V Rebellious Heart: and Human Creativity Chapter 10 Chapter VI. The Double Expertise: Fidelity and Infidelity Chapter 11 Chapter VII. Colombyre or the Torch of Peace: The Role of Person-Community in Living Creative Fidelity to Values Chapter 12 Chapter VIII. The Sting: Threatening the Foundations of Fidelity Chapter 13 Chapter IX. Rome Is No Longer in Rome: Challenge for Creative Incarnations of Fidelity Chapter 14 Chapter X. Conclusion: Creative Fidelity, Sketch of the Essential Features Highlighted Part 15 Part Three: Resources for Research Chapter 16 I. Biblio-biography Chapter 17 II. Parallel of Theater and Philosophy Chapter 18 III. Works by Gabriel Marcel in chronological order of composition Chapter 19 IV. Bibliographic References Chapter 20 V. Partial List of Plays Produced Chapter 21 VI. Centers of Research Part 22 Index
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University of Ottawa Press Staging Prison Theatre in Canada
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Johns Hopkins University Press Narration in Light Studies in Cinematic Point of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs both theory and criticism [Wilson's] achievement in this book is substantial and important. -- Alexander Sesonske Film QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Film, Perception, and Point of ViewChapter 2. Fritz Lang's You Only Live OnceChapter 3. Coherence and Transparency in Classical Narrative FilmChapter 4. Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest Chapter 5. Some modes of NonomniscienceChapter 6. Max Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown WomanChapter 7. On Narrators and Narration in FilmChapter 8. Josef von Sternberg's The Devil Is a WomanChapter 9. Nicholas Ray's Rebel without a Cause Chapter 10. Morals for MethodNotesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Acharnians Knights and Peace
Book SynopsisOffers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes' earliest surviving plays: Acharnians, Knights, and Peace. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, Michael Ewans's translations are accessible to a modern audience - and actable on stage.
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Northwestern University Press Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism Performance Works
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Scarecrow Press So Youre the New Musical Director
Book SynopsisSo, You''re the New Musical Director! is aimed at the person who has music training but little or no experience with musical theatre, the high school choral director with a degree in music education, or the actor participating in community theatre productions. It details the duties involved in directing a broadway musical, including overseeing singer and orchestra rehearsals and conducting the musical itself. The chapters follow the actual progression of a musical from a discussion of the production team''s responsibilities to the final bow. Filled with photos, illustrations, and examples, So, You''re the New Musical Director! is a comprehensive guide that no one involved in musical theatre should be without.Trade ReviewLaster (emeritus, Conservatory of Shenandoah U., Virginia and experienced musical conductor) details the duties involved in directing a Broadway musical, from overseeing the singer and orchestra rehearsals to conducting the musical itself. Suitable for those with music training but little or no experience with musical theater. * Reference and Research Book News *Chock full of examples, anecdotes, and clear, concise instruction on everything from selecting the work to staging the performance, this guide is written in a conversational yet authoritative tone that will connect with its audience...This would be an excellent textbook in music education. Highly recommended for public, academic, and music libraries. * Library Journal *
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Scarecrow Press The New Broadway Song Companion An Annotated
Book SynopsisThis is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every song from over 300 Broadway shows, including at least 90 more than the first edition. Organized by show, each song is annotated with the name of the character(s) who sing(s) the song, the vocal range, and a style category, such as uptempo, narrative ballad, swing ballad, moderate character piece, etc. Several indexes are supplied, organizing the songs by voice type (soprano, baritone, etc.) and song style, vocal arrangement (duets, trios, chorus, etc.), and composer and lyricist, allowing increased access to the repertoire. For instance, a soprano looking for a ballad to sing will find every song in that category in the index. All solos, duets, and trios are indexed in this manner, with quartets and larger ensembles listed by voice type. Furthermore, the instant breakdowns (how many lead characters, who sings what song, and the range requirements of each character) will be a valuable resource to directors and producers.Trade ReviewThis unique approach to the musical theatre's song repertoire will help solo performers and ensembles assemble programs suitable for their vocal talents and expressive of their interests. * Rettig On Reference *DeVenney is the perfect resource person to answer that perennial question, what should I sing for my audition? This volume is an absolute necessity for all college and high school musical theater collections. Essential. * CHOICE, January 2010 *As valuable as the annotated entries are six indexes. ... For music theater performers and their instructors this book is a boon, both for repertoire selection and role preparation. ... An affordable addition to the reference section of a studio library. * Journal of Singing, January/February 2010 *This book will be a welcome addition to a teacher's studio library. Musical theatre repertoire is a staple for many high school students, and in order to keep up with their passion, teachers must become savvy with the repertoire. I recently experienced this learning curve for musical theatre repertoire in my own teaching. How nice it would have been to have this book in my library during the learning process! * Classical Singer Magazine, May 2010 *A veritable casting bible for producers and directors of musicals on the one hand and an invaluable source for any individual voice to find all the songs in his or her range from the Broadway canon ... very well structured ... this is one reference book that no one interested in musical theatre should be without! * Amateur Stage *
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Random House Publishing Group Three OneAct Plays Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
Book SynopsisThree delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagineWoody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do). These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen’s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they’re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception—all of it revealed in Allen’s quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.
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Ohio State University Press Unsettling Acts
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Ohio State University Press Unsettling Acts
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University of Hawai'i Press Kabuki Theatre East West Center Book
Book SynopsisOffers an authoritative guide to Kabuki. The book explains everything lucidly and painstakingly - the background, the facts, the emotions, both from a Japanese and a Western point of view. If you can keep paying attention you will find at the end that you seem to have been living in Japan.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Tony Kushners Angels in America Modern Theatre Guides
Book SynopsisOffers a critical introduction to the play, "Angels in America", giving students an overview of the background and context; analysis of the play including its structure, style and characters; and an analysis of key production issues and choices.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; 1. Background; 2. Angels in America; 3. Production Analysis; 4. Performance History; 5. From Stage to Screen; 6. Annotated bibliography, guide to further reading; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Tom Stoppards Arcadia Modern Theatre Guides
Book SynopsisWith its engaging alteration between past and present "Arcadia" offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled the realms of math and science. This guide provides students a comprehensive critical introduction to the play.Trade Review"An enlightening entryway into Stoppard's luminous play, Fleming's commentary on Arcadia is informed by his attention to theatrical issues as well as his deep understanding of the of the play's multilayered themes." - Professor Michael Vanden Heuvel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA"Fleming's book offers the student and Stoppard enthusiast a fully researched and clearly written analysis of what many call Stoppard's best play. From the background and context section describing Stoppard's entire oeuvre to date, to the final section offering suggestions for teaching Arcadia, this book situates the play squarely within Stoppard's writing about science. Fleming's precise analyses of the play's characters and his informed discussion of its themes offer the student and instructor an intelligent framework for understanding Arcadia as a profound and comic play of ideas." - Katherine E. Kelly, Texas A&M University, USA Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 ‘Drawing on previously unpublished material with Stoppard, Fleming's volume traces the history of the play's production and its cultural and historical context'Table of ContentsGeneral Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Background and Context; 2. Analysis and Commentary; 3. Production History; 4. Workshopping the Play; Timeline; Further Reading; References; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) David Mamets Oleanna Modern Theatre Guides
Book SynopsisDavid K. Sauer is Professor Emeritus at Spring Hill College, USA.Trade Review"David Sauer has taken a key play in the 20th century canon, and, with critical insight and analytic skills, explained what made it such a key theatrical, but also social and political event. Mamet's Oleanna touched a nerve in American society. Sauer explains just why that was so without forgetting that it is first and foremost a deeply impressive dramatic work." - Professor Christopher Bigsby, School of American Studies, University of East Anglia, UKMentioned in The Bookseller, 10 April 2009.Mentioned in The Bookseller, 10 April 2009.Table of ContentsGeneral Preface; 1. Background and Context; 2. Analysis and Commentary; 3. Oleanna in Performance: Less is More; 4. Workshopping the Text: 'Whatever side you take, you're wrong'; 5. Conclusion; Timeline 1945-60; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.
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Vanderbilt University Press Wild Theater
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Vanderbilt University Press Living Quixote
Book SynopsisThe 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological relevance. Living Quixote examines contemporary appropriations of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece in political and social justice movements in the Americas, particularly in Brazil. In this book, Cervantes scholar Rogelio Miñana examines long-term, Quixote-inspired activist efforts at the ground level. Through what the author terms performative activism, Quixote-inspired theater companies and nongovernmental organizations deploy a model for rewriting and enacting new social roles for underprivileged youth. Unique in its transatlantic, cross-historical, and community-based approach, Living Quixote offers both a new reading of Don Quixote and an applied model for cultural activism-a model based, in ways reminiscent of Paulo Freire, on the transformative potential of performance, literature, and art.
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Blue Murder
Book SynopsisEvelyn Carool leaves the country town where she grew up and goes to Sydney to work for Blue, an author of children''s books. Blue inhabits a mysterious stone cathedral, Blackrock, which rises up out of Sydney Harbour. Acting as Evelyn''s mentor, Blue leads Evelyn on a journey of self-discovery that is at once magical, sensuous and frightening. Must she completely surrender her own sense of reality to access this infinitely more seductive world? And what price is she prepared to pay to learn the truth that lies hidden within the walls of Blackrock?
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Love Suicides
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Birthrights and Soulmates
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Amigos
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Influence and Operator Two plays
Book SynopsisINFLUENCE -- Ziggi Blasko knows how to turn fear into hate. A talkback radio host with ''commonsense'' answers, he likes to push buttons. His diatribes against political correctness, feminism, multiculturalism, immigration and bleeding hearts flood the airwaves and the scary part is that people listen. At home, however, his influence isn''t quite so great -- his wife Carmela is too narcissistic to listen much, his daughter Vivienne is a manic depressive, his father Marko is a Croatian refugee with a secret that could destroy Ziggi''s career, and his sister Connie is as strong-minded as Ziggi, but with opinions and solutions worlds apart. When Zehra, a Turkish housekeeper with a moral core diametrically opposed to Ziggi, enters the fray, the simplistic contradictions of Ziggi''s world view look set to implode in this latest satire from Australia''s most popular playwright. (2 acts, 3 male, 4 female). OPERATOR -- What would a Machiavellian do if he found himself the melpoyee of medium-sc
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