Bøger af Michael Pennington

A normal life, Susan truly wondered if she'd ever have one again. A year ago she discovered the truth, that everything she believed about herself and her entire life was a lie. Up until that fateful day, she was an ordinary housewife who was raised in an orphanage, had attended Purdue University and was happily married to a Naval Officer with two children. Then she received a mysterious phone call and nothing was the same. She began to have flashbacks to events she didn't remember and also seemed to suddenly have amazing martial arts and weapons skills. Most importantly, she discovered "the voice", a mysterious person inside her head who began giving information and advice in stressful situations. All of this forced her to look into her past only to discover nothing about her childhood was real, at least not for her. At one time Susan Carlisle had existed. After leaving for college she was "replaced" by Sasha, a trained agent from the Soviet Union. Now Susan knew that she was originally Sasha and the Russians wanted her to start working for them again. She was barely able to keep her family safe as well as ignorant from the truth while she fought the Russians off. A year later, things seemed to have returned to normal. Her family still doesn't know the truth and Susan has neither heard nor seen any indication that they are still looking for her. That is until she receives a mysterious communiqué from Vladimir her old handler and her life is once again thrown into turmoil. She will quickly discover that the agents after her this time are better equipped, trained, and organized than before. It will take all of her skills, many of which she still doesn't fully understand, to protect her secrets, keep her family safe and rescue her friends from danger. She will also gain further insight into the true nature of the voice, the mysterious mission it keeps talking about, and her past.

Plays only release their true meaning on stage. After an introduction to the historical background of Chekhov's play, the reader is conducted scene by scene through the Action of the play, followed by a discussion of the Characters, the Setting, Staging, Lighting, Costumes Props and Furniture.

"Michael Pennington...is sharply intelligent, scrupulously careful, hugely knowledgeable and, above all, wonderfully readable." -The Shakespeare Institute

An original approach to Shakespeare's King Lear: Michael Pennington takes us on a fascinating journey through the play from the point of view of Lear himself and others.

A unique, personal guide to Shakespeare's life and plays told through the experience of one of our leading classical actors.

Loosely based on his popular one-man show, the author illustrates the little we know about Shakespeare's childhood, early marriage, his roles as an actor, with apt quotations from the works.

This widely experienced actor and director takes us scene by scene through Shakespeare's much-performed comedy elucidating how it actually works on stage, what choices are open to performers and what impact of those choices will have.