adaptations

Retells the fairy tale of Cinderella with the twist that Cinderella is a necromancer and must use black magic to free herself from her wicked step-mother and sisters. However, this power and evil will cost Cinderella in the end.

J.R.R. Tolkien's narrative poem, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.

Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When her father goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the Beast he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. As Yeva hunts, she finds a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures she's only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?.

In this You Choose adventure Little Red Riding Hood can be a girl in an urban park, a boy in the middle of a war, or the more traditional girl in the forest--the choice is up to the reader.

Relates the exploits of King Arthur and his knights from the birth of Arthur to the destruction of Camelot.

A literary tour de force about the making of a film and representation from a master of the memoir form. For Nick Flynn, that game we all play?the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game?has been resolved. The Reenactments chronicles the surreal experience of being on set during the making of the film Being Flynn, from his best-selling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and watching the central events of his life reenacted: his father's long run of homelessness and his mother's suicide. Flynn tells the story of Robert De Niro's first meeting with his real father in Boston and of watching Julianne Moore attempt to throw herself into the sea. The result is a mesmerizingly sharp-edged and kaleidoscopic literary tour de force as well as a compelling argument about consciousness, representation, and grief.

Using the magical and mythic language of classic stories from around the world, Fairy Tales takes familiar myths and folktales and turns them into stories about men coming out, learning to trust themselves, looking for and finding love, facing AIDS, and helping those they love. Drawing upon traditional sources like the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, master storyteller Peter Cashorali weaves magical tales for gay men and their friends. Not parodies or jokes, these witty "teaching tales" touch upon contemporary issues--including coming out, AIDS, and aging--that affect the psyches of gay men today.

Presents sixteen original readers theater scripts for young adults adapted from classic works of English literature, including "Little Women," and "Frankenstein," each with an introduction, background information, suggestions for presentation and props, and character studies.

In an alternate take on the classic fairy tale, Belle, trapped in the Beast's enchanted castle, discovers that her estranged mother was the one who placed a spell on the Beast so many years ago.