TODAY’S WORD — OBVIATES (OBVIATES: OB-vee-ates: Anticipates and prevents something; makes unnecessary.) Average mark 29 words Time limit 45 minutes Can you find 42 or more words in OBVIATES? The list ...

TODAY’S WORD — MARPLOT (MARPLOT: MAR-plot: One who frustrates or ruins a plan by meddling.) Average mark 29 words Time limit 45 minutes Can you find 37 or more words in MARPLOT? The list will be ...

The Busy Body (1709) is one of the many plays written by Susanna Centlivre. Centlivre is often referred to by critics and historians as the most successful female writer on the 18th-century English ...

IT’S likely that most theatregoers have never heard of Marplot, the central character in Susanna Centlivre’s 1709 hit play The Busy Body. As played by Zak Ghazi-Torbati with a delightful comic ...

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Abstract: Air is the fresh breeze to sustain the lifestyle of all living being on the earth. Fresh air gives healthy living and the prime factor of survival and existence. Air pollution is a main ...

In the new book Space Story, a pair of teens named Kay and Bobby manage to escape from a dying Earth… But that’s just the beginning of their story, which finds the two on the intergalactic run from ...

Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance is finally back live, and they kicked off this season with a hilarious performance of “The Busie Body,” at the Tucker Theatre on ...

From the backyards of the American suburbs to a fantasy world where dwarves, fairies, and dragons are real, the new book Dwarf Story promises to take readers on a journey where homework and cell ...

t has been more than 80 years since Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre changed a lot of theatrical thinking with their production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a staging that used a contemporary ...