Wasatch County Library

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...

Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.

Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.

William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...

When the wicked, unhappy Snow Queen kills the wizard who is her only remaining threat and kidnaps his son Kai it's up to Kai's sister Gerda to rescue him and save the world from eternal frost. Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Left motherless by tragedy and abandoned by his father, high school senior Seth McArdle has been put under enormous pressure to support his little sisters. At school, he endures the daily bullying of the football team. When he fights back, he's singled out for punishment, assigned to an after-school work detail under the supervision of a reserved groundskeeper, Abel. Much to his surprise, Seth discovers that Abel may be the only one who truly understands...

Lola and Lotta are practicing their song for the school concert. Then Lola gets a fit of the hiccups. At first it's very funny, but soon she just wants her hiccups to go away. Everyone tries to help Lola get rid of her hiccups, but will they go before the big performance?

The story of the lively, precocious and very eligible Bennet girls captures all the nuances of 19th century life among the English gentry, a society obsessed with profitable marriage contracts.

"When the Germans mount an air attack on their quiet village, fourteen-year-old Agnes and nine-year-old Ollie are separated from the rest of their family as they are shuttled to supposed safety with a friend of their grandfather's. As weeks turn into months at a Red Cross refugee camp, the children wonder if they will ever see their mother, father, and grandfather again. But with Christmas coming, Agnes does her best to help Ollie hold on to hope--and...

While watching her baby brother, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, wishes the goblins from her favorite book would take him away, and when he actually disappears, she is told by the wicked Goblin King that she has thirteen hours to solve the labyrinth or her brother will be turned into a goblin. Includes commentary, production featurette, and other special features.