Michael Weller

Doctor Zhivago is a heartbreaking epic romance set during the final daysof Czarist Russia. Raised as an aristocrat Zhivago is a political idealist physician and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is tornbetween a life with his close childhood friend and wife and the passionateand mysterious Lara. Zhivago however is not alone in his yearnings for Lara and must compete with both revolutionaries and aristocracy alike to win theheart of the woman he cannot live without.

Patients with pain emanating from their spines represent some of the most frequent and challenging cases for physical therapists. Here is a comprehensive and practical introduction to the management of back pain and restricted spinal function caused by intervertebral disk damage. The authors provide evidence-based, clinically oriented strategies for the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of disk injury in the lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spinal regions. The text gives an overview of research studies on the effects of physical therapy on back pain, step-by-step guidance on examination and conservative and postoperative physical therapy procedures, and detailed discussion of rehabilitation and prevention of further disk damage. Key Features:Extensive coverage of examination, from patient history to tests for assessing spinal movement to nerve conductionPrecise instructions and useful pointers on treatment methods aid in daily practiceChapter on basic principles of anatomy, physiology, and epidemiology offer foundational knowledgeCrucial information on approaches for rehabilitation and injury prevention, including strengthening, coordination exercises, and conditioningCase studies present clinical examples that guide the reader through the full course of therapy70 clear line drawings illustrate how to maintain correct posture; avoid poor posture; and protect and train muscles, nerves, and joints Physical Therapy for Intervertebral Disk Disease is a complete guide to the diagnosis and physiotherapeutic treatment of problems resulting from intervertebral disk damage. Practitioners and students of physical therapy, rehabilitation medicine, and occupational therapy will read this book cover to cover and refer to it regularly when working to relieve back pain and restore full capacity in their patients.

""Fifty Words" has a gimlet eye, providing meticulously chosen, artfully integrated details that let us understand why its characters so love and loathe each other. Like Mr. Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" it understands how closely hate and love can be linked in marriage."--"The New York Times"In "Fifty Words," a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; "What the Night Is For" dramatizes Adam's infidelity at a hotel with former lover Melinda; and in "Side Effects," Melinda and her husband Hugh come to terms with their broken relationship. Michael Weller has written over forty dramatic works, including the plays "Moonchildren," "Fishing," "Loose Ends," and "Beast," and the screenplays for "Hair" and "Ragtime."

Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 4 female Set in the turbulent 1970's, this bittersweet romance by the author of Moonchildren and Spoils of War, starred Kevin Kline at Circle-In-The-Square on Broadway. Paul is a Peace Corps dropout and Susan is in freefall when they meet on a beach in Bali. Later in Boston, they live together and then marry. Separating briefly, then reconciling in a New York penthouse, she has become a successful photographer; he a successful film editor. Paul wants children and

Comic drama / Characters: 7 male, 4 or 5 femaleScenery: Various sets or unit setAfter showing dazzling promise in school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman suffered a breakdown and quit film making. Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up five years later with a horror film project he wants his friend to direct. Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams. Dan doesn't realize how t

Drama / Characters: 3 male 3 femaleScenery: Interior spacesThe author of Loose Ends and Moonchildren dramatizes the desperate attempts of a 16 year-old boy to reconcile his divorced parents a somber chronicle about disillusionment of people whose hopes and dreams are tainted by the prism of time. The events of the 1950's are explored through the eyes of Martin's parents radicals who have chosen very different ways to cope with the changed and changing times. Elise is still a bohemian a

Two former lovers, now both married, meet in a hotel room away from their homes. Their given reasons are plain: both are in town and want to share a meal. But each has hidden motives which will only emerge with time. The result is a night of honesty and deceit, passion, hope and regret. Michael Weller's new play addresses timeless questions - 'Am I with the right person? Or are they still out there, living another life?' - in a fresh and lively way. Uncompromising in its attitude to modern marriage and infidelity, What the Night is For digs deep into the emotional exchanges between individuals with much to lose but even more to gain. It premiered in London's West End in a production starring Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam.