Dramatik

Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth

Richard Schenkman / 6m, 3f / Drama / Unit Set After history professor John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University, his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation. But they're shocked to ...

The School for Scandal

The best comedy of manners in English, this delightful play brilliantly skewers the affectation and pretentiousness of aristocratic Londoners of the 1770s.

Fuente Ovejuna

A bi-lingual verse translation of one of the greatest plays by the outstanding dramatist of Spain's Golden Age.

India Song

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance ...

Shakespeare On Love

Shakespeare was one of the greatest poets of love in the English language and this book brings together a collection of speeches and exchanges from across his plays and sonnets, providing revealing and enchanting meditations on every aspect of the...

The Tempest

The most poetic and magical of Shakespeare's comedies, this play contrasts lyrical fantasy surrounding the spirit Ariel and the savage Calaban, with a tale of political intrigue focused around Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard liv...

Hollywood's Tennessee - The Williams Films and Postwar America

<p>No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured in such screen adaptations as A Streetcar...

Understanding Chekhov - A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama

Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is also one of the most elusive. Here Donald Rayfield reveals the layers of meaning on which the great dramatist's stories and plays are built. He examine...

The Theatre of Genocide - Four Plays About Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia

In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays - three of which are published here for the first time - that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations: A...

The Stonemason - A Play in Five Acts

A five-act drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, among four generations of a black family. The stonemason's trade is dying out, and the family's unwillingness to preserve its truths has tragic consequences.

Cripple of Inishmaan

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows. B...

The Complete Book of Puppet Theatre

Wilde Complete Plays - The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salome

This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Als...

'Sisters, Brothers' and 'Oginski Polonais'

Two new plays from Sweden and Russia premiered at The Gate in 1996 Sisters, Brothers by Stig Larsson: Three sisters arrange a rare evening together. The intervention of their respective boyfriends produces a night of increasing sexual tension, cru...

Elton Plays: v.1 'Gasping'; 'Silly Cow'; 'Popcorn' - Gasping, Silly Cow and Popcorn

Ben Elton's plays in one volume for the first time Gasping: "...an often hilarious satire on yuppiedom, advertising and corporate greed" (Daily Telegraph); "...the sharpest futuristic comedy since Henceforward, and the best Green co...

The Street of Crocodiles

"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian) The Street of Crocodiles is inspired by the life and stories of P...

'Elektra' - Methuen Student Edition

Euripides takes the old myth of Orestes' and Elektra's revenge on their mother Klytemnestra for their father Agamemnon's murder and reinterprets it in realistic, human terms. This translation was first performed together with 'Orestes and Iphigene...

Monstrous Regiment

A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels The Monstrous Regiment in question is made up of a vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), a troll, Igor (who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too partic...

Tempest

Part of the Everyman series on Shakespeare, this edition provides facing-page text and notes, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and a selection of critical and theatrical responses to the plays over the centuries.

Much Ado About Nothing

Imaginative, exuberant comedy contrasts two pairs of lovers in a witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes.