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Kane: Complete Plays
Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin
Av Sarah Kane
Häftad, 2001
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
369 kr
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When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was hailed jointly as a masterpiece and a 'disgusting piece of filth' (Daily Mail). Subsequently that play, and the others that followed, have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes Kane's never-before-published …
Ravenhill Plays: 1
Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ...He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a …
Levy Plays: 1
Pax; Clam; The B File; Pushing the Prince into Denmark; Macbeth False Memory; Honey Baby
Av Deborah Levy
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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____________________THE FIRST COLLECTION OF PLAYS BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S LEADING WRITERS____________________This stunning collection of plays from the talented Deborah Levy includes Pax; Clam; The B File; Pushing the Prince into Denmark; Honey, Baby; and Macbeth: False Memories.'[Levy] does not deal …
Churchill Plays: 1
Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine
Häftad, 1985
378 kr
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In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of …
Fo Plays: 1
Mistero Buffo; Accidental Death...; Trumpets and Raspberries; Virtuous Burglar; One Was Nude...
Av Dario Fo, Stuart Hood
Häftad, 1992
378 kr
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Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and …
Handke Plays: 1
Offending the Audience;My Foot My Tutor;Self Accusation;Kaspar;Lake Constance;They are Dying Out
Av Peter Handke
Häftad, 1997
378 kr
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Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement) Offending the Audience is "a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre." Self-Accusation is "a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral …
Soyinka Plays: 2
A Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Scourge of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New …
Shepard Plays: 1
The Unseen Hand; Chicago; Icarus's Mother; Red Cross; Cowboys; Operation Sidewinder; Killer's Head
Av Sam Shepard
Häftad, 1996
382 kr
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Sam Shepard is 'the greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society' (New York magazine) Volume One of Sam Shepard's plays collects fourteen of …
Shepard Plays: 3
A Lie of the Mind; States of Shock; Simpatico
Häftad, 1996
382 kr
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Sam Shepard is 'the greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society' (New York magazine) "A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of …
McDonagh Plays: 1
The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West
Häftad, 1999
378 kr
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Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane Trilogy, one of the great events of the …
Enquist Plays: 1
The Night of Tribades, Rain Snakes, The Hour of the Lynx, The Image Makers
Häftad, 2004
382 kr
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The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwright NIGHT OF THE TRIBADES (1975) centres around the triangular relationship between August Strindberg, the actress Marie Caroline David and Siri von Essen. It has been translated into twenty languages including a short run on Broadway. …
Edgar Plays: 1
Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Mary Barnes; Saigon Rose; O Fair Jerusalem; Destiny
Av David Edgar
Häftad, 1997
382 kr
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This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs is an adaptation of the famous South African writer's diaries and deals with solitary confinement and loneliness - "a remarkable, persuasive picture." (Observer); Mary Barnes is based in a commune …
Bond Plays: 3
Bingo; The Fool; The Woman; Stone
Av Edward Bond
Häftad, 1987
382 kr
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The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti This collected volume contains three plays which …
Bond Plays: 2
Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion
Av Edward Bond
Häftad, 1978
382 kr
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The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti Lear - "Bond's greatest (and biggest) play ...It …
Brenton Plays: 1
Christie in Love; The Churchill Play; Weapons of Happiness; Epsom Downs; Sore Throats; Magnificence
Häftad, 1986
382 kr
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Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists Christie in Love is based on the story of John Christie, the 19th century serial killer, "like Genet, [Brenton] feels for the outcast...But he's less sentimentally involved with his criminals, clearer about his ultimate …
Bond Plays: 1
Saved; Early Morning; The Pope's Wedding
Av Edward Bond
Häftad, 1977
382 kr
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"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ...the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ...Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent) Saved - "The most uncompromising, original and un-English English play of the sixties" (Observer); Early Morning - "A …
Soyinka Plays: 1
Brother Jero; Camwood on the Leaves; Death & the King's Horseman; Madmen & Specialists; Opera Wonyosi
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1984
382 kr
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Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' (Independent); Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct' (Observer); Opera Wonyosi, …
Frayn Plays: 1
Alphabetical Order; Donkeys' Years; Clouds; Make and Break; Noises Off
Häftad, 1985
382 kr
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"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman...a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity, and unusual in the way that the two types of women do not become stereotypes" (Daily Telegraph); Donkeys' …
Brenton Plays: 2
The Romans in Britain; Thirteenth Night; The Genius; Bloody Poetry; Greenland
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists The Romans in Britain was the play that brought calls to bring back censorship when it was first staged at the National in 1980. It conjures up "an era that is culturally as well as historically remote which is a …
Barnes Plays: 1
The Ruling Class; Leonardo's Last Supper; Noonday Demons; The Bewitched; Laughter!; Barnes' People: Eight Monologues
Av Peter Barnes
Häftad, 1989
382 kr
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A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times) The Ruling Class "is a scorching and savage tragedy, yet its jokes are innumerable...they throw wide open the windows of your mind, they enlarge your field of vision and they blow away the …
Churchill Plays: 2
Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and …
Poliakoff Plays: 1
Clever Soldiers Hitting Town; City Sugar; Shout Across the River; American Days; Strawberry Fields
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks the mythology of Oxbridge against the background of war; Hitting Town, a powerful play about incest …
Edgar Plays: 2
Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers
Av David Edgar
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark" (New Statesman); In …
Mercer Plays: 1
Where the Difference Begins; A Suitable Case for Treatment; The Governor's Lady; On the Eve of Publication; The Cellar and the Almond Tree; Emma's Time; After Haggerty
Av David Mercer
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers Where the Difference Begins, a naturalist play for television, is about the "difference" between thirties deprivation and fifties affluence, between material prosperity and its accompanying spiritual and political apathy, …
Louise Page Plays: 1
Tissue; Salonika; Real Estate; Golden Girls
Av Louise Page
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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"Louise Page's intimate, emotional dramas open up vast areas of feeling beneath the surface of ordinary lives" (Independent) Tissue: "The tissue of the title is a left breast and lymph node removed during Sally Bacon's mastectomy...Louise Page catalogues Sally's changing attitudes to what her …
Mamet Plays: 1
Duck Variations; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Squirrels; American Buffalo; The Water Engine; Mr Happiness
Av David Mamet
Häftad, 1994
382 kr
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Duck Variations: "A brilliant little play...about two old men sitting on a park bench discussing ducks" (Guardian); Sexual Perversity in Chicago, bar-room banter and sexual exploits in Mamet's home town "sweet sad understanding and utterly believable" (Chicago Daily News); Squirrels is a sequence …
Bond Plays: 4
Worlds with Activists; Restoration; Summer
Av Edward Bond
Häftad, 1992
382 kr
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One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. "Restoration towers like a colossus ...its stylistic wit, moral complexity and theatrical force are of the kind one associates with …
Edgar Plays: 3
Teendreams; Our Own People; That Summer and Maydays
Av David Edgar
Häftad, 1991
382 kr
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"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" (City Limits); Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed revolutionary …
Nichols Plays: 1
Day in the Death of Joe Egg;The National Health; Hearts and Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-me-not Lane
Häftad, 1991
382 kr
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A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the author's experience of having a mentally handicapped child and won the John Whiting Award; The National Health was commissioned by Kenneth Tynan for …
Daniels Plays: 1
Ripen Our Darkness; The Devil's Gateway; Masterpiece; Neaptide; Byrthrite
Häftad, 1991
382 kr
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Ripen Our Darkness was the play that established Sarah Daniels as a writer; The Devil's Gateway carries the flavour of life in Bethnal Green in the 1980s; Masterpieces, Daniels' most controversial play is a radical take on the porn industry and caused outrage among critics - "The play has bite, …
