Fourth Wall – serie
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34 produkter
Parker, Lopez and Stone's The Book of Mormon
Häftad, 2019
242 kr
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'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that year’s Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant return of the American musical. This book explores the inherent achievements (and failures) of The Book of Mormon—one of the most ambitious, and …
Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables
Häftad, 2018
218 kr
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"One more dawn! One more day! One day more!"Did Les Misérables make you miserable? Or did it inspire you? When Sarah Whitfield was a teenager, her Dad frequently embarrassed her with his love of this musical above all others. So, after he was diagnosed with late stage cancer, Whitfield set out to …
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Häftad, 2018
243 kr
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Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years …
Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis
Av Glenn D'Cruz
Häftad, 2018
243 kr
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"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" – 4.48 PsychosisHow on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis’ inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in …
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth
Häftad, 2016
260 kr
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to play this particular scene tonight." - SabinaThornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) telescopes an audacious stretch of western history and mythology into a family drama, showing how the course of human events operates like theatre itself: constantly …
Heiner Müller's The Hamletmachine
Häftad, 2016
243 kr
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"I’m good Hamlet gi’me a cause for grief"At first glance, readers of The Hamletmachine (1979) could be forgiven for wondering whether it is actually a play at all: it opens with a montage of texts that are not ascribed to a character, there is no vestige of a plot, and the whole piece lasts a total …
Playboy of the Western World
Häftad, 2016
243 kr
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‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of …
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Häftad, 2020
243 kr
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"Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!" - Bynum WalkerAugust Wilson considered Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite play of the ten in his award-winning Pittsburgh Cycle. It is a drama that truly examines the roots, crossroads, and intersections of African, …
Alistair McDowall's Pomona
Häftad, 2017
243 kr
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‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and …
Davies and Penhall's Sunny Afternoon
Av John Fleming
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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When ‘You Really Got Me’ exploded on Swinging London in 1964, the Kinks forever changed the course of rock ’n’ roll. Ray Davies and Joe Penhall’s Olivier Award-winning Sunny Afternoon (2014) covers the band’s formative years of 1964–7, when four working- class North London lads broke through to …
Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods
Av Olaf Jubin
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood.’ – All togetherIn 1987, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt, this musical explores what it …
Mitchell and Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Häftad, 2019
218 kr
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'… love creates something that was not there before.' – HedwigJohn Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened on Valentine’s Day,1998, in New York City, and ever since, it and its genderqueer heroine have captivated audiences around the world. As the first musical to …
Alistair McDowall's Pomona
Inbunden, 2018
2896 kr
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‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and …
Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
Av Daniel Sack
Inbunden, 2017
3015 kr
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"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - KrappSamuel Beckett‘s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century‘s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp‘s Last Tape (1958) with a …
Davies and Penhall's Sunny Afternoon
Av John Fleming
Inbunden, 2017
3535 kr
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WhenYou Really Got Me exploded on Swinging London in 1964, the Kinks forever changed the course of rockn roll. Ray Davies and Joe Penhall‘s Olivier Award-winning Sunny Afternoon (2014) covers the bands formative years of 1964-7, when four working- class North London lads broke through to become one …
Oak Tree
Inbunden, 2017
3165 kr
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You will see no false nothing false tonight the Hypnotist Tim Crouch's second play collapses a tale of loss and grief into an exploration of theatrical representation, in a piece of theatre that is at once formally innovative and profoundly moving. Written for two actors, An Oak Tree depicts the …
Heiner Müller's The Hamletmachine
Inbunden, 2017
3165 kr
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""I'm good Hamlet gi'me a cause for grief""At first glance, readers of The Hamletmachine (1979) could be forgiven for wondering whether it is actually a play at all: it opens with a montage of texts that are not ascribed to a character, there is no vestige of a plot, and the whole piece lasts a …
Harold Pinter's Party Time
Av White G. D.
Häftad, 2016
243 kr
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‘All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.’ TerryHarold Pinter’s Party Time (1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwright’s key concerns. Pulsing with political anger, it marks a stepping stone on Pinter’s path from iconic dramatist of existential unease to Nobel …
Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes
Häftad, 2018
218 kr
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‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?’-PeterThis book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre’s finest ‘lost’ plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater’s work from the blinkered …
Sondheim and Wheeler's Sweeney Todd
Av Aaron Thomas
Häftad, 2018
218 kr
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Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre – but eight Tony awards and enormous successes on Broadway and the West End testify to its enduring popularity with audiences. Written by Hugh …
Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original …
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
Häftad, 2018
730 kr
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‘Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe!’ – Peter PanPeter Pan is a narrative many of us believe we know well, and yet the J.M. Barrie play that premiered on a West End stage in December 1904 is not the depiction of Peter, Wendy, Hook, and Never Land that most people have …
Oak Tree
Häftad, 2017
243 kr
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You will see no false nothing false tonight the Hypnotist Tim Crouch's second play collapses a tale of loss and grief into an exploration of theatrical representation, in a piece of theatre that is at once formally innovative and profoundly moving. Written for two actors, An Oak Tree depicts the …
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
Häftad, 2020
243 kr
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'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow,Bloom and grow forever'Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music has proven an enduringly popular and surprisingly influential cultural icon, both within the field of musical theatre and the wider world. The …
Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady
Häftad, 2016
218 kr
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"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him." - HenryGeorge Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his "to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own." Allowing his beloved Pygmalion to …
Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
Av Daniel Sack
Häftad, 2016
243 kr
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"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - KrappSamuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century’s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) with a …
Georg Büchner's Woyzeck
Häftad, 2019
243 kr
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'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- WoyzeckGeorg Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author’s death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first ‘modern’ drama in the history of European theatre. Its fragmentary form and critical …
Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Inbunden, 2018
2557 kr
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Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original …
Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis
Av Glenn D'Cruz
Inbunden, 2018
2855 kr
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"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" – 4.48 PsychosisHow on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis’ inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in …
Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes
Inbunden, 2019
2557 kr
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‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?’-PeterThis book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre’s finest ‘lost’ plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater’s work from the blinkered …
