Modern Classics – serie
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281 produkter
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Av Dario Fo
Häftad, 1987
177 kr
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In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it …
Prophets
Häftad, 2001
303 kr
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"This book has monumental stature. It is fresh and vivid. . . aflame with prophetic vision." —James Muilenburg From the author of Man is Not Alone and God in Search of Man, comes Abraham Heschel's 1962 masterpiece of Biblical scholarship, The Prophets. Abraham J. Heschel's The Prophets, originally …
Hostage
Häftad, 1959
202 kr
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An essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is …
Sophokles Antigone
Av Sophocles
Häftad, 2026
163 kr
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"A marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight" - Arts DeskWhen her dead brother is decreed a traitor, Antigone refuses to leave his body unburied. Defying her uncle's governance she forges ahead with the funeral alone, placing personal allegiance …
Private Lives
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 2023
203 kr
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"Noel Coward's glittering gem" - The TimesElyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, recently divorced from one another after a five-year marriage, coincidentally arrive at the same French hotel... where they are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses. Jarred by this encounter, Elyot and Amanda …
Girls and Boys
Av Dennis Kelly
Häftad, 2021
203 kr
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"A piece that takes us on an extraordinary journey … The energy and the vividness of the writing never lets up." The IndependentAn unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have …
Crime Passionnel
Häftad, 1961
202 kr
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"A highly entertaining political political thriller...the play shows where that peculiarly Gallic combinations of sex, politics and suspense has its origins" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Crime Passionnel reflects Sartre's fascination with the mentality and morality of Communism in its story of a …
Educating Rita
Häftad, 2001
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
177 kr
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Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday Times Educating Rita premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, …
Threepenny Opera
Av Bertolt Brecht, John Willett m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
215 kr
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Based on John Gay''s eighteenth century Beggar''s Opera , The Threepenny Opera , first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf …
Ink
Av James Graham
Häftad, 2020
203 kr
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I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the best stories are true.Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises.James Graham's ruthless, red-topped play leads with the birth of this country's most influential newspaper – when a young and …
Taste Of Honey
Häftad, 1959
177 kr
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A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961. The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with those about her - her irresponsible, roving mother …
Antigone
Av Jean Anouilh
Häftad, 1960
200 kr
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Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens …
Spring Awakening
Häftad, 1980
202 kr
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Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a century before it received its first complete performance in Britain, at the National Theatre in 1974. …
Desdemona
Häftad, 2024
177 kr
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'This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.' The GuardianRipped from the world by her husband's paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African maid who raised her: together, they explore the contours of death, race, war, love and motherhood, in …
Speed The Plow
Av David Mamet
Häftad, 1989
202 kr
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"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success in "a brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity." …
Oh What A Lovely War
Av Theatre Workshop, Joan Littlewood
Häftad, 1967
177 kr
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Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. It won the …
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Av Bertolt Brecht, John Willett m. fl.
Häftad, 1963
202 kr
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Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. …
Saved
Av Edward Bond
Häftad, 2000
177 kr
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Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the …
Death and the King's Horseman
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1975
216 kr
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Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play …
What The Butler Saw
Av Joe Orton
Häftad, 1969
202 kr
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"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to …
Messingkauf Dialogues
Av Bertolt Brecht, John Willett
Häftad, 2002
202 kr
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Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the Brechtian Philosopher who wants to exploit their …
Threepenny Opera
Av Bertolt Brecht, John Willett m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
200 kr
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Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - …
Mother Courage and Her Children
Av Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
200 kr
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In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not …
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Av Joe Orton
Häftad, 2001
173 kr
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Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a year before Joe Orton's untimely death - that …
Loot
Av Joe Orton
Häftad, 1967
202 kr
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A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put …
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Av Bertolt Brecht, John Willett m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
202 kr
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Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - …
Woza Albert!
Av Barney Simon, Mbongeni Ngema m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
199 kr
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Woza Albert! is based on one dazzlingly simple idea - that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa. This brilliant two-man show from the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, took the Edinburgh Festival then London by storm in September 1982, playing to standing …
Our Day Out
Häftad, 1984
177 kr
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Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. 'The skill and zest of the show ...derive from its success in following the adult …
Glengarry Glen Ross
Av David Mamet
Häftad, 1984
170 kr
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First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.
Top Girls
Häftad, 1984
179 kr
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Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist …
