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65 produkter
Medea
Av Euripides
Häftad, 2022
148 kr
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'She's chucked out like an old coat that nae langer fits him…'Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and unsympathetic society. Now Jason has a plan to better integrate himself. Unfortunately, this involves …
John Gabriel Borkman
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2022
165 kr
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John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback.Downstairs, his estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. When her …
Othello
Häftad, 2022
152 kr
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Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century.In a world of broken glass and shattered promises, of poisonous manipulation and explosive violence, Othello's passionate affair with Desdemona becomes the …
Macbeth
Av William Shakespeare, Max Webster
Häftad, 2023
179 kr
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'O, full of scorpions is my mind.'The spellbinding story of love and murder, power and paranoia, and the internal struggles of a married couple as they try to control their destiny, and one another…This official tie-in edition to the Donmar Warehouse's acclaimed 2023 revival of Shakespeare's …
Enemy of the People
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2024
152 kr
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When Dr Stockmann makes a disturbing discovery about the healing waters in his local baths, he holds the future of the whole town in his hands. But doubt spreads faster than disease, and those with everything to lose refuse to accept his word. Soon, a battle is raging – and it goes far beyond …
Player Kings
Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts 1 & 2
Häftad, 2024
165 kr
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The crown meets the criminals. Welcome to England.Hal wasn't born to be king. Only now, it seems, he will be. His father longs for him to leave behind his friends in the taverns of Eastcheap, most notably the infamous John Falstaff. War is on the horizon. But will Hal ever come good?Adapted by …
Doll's House
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2024
149 kr
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'Nobody in this house knows what I'm capable of.'With a comfortable home, successful husband and two beautiful children, Nora Helmer is the envy of many. But her happy home is built on false foundations. As long-buried secrets begin to surface, Nora wonders if what she has is the same as what she …
Oedipus
Av Sophocles
Häftad, 2025
152 kr
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'Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed.'According to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new ruler, …
Elektra
Av Sophokles
Häftad, 2025
152 kr
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'There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing.'Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is tormented by grief; a fierce instinct for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long-lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to take savage and …
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Av Bernard Shaw, Dominic Cooke
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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'I am my mother's daughter. I am like you. But my work is not your work, and my way is not your way.'Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Estranged from her wealthy mother, she delights in a glass of whisky and a good detective story, and is determined to carve herself a sparkling legal …
Dance of Death
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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'He's a vampire. He sucks the life out of people because his own life bores him so much.'A plague rages across Europe. On a remote island, former actress Alice and army officer Captain Edgar are quarantined together – locked in a bitter, brutal and compulsive marriage.When an old friend arrives to …
Summerfolk
Av Maxim Gorky
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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'I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.'It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreats to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When you're having …
Romeo & Juliet
Av William Shakespeare, Robert Icke
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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'In a minute there are many days.'In Verona, in the height of summer, two young people meet at a party. The rest is tragedy.Shakespeare's electrifying and timeless tale of love was brought to life in a new production directed by Robert Icke, which premiered at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in …
Cherry Orchard
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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'My life has no sense or meaning without this place.'When Lyubov Ranevskaya returns to her childhood estate after years abroad, she finds her family home and beloved cherry orchard under threat.As old loyalties falter and new ambitions rise, a world of privilege begins to crumble. Can Lyubov …
Life is a Dream
Häftad, 2009
202 kr
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A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.'If I'm asleep, don't let me wake. If this is real, don't let me dream.'To protect the country from the horrors …
Ghosts
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2013
161 kr
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Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is …
Medea
Av Euripides
Häftad, 2010
160 kr
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Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children.Featuring one of the most powerful female roles in the history of drama, Euripides' tragedy Medea is reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern …
Master Builder
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2010
176 kr
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An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.Part psychological thriller, part Gothic tragedy, Henrik Ibsen's late masterwork is a compelling portrait of one man's obsessive determination, and what might lie on the darker side of ambition.Halvard Solness, the leading architect of his …
Luise Miller
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.Born into ancient nobility and son of the most powerful statesman in the land, Ferdinand is willing to forsake his fortune for the love of Luise, daughter of a humble musician. But …
Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
Av D H Lawrence
Häftad, 2012
67 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceAn intense and powerful drama, set in a Nottinghamshire mining town.Elizabeth Holroyd is an educated woman with refined sensibilities, struggling to make a good home for her two children in the grime and poverty of a Nottinghamshire …
House of Bernarda Alba
Häftad, 2012
84 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceFederico García Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her …
Woman Killed with Kindness
Av Thomas Heywood, Trevor Griffiths
Häftad, 2011
75 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people.Thomas Heywood's play A Woman Killed with Kindness strips bare two women's lives, with forensic realism. It …
League of Youth
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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Ibsen's political comedy in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.Bratsberg is a man of tradition. He thinks manners, knowledge and education are the foundations of a good society, but are his values dated? Monsen is an entrepreneur who believes success comes from hard work, but can he be …
Anna Christie
Häftad, 2011
214 kr
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Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman’s longing to forget the dark secrets of her past and hope for salvation.Exiled from her home by the Old Devil Sea to the inland plains, Anna Christie’s life changed for ever at just five years of age. …
Chekhov: Shorts
Häftad, 2014
202 kr
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This collection features Chekhov’s best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as ‘vaudevilles’ and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. ‘I don’t much care for theatre,’ …
Liolà
Av Tanya Ronder
Häftad, 2013
191 kr
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A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.Sicily, summer 1916. The women gather to harvest old Simone's almond crop. He's the richest landowner in the district but he has no heir. …
Roaring Girl
Av Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton
Häftad, 2014
160 kr
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A hilarious city comedy by the authors of A Mad World, My Masters and The Shoemaker's Holiday.Sebastian has a problem. He's in love with a girl but his father won't agree to their marriage. In desperation he turns to the one person who can help him, the fearless and feisty 'roaring girl' Moll …
White Devil
Av John Webster
Häftad, 2014
160 kr
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A violent tragedy, regarded as one of the great works of Jacobean theatre.Duke Bracciano is besotted by the beautiful Vittoria. When he makes her an indecent proposal she can't refuse, she enlists the help of Flaminio to fool her husband, and begins an illicit affair.But Vittoria and Flaminio soon …
Witch of Edmonton
Av Thomas Dekker, John Ford m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
160 kr
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In the village of Edmonton, Elizabeth Sawyer is shunned by her neighbours. A poor and lonely old woman, she is harassed and accused of being a witch. In her abject misery, she wishes that she really were bewitched and so able to have her revenge. Unluckily for Elizabeth and the villagers of …
Hedda Gabler
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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A wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny?Mark O'Rowe's fluid yet faithful adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece …
