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Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Two
Suitcase Packers; The Lost Women of Troy; The Labour of Life; Walkers in the Dark; Requiem
Av Hanoch Levin
Häftad, 2020
316 kr
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‘Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.’ David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel’s leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous …
Ostrovsky: Four Plays
Too Clever by Half; Crazy Money; Innocent as Charged; the Storm
Häftad, 2009
334 kr
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"Includes three comedies - Too Clever by Half, Crazy Money, Innocent as Charged - and a tragedy The Storm from the father of Russian drama. Ostrovsky (1823-86) paved the way for twentieth-century stage realism in Russia. These plays are populated by characters that reveal Ostrovsky's talent for …
Mayenburg: Three Plays
Häftad, 2015
349 kr
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Eldorado: Anton’s got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there’s a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what’s he doing forging his boss’s signature? And why has his wife crushed her hands under the …
Botho Strauss: Three Plays
Häftad, 2007
333 kr
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"Includes the plays The Park, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Time and the Room These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Strauss developing an enigmatic, unsettling and uniquely theatrical style. Set in Hamburg, The Park is Strauss's take on A Midsummer Night's Dream. Seven …
Fosse: Plays Five
Av Jon Fosse
Häftad, 2024
346 kr
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Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos and SleepIn their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a common concept of time. The past is recreated through present moments, the future hinted at through …
Aleksander Fredro: Three Plays
Revenge; Virgin's Vows; The Annuity
Av Aleksander Fredro, Noel Clark
Häftad, 1993
381 kr
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The extraordinary career and impressive literary output of the 'Father' of Polish comedy, Aleksander Fredro, are the subject of much celebration in Poland in 1993, the bicentenary of his birth. These new translations by Noel Clark of three of Fredro's best known plays should do much to repair the …
The Boat Plays
The Boat to Hell / The Boat to Purgatory / The Boat to Heaven
Av Gil Vincente
Häftad, 1994
349 kr
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The only collection of plays by "the father of Portuguese theatre" available in English, this deeply religious trilogy judges the whole of humanity at the point of death.
Howard Barker: Plays Eleven
1870; Dans Le Palais Je; Deep Wives / Shallow Animals; Knowledge and a Girl
E-bok, 2020
412 kr
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The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose.Barker's theatre has never sought to reproduce the real world on stage, but 1870 is the first of his …
Robert Icke: Works One
Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; the Wild Duck; the Doctor
Av Robert Icke
E-bok, 2020
359 kr
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Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-awardwinning work.Includes:Oresteia: Orestes' parents are at war. A family drama spanning …
Laura Wade: Plays One
Av Laura Wade
Häftad, 2021
381 kr
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‘If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade…proved that you could radically change both form and content… Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this collection clearly shows, Wade certainly has.’ Aleks …
Fosse: Plays Six
Rambuku; Freedom; Over There, These Eyes; Girl in Yellow Raincoat; Christmas Tree Song; Sea
Av Jon Fosse
Häftad, 2024
346 kr
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Jon Fosse has been called ‘the Beckett of the 21st century’ (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed ‘Waiting for Godot without the gags’. Just as Beckett’s plays — and those of all great playwrights — grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, …
Trash Cuisine & Minsk 2011
Two Plays by Belarus Free Theatre
Av Natalia Kaliada, Nikolai Khalezin
Häftad, 2013
187 kr
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Trash Cuisine is winner of the Impatto Totale Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2013.Trash Cuisine:Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada Devised by Belarus Free Theatre Banned from performing in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre serve up food, music, dance and Shakespeare as they …
Tantalus
The Greek Epic Cycle Retold in Ten Plays
Av John Barton
Häftad, 2014
349 kr
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When theatre began, two and a half millenia ago in ancient Greece, it drew from a well of even older myths, the Great Epic Cycle. These stories and characters from the beginning of our imagination inspired John Barton to write the great cycle of human life, Tantalus, an epic theatre myth for the …
Julia Pascal: Political Plays
Honeypot; Broken English; Nineveh; Woman on the Bridge
Av Julia Pascal
Häftad, 2013
349 kr
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Sex, political violence in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris.Political murder in suburban London.Death, love and homicide in New York.War in the belly of a whale. These are the themes in Julia Pascal's latest collection which takes place in London in 1946, Europe in 1982, Manhattan today and in a whale …
Cherry Orchard
Häftad, 2016
219 kr
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NEW IN PAPERBACKFirst performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov's last 'comedy' still ranks supreme as a human tragedy of …
Dea Loher: Three Plays
Av Dea Loher
Häftad, 2014
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
333 kr
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Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays to be performed in English.Olga’s RoomCommunist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario’s story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow …
Charles Dickens: Adapted by Neil Bartlett
A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations
Häftad, 2013
349 kr
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Using only Charles Dickens’ extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage versions of Dickens have gathered wide critical acclaim. This collection includes:Great Expectations: From its opening image of little Pip, alone on the windswept marshes, to the …
Fosse: Plays Six
Av Jon Fosse
Pocket, 2014
367 kr
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Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed 'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays - and those of all great playwrights - grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, …
Barker: Plays Eight
The Bite of the Night; Brutopia; The Forty; Wonder and Worship in the Dying Ward
Häftad, 2014
333 kr
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The Trojan legend and the character of Helen form the basis for The Bite of the Night. As with all Barker’s mythical and historical works, it is overlaid and undermined by a contemporary narrative, in this instance the search for the origin of the erotic undertaken by the redundant university …
Schimmelpfennig: Plays One
The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass
Häftad, 2014
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
333 kr
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Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing.The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre.Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God …
Toller: Plays Two
Av Ernst Toller
Häftad, 2019
330 kr
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The second collection of plays from the German Expressionist playwright. Includes the plays: The Machine Breakers, The German Hinkemann, The Revenge of the Lover Scorned, Wotan Unbound, Day of the Proletariat and German Revolution.Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was a formative figure in the development …
Theatre Café Plays Three
Av Holger Schober, Ingmar Villqist m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
330 kr
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The third volume in the successful Theatre Café series contains three contemporary European plays in English translation. All fairly short two-handers, the plays make a great volume for teachers and students looking for suitable material to work on in schools, colleges, and youth theatre groups. …
Bhatti: Plays One
Besharam; Behzti; Behud; Fourteen; Khandan
Häftad, 2014
333 kr
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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records when it was produced in 2001. Her second play Behzti (Dishonour) won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2005. Behzti rocked the world of theatre when it was …
Farber: Plays One
Molora; RAM: The Abduction of Sita into Darkness; Mies Julie
Av Yaël Farber
Häftad, 2015
333 kr
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Molora - Based on The Oresteia by AeschylusIn this reworking of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation. Attempts to come to terms with their violent past echo testimonies delivered in Apartheid’s wake throughout South Africa during the Truth and …
Midsummer Mischief
Four Radical New Plays
Av Alice Birch, Timberlake Wertenbaker m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
219 kr
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A volume of four new plays as part of the RSC’s Midsummer Mischief by Alice Birch, E. V. Crowe, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Abi Zakarian.The writers had the famous quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Well-behaved women seldom make history” as an initial provocation and each writer has responded to …
Abi Morgan: Plays One
Tiny Dynamite; Splendour; Tender; Lovesong; 27
Av Abi Morgan
Häftad, 2016
398 kr
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Tiny Dynamite: An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike twice.Splendour: Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of a city, four women wait. They talk: films, Prada, chilli vodka, anything. Outside civil war …
Five Plays by the TEAM
Give Up! Start Over!; A Thousand Natural Shocks; Particularly in the Heartland; Architecting; Mission Drift
Av The Team
Häftad, 2014
333 kr
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Includes the plays: Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope); A Thousand Natural Shocks; Particularly in the Heartland; Architecting; Mission Drift.Founded in 2004, the TEAM is an internationally-acclaimed Brooklyn-based collaborative ensemble. Once described …
Believe/The Man Jesus
Two Plays
Av Matthew Hurt
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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'The effect of the entire creation is perhaps best measured by occasional involuntary gasps coming from the audience…' The StageBELIEVE – Traitor, adulteress, widow and martyr: a contemporary re-imagining of the stories of four female characters from the Old Testament. Re-cast in a psychologically …
Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays
Kissing the Witch; Don't Die Wondering; Trespasses; Ladies and Gentlemen; I Know My Own Heart
Häftad, 2015
349 kr
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The first collection of plays from Booker Prize and Orange Prize finalist and author of international bestseller Room, Emma Donoghue.Contains the plays Kissing the Witch, Don’t Die Wondering, Trespasses, Ladies and Gentlemen, and I Know My Own HeartKISSING THE WITCHAdapted from her book of thirteen …
Abi Morgan: Two Plays
Splendour; Tender
Av Abi Morgan
E-bok, 2016
251 kr
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Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of a city, four women wait. They talk: films, Prada, chilli vodka, anything. Outside civil war looms ever nearer. With wit and delight in the unusual, Splendour encompasses both the cruel veneer of our lives and the beating heart within.In Tender, in a …
