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'The great importance of these plays is not that we are given many thoughts to further our understanding of anthroposophy, but that we are shown the transforming power of spiritual striving in individual lives, and especially the development in human...

The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141941Author Professor Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

This collection features four new plays about war, tyranny and discrimination by Eastern and Central European writers. Includes the plays The Body of a Woman as a battlefield in the Bosnian war by Matei Visniec, Cordon by Nebojsa Romcevic, When I want to...

Using the Regenerative economic model - also known as Doughnut Economics - Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary approach to both film theory and film practice.This book attempts to answer the questions...

An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, Loose Screws brings together nine previously untranslated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individual and...

'In the morning they'll shut the streets, roll the tanks in and begin the arrests. Everyone who tries to leave will be taken in for days, weeks, years. If I don't board the flight tonight, I'll be here forever.' Middle-aged, middle-management Dasha is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361828Author Dario FoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

For a full understanding of any text, careful consideration must be given to its life in performance. In this rewarding study of four of Chekhov's major plays - Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - J. L. Styan demonstrates the...

A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434457387Author Frank J. MorlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Peter Brook is regarded as one of the most important and influential directors today. In this fascinating study, Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves chronicle Brook's development beginning with his earliest productions and concluding with some of his most...

Lars Noren, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written about 75 plays. While they are regularly performed in Nordic and European countries and have been translated into several languages, English-language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035835Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Though much beloved and widely produced, Moliere's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theatre? Instead of simply dismissing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785438936Author Thomas MiddletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 157g

This is a volume of essays, which examines the relationship between the play and its historical and cultural contexts. Transferring plays from one period or one culture to another is so much more than translating the words from one language into another...

In this 1976 introduction to Brecht's theatre and theory, Ronald Gray explores the dramatist's interacting roles as a committed Marxist seeking to influence audiences and as one of the most innovative craftsmen ever to work in the theatre. Dr Gray traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130594Author Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523329Author Federico Garc a LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In The Story of Lemnos Dimitris Plantzos has written the long history of the relatively unknown and, until recently, somewhat ignored Aegean island of Lemnos. The story is a fascinating narrative, a true chronicle of the place and its people. The book is...

The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573606588Author Maxim GorkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420949070Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

This volume in The German Library includes the following authors and plays, which best represent the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century: -- Georg Kaiser: Gas I and Gas II -- Ernst Toller: Masses and Man -- Gottfried Benn: Ithaka --...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853992568Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Goethe's masterpiece translated by the eminent English poet and translator Louis MacNeice.Book InformationISBN 9780826407252Author Victor LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury...

The Frogs follows interpersonal conflicts between men and women, Greek gods, and the natural and supernatural. Using extraordinary circumstances, the author provides commentary on multiple public figures spanning religion, politics and literature. ...

This is an assessment of the work and influence as a director of Jacques Copeau (1879-1949), who has long been regarded as one of the fathers of twentieth-century French theatre. Along with Antoine and his own pupils Dullin and Jouvet, Copeau is known to...

A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend.About the AuthorThe Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the...

For Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual...

"Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France's best comic dramatist since Moliere. He once said that to make people laugh you have to place your cast in a dramatic situation and then observe them from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480141Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension?...

This is an updated account and comparison of all the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from the outbreak of the Second World War to the opening of the 1990s. In the fifty-year period covered by this book, French theatre has undergone...

A tale for today set in a magical tower block where the water has gone missing and five extraordinary individuals from the east and from the west cross paths on a hot and enchanted evening ending with a moonlit kiss and a homicide. Arabian Night is a...

This 1977 text was the first full study of Erwin Piscator, the German theatrical producer who was prominent in the 1920s and worked after 1945 with the writers Hochhuth, Kipphardt and Weiss. Professor Innes sketches the background of Dadaism and...

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that...

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782491251390Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)...