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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881456370Author August StrindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 68g

Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865630Author Lesia UkrainkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

A new Danish play by Line Morkeby shining a light on how we talk about death. A dad loses his six-year-old daughter to cancer, and his world falls apart. He doesn't know how to process the life-shattering void following her premature death. He starts...

The rich legacy of women's contributions to Irish theatre is traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely book, Shonagh Hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573614736Author George TaboriFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again" (New Statesman) In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515435587Author Henrik Johan IbsenFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144270Author Friedrich DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

While providing a critical introduction for the student of Samuel Beckett's work and for other readers and theatre-goers who have been influenced by it, this study also presents an original perspective on one of the twentieth century's greatest writers...

Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy's doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comedie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mrozek and Rozewicz, Polish and...

This volume is a collection of all nine plays Kristof wrote; five full length plays and four shorter plays.This collection contains the plays: John and Joe, The Lift Key, A Passing Rat, The Grey Hour or the Last Client, The Monster, The Road, The...

In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel and...

German playwright Frank Wedekind has profoundly influenced modern drama, and became an inspiration to Brecht and Reinhardt among others. In this extraordinary play, Franziska, a 'female Faust', is consumed by a deep thirst for self-knowledge. She makes...

This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov's major plays-Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and three early one-act farces that inform his later work-The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence...

Nise and Finea are famous beauties. Their father, Don Octavio, a wealthy businessman, is doing his best to marry them off and an exotic collection of determined young suitors are competing for the prizes. The sticking point? Nise, the elder sister, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604594560Author Henrik Johan IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

This is the first full-length study in any language of Bertolt Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director. Professor Fuegi has researched his subject extensively over many years, and this book is the result of interviews with Brecht's closest...

This is the first full-length study in any language of Bertolt Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director. Professor Fuegi has researched his subject extensively over many years, and this book is the result of interviews with Brecht's closest...

Includes The Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) and The Great Highway August Strindberg, the great Swedish dramatist and author, had a profound influence on European drama. His career was...

The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial...

Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille (1606 - 84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career. Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416500384Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

Parents to be Kurt and Martha just want the best for their baby. They're not afraid of hard work ' the latest buggy doesn't come cheap. But when Kurt's boss offers him a chance to make some easy money with a mysterious side job, his rashness catches up...

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does...

The Spanish Golden Age was a period of flourishing in arts and literature, and in particular of drama, in Spain, coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs. This term does not generally imply any great precision about dates, but it...

This is the first book to examine the rise of Spain's extraordinary national theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in all its aspects - the commercial theatre, the court drama and the Corpus autos, the organisation of theatrical life, the...

"Includes the plays Italian Night and Tales from the Vienna Woods Written in 1930s Europe, these plays describe the decay of a society haunted by inflation and succumbing to a rising tide of fascism. In Hampton's translation of Tales from the Vienna...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853994050Author Donald RayfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of Yerma...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853993824Author Gordon McVayFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition...

'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...