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Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
£13.10This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. In this Russian comedy, a young traveller in a provincial town is mistaken for a government... -
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays Matei Visniec 9780857422200
RRP: £34.00£29.15Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesses of... -
Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor by Krzysztof Miklaszewski
RRP: £135.00£117.28An invaluable collection of documents and discussions of the work of one of the most significant theatre practitioners of the last fifty years. This unique set of reminiscences, written by one of the actors who worked closely with Kantor over a long... -
The Theatres of Moliere Gerry McCarthy 9780415259477
RRP: £39.99£35.06Moliere's plays are the cornerstone of the French Classical dramatic repertoire. Adapted and exploited in his day by dramatists of the English Restoration, they are now again growing in popularity. In this detailed and fascinating volume, Gerry McCarthy... -
Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre version) by Mark O'Rowe
RRP: £9.99£7.27A 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... -
Moliere in Context by Jan Clarke
£85.36The definitive guide to Moliere's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £7.99£5.79Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Nora's slamming the door as she... -
Three Danish Comedies Johan Ludvig Heiberg 9781840020601
£9.61Includes the plays No, Jeppe of the Hill and The Scatterbrain Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) and Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) were two of the very few dramatists for whom Henrik Ibsen professed admiration. Heiberg's apocalyptic comedy A Soul after Death... -
Giorgio Strehler by David Hirst
RRP: £30.99£21.89For at least the last half-century, Strehler has been an influential and integral part of European theatrical life; today he is most closely associated with the Teatro Piccolo in Milan, Italy's foremost repertory theatre. Outside Italy, Strehler is best... -
Horvath: Two Plays: Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Figaro Gets Divorced by I. Huish 9780948230394
£16.64" Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Figaro Gets Divorced Two modern classics by Austrian dramatist, Odon von Horvath. Hampton's Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed at the Royal National Theatre. Figaro Gets Divorced, in which an... -
Walk About the Villages: A Dramatic Poem by Peter Handke 9781572410008
RRP: £15.99£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410008Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 234g -
The Swastika and the Stage: German Theatre and Society, 1933-1945 by Gerwin Strobl
RRP: £36.99£29.35Based on extensive archival research, this is a comprehensive study of theatre in the Third Reich. It explores the contending pressures and ambitions within the regime and the Nazi party, within the German theatre profession itself and the theatre-going... -
Max Reinhardt by John L. Styan
RRP: £30.99£22.85Max Reinhardt (1873-1943), one of the major theatre figures of the twentieth century, was among the first to establish the importance of the director in modern theatre. His fame outside Germany rests somewhat unfairly on his distorted image as producer... -
The Russian Theatre after Stalin by Anatoly Smeliansky 9780521587945
RRP: £37.99£32.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Numbered by Elias Canetti 9780714528144
RRP: £10.95£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528144Author Elias CanettiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Vinaver Plays: v. 1: "Overboard"; "Situation Vacant"; "Dissident", "Goes without Saying"; "Nina", "That's Something Else"; "A Smile on" by Michel Vinaver 9780413717801 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99£3.10The first collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrights Overboard: "Combines Shakespearian tragedy, Aristophanic farce and a Chekhovian drama of lives consumed and memories that fade." Le Progres, Situation Vacant: "The play builds to... -
Aeschylus' Agamemnon in Scots William Imray 9781804251607
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 1, Plays: Volume 1 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 9780226836683
RRP: £20.00£17.00These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the...