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"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) The plays shine...

This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved...

Guilty or not guilty? Enter the courtroom, hear the evidence, make your judgement.A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down the plane killing 164 people to save 70,000.Put...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519247Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544504Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486420929Author Lope De VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics.In Ghosts, Osvald Alving...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics.In Ghosts, Osvald Alving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151100Author Eugene IonescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of...

This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal to joual. The play, a landmark in Canadian theatre, can...

Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977654Author Torquato TassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573617546Author DurrenmattFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880014205Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420962017Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A new sparkling and witty version by Roger McGough of Moliere's comedy published as a programme text to accompany the premiere at the Liverpool Everyman on 9 May 2008. Tartuffe is a beacon of piety and in the home of wealthy merchant Orgon he has his...

Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful. 'Owing glancing debts to Mary Shelley and HG...

Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015467Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic...

Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights. 'They've mobilised all the living now, the fifth call took the last of the living. But...

Includes the plays Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive! Preface by Charles Wood. Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism, yet his plays have not been available in English since the 1920s and...

Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother...

Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group of international renown. The group is made of young creators who explore the space between theatre and performance, writing their own texts from a strong basic concept and adapting...

A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is based on careful research into the work of the...

First publication in English of France's most successful contemporary playwright Don Juan on Trial: 'Brilliant dialogue' (Le Figaro); The Visitor: 'An overwhelming triumph ...a masterpiece' (Paris Match); 'Sharp, biting, unexpected and cunning' Le...

August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power - both written in the summer of 1888 - in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton. Miss Julie begins as a flirtatious game between the daughter of a wealthy landowner and...

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade...

This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more...

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) Includes three of...

A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research...

You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential.Promiscuous, pitiless and bored,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951587799Author Sian EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530370Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434457288Author Edmond GuiraudFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788490077313Author Alejandro CasonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint LinkguaPublisher LinkguaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

A poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several "Sacre Rappresentazioni" - one-act plays on Christian...

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...

A collection of translated plays from Tolstoy.Book InformationISBN 9780810113954Author L.N. TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...