Plays & Playwrights 94

First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of……続きを見る

Tra Leone Gala, che si atteggia a filosofo cinico e Silia, sua moglie, dal carattere superficiale e capriccioso, che odia i discorsi intrisi di logica stringente del marito, si trova nel mezzo, come……続きを見る

This book is an exploration and critique of 'playback theatre', a form of improvised theatre in which a company of performers spontaneously enact autobiographical stories told to them by members of ……続きを見る

Rebels with a Cause is a comprehensive guide to working with adolescents using action techniques and drama therapy. Drawing on years of experience working with adolescents and of training practition……続きを見る

Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. First performed in classical Athens in , it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the wom……続きを見る

Known internationally as an award-winning Québecois novelist, Marie-Claire Blais has remained hidden as a dramatist from Anglophone readers. Nigel Spencer's first-ever translation recreates Blais' d……続きを見る

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebra……続きを見る

Extrait :  La comédie intitulée la Cassette, est une de celles que le temps a le plus maltraitées. La découverte de  nombreux fragments que M. Angelo Mai a extr……続きを見る

I just remember, even as a, as a young . . . man, not even man, just a boy . . . when nothing makes sense, and you're not sure who you are . . . the idea of – the strength of the person that stands ……続きを見る

Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political an……続きを見る

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides’s Medea has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against……続きを見る

"A raging flood develops in the North Woods leaving the south bank slightly underwater forcing most of its creatures to cross over the river to the North Bank or seek high ground. Newborn fox cub Fo……続きを見る

"Life has its immortals from an experimental lab to cues to a petri dish for mice, to stem cells of an embryo that were slice in life, still forever the weather but twice. Life has its totipotency t……続きを見る

  Extrait: Une noce L’action se passe dans une des salles du traiteur Andronov. Salle brillamment éclairée. Grande table mise pour le souper. Autour de la table s’affairent des g……続きを見る

Because power is fragile, it requires you naked. That is why the most powerful people in the world have sex in hotels. In fact, having sex in the best hotels makes you powerful. It doesn't matter ho……続きを見る

If you go, I don't think you should come back. On a startlingly bright autumn night in 2006, Harper Regan walked away from her home, her husband and daughter, and kept walking. She told nobody that ……続きを見る

Nothing is stronger than this love, for I am nothing indeed without you, Master Awoken from his deathbed by his favourite childhood teddy bear, Turing is led by the hand through the journey of his l……続きを見る

Let us tell you a strange tale that did unfold someplace in the glum north o'the warld, where there lived a Man who could not stop eating, a Woman doomed to cook his meals and one 'inveesible child'……続きを見る

Farce en un acte - Scène de vie en villégiature - Tolkatchov arrive chez son ami Mourachkine, il s’affale dans le sofa visiblement épuisé et demande à Mourachkine ……続きを見る

Farce en un acte - Une jeune femme, veuve depuis sept mois et inconsolable, est confrontée à un débiteur de son mari qui décide de ne pas sortir de chez elle avant d'avoi……続きを見る

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the height ……続きを見る

'If you're working with Nancy Bishop you know you're in good, accomplished hands, whether you're a director or an actor.' – Neil Burger, Director of The Illusionist Auditioning for Film and Televisi……続きを見る

*The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now. Knives in Hens* is a brutal fable s……続きを見る

The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the r……続きを見る

A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to des……続きを見る

What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if t……続きを見る

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and ……続きを見る

Сборник пьес Александра Николаевича Островского состоит из 4-х произведений: «Бедность не порок», «Горячее сердце», «Не было ни гроша, да вдруг алтын», «Таланты и поклонники». Электронное издание пь……続きを見る

В историческом романе известного русского писателя И.И. Лажечникова «Последний Новик» рассказывается об одном из периодов Северной войны между Россией и Швецией прибалтийской кампании 1701-1703 гг. ……続きを見る

В доме Ивана Петровича Шуйского, в присутствии многих духовных лиц и некоторых бояр, решают развести Федора Иоанновича с царицею, Годуновой сестрой, благодаря коей, по общему мнению, и держится Бори……続きを見る