Theatre 89

An oblique comedy of menace, unsettling, exquisitely wrought and written . . . a complex excursion into the by now familiar Pinter world of mixed reality and fantasy, of human worth and human degra……続きを見る

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our ……続きを見る

In Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past a……続きを見る

“One of the great political plays in the English language.”ーSunday Times (UK) It is 1968, and the world is ablaze with rebellion. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge gr……続きを見る

Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot. 続きを見る

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best wr……続きを見る

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a nev……続きを見る

“Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit.” ーVariety It is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at lastーyet his memories are dramatically alive. Conf……続きを見る

Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter play. This c……続きを見る

“Jumpers is simply dazzling. It takes your breath away with its sheer exuberance of literacy, its cascade of words and conspicuous display of intellect. It is also extraordinarily funny. Jumpers is ……続きを見る

David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarr……続きを見る

The latest plays of Tom Stoppard, author of such contemporary classics as Jumpers, Dirty Linen, The Real Inspector Hound, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It is Tom Stoppard’s very special……続きを見る

Five unique short plays for television by one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. A 'Waitress in Yellowstone' (or: 'Always Tell the Truth') is a parable about an honest waitress and a corrupt ……続きを見る

American Buffalo, which won both the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play and the Obie Award, is considered a classic of the American theater. Newsweek acclaimed Mamet as the hot y……続きを見る

In these two moving early plays, David Mamet displays the humor, sensitivity, and ear for language that have made him one of the most celebrated playwrights in American theater today. Reunion depict……続きを見る

Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all livin……続きを見る

Speed-the-Plow is an exhilaratingly sharp, comical, disturbing play about the power of money and sex in Hollywood, and how they corrupt two movie producers. Speed-the-Plow opened at Lincoln Center t……続きを見る

You have to be tough to be kind. That's what I've learned from you, Granddad. Tough and fearless and strong. So that's what I'm going to be. Naples, 1606. Inside an unfinished church, a painting is ……続きを見る

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of ……続きを見る

L’Orestie est une trilogie dramatique d'Eschyle représentée en 458 av. J.-C. aux Grandes Dionysies d'Athènes, où elle remporte le premier prix. Elle est composée de trois tragédies centrées sur la g……続きを見る

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live……続きを見る

If Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry’s infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward adolesce……続きを見る

The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to music……続きを見る

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution……続きを見る

Théâtre complet, tragédies écrites par le plus ancien des trois grands tragiques grecs, Eschyle (525 av. J.-C. – 456 av. J.-C.). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale (Les 7 tragédies) et ……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur L'Opéra de Quat'sous de Bertolt Brecht et Kurt Weill, un spectacle mis en scène par Robert Wilson. Comment réconcilier théâtre d'art et théâtre populaire? Comment réinvent……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur L'Orestie d'Eschyle, un spectacle mis en scène par Olivier Py. Unique trilogie héritée d'Eschyle, L'Orestie, œuvre fondatrice du théâtre, ne cesse d'interroger le théâtre ……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur Cyrano de Bergerac d'Edmond Rostand, un spectacle mis en scène par Denis Podalydès. Le 28 décembre 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac était créé à Paris, au théâtre de la Porte Sain……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur La Grande Parade de Py, un spectacle mis en scène par Olivier Py. Auteur, acteur, metteur en scène et chef de troupe, scénographe, directeur du Centre dramatique national ……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur La Classe morte, un spectacle mis en scène par Tadeusz Kantor. Tour à tour peintre, plasticien, scénographe, puis metteur en scène et auteur, Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) fo……続きを見る