Plays & Playwrights 10

War Cantata translated by Keith Turnbull How far will humanity go in its quest for power? Why do we desire to eliminate each other through war? War Cantata looks at ways the impulse for violence is ……続きを見る

Cerulean Blue is a comedic play about a struggling blues band invited to participate in a benefit concert for a First Nation community in conflict with governmental authorities. Upon arriving, the b……続きを見る

In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building. These “seven st……続きを見る

"There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new transl……続きを見る

IL LIBRO CONSIGLIATO DA ANDREA G. PINKETTS E DA ANDREA CARLO CAPPI COME UNO DEI MIGLIORI DEGLI ULTIMI ANNI NUOVA EDIZIONE RINNOVATA Marco Conti è diventato cattivo. Ha messo da parte le storie di ri……続きを見る

The booming bedroom community outside a large Canadian city is blown apart when fifteen-year-old Blake challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. A student at the local Catholic high ……続きを見る

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”ーJoyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”ーLeonard Cohen, songwriter The Pleasures of the Damned features selec……続きを見る

Four seasons after her husband Tom’s disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, but clinging ……続きを見る

* In the Blood premiered at New York's Public Theater * Fucking A premiered this spring in Houston * America Play and Other Works now in its third printing with 8000 copies in print. * Venus has sol……続きを見る

In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithewaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the i……続きを見る

"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."-The Guardian "Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."-Daily News "Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer ……続きを見る

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) This book contains the complete novels of the Brontë Sisters: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë The T……続きを見る

It's Memorial Day, 1990, and Margaret Ryan has returned from Vermont to the Ontario cottage country where, thirty-two years before, she had vacationed with her disintegrating family at a lakeside re……続きを見る

In Inuit mythology, “sila” means air, climate, or breath. Bilodeau’s play of the same name examines the competing interests shaping the future of the Canadian Arctic and local Inuit population. Equa……続きを見る

The Baltimore Waltz, Vogel's most personal play, centers around the memory of a loved one lost to AIDS; the other plays include, Desdemona, The Oldest Profession, And Baby Makes Seven, and Hot 'n' T……続きを見る

“The existential pain of exile, the confusions of sexual identity and the complex legacies of the Cuban revolution are predominant [in] Mr. Machado’s writing,” –The New York Times Eduardo Machado ex……続きを見る

In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (tr……続きを見る

Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown betwe……続きを見る

Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys……続きを見る

The basis of the forthcoming NETFLIX series Grand Army. Hailed by Gloria Steinem as “truthful, raw, and immediate,” SLUT examines sexual violence and rape culture through the eyes of high school stu……続きを見る

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its v……続きを見る

“I have Stayed. I have Stayed – I have Stayed for as long as I possibly can.” Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. Alice Birch's S……続きを見る

Molière (Molier) Właśc. Jean Baptiste Poquelin. Francuski komediopisarz (do dziś zaliczany do najwybitniejszych w historii literatury europejskiej), dyrektor teatru i aktor; cieszył się uznaniem i o……続きを見る

Cyprian Kamil Norwid Polski poeta, prozaik, dramatopisarz, eseista, tworzył także prace plastyczne. Jego edukacja miała charakter niesystematyczny, można więc powiedzieć, że we wszystkich uprawianyc……続きを見る

La gente que quiere bailar tango lo hace porque no tiene idea de en lo que realmente se está metiendo. El tango no es algo lindo, ligero y dulce… de hecho, es como una rosa: (1) es encantador, pero ……続きを見る

Determined men such as Michael Fitzwilliams, spurred on by the encouragement of compelling political leaders, grasped, like so many others, the chance destiny had suddenly thrust on him, his dream o……続きを見る

Cyprian Kamil Norwid Polski poeta, prozaik, dramatopisarz, eseista, tworzył także prace plastyczne. Jego edukacja miała charakter niesystematyczny, można więc powiedzieć, że we wszystkich uprawianyc……続きを見る

Eliza Orzeszkowa Polska pisarka nurtu pozytywizmu znana pod nazwiskiem męża, Piotra Orzeszko, nazwisko rodowe: Korwin-Pawłowska. Publikowała pod pseudonimami: E.O., Bąk, Wa-Lit-No, Li...ka, Gabriela……続きを見る

Aleksander Fredro Polski komediopisarz i poeta żyjący i tworzący w okresie romantyzmu, lecz niezależny od stylu epoki; uczestnik kampanii Napoleona I w Rosji (1812), hrabia (od 1822). Pisał komedie ……続きを見る

This classic of Japanese studies presents extensive information about the history, culture and practice of Noh dramaーone of Japan's most treasured dramatic art forms. Noh as an independent and orig……続きを見る