Plays & Playwrights 12

Ein Mann ohne Namen telefoniert mit seiner Frau, so wie jeden Tag. Eigentlich nichts besonderes, aber was so alltäglich erscheint, ist in Wirklichkeit sehr fragil. 続きを見る

Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several fields. This is the only generic and diachronic study of lea……続きを見る

You know how it goes you finish school. Start your carer. Help your friends. Find the girl of your dreams get married. Then happily ever after... OR Five years in you stumble across the fact she is ……続きを見る

In this short story, follow Tara on a journey to Italy that she hopes will also be a step in her journey to healing. After the death of her sister, Tara's friendships, family relationships, work per……続きを見る

With Bated Breath asks questions about memoryーhow and why it plays such a prominent role in our lives: how time affects it, how it fractures, how we often reinvent it depending on the situationーan……続きを見る

«Ήρθα κυνηγώντας μια χίμαιρα, μια ουτοπία… Η ζωή μου έμοιαζε βυθισμένη σ' ένα τέλμα, σ' ένα αδιέξοδο, σ' ένα φαύλο κύκλο απ' τον οποίο δεν μπορούσα να απεγκλωβιστώ»… είπε ο Αμερικάνος δημοσιογράφος ……続きを見る

"Senior", the controlling partner at the firm has "problems"...psychological problems ... paranoia at the least, probably schizophrenia .... and a dubious sense of ethical obligation to his employee……続きを見る

A short story. While searching for his wayward, addict brother, the narrator remembers how that brother was once a hero to him who showed great promise. 続きを見る

Who has a more difficult life -- the young mother whose husband has died in combat without ever knowing his child, a teen-age mom trying to provide for her son while the child's father tries to brea……続きを見る

Balconville is Canada's first bilingual play. Three families and Thibault, the neighbourhood rubbie, sit on their balconies in the heat of a Montreal summer. It is election time and Gaétan Bolduc is……続きを見る

HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic ca……続きを見る

A dark short story about a young girl and her birthday present. 続きを見る

The Hunter's Burden, a two act play written by Jamie McKinven (author of "Tales from the Bus Leagues" and "So You Want Your Kid to Play Pro Hockey?"), follows the Birmingham Brahmas, a minor league ……続きを見る

Mya's special, sweet, and bored out of her mind with what happens in her life-that's before David, Clive and Wayne all show up-and she realizes that love though beautiful is complicated and all she ……続きを見る

Keith goes for a morning walk, and before long finds himself in a tree house having a bizarre conversation with someone he's never met. A short story by Jean Paul Zermelo. 続きを見る

The lights were dimmed, but it seemed as though there was no reason for them to be on at all. A cornucopia of candles was all that was required, their flickering beams forming a curious interplay wi……続きを見る

Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a c……続きを見る

«The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice» is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro (&laq……続きを見る

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open-space Learning offers a unique resource to educators wishin……続きを見る

It's the battle of the century on 64 squares when Ian returns from college and meets his old high school friend Duf for a game of chess. Academic VS Drop out... Logic VS Intuition... Nerd VS Geek. A……続きを見る

This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes ……続きを見る

The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, l……続きを見る

In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plagueーthe “spanish Flu.” The illness struck not only the young and the elderly, but also peopl……続きを見る

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends……続きを見る

C’è sempre un Renzi nella vita di ognuno. E c’è sempre un Antonio che può asfaltarlo. Il mondo teatrale dei primi del Novecento appare meno distante dal nostro mondo di quanto si pensi: le Compagnie……続きを見る

A novelette. Paul's daughter is taken when he leaves her alone for a few minutes at the park. He thinks he saw the man who took her, but not everybody believes his story. Ten years later Paul crosse……続きを見る

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots ofte……続きを見る

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time. Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing - a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a……続きを見る

Dave Riggler is having a typical Tuesday. But as he rolls into work, everything changes. Because today is Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, and it looks like this may be the last Tuesday. Ever. "Tuesda……続きを見る

A monologue about 9 minutes long for one female performer about a robot who until just recently thought she was human. In order to maintain the secret she had to murder a friend who found out, and i……続きを見る