Plays & Playwrights 13

SYNOPSIS: In the city of Seattle, Washington, Rodney and Maggie Smythe receive a message on Rodney's telephone answering machine from Maggie's son Danny by a former marriage, saying "Hey, mom, tell ……続きを見る

Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrica……続きを見る

Though some scholars have recently begun to question whether Aeschylus authored the play Prometheus Bound, there is no question that this classic of ancient Greek literature is a literary achievemen……続きを見る

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Greatest Magicians of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at……続きを見る

Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a play by Oscar Wilde, who uses his sharp wit to satirize Victorian ideals about marriage. Lady Windemere suspects her husband of infidelity and r……続きを見る

Henrik Ibsen (20th March, 1828 23rd May, 1906) is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare as Europes greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are perfor……続きを見る

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symboli……続きを見る

A short, holiday-themed play takes place entirely in a church basement shortly before Christmas; a lonely, intense time of the year for some. During a meeting of a special support group for people ……続きを見る

Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (***His Dark Materials),***Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War ……続きを見る

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Ellen Dora has returned to her home town after a long absence. Her return is triggered only in part by the death of her mother; more important is that she must finally deliver a letter that she has ……続きを見る

Would you prefer to be sacked from your job before or after the Christmas break? If you work for TAR Bank it's a hypothetical question. The bank doesn't care about your preference. If you are on the……続きを見る

This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CUR……続きを見る

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tr……続きを見る

Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers it but hers is a diminishing world. The vast and beautiful……続きを見る

August Strindberg's classic trilogy of plays entitled To Damascus (also known as The Road to Damascus) is known as his greatest work.A very complex and thought provoking play series, it follows the ……続きを見る

A child is born and "with his first breath" death ends for all warm blooded being on earth. But with no death also comes the heartbreaking opposite . . . no more birth. Douglas (Dougie) Azrael Moore……続きを見る

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dub……続きを見る

The Farewell Drugs (Reed, Chimpy, Johnny and Sloane) were the worst behaved band on the Lower East Side: heroin snorting, groupie abusing, shoplifting, drug dealing, sexist, racist misanthropes. Bu……続きを見る

Alfredo Antonio Fernández narra en Bye, camaradas, la historia de Olegario, veterano de la guerra de Angola, que luego de perder el pulgar de la mano derecha en combate es licenciado con honores y r……続きを見る

The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The ……続きを見る

Perfection of the life, perfection of the work: is it an either/or choice? Must a person forswear one to attain the other? Byeford Pritchett wants both. He wants to live a life free of the creator’s……続きを見る

It is the first book of a trilogy telling about the adventures of the 14 year-old friends James and Joey. Using a wand James grandfather had for many years, they cross to the magic world of Lanomawo……続きを見る

Five stories touching on life, business, personal integrity, murder and the apocalypse: The first, Sole Survivor At The End Of The World, explores one unforeseen consequence of good luck. You Want F……続きを見る

Es la historia de una familia a través de varias generaciones. Un matrimonio con un hijo adolescente que se deshace. El padre, Roque, se va con otra mujer de nombre Rita. El hijo, Fernando, va en bu……続きを見る

Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago,……続きを見る

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Berlin/Wall In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is going up. Berlin For his whole adult life, David Hare ……続きを見る

Evening. Dublin suburb. Emma alone in a semi-detached... Ever alone. Her marriage on a knife edge. Thin, thin ice. Trapped. No way out. Until the day she meets by chance the woman who is to offer he……続きを見る

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