Plays & Playwrights 97

-Sex isn't just about how big and how long. -What is it about then? -All sorts of things. Joy is struggling to remain interested in sex. Her husband thinks of little else. And their teenage son is r……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins The Dead Secret (1857) begins with the death bed confession of Mrs Treverton that will take her family by storm. The maid, Sarah Leeson, against the dying wish of Mrs Treverton, hides……続きを見る

Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. He worked shortly as an actor in "The Admiral's Men", but soon moved on t……続きを見る

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroi……続きを見る

The medieval morality play, which became popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, is a allegorical drama in which personal attributes are personified and the moral of choosing good over e……続きを見る

Les fictions de Maurice Maeterlinck (prix Nobel 1911), écrivain symboliste belge du début du XXe siècle, aiment jouer avec les mondes parallèles, ceux que sa poésie invente et auxquels son théâtre d……続きを見る

In early 80’s Ukraine is stricken by perestroika and struggles for “democracy”, Afghanistan is in flames of a war where hundreds of eighteen-year-old youths are killed every day. Their peer, Dan, a ……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

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

Christopher Marlowe lived a life that echoed the violence in his plays. He was born in 1564 and was murdered in 1593 in what is speculated to be a political assassination. An educated man, he receiv……続きを見る

The Seagull is a drama 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 dramatizes the……続きを見る

She Stoops to Conquer was first performed in 1773, and remains popular today. Written by Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith, it is a comedy of errors spanning the events of one night. 続きを見る

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

“SINGLE LIFE” is intended as a companion picture to the same author’s Comedy of “MARRIED LIFE;” and as that attempted to illustrate a few of the humours of the state matrimonial, and interest an aud……続きを見る

Pensaci, Giacomino! è una commedia scritta nei primi mesi del 1917 da Luigi Pirandello. Tipici topoi pirandelliani riemergono con grande efficacia nell'opera: l'incapacità dello Stato, i paradossi e……続きを見る

La vita che ti diedì è un dramma di Luigi Pirandello che si ispira alle sue novelle La camera in attesa (1916) e I pensionati della memoria (1914). Rappresentato per la prima volta al Teatro Quirino……続きを見る

Carl Gustav Jung was a legendary womanizer. This dramatic fiction explores and illustrates the relationships C.G. Jung had with the four women most important to him: Emma Rauschenbach, his wife; Sab……続きを見る

Dans ce pays, Guadeloupe, il y a des Femmes Poto-Mitan, des Femmes Chateng, des Femmes Doubout, des Femmes Chouké, des Femmes Nonm, des Femmes a grenn, des Femmes Fò, des Femmes Flanm. Mais il y a a……続きを見る

Leonardo da Vinci riceve nella sua bottega di Firenze Monna Lisa Gherardini al fine di realizzare un ritratto ordinato dal marito. Da Vinci trattiene il dipinto in suo potere; non arriverà mai a con……続きを見る

Rhoenay Rheeder het n gewone bestaan gevoer totdat haar wêreld in duie gestort het met die moord op haar man. Sy vertrek op 'n soektog na antwoorde en bevind haarself telkens in die moeilikheid en r……続きを見る

Esta ficção dramática recria o julgamento de Leni Riefenstahl, levado adiante pelo Comitê de Desnazificação dos Aliados com o objetivo de determinar seu grau de responsabilidade nos crimes nazistas,……続きを見る

A short ten minute play that looks at the automation of jobs and the worker's perspective. Read it on the way to work, just don't laugh too much. Eero Tarik is one of the world's most prolific short……続きを見る

Tragedy, Aristotle states, seeks to imitate the matters of superior people, while comedy seeks to imitate the matters of inferior people. To Aristotle, the most important constituent of tragedy is p……続きを見る

Life is a Gift, is a story about a young girl's faith in the midst of very troubled times. After being involved in a serious accident the struggles of wanting to live become alive, even as her world……続きを見る

The Kindle Fire HD is a tablet originally designed for reading eBooks. EBooks are digitized books, making it easier to store and access them. With the Kindle Fire HD you are going to be able to sear……続きを見る

Though paperbacked books have their own perks when it comes to reading, devices like the Kindle have truly revolutionized the world of comprehension with the introduction of e-reading. With devices ……続きを見る

You have recently bought your new Kindle Paperwhite, but you are not familiar with its usage. If so, do not worry. This report has been written with an intention of providing you with all the inform……続きを見る

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts a……続きを見る

So, you have got the latest Kindle? You will love to use Kindle Paperwhite when you have learnt how to make the most of each and every feature of this amazing device. This book has been designed to ……続きを見る

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that mo……続きを見る