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Plays by Lars Noren: Blood -- WarLars Nor n, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written about 75 plays. While they are regularly performed in Nordic and European countries and have been translated into several languages, English-language readers were deprived of his major works until 2013, when...
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MedeaLiz Lochhead's stunning new version of Medea is the kind of interpretation--brave, visionary, risky--that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light... What Lochhead does is to recast Medea as an episode--ancient but new, cosmic yet agonizingly familiar--in a...
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Translated by Anthony BurgessWith energetically witty English verse throughout, Anthony Burgess' translation of this well-loved 19th-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Derek Jacobi, then in the revival...
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DarknessLiam O'Flaherty's infamous three-act tragedy, Darkness (1926), here receives its worldwide release for the first time. Set on an Irish-speaking island, this bleak tragedy, performed on the Abbey Theatre stage in 1926, centres on two brothers competing for the same woman whose choices have...
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Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's PlayworldsFour hundred years after Shakespeare's death, his plays live on in theater and popular culture, given new life through countless innovative approaches to their performance and interpretation. Just as our enthusiasm for seeing the plays performed--and transformed--affirms their continued life, death scenes in Shakespeare's...
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Trojan WomenA modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await...
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Sports PlayWith translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body...
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Seagull"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress with a self-penned play, putting much...
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I, Shakespeare: Four of Shakespeare's Better-Known Plays Re-Told for Young Audiences for Their Lesser-Known Characters: I, Malvolio/I,"This brilliant collection of re-imagined stories is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for students of all ages. They are funny, fresh, intriguing and poignant, and use a supreme storyteller's skill to bring us into the worlds of some of Shakespeare's best-loved characters and plays....
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OilEpic new play from an award-winning writer, exploring our reliance on a dwindling energy source.Author: Ella HicksonPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublished: 10/03/2017Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60dISBN: 9781848426030About the AuthorElla Hickson is an award-winning writer whose work has been performed throughout...
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Wendy & Peter Pan1908. Wendy Darling and her brothers sleep peacefully in the bedroom, as their parents bicker downstairs. In a sudden flurry, their window blows open, and into their lives tumbles a mischievous boy called Peter, followed by a very fractious fairy by the name of...
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...Some Trace of HerA record of the highly acclaimed multimedia work devised by Katie Mitchell, combined with the text of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. The two men who loved her...
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The Merchant of VeniceEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal....
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Ethan FromeWith an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out 'to draw life as it really was' in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through...
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GormenghastIn a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its...
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Great ExpectationsUsing only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage version of this much-loved story brings its settings and characters to thrilling theatrical life. From its opening image of little Pip, alone on the windswept marshes, to...
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Carrie's WarWhen the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village. But the countryside has dangers and adventures of its own - and a group of characters who will change...
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Fosse: Plays One: Someone Is Going to Come Home; The Name; The Guitar Man; The ChildIncludes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote...
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The BeeOne evening, Mr Ido arrives home from work to find his house surrounded by police and TV cameras. Inside, his wife and child are being held hostage by an escaped murderer. An otherwise normal day in an otherwise comfortable life is not ending how...
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Ostrovsky: Plays Two: The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of DarknessIncludes the plays The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep and Sin and Sorrow Four of Ostrovsky's finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until...
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