Plays, playscripts, drama
Concord Theatricals Toyer
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£14.16
Samuel French Inc Song of Extinction
Book SynopsisDrama / Characters: 5m, 1f 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award - American Theater Critics Association 2008 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an Outstanding New Play - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2008 Production of the Year - The LA Weekly Awards - Los Angeles, CA Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world - and his biology teacher is the only one who's noticed. A play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption. Max Forrestal is going to fail Biology if he doesn't complete a 20-page paper on extinction by 2pm on Tuesday - but his mother, Lily, is dying of cancer, and school is the last thing on his mind. His father, Ellery, a biologist obsessed with saving a rare Bolivian insect, is incapable of dealing with his wife's impending death, or his son's distress. Max's biology teacher, Khim Phan, tries to figure out why Max is failin
£999.99
Samuel French Ltd Remembering Mr. Maugham
Book SynopsisMemoirCharacters: 2 maleRemembering Mr. Maugham is an intimate glimpse into the life of W. Somerset Maugham - one of the most brilliant, prolific and secretive writers of the 20th century. This graceful two-character, one-act play adapted by Garson Kanin from his memoir is a treasure trove of private conversations, amusing anecdotes and candid recollections of his beloved friend and confidant. Through decades of friendship, Kanin and Maugham poignantly reminisce about life, art and the unconquerable human spirit.
£13.20
Samuel French Inc John Balls In the Heat of the Night
Book SynopsisCharacters: 8 male, 2 female Acclaimed playwright Matt Pelfrey's adaptation of John Ball's In the Heat of the Night based on the award-winning book that inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series. It's 1962. A hot August night lies heavy over the small town of Argo, Alabama. A dead white man is discovered and the local police arrest a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs. The police discover that their prime suspect is in fact a homicide detective from California. As it happens, Tibbs becomes the racially-tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that is turning up no witnesses, no motives, and no clues. A tight and timely thriller! -Theatermania.com. It's eminently stageworthy...a tense and exciting story that follows the book's basic plot but offers viewers a distinctly new and different In the Heat of the Night -CurtainUp. The play is taut and startlingly resonant, even as it deals with events taking place nearly 50 years ago. Pelfrey's work
£13.75
Samuel French Ltd Emma
Book SynopsisFrom the novel by Jane AustenAdapted by Michael Bloom6m, 6f, plus ensembleComedyPledging never to marry, the mischievous Emma Woodhouse is nevertheless the matchmaker of Highbury. Her newest project, Harriet Smith, has already received a proposal, but Emma insists she marry the eligible vicar Mr. Elton, while, an older family friend, Mr. Knightly, warns her to give up matchmaking. When Emma discovers Mr. Elton is more interested in her, she is forced to fend him off and f
£999.99
Samuel French Ltd Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Book SynopsisBrecht presents the vivid and changing scene of Hitler''s war machine. There is a worker who only mumbles Heil Hitlers and a S.A. man whose suspicion of him is enough to mark him for life. There is an assaulted Jew who did no wrong and a judge who has a tragic inclination to be just. There are a mother and father who have good cause to fear that their son has informed on them. The war machine moves across Europe, bringing ruin and misery everywhere.
£999.99
Concord Theatricals A Murder Is Announced
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£18.95
Samuel French Ltd The Lightning Thief Theatre for Young Audiences
£999.99
Random House USA Inc William Shakespeare Complete Works Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe newly revised, wonderfully authoritative First Folio of William Shakespeare’s Complete Works, edited by acclaimed Shakespearean scholars and endorsed by the world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works—arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations. The second edition of the Complete Works features annotations and commentary from Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen—two of today’s preeminent Shakespeare scholars—as well as cutting-edge textual design, on-page glossaries for contemporary readers, stage directions from RSC directors, a sixteen-page ins
£68.00
Random House USA Inc Oedipus Trilogy
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£999.99
Random House USA Inc Boris Godunov Little Tragedies and Others
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£13.29
Penguin Putnam Inc The Wife of Willesden
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£15.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Restoration Drama
Book SynopsisThis new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of play of the period, including plays by both men and women - sex comedy, moral comedy, heroic drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history.Trade Review"The whole task is carried out with exemplary clarity and charm . . .There is no more recommendable anthology of Restoration plays available today". Notes and Queries "The page layout is attractively and thoughtfully designed, avoiding, for instance, frequent run-overs of lines in verse passages. Students exploring this collection will be presented with a wealth of fascinating and innovative writing in reliable editions, and the richest sampling of the post-1660 drama currently available in a single volume." The Review of English Studies "David Womersley's Restoration Drama is easily the most comprehensive anthology available to date. Each of Womersley's introductions to the plays are wonderfully compact mini-guides to the plays, providing information on the author, the sources, the context and stage-history, and pointing out some of the complexities raised by the work. The explanatory notes, though kept to a minimum, are relevant and helpful. What distinuguishes the present collection from its predecessors is the editor's attempt to do justice to the multifarious nature of Restoration drama. All in all . . . this is a most valuable (and moderately priced) collection, which is likely to supersede classroom texts currently used. Future editors and publishers of Restoration plays would do students and scholars a true favour by following Womersley's and Blackwell's lead in striking out in new directions and opening up for further study the full panorama of Restoration drama." English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. A Note on The Text. 1. The Adventures of Five Hours. (1662) Sir Samuel Tuke. 2. The Great Favourite, or The Duke of Lerma. (1668) Sir Robert Howard. 3. The Conquest of Granada. (1670) John Dryden. 4. The Rehearsal. (1671) Buckingham. 5. The Country Wife. (1675) William Wycherley. 6. The Plain Dealer. (1676) William Wycherley. 7. The Man of Mode. (1676) Sir George Etherege. 8. The Rover. (1677) Aphra Behn. 9. All for Love. (1677) John Dryden. 10. Lucius Junicus Brutus. (1680) Nathaniel Lee. 11. Venice Preserved. (1682) Thomas Otway. 12. Love for Love. (1695) William Congreve. 13. Love's Last Shift. (1696) Colley Cibber. 14. The Relapse. (1696) Sir John Vanbrugh. 15. The Way of the World. (1700) William Congreve. 16. The Recruiting Officer. (1706) George Farguhar. 17. The Beaux Stratagem. (1707) George Farquhar. 18. The Busie Body. (1709) Susannah Centlivre. Further Reading. Index.
£39.85
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Medieval Drama
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive anthology brings together a diverse collection of dramatic writing from the late fourteenth century to the onset of the Renaissance. The volume presents for the first time the key plays of the period in their entirety, alongside more unusual selections, covering religious narrative, religion and conscience, and politics and morality. The first section focuses on Biblical plays, including coherent sequences of the narrative Cycle plays from York and N-Town and supporting pageants from Chester and Wakefield. This approach allows a clear narrative line to develop, and permits the comparison of the treatment of key stories between the Cycles. The selected material demonstrates how the drama of the towns and cities of East Anglia and the North of England mediated religious culture to a heterodox urban audience, and explored biblical events in an intensely contemporary setting. In the second and third sections, the attention turns to secular drama, Trade Review"Walker offers a thoroughly researched and well-chosen selection of key primary texts and some unusual plays. He also provides short but comprehensive introductions that will be easily accessible to beginning students." Choice "A marvellous collection of dramatic texts from the late fourteenth century to the beginnings of the Renaissance in the British Isles. In this remarkably comprehensive collection we have the entire texts of the key plays of the period, including some less usual works. A few period illustrations, maps and a street plan help set the scene. The whole exemplary apparatus is worn lightly, all helping to encourage reading and acting. Glossaries of terms and notes sit unobtrusively at the foot of the page, immediately available to help the reader. He [Walker] specifically arranges his anthology to allow, and encourage, the plays to speak for themselves: wide-ranging selection, concise informative introduction to each work, notes and glossaries. In a single volume a whole range of rich literature is made accessible to the modern reader in what must be just about the star volume in an anyway excellent series. This book will be essential in any undergraduate or senior school collection of English literature, or of drama, and will enhance may other collections besides". Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction vii Acknowledgements xi Chronological Table xii Places Mentioned in the Text xv The York Performance Sites xvi Part I Religious Narrative: The Biblical Plays 1 Introduction 3 York, The Ordo Paginarum 10 York (The Barkers/Tanners), The Fall of the Angels 12 Chester (The Tanners), The Fall of Lucifer 16 York (The Coopers), The Fall of Man 21 Chester (The Drapers), Adam and Eve 25 York (The Pewterers and Founders), Joseph’s Trouble About Mary 32 York (The Tilethatchers), The Nativity 38 Towneley, The Second Shepherds’ Play 42 Chester (The Paynters and Glaziers), The Shepherds 58 York (The Skinners), The Entry into Jerusalem 70 York (The Cutlers), The Conspiracy 80 York (The Bowers and Fletchers), Christ Before Annas and Caiaphas 89 York (The Tapiters and Couchers), Christ Before Pilate I: The Dream of Pilate’s Wife 99 York (The Litsters), Christ Before Herod 112 York (The Tilemakers), Christ Before Pilate II: The Judgement 123 York (The Pinners), The Crucifixion 134 York (The Saddlers), The Harrowing of Hell 143 York (The Carpenters), The Resurrection 150 York (The Mercers), The Last Judgement 159 The Mercers’ Indenture (1433) 159 The Last Judgement 160 N-Town, The Mary Play 167 The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge (extracts) 196 Chester, The Post-Reformation Banns 201 Matthew Hutton’s Letter to the Mayor and Council of York (1567) 206 Part II Religion And Conscience: The Moral Plays 207 Introduction 209 Croxton, The Play of the Sacrament 213 Wisdom 235 Mankind 258 Everyman 281 Part III Politics And Morality: The Interludes 299 Introduction 301 Henry Medwall, Fulgens and Lucres 305 John Skelton, Magnyfycence 349 The Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester 409 John Heywood, The Four PP 433 John Heywood, The Play of the Weather 456 John Bale, Johan Baptystes Preachynge 480 John Bale, The Three Laws 493 Sir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis 535 The Description of the 1540 Interlude 538 Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (the 1552–4 text) 541 Textual Variants 624 Glossary of Common Hard Words 627
£37.00
Hal Leonard Corporation 1776 PVG Vocal Selections
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£18.14
Harvard University Press The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest
Book SynopsisThe Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play’s relation to the author’s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde’s imprisonment just months after the play’s London opening in 1895.Trade Review[This] edition admirably achieves its stated aim to enlarge the understanding and pleasure of readers and students of Wilde’s most perfect, most studied, and most frequently performed play. -- John Sloan * The Wildean *Frankel’s command of all the relevant materials—textual, literary-critical, historical, biographical—is impressive, and he puts that knowledge to splendid use in The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest. -- Stephen Arata, University of VirginiaAn excellent edition with new insights and superb annotations that continues Frankel’s lively and important work on Wilde. -- Linda Peterson, Yale University
£18.86
Harvard University, Asia Center Strange Eventful Histories
Book SynopsisIn Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty playwright Xu Wei, characters move between life and death, and male and female, as they seek to articulate who they truly are. In this first critical study and annotated translation, Kwa considers how Wei's exploration of identity paved the way for further reflection in later fiction and drama.
£30.56
Harvard University Press Dancing the Dharma
Book SynopsisDancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories.Trade ReviewTakes a fresh and illuminating approach to the interpretation of Noh texts. …This book is deeply interdisciplinary, and Klein is painstaking in her efforts to address the religious and historical contexts needed to capture a glimpse of how Muromachi readers and audiences may have thought about these texts. Dancing the Dharma should appeal to a broad range of readers, including specialists in literary studies, history, drama, poetics, and religious studies, and it makes a significant contribution to scholarship in all those fields. -- Shelley Fenno Quinn * Journal of Asian Studies *If we wish to understand better the ways in which medieval Japanese people understood their world (I know I do), then we would do well to attend to allegoresis and the esoteric, sometimes outlandish, readings they applied to the same classic texts we are reading today for different reasons. … Klein has plowed through them with aplomb and constructed interesting but convincing readings of these difficult texts. A worthy follow-up to her previous book, Dancing the Dharma makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval Japanese literature, religion, and drama. -- Paul S. Atkins * Monumenta Nipponica *…The author’s research and argumentation remain meticulous and precise, with painstakingly detailed discussions and contextualizations that point to new implications for each play. In this sense, Dancing the Dharma performatively enacts the analytical strategies of its object of study: by disentangling the intricate layers of meaning in nō plays that are not immediately apparent to the uninitiated, Klein instructs the readers about the ways in which such plays should be experienced and understood more fully. -- Terry Kawashima * Journal of Japanese Studies *
£50.11
Harvard University Press Euripides Ino
Book SynopsisSmaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi analyzes the direct and indirect evidence of Euripides’ fragmentary play, the Ino, and reexamines matters of reconstruction and interpretation. This work is a full-scale commentary on Euripides’ Ino, with a new arrangement of the fragments, an English translation in prose, and an extensive bibliography.
£18.86
Harvard University Press Acharnians. Knights
Book SynopsisAristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. In Acharnians a small landowner, tired of the Peloponnesian War, magically arranges a personal peace treaty; and Knights, perhaps the most biting satire of a political figure (Cleon) ever written.Trade ReviewHenderson’s sound texts and plain translations give us exactly the Aristophanes we need: a reliable prose waiting to be quickened into poetic life by the reader’s imagination, laughter, and amazement. -- Donald Lyons * New Criterion *Henderson, who may fairly be considered the leading Aristophanic scholar in North America, has now…provided us with both a useful text and idiomatic…translation. It is certainly a work that scholars may use with confidence and may recommend to their students. -- Ian C. Storey * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *It is accordingly a pleasure to note the appearance of the first of what will be four new Loeb volumes of Aristophanes…this is an important edition of a major Greek author and an absolute ‘must-buy’ for all college and university libraries. -- S. Douglas Olson * Classical World *Henderson’s translation keeps close to the Greek, but successfully manages to indicate something of Aristophanes’ linguistic diversity; it has been carried off with admirable crispness… A highly welcome addition to the Loeb Library. -- Stephen Halliwell * Greece and Rome *
£23.70
Random House USA Inc Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
Book SynopsisWith a Foreword by the Author“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other, reacting to each other, or leaving silences for others to fall into.” -- Carol ShieldsFrom one of Canada’s most beloved authors comes a collection of four works written for the stage, including her most popular and highly acclaimed play Thirteen Hands. The theatrical form allows Carol Shields’ strength as a master of dialogue to shine at its brightest, as she returns to themes she explores in her prose: love, family, friendship, and the hidden meanings and larger truths found beneath the surface of the minutiae of daily life. Thirteen Hands and Other Plays is an exhilarating introduction to Shields’ considerable achievements
£18.66
Random House USA Inc Romances Everymans Library Classics Contemporary
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare’s last four plays carry us across space and time—from classical antiquity to Roman Britain to pagan Sicily to a remote island—and they move as well into a wilder geography of the imagination, one dominated by the wondrous and fantastical, and by reconciliation and renewal. Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest are famously fraught with shipwrecks and adventures, magic and disguise, speaking statues and ethereal spirits, tragic deceptions and moving reunions, and they number among the most enduringly delightful of Shakespeare’s works. The texts of the plays, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented here with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
£24.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Palm at the End of the Mind Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThis selection of works by Wallace Stevens--the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet”--was first published in 1967. Edited by the poet's daughter Holly Stevens, it contains all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career, including some not printed in his earlier Collected Works. Included also is a short play by Stevens, Bowl, Cat and Broomstick.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Six Degrees of Separation A Play
Book SynopsisIn this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart.Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.
£12.07
Simon & Schuster Black Theatre USA Plays by African Americans 2
Book SynopsisThis collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selectionsTable of ContentsV.1 The early period, 1847-1938 -- v.2 The recent period, 1935-today.
£28.50
Princeton University Press The Complete Works of W.H. Auden
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£98.10
Princeton University Press Javanese Shadow Plays Javanese Selves 5134
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£40.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gammer Gurtons Needle
Book SynopsisThis play is one of the first English comedies, vigorous and farcical, dealing with the loss of a housewife's needle and its eventual rediscovery. It was perfomed in 1566 in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. The introduction discusses the question of authorship by a "Mr S".
£999.99
University of Toronto Press Beau Monde on Empires Edge
Book SynopsisExploring Ukraine's multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.Trade Review"Mayhill Fowler’s account of Soviet Ukraine’s 'beau monde' has managed to accomplish something that the central characters in her book often found elusive: telling a story that is both Soviet and Ukrainian." -- Kathryn David, New York University * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *"Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge is a tour de force that will have far-reaching consequences for the way we understand Soviet national culture, and how we understand the field of Ukrainian studies itself." -- Oleh Kotsyuba, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University * Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal *"Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge indeed offers an outstanding account of un-making the late imperial South East and the subsequent development of early Soviet culture in the newly created Soviet Ukraine…[it] presents an elaborate theoretical and contextual account which can help to locate the artists and their art in a specific time and a specific locality. It should be interesting for both academic and non-academic readers." -- Yuliya Yurchuk * Baltic Worlds *"This engaging book is a model of interdisciplinary work, undoubtedly facilitated by Fowler’s background in theatre… Her study challenges established historians who ignore cultural production, and it deserves to be read by scholars of diverse disciplines. " -- Susan Costanzo * Slavonic and East European Review *"This book offers a necessary reappraisal of the formative Soviet decades in Ukraine and helps us understand better how Soviet culture developed across the Soviet Union… It offers a new and original angle to studying Soviet nationalities policy." -- Olena Palko * European History Quarterly *"An elegantly written and entertaining book, with a well-crafted argument and a timely focus on Ukraine’s cultural diversity and identity politics." -- Myorslav Shkandrij * Slavic Review *"The interaction of minority national cultures, empire, and international modernism is at the heart of Mayhill Fowler’s study of theatre in early twentieth-century Ukraine. Fowler offers several useful ideas for researchers working in the field of Soviet/Russian imperial culture and beyond." -- Uilleam Blacker, Kritika * Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History *"Mayhill Fowler’s book is an engrossing and persuasive new look at the formation of Soviet culture as it took shape within the performing arts. Her basic tenets may be usefully applied to other aspects, among them the way in which émigré culture sought to define itself in opposition to its Soviet counterpart." -- Laurence Senelick * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *"This book is cultural history at its best. Fowler’s subtle reading of forgotten cultural events draws out their significance in a way that opens up new conceptual vistas. Her work makes a major contribution to Ukrainian studies and the field of Soviet cultural history; it can also attract a wider audience of theatre lovers." -- Serhy Yekelchyk * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the Ukrainian Edition Acknowledgments Note to the Reader on Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction: The Beau Monde on the Borderlands 1. The Russian Imperial Southwest: Theatre in the Age of Modernism and Pogroms 2. The Literary Fair: Mikhail Bulgakov and Mykola Kulish 3. Comedy Soviet and Ukrainian?: Il'f-Petrov and Ostap Vyshnia 4. The Officical Artist: Solomon Mikhoels and Les' Kurbas 5. The Arts Official: Andrii Khvylia, Vsevolod Balyts'kyi, and the Kremlin 6. Soviet Beau Monde: The Gulag and Kremlin Cabaret Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.49
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Peach Blossom Fan
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£16.14
Guernica Editions,Canada Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary
Book SynopsisRevolt/Compassion gathers together six important works by Michael Springate: Historical Bliss, Dog and Crow, The Consolation of Philosophy, Freeport Texas, Kareena, and Kut: Shock and Awe. Written and produced over a twenty-five year period, they capture an expansive range of interests and influences, and reflect the artistic interdisciplinarity which has been a defining feature of his career.
£16.16
BBC Worldwide Ltd The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five
Book SynopsisThe collected BBC radio productions of the major works of Oscar Wilde, plus bonus play by Neil BartlettLoved for his flamboyant personality, sparkling wit and brilliant epigrams, Oscar Wilde was a comic genius and a literary icon.This collection reflects the many facets of his dazzling talent. Here are dramatisations of his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Gothic tale of a gilded aristocrat who makes a dangerous pact, as well as four scintillating social comedies – Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. Among the distinguished casts are Ian MacDiarmid, Joely Richardson, Edward Fox, Diana Rigg, Martin Clunes, Michael Hordern and Judi Dench.Moving examples of his correspondence are revealed in The Letters of Oscar Wilde and De Profundis, read by Simon Callow and Simon Russell Beale respectively, and his most famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is performed live by stars including Ian McKellen, Neil Tennant and Stephen Fry.In addition, a bonus drama, In Extremis by Neil Bartlett, starring Corin Redgrave and Sheila Hancock, reimagines Oscar Wilde's hastily arranged sitting with a society palm reader, a week before the trial that would cost him so dearly.
£38.40
Seagull Books London Ltd Comedies
Book SynopsisThis book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era. The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walser’s work they are shot through with a humor that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness. Gathering all of Walser’s plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, Comedies will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Part I- The Pond The Pond (1898) Part II- Early Dramolettes The Boys (1900) Poets (1901) Part III- Fairy Tales Cinderella (1901) Snow White (1901) Thorn Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty (1920) Part IV- Later Dramolettes The Christ Child (1920) The Lovers (1921) The Good-for-Nothing (1922) Part V- Felix The ‘Felix’ Scenes (1925) Afterword No Standing Room: Robert Walser’s Theatre of Poetry and Fairy Tale Reto Sorg
£11.99
Springer International Publishing AG Shakespeare and Community Performance
Book SynopsisThis book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Community Shakespeare: Access, Adaptation, Activism.Chapter 2: Public Shakespeare: Public Works (New York City) and Public Acts (UK).Chapter 3: Identity Shakespeare: L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company and Harlem Shakespeare Festival.Chapter 4: Island Shakespeare: Hamlet in the Faroe Islands.Chapter 5: Ecological Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Yosemite and the EarthShakes Alliance.
£94.99
Josef Weinberger Plays Burning Bright
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Josef Weinberger Plays Ladies in Retirement
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£10.44
Josef Weinberger Plays Out of Focus
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Josef Weinberger Plays Secondary Cause of Death
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Josef Weinberger Plays Gods Official
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Josef Weinberger Plays Dust to Dust
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Josef Weinberger Plays Say it with Flowers
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Last of the Summer Wine
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Josef Weinberger Plays Spirit Level
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Josef Weinberger Plays THE VERDICT
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Revival
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Josef Weinberger Plays A Healthy Grave
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Night in Question
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Josef Weinberger Plays THE BENCH
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