Plays, playscripts, drama
Suhrkamp Verlag Der kaukasische Kreidekreis Text und Kommentar
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£10.09
Suhrkamp Verlag Wilhelm Tell
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£8.99
Suhrkamp Verlag Die Dreigroschenoper. Text und Kommentar
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£9.35
Suhrkamp Verlag Maria Stuart
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£9.01
Suhrkamp Verlag Danton's Tod
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£7.88
Suhrkamp Verlag Wilhem Tell fur Schule
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£8.45
Suhrkamp Verlag Fluchtlingsgesprache
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£12.30
Verlag Ullstein Die Ratten
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£9.60
Random House GmbH Die Hose
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£10.95
Oldenbourg Schulbuchverlag GmbH Kabale und Liebe
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£12.41
Hatje Cantz Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan
Book SynopsisIn Drifting Studio Practice, artists Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan discuss their participatory documentaries Episode of the Sea (2014) and Stones Have Laws (2018), which they made in collaboration with the Dutch fishing community of Urk and with the Saamaka and Okanisi maroons of Suriname, a former Dutch colony in the Amazon. The artists outline how they experimented with collective script writing and performative storytelling, including both human and other-than-human actors. Starting from their earlier artwork Monument of Sugar (2007), the account develops into a practice-driven exploration of co-authorship and (non)human rights as strategies to cope with the plantationocene. Languages: Dutch and English
£32.00
Verlag der Autoren GmbH & Co KG Die bitteren Tranen der Petra von Kant/Tropfen
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£11.95
Dast-Verlag Herzschlagfinale
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£10.44
Tubuk.Digital König Ludwig I. und Lola Montez
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£34.88
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
Book SynopsisAlthough Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life--from his early years in the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, through four decades under communism and the period after the Velvet Revolution returned the Czech state to democracy--the essays and interviews in this volume examine the depth and breadth of his accomplishments. Essays by scholars from the Czech Republic, United Kingdom, and the United States clarify and illuminate Malina's contributions to art both in Central Europe and across the world. Exploring multiple aspects of Malina's career, they shed light on his roots in modernism, which characterized the years of the First Republic (1918-38), through the advent of postmodernism, contextualizing his accomplishments in a variety of media while adding insights about his methods and their philosophical underpinnings. Appearing in print for the first time, interview transcripts provide an intimate view of the impulses that guided Malina over the course of his career. Also featuring over one hundred and fifty color images that illustrate the connections between Malina's public scenographic work and his more personal paintings, this book reveals Malina as an artist who continued to work during difficult and changing times without ever losing a very human approach to life.Trade Review"Richly illustrated, this book is a deep examination of the work of one of the most important stage designers in Europe of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Brandesky edits a multifaceted exploration of Malina's expressions of truth through art in an oppressive Communist political system and a post-Velvet Revolution Czech Republic."--Margaret Mitchell, University of the Incarnate Word
£32.30
Cherish Studios Galactic Odyssey
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£999.99
Leiden University Press Staging Asia: The Dutch East India Company and
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£40.50
Cherish Studios The Weight of Nothing
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£29.74
Culturea Phaedrus
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£17.10
Penguin Random House Australia The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles Oedipus the King
Book SynopsisA collection that includes the complete texts of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—translated by Paul Roche.Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder.William Carlos Williams called the Roche translation of Antigone “brilliantly successful...as spirited and powerful as the original must have been.” Roche's versions of the Oedipus plays are both stunning and sympathetic, awe-inspiring and intimate, and bring the elemental myths of ancient Greece to life for modern readers.Included in this edition are a glossary of classical names, notes on pronunciati
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc Two Trains Running Plume
Book SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future Trade ReviewWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play Award“Vivid and uplifting… pure poetry… remarkable!”—Time “A symphonic composition with a rich lode of humanity running through it.”—Los Angeles Times“His language is golden: rich in humor and poetry and redolent of a colorful vernacular.”—Wall Street Journal “Has an unassailable authenticity… a lot of life and a lot of humor… By the end, a small world has been utterly transformed.”—Variety “These characters are fully imagined—they live… reeling out stories about their past, their angers, their dreams.”—Washington Post “Wilson’s most adventurous and honest attempt to reveal the intimate nature of history… glorious storytelling… touching and often funny… a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view.”—Frank Rich, The New York Times
£13.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Seven Guitars
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts.August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd Schoolboy Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and Trade Review"The seven guitars of the title are the seven characters whose straightforward story lines Wilson turns into beautiful, complex musica funky wailing, irresistible Chicago blues." John Lahr, The New Yorker"Riveting. . . . Wilson's mastery of time and character has never been more apparent." Boston Globe"A play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was. . . . As funny as it is moving and lyrical." Vincent Canby, New York Times"August Wilson is a remarkable American playwright. Seven Guitars is a formidably impressive tragi-comedy. This writing is as like and unlike Arthur Miller, as Duke Ellinton is as like and unlike Igor Stravinsky." Clive Barnes, New York Post"Full of quiet truth . . . mesmerizing . . . a major voice in our theater . . . unusually powerful." Howard Kissel, New York Daily News"A gritty, lyrical polyphony of voices that evokes the character and destiny of men and women who can't help singing the blues even when they're just talking. Bristles with symbolism, with rituals of word and action that explode into anguished eloquence and finally into violence." Jack Kroll, Newsweek
£12.60
Random House USA Inc The Stonemason A Play in Five Acts Vintage
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family.The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that true masonry is not held together by cement but...by the warp of the world. Out of the love that binds these two men and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken—or dishonored—the family trade, Cormac McCarthy has crafted a drama that bears all the hallmarks of his great fiction: precise observation of the physical world; language that has the bite of common speech and the force of Biblical prose; and a breathtaking command of the art of storytelling.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest
£14.25
Penguin Putnam Inc The Kite Runner Play Script
Book SynopsisComing to Broadway July 2022!The script for the stage production of Khaled Hosseini's first and internationally bestselling novel, The Kite Runner, as adapted by playwright Matthew Spangler. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Now adapted for the stage, the story is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and is an exploration of the influence of fathers over sons--their love, their sacrifices, their lies.A sweeping saga of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful story that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.This adaptation was first performed at W
£14.45
Penguin Putnam Inc A Thousand Splendid Suns Play Script
Book SynopsisThe script for the stage production of the bestselling Khaled Hosseini novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, as adapted by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma.Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them--in their home, as well as in the streets of Kabul--they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, playwright Ursula Rani Sarma reimagines Hosseini's novel to show how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.A stunning accomplishment, this reimagination of A Thousand Splendid
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the 16th century, Italians rediscovered and reinvented an old art form: the ancient Latin comedy. In this anthology, Giannetti and Ruggiero have translated five of the most representative plays of the period, presenting the modern reader with a view of Italian Renaissance society.Trade ReviewThe translations of these bold and sometimes bawdy Italian imitations of raucous Latin comedy are readable and playable. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance An intelligently prefaced book which makes available in sensible, accurate English-to scholars and students of drama and of the Renaissance, as well as to general readers-a coherent body of theatre which is culturally and intrinsically valuable. -- Ronnie Ferguson Modern Language Review 2006Table of ContentsLa Calandra (The Comedy of Calandro) / by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena; La mandragola (The Mandrake Root) / by Niccolao Machiavelli; Il Marescalco (The Master of the Horse) / by Pietro Aretino; Gl'ingannati (The Deceived) / by the Academy of the Intronati of Siena; La Veniexiana (The Venetian Comedy) / Anonymous.
£61.50
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Endgame and Act Without Words 1
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£12.99
Hill & Wang The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail First Edition
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£13.30
Northwestern University Press Bug A Play
Book SynopsisSet in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-husband. Her lesbian friend introduces her to Peter. They soon begin a relationship that takes place within the claustrophobic confines of her motel room. This tale of love, paranoia, and government conspiracy is a psycho-thriller.
£14.36
New Directions Publishing Corporation Goethes Faust Part I A New American Version
Book SynopsisGoethe said that all his works were "one long confession," and certainly into Faust, this greatest masterwork of German literature, on which he worked sixty years, he welded his own search for meaning of existence and of the soul.Trade Review"Certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English." -- Victor Lange"Goethe is generally recognized as the greatest German of all time, and Faust as his most important single work." -- Walter Kaufmann
£9.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Great Sanskrit Plays in Modern Translation
Book SynopsisProfessor Lal has provided an introduction on the history and aesthetic theory of Sanskrit drama, individual prefaces for each play, a phonetic guide to the pronunciation of the Indian names, and a selective bibliography.Trade Review"Professor Lal’s business was publishing Indian writers in English. Of the great old works he made masterly translations; new writers he encouraged. When he began, ten years after independence, the practice was controversial." -- The Economist
£16.14
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume IV Sweet
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£25.19
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vieux Carre a
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£25.19
New Directions Publishing Corporation Judgment at Nuremberg
Book SynopsisThe Nuremberg trials brought to public attention the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life.Trade Review"Judgment at Nuremberg retains its power to move and provoke us." -- TIME"It's devastating and the culmination of a magnificent re-enactment of the seminal trials of the modern era." -- Newsweek
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Rose Tattoo
Book SynopsisPublished as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based.Trade Review"The Rose Tattoo is life-loving and affirmative." -- Time"The Rose Tattoo is a buoyantly comic celebration of life and its inexhaustible capacity for breaking free from the past…it would be a hard heart that failed to surrender to its generous adult fairy tale vision." -- The Independent [London]"The Rose Tattoo is singular in the Williams canon…as poetic and wistful a work as Williams ever composed." -- The New York Times
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation H of H Playbook
Book SynopsisA gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox), H of H Playbook is a stunning re-creation of Euripides’s famous play, with illustrations by the authorTrade Review"An evocative, artful reimagining of the madness of an ancient hero." -- Kirkus"Anne Carson’s shape-shifting powers are epic." -- Elissa Schappell - Vanity Fair"Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigour, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life." -- Sam Anderson - New York Magazine"She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." -- Susan Sontag"Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice! From the iconic poet who penned Autobiography of Red comes a new retelling....Caron’s depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story." -- Lit Hub"A facsimile of Carson’s own personal playbook, “H of H” is a performance of thought, one that speaks not only to the heroic past but to the tragic present." -- Casey Cep - The New Yorker"Carson’s visual sense for the dramatic is put to good use in a play that bends towards irony and philosophical meandering. The muted colors?broken up by the intrusion of bright red or blue?are used effectively throughout, adding emotional overtones to large expanses of silence and negative space, to violence happening offstage." -- Cal Paule - Arkansas International
£17.99
Chronicle Books The Art of Ratatouille
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£222.99
Random House USA Inc Midnights Children Adapted for the Theatre Modern
Book SynopsisThe original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.An allegory of modern India, Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and hau
£12.56
The Catholic University of America Press Selected Plays of St John Ervine
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£16.95
The Catholic University of America Press Selected Plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn
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£18.65
The Catholic University of America Press Drama in English from the Middle Ages to the
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£42.75
Wayne State University Press Kin
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£18.99
New York University Press Rakshasas Ring Clay Sanskrit Library
Book SynopsisIt is 316 BCE, one year after Chandragupta Maurya, aided by his subtle minister Chanakya, has seized the kingdom of Magadha from the last king of the Nanda dynasty. Rakshasa, Nanda's incorruptible minister, flees abroad and plots his vengeance, while Chanakya seeks to win him over to honor Chandragupta Maurya as his new king.Trade Review"Published in the geek-chic format." -BookForum "No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience." -The Times Higher Education Supplement "Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs." -Tricycle "The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." -Willis G. Regier,The Chronicle Review "The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot... Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes." -New Criterion
£18.89
New York University Press Much Ado about Religion
Book SynopsisSatirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shankaravarman (1883-1902). This title offers a mixture of fiction and history, of scathing satire and intriguing philosophical argumentation.Trade Review"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." -- Willis G. Regier * The Chronicle Review *"Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs." * Tricycle *"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience." * The Times Higher Education Supplement *"The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes." * New Criterion *"Published in the geek-chic format." * BookForum *
£25.80
Lillenas Publishing Christmas Program Builder
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£8.69
University of Exeter Press Los Siete Planetas Exeter Hispanic Texts A
Book SynopsisAlthough the 17th Century playwright Enriquez Gomez was well known for his comedies, Los Siete Planetas is a surprisingly orthodox play.Trade Review Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, v; Introduction, vii; Editorial Criteria, lv; Versification, lvi; Loa sacramental de los siete planetas, 1; Notes to the Text, 24; Bibliography, 40.
£30.09
University of Exeter Press Venceslas Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisA tragi-comedy first performed in Paris in 1648.Trade Review Table of Contents
£30.17
University of Exeter Press Othello Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisThe French-language adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello by Jean-Francois Ducis was first performed in Paris in 1792. This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.Trade Review Table of ContentsContents Frontispice Introduction Bibliographie Othello Notes
£30.07
