Plays, playscripts, drama
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Book of Grace
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£999.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. We're Gonna Die
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£19.54
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Whale and A Bright New Boise: two plays
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£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Assembled Parties
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£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Shadow of the Hummingbird
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£16.19
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Sotto Voce
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£15.19
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Small Tragedy
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£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Daphne's Dive
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£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Language Archive and Other Plays
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£21.24
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Water by the Spoonful
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£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday
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£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Antipodes (TCG Edition)
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£14.24
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
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£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Mary Jane
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£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days
Book Synopsis In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has created a unique and personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our recent history?a play diary for each day of the presidency, to capture and explore the events as they unfolded. Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Parks?s 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days is the powerful and provocative everyman?s guide to the Trumpian universe of uncertainty, confusion, and chaos.
£17.09
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Pipeline
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£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Kilroys List: Volume Two: 67 Monologues and
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£16.80
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other
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£16.80
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
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£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Book Synopsis?Flawless? A work of singular distinction, one for which the word ?remarkable? is an understatement. Arbery is a greatly talented writer who has given us a drama as exciting and challenging?nay, daring?as any new play I?ve ever reviewed.? ?Terry Teachout,Wall Street JournalFinalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNight. Wyoming. Four young conservatives have gathered to toast the newly inducted president of their tiny Catholic college. Their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, becoming less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood. On a dark night, in the middle of America, Will Arbery?s haunting play speaks to the heart of a country at war with itself.
£18.89
Christian Publishers LLC 101 Monologues for Middle School Actors:
Book SynopsisThis theatre book is a sequel collection of winning monologues in the style and format of "100 Great Monologs" by the same author. Rebecca Young knows how middle schoolers think and act -- and what they like to talk about! These monologues, duologues and triologues may be used for auditions, classroom assignments or discussion starters. With such a wide variety of topics there is a monologue to fit any student''s personality or preference. Star quality every one!
£17.09
Christian Publishers LLC Ten-Minute Plays for Middle School Performers:
Book SynopsisThe plays in this theatre book give teenage performers the chance to reveal the unique identities and motivations of students their own age. These brief plays may be used for speech and drama classrooms, forensic competitions or variety shows. They are easily staged with no sets or costumes. Topics include: how to be popular, jealousy, shoplifting, pranks and more. Included are scripts for girls only, scripts for boys only and scripts for mixed casts. The dialogue in all the plays is believable and easy to perform.
£17.09
Christian Publishers LLC Audition Monologues for Young Women: Contemporary
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£17.99
Christian Publishers LLC 102 Monologues for Middle School Actors:
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£17.99
Ivan R Dee, Inc Grand Opera: Mirror of the Western Mind
Book SynopsisEmploying a remarkable combination of expertise in music, opera, and psychological insight, Eric Plaut explores the great operas and their composers from the time of the French Revolution to the onset of the First World War. He sees opera as the preeminent medium for expressing human willfulness, its characters driven by emotions of passionate intensity. The great composers of opera were also governed by their feelings and heavily influenced by the life of their time. Weaving together these social, psychological, and historical strains, Dr. Plaut investigates the meaning behind eighteen of the greatest operas, including Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Die Fledermaus, The Barber of Seville, Aida, Tales of Hoffmann, Fidelio, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Boris Godounov, Otello, Salome, and Faust. At the same time he looks into the lives of their composers, seeking those experiences and characteristics which help to explain both the opera in question and the composer's larger body of works. The result is an unusually satisfying and perceptive view of grand opera, a book that will be essential for opera lovers and informative and entertaining for general readers.Trade ReviewCompletely absorbing...an eminently readable book that flows. -- Ilana Bar-Levav * Contemporary Psychology *Extremely timely...Plaut explores the psychological backgrounds of composers with tight precision. -- Jon Anderson * Chicago Tribune *A fascinating book for anyone who loves opera. -- Ardis Krainik, general director, Lyric Opera of Chicago * The New York Times *
£17.99
Ivan R Dee, Inc The Master Builder
Book SynopsisThe most gripping of Ibsen’s later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the nature of a messianic hero pulled down from the heights to reside in the community of men, and now painfully laboring to drag himself up again. Thanks to Mr. Rudall’s fresh translation, the language of the play is no longer archaic or Victorian.
£8.79
Ivan R Dee, Inc The Lively ART: Twenty Years of the American
Book SynopsisThe resident repertory company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, affiliated with Harvard and known as the American Repertory Theatre, has long been considered one of the country’s most innovative cultural resources. The quality of its productions and the issues it has raised about the nature of the creative life have distinguished it among American theatre groups. Here is a treasury of criticism, reflection, observation, and insight from the ART’s post-production symposia, and pre-show talks, illustrated with photographs and drawings from ART archives. The notable contributors include a great many brilliant poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, scholars, lawyers, theatre directors, designers, and clowns, many of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Whether Susan Sontag reflects on Milan Kundera’s Jacques and His Master, or Jonathan Miller on Sheridan’s School for Scandal, or Jan Kott on Hamlet, or Carlos Fuentes on Calderon’s Life is a Dream, or Derek Walcott on his musical Steel, or Harold Bloom on Ibsen’s Hedda Gabbler, or Anatole Smeliansky on Bulgakov’s Black Snow, the discourse is heightened and passionate. The book also includes revealing interviews with major theatrical figures—Dario Fo, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Andrei Serban, David Mamet, and many others—and lively articles from the ART’s founding artistic director Robert Brustein, its managing director Robert J. Orchard, and a variety of literary directors and dramaturges. In all, The Lively A.R.T. is a bountiful theatre experience, better than two on the aisle.Trade ReviewAn invaluable overview of contemporary theatrical and dramatic theory. * Library Journal *Impressive...a fine resource for the trends in theatre which provides much food for thought. -- Henry Lowenstein * The Bloomsbury Review *The top names in todayís theatre world are all in here. * American Theatre *
£17.99
Ivan R Dee, Inc Instant Shakespeare: A Proven Technique for
Book SynopsisWhat do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare? They're both part of Louis Fantasia's approach in Instant Shakespeare. Mr. Fantasia, the first American to direct at the Shakespeare Globe Centre and a distinguished member of the international theatre community, has developed a pragmatic and uniquely American performance technique. Expanded and refined in performances and workshops throughout the world, Instant Shakespeare allows performers, directors, and teachers of all cultures and levels of experience to demystify Shakespeare and perform his texts in ways that are clear, fresh, and unpretentious. Mr. Fantasia's methods are solidly grounded in a rigorous analysis of the text and structure of Shakespeare's plays, and enriched by his insight into Elizabethan performance practices gleaned from his intimate association with the reconstruction of the Globe. Through Instant Shakespeare, novices and professionals alike achieve the textual clarity, nuanced characters, and dynamic actions that drive the most vigorous Shakespearean performances. Mr. Fantasia's respectful but irreverent approach pinpoints the shortcomings of contemporary Shakespeare practice and training, particularly generic and postmodern interpretations, and confronts theatre artists with the importance of conscious personal responsibility for the creative process. Employing analogies from music and architecture, he insists upon the hard and sometimes tedious work that necessarily underlies solid artistic choices. Mr. Fantasia shows how to understand Shakespeare's vocabulary as well as the structure and essential dramatic event of each play. He provides exercise monologues, exercise scenes, and tools for textual analysis; explains correct breathing; and lays out his philosophies of training and performance.Trade ReviewPersuasive and interesting. -- Michael YorkAccessible to novices…and refreshing for veterans who enjoy viewing familiar matter from a novel perspective. * CHOICE *It is difficult to recall the last book that offered as much. * Foreword Reviews *This is a great book! Louis Fantasia makes Shakespeare (and all performing) as easy as Antony, Beatrice, Cleopatra! -- Joan Van ArkLouis Fantasia's lively guide is a manifesto of liberation for Shakespeare fans. -- Camille Paglia, University Professor and Professor of Humanities, University of the Arts, PhiladelphiaLouis Fantasia knows his Shakespeare, and knows how to make Shakespeare come alive in the theatre. -- Anthony B. Dawson, former president, Shakespeare Association of AmericaThe best that can be said for this book is, 'Try it'.... THIS BOOK WORKS! * Shakespeare Newsletter *Engaging and useful...particularly valuable to teachers. * Shakespeare Magazine *Table of ContentsPart 1 Prelude: Banging at Swords 3 Part 2 Introduction: The Absence of Presence 11 Part 3 PART ONE: PRE-PERFORMANCE— INSTANT SHAKESPEARE! Chapter 4 Know What the Words Really Mean— Dialogue 19 Chapter 5 The Histrionic Sensibility 39 Chapter 6 Whose Frog is it Anyway? 44 Chapter 7 Excercise Monologues 47 Chapter 9 Know the Rhythm and Sense of the Line— Character 63 Chapter 10 Know What the Play is About— The Central Event 78 Part 11 Interlude: More Banging at Swords: Encounters at Shakespeare's Globe, 1981-1997 95 Part 12 PART TWO: ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE Chapter 13 Transitions from reading to Performance 107 Chapter 14 Scenes for Excercises 113 Chapter 15 Aspects of Performance: Breath and Impulse 120 Chapter 16 Aspects of Performance: A Practical Study of the Breath 128 Chapter 17 Isabella's Voice 142 Chapter 18 The Ephemeral Nature of the Theatrical Event 154 Chapter 19 A Philosophy of Training and Performance 161 Chapter 20 Presence and the Ontological Sensibility 172 Part 21 Epilogue: Still Banging at Swords— Optional Authenticity and Shakespeare's Globe, 1997-2001 187 Part 22 Acknowledgments 197 Part 23 A Note on Sources 199 Part 24 Index 203
£11.39
Ivan R Dee, Inc Artaud on Theatre
Book SynopsisWith Brecht and Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud was one of the great visionaries of twentieth-century theatre, best known perhaps for what he called the "Theatre of Cruelty." This revised and updated edition of Artaud on Theatre contains all of his key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections which have never before appeared in English. Together with an Introduction, biographical notes, and commentary, the collection charts Artaud's work from his early association with surrealism, through his founding of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, to the invocation of his compelling vision in his most famous manifesto, The Theatre and Its Double. Artaud's poetic and inspirational writings called for a fundamental regeneration of Western art. He wanted to return the theatre to its roots in ritual and to transform the audience through total emotional, psychic, and physical involvement. Anarchic and disruptive, he was misunderstood, silenced, and ostracized in his lifetime, but was later championed as an icon of the sixties counterculture. His ideas have inspired the work of Genet, Arrabal, The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Brook, and most of the experimental drama and performance work of recent decades. "One of the great daring mapmakers of consciousness in extremis."—Susan SontagTrade Review…Artaud deserves his place as one of theatre's foremost thinkers…. With cogent commentary by Claude Schumacher and Brian Singleton. * Book News, Inc. *A must for any serious academic scholar on theater, Artaud's work is also a...thought-provoking read on the serious critical nature of the medium itself. * The Bloomsbury Review *One of the great daring mapmakers of consciousness in extremis. -- Susan Sontag
£12.99
Ivan R Dee, Inc How to Enjoy Shakespeare
Book SynopsisReaders and playgoers who are new to Shakespeare (and even more seasoned veterans who would like to appreciate him more than they do) often find themselves puzzled: what is going on? His characters speak in verse rather than in the patterns of everyday speech. They are figures that ordinary humans seldom encounter—kings, queens, dukes, cardinals, and generals. Some of the plays are set in places even the most seasoned traveler is unlikely to have visited—Bohemia, Illyria, and the ancient Greek cities of Asia Minor—and in times from the distant past—imperial Rome, medieval Venice, Homer's Troy. What's more, the plots pursue events that seemingly have little to do with the daily round of modern lives—contention for a royal crown, assassination, shipwreck, occult visitation. Robert Fallon's small book is designed to dispel some of this apparent strangeness. It shows readers that what may at first seem unfamiliar to them is in fact close to their own lives. Kings and queens emerge as recognizable fathers and mothers, dukes and earls as squabbling siblings of any era. Exotic locales might be any present-day village or city block. And the plots resemble stories to be found in the pages of our morning newspaper. Shakespeare's language takes some getting used to, but even a brief acquaintance with its cadence and imagery will offer a glimpse of its glories. In How to Enjoy Shakespeare, Mr. Fallon explores Shakespeare's familiarity in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and quotations from the plays. He writes in easily accessible prose in a book designed to make modern readers and audiences feel comfortable with the Bard.Trade ReviewFallon has written a 'guide for the perplexed'... * Kalamazoo Gazette *Fallon has an enthusiasm for the subject that will easily infect readers…. Students, teachers, and playgoers alike would find it extremely useful. Recommended. -- Susan L. Peters * Library Journal *A celebrated author whose Shakespeare theatre guides have been celebrated for their ease of access without 'dumbing down' information. * Bookwatch *Fallon comes to the rescue by explaining Shakespearean language, themes, narrative...for those with little or no previous exposure. * Book News, Inc. *An insightful assessment of several of Shakespeare's favorite themes: love, war, ambition and illusion. -- Katherine Royster * Tennessean *Scholarly, but friendly. -- Stephen Peithman * Stage Directions *If it's a basic, easy primer to enjoying Shakespeare which is needed, try out Thomas Fallon's How to Enjoy Shakespeare. * Bookwatch *A wealth of perspectives. -- Jonathan Moscone * American Theatre *He writes in easily accessible prose in a book designed to make modern readers and audiences feel comfortable with the Bard. * The Poor Yorick Shakespeare Catalogue *Accessible prose without the 'insider' assumptions of many similar-sounding guides. * Bookwatch *A little book of just 100 pages with a no-nonsense, easy approach to Shakespeare. * Bibliotheque D'humanisme Et Renaissance *It is also notably the only volume here that has anything substantial to say about iambic pentameter. * Times Literary Supplement *
£12.99
Smith & Kraus Inc.,U.S. Accommodating the Lively Arts: An Architects View
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£17.41
Smith & Kraus Inc.,U.S. Ibsen: Four Plays: 3
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£17.95
Smith & Kraus 30 Ten-Minute Plays for 3 Actors: From Actors
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£20.90
Autonomedia Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short
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£15.29
The Library of America Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Vol. 3 1987-2004
Book SynopsisFor Arthur Miller's centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven masterful, haunting, funny, and provocative later plays, from the double-bill Danger: Memory (1987) to Finishing the Picture (2004), Miller’s final stage work, based loosely on events around the filming of The Misfits, in 1960, with Marilyn Monroe. In between, Miller revisits the perennially rich themes that define his work—the vagaries of fate and chance, the press of public events on private lives—with such plays as The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters’ Connections, and Resurrection Blues. Also presented in the volume are the early play The Golden Years, about the conquest of Mexico, which Miller revised for its first production in 1987; several shorter one-act plays and never-before-published early works and radio plays; and a selection of Miller’s incisive prose reflections on his art, among them “On Screenwriting and Language” and “About Theatre Language.”LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
£30.00
University of New Orleans Press Jagerstatter
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£12.56
Other Press LLC Changing Destiny
Book SynopsisA bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence of civilization and the complexities of immigration, from the Booker Prize–winning author.Forced to flee Egypt, Sinuhe is captured as a prisoner of war by the foreign Kingdom of Retenu. Stripped of status and tormented by memories, Sinuhe will need great force of will to survive as a stranger in an unknown land. But can he transcend the mysterious powers of Egypt and the tribulations of exile?With two actors incarnating a multitude of characters, Ben Okri’s play recreates one of the world’s first known stories, a timeless tale about the strength of the human spirit.
£14.44
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. If I Forget and Other Plays
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£24.64
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival
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£25.59
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Reliving the Trenches: Memory Plays by Veterans
Book SynopsisIn Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the author's service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War.Important but overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include The P.B.I., written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in serial form in 1922. Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler Atkinson, and Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in 1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published. These plays impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to life in theatrical re-enactment.Table of Contents 1. Critical and Historical Introduction 2. Editorial Principles 3. Introduction to The P.B.I. 5. The P. B. I., or, Mademoiselle of Bully Grenay by H. B. Scudamore, H.W. Downie W.L. McGeary and H.R. Dillon 6. Introduction to Glory Hole 7. Glory Hole: A Play of 1914-18 by William Stabler Atkinson 8. Introduction to Dawn In Heaven 9. Dawn In Heaven by Simon Jauvoish Appendix One: The P.B.I. Program Appendix Two: War Service of The P.B.I. Authors and Cast Appendix Three: 'A Canadian Volunteer's Last Prayer,' a poem by Simon Jauvoish Works Cited
£65.45
Guernica Editions,Canada Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Art and Culture
Book SynopsisContinuing from Desire Lines, Shifting Paradigms is a collection of essays on art, poetry and culture--both high and low--gathered from the astute critical work of Toronto writer Ewan Whyte. Included: essays on Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Janet Cardiff, Damien Hirst, Viktor Mitic, Anne Carson and a number of other Canadian artists and poets.Trade ReviewHere cultural critic and essayist Ewan Whyte uses his uncanny and rare capacity to slip inside works of art and figure out what make them tick. In Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry and Culture, a sweeping variety of essays on imagery, language and creativity, Whyte offers up maximum insight with a minimum of attitude. Both a poet and translator, Whyte is a relaxed, lucid, knowledgeable critic of poetry as well as visual art. Desire Lines culminates with his personal essay about childhood in a religious cult. His sympathy for those trapped within bizarre, sometimes sadistic demands (and for art made under severe cultural restrictions) underpins his generous critical views. Whyte triumphed by embracing the imagination and this splendid collection is a triumph for the arts as a humane and gifted writer understands them. -- Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden and The Analyst
£14.36
Baraka Books Art of the Fall
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£16.76
Te Herenga Waka University Press Bats Plays
Book SynopsisSix seminal plays from Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden, whose playwriting partnership powered the vibrant theatre scene round Wellington’s BATS Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. Boldly inventive, darkly comic and ceaselessly imaginative, the plays collected here present a chilling one-woman vision of alienation (Polythene Pam); the comic and tragic impossibility of human connection (Truelove); an irresponsible punk couple horrified to find they’ve become parents to the Messiah (Flybaby); conjoined twins plunged into an off-kilter world of rampant advertising, animal terrorism and a perfume made from monkey semen (cult-classic JISM); a real-life 20th-century martyr tested to his limits in the afterlife by a vengeful gang of defrocked saints (The Temptations of St Max); and the not-so-quiet desperation of a fearful hoarder fighting to survive the night hours (Panic!). Supporting the plays are introductions and selected images from the writers and other BATS practitioners which vividly recapture a crucial time and place in New Zealand’s theatre history.
£23.70
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers «Stella: A Play for Lovers» (1776) by Johann
Book SynopsisGoethe’s play Stella (1776) caused so much turmoil in Germany that it was retracted from the stage. In England, it was portrayed as evidence of lesser German values because of its portrayal of a ménage à trois. This new translation provides an introduction exploring the reception of the play in Germany and England, scholarly interpretations of the play, and the portions that were left out in earlier translations. The introduction also outlines the major questions the play highlights: Why do the two women, Stella and Cecilia, ultimately accept the ménage à trois? Can they trust Fernando, who flirts with every woman he meets? Do women and men conceive of marriage and loving commitments differently? Do the women agree to the ménage à trois because it is the only way they can be together as friends or as lovers? In addition, this translation has an appendix that outlines all of the changes (over 100) that Goethe made in 1806 in order to get the play back on stage. A useful resource for students, teachers, and scholars alike, this translation sheds new light on Goethe’s classic play.Trade Review«This new translation of Goethe’s original version of Stella introduces contemporary English-speaking audiences to his audacious play. Goethe wrote at a time when Romantic ideals of freedom, family, and love were first gaining expression. Still, he challenges gender relations and asks what the desire for intimacy between two women means in depicting a ménage à trois.» (Dr. Alice Kuzniar, University Research Chair, Professor of German and English, University of Waterloo) This theater-worthy translation of Goethe’s Stella makes the complete first (1776) version of this emotionally complex drama available for the first time to English-speaking readers. The book’s accessible and engaging introduction contextualizes the drama in its national and international contexts, while the appendix documents the substantial changes made by Goethe in 1806 version. In Gustafson’s and Becker’s lively and accurate translation, Stella will continue to delight and challenge contemporary readers and audiences.» (Eleanor ter Horst, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, University of South Alabama) «This elegant, lively translation of Goethe’s Stella includes a ménage à trois, removed from a later version. The reader is introduced to women discovering love for one man and their own shared passion. Ideal for future productions, this translation rescues a controversial play for a new audience.» (Eve Moore, Associate Professor of German, Kenyon College) «This new translation fills a gap in Goethe scholarship and will prove useful to those looking to understand the author’s development from his earlier years of composing dramas and to those who wish to experience another side of Goethe that is seldom discussed in comparison with his later and more famous works. As the translators state in their introduction, the new translation also provides the occasion for contemporary theater directors to stage a play with themes that are still relevant to an audience in 2020. The translation makes it likely that Stella will, as they hope, once again “find its rightful place on the stage”» (Lisa Beesley, European Romantic Review, Vol. 31, 22/1/2020)Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Susan E. Gustafson/Kristina Becker Malett: Translators' Introduction – Stella: A Play for Lovers (1776) – Appendix.
£48.69
Luath Press Ltd Singin Im No a Billy Hes a Tim
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£10.80
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Posh Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisI've got a new law for you mate, it's called survival of the fittest, it's called fuck you we're the Riot Club.In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't the last huzzah: they're planning a takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club.
£999.99
Nick Hern Books it felt empty when the heart went at first but it
Book Synopsis'I know exactly how much I am worth. I am worth one thousand euros because that is how much Babac paid for me. To put this in easy language, that is like two-and-a-half iPhones.' A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute. Lucy Kirkwood's it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now is a play about modern-day sex trafficking. It was commissioned by Clean Break and first performed by the company at the Arcola Theatre in London in October 2009. The play was the joint winner of the John Whiting Award in 2010.Trade Review'Unflinching... theatre that provokes in the best way, without lurid melodrama or sentimentality, but with wit and tenderness... demands that we watch and listen' * The Times *'Superb... deeply painful and profoundly disturbing' * The Stage *
£9.99
Nick Hern Books The Grain Store
Book SynopsisUkraine 1929. As Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year Plans, a closeknit rural community stands unwittingly in the path of his drive to create a thriving socialist Soviet Union. The outcome is catastrophic. What begins for the people of the village as an amusingly alien concept rapidly becomes an unstoppable force for change. Robbed first of their land, then their religion and independence, the whole country soon becomes engulfed by a tragedy that will scar a nation for generations. Natal'ya Vorozhbit's play The Grain Store was first staged in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2009.Trade Review'A grim subject, but this extraordinary play by Natal'ia Vorozhbit tackles it, in Sasha Dugdale's translation, with passion, intelligence and cunning' * Guardian *'A disturbing vision of socialist dogma degenerating into corrosive megalomania' * Evening Standard *
£999.99
