Plays, playscripts, drama
tredition Sår Arr
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Books on Demand Gilgamesch
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Henricus - Klassiker in Neuer Rechtschreibung Macbeth: Eine Tragödie in fünf Akten (Band 144,
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£6.90
Alfa-Veda Verlag Prosecution of Julian Assange
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£9.37
Editorial Fundamentos Teatro policíaco español
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£14.67
Editorial Fundamentos La comedia lacrimosa española
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£14.94
Vicens-Vives, Spain La casa de Bernarda Alba
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£12.79
NUS Press Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese
Book SynopsisJavanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight.The book presents the Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance as a highly sophisticated and multi-layered creation. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian politics. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past. Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.Trade Review"This voluminous and meticulously crafted book is different from the currently 'normal' books in the Indonesian Studies that are often revised versions of PhD theses. Rather, it represents the result of almost thirty years of work [...] Annotations and appendices make up the remaining roughly 200 pages. It is these annotations, together with the Introduction, that make the book so valuable, as they contain in-depth explanations and references to the rich body of scholarly knowledge of Javanese philology. [...] In other words, Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind might represent an example of a sub-field of Indonesian studies that is increasingly rare. — Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
£45.11
REGISTROS. TEATRO REUNIDO Y OTROS TEXTO
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£19.66
Gargola Macbeth
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£11.49
ME - Fordham University Press Theatricality as Medium
Book SynopsisThis readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question the Aristotelian aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself.Trade Review"With his customary wit and an acupuncturist's knack for exerting philosophical pressure on the most banal formulae of consumer society ('home theater,' 'casting,' 'the commercial break,' 'Stay with us!'), Sam Weber outlines a reading of theater as a place, a juncture, never fully inhabited or vacated by its great theorists (as varied as Plato, Sophocles, Kierkegaard, and Benjamin). The transition from 'theater' to 'media' is made by an excavation of long-submerged metaphors and a recovery of the many meanings of 'acting.' Sharp, dramatic in its own right, and rich in implications, this book is entirely 'in character.'"- -- -Haun Saussy Yale University "Theatricality as Medium is one of those rare and necessary books that seem-but just seem-to appear out of nowhere, to challenge the habits of thougt and dispel intellectual cliches in the fields of performance and theatre studies." -The Drama Review
£74.70
Edinburgh University Press Becketts Coauthors
Book SynopsisBeckett?s Co-authors takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett''s first professionally produced play, Waiting for Godot, and its premieres in the US, UK and the Republic of Ireland, this book examines extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and how such interventions challenges the autonomy of the author and his artwork. Calling the result of these early collaborations ?co-authorship?, S. E. Gontarski delves into the hybrid genre of theatre where collective aesthetics tends to override and thus supersede individual creation, using the methodology of archival archaeology to uncover previously unpublished letters and unknown archival documents relating to three national premieres. These case studies nevertheless have implications far beyond a single theatrical work, placing a spotlight on the nature of authorship and the process of realising dramatic texts in a monetised culture.
£81.00
Arlen House The Midnight Court
Book SynopsisThe author explores Brian Merriman's famous poem, The Midnight Court, a classic of Irish literature.
£15.26
Alba Editorial, S.L. Un tranvia llamado Deseo / El zoo de cristal
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£24.50
ESTILO Y EL ACTOEL
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£16.56
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Justus Van Effen Le Misanthrope
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Le Misanthrope A monsieur le baron de Welderen Avertissement du libraire Préface de la première édition Appendices I. Notices and prefaces A. Préface (1712-1713) B. Avertissement (1712-1713) C. Avertissement (1742) II. 9 novembre 1711 III. 17 octobre 1712 Bibliography A. Editions of Le Misanthrope B. Selected bibliography C. Book advertisements Variants Index
£98.30
John Wiley & Sons Nahuatl Theater Nahuatl Theater Volume 1 Death
Book SynopsisPresents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men.
£36.51
Northwestern University Press Thornton Wilder New Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe essays in Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives constitute a comprehensive critical reassessment at a time of renewed interest in the writer. The authors of these essays aim to contextualize Wilder's work historically and to show that Wilder's handling of questions of religion, American identity, gender, and ethics should vault him into the ranks of major American novelists.
£71.20
Liverpool University Press Phoenician Women Classical Texts Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisThis rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding imagery, extravagant language, ebullient rhetoric and scenic display it is quintessential Euripides.Table of Contents General editors foreword Preface General introduction to the series (by Shirley Barlow) General bibliography Bibliography to Phoenician Women Introduction Parallel Greek text and English translation Commentary Family tree
£32.54
Liverpool University Press Terence The Eunuch
Book SynopsisWhen first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: I. Greek New Comedy; II. Comedy at Rome; III. The Life and Works of Terence IV. Terence and his Critics; V. The Eunuch and its Relationship to Menander VI. The Eunuch as a Roman Comedy; VII. The Text Bibliography List of Metres Parallel Latin text and English translation Commentary Index.
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University of Iowa Press Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing
Book SynopsisCollusions of Fact and Fiction traces a generational shift in late twentieth-century African American cultural engagements with the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery. With a focus on works by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker, the book explores how, in comparison to the first wave of neo-slave narratives of the 1970s and 1980s, artists of the 1990s and early 2000s tend to approach the past from the vantage point of a liberal entanglement of fact and fiction as well as a highly playful, often humorous, and sometimes irreverent signifying on entrenched motifs, iconographies, and historiographies. Saal argues that the attempt to reconstruct or recuperate the experience of African Americans under slavery is no longer at stake in the works of artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era. Instead, they lay bare the discursive dimension of our contemporary understanding of the past and address the continued impact of its various verbal and visual signs upon contemporary identities. In this manner, Parks and Walker stake out new possibilities for engaging the past and inhabiting the present and future.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actors:
Book SynopsisForeword by Naomie Harris How many Black British plays can you name? Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, The Oberon Book of Monologues for Black Actresses gives readers an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by black British playwrights, over the last sixty years. This collection features over twenty speeches by Britain’s most prominent black dramatists. The monologues represent a wide-range of themes, characters, dialects and styles. Suitable for young people and adults, each selection includes production information, a synopsis of the play, a biography of the playwright and a scene summary. The aim of this collection is that actors will enjoy working on these speeches, using them to help strengthen their craft, and by doing so, help to ensure these plays are always remembered.Table of ContentsCONTENTS CLASSICAL MONOLOGUES DELLA Flesh to a Tiger (Barry Reckord) JACKIE The Death of a Black Man (Alfred Fagon) MOTHER Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips JEAN Meetings (Mustapha Matura) ROSE Rose's Story (Grace Dayley) OPAL Chiaroscuro (Jackie Kay) CLEOPHILDA The Dragon Can't Dance (Earl Lovelace) CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES MARIA Back Street Mammy (Trish Cooke) MEBUDE Resurrections in the season of the longest draught (Biyi Bandele-Thomas) ALLIE Mules (Winsome Pinnock) MOUT To Rahtid (Sol B River) SHEVAUN Absolution (Malika Booker) JANET The Gift (Roy Williams) JACKIE Shoot 2 Win ( Jo Melville, Tracey Daley and Jo Martin) IMANI B is for Black (Courttia Newland) MONA Two step (Rhashan Stone) ALICE Fix Up (Kwame Kwei-Armah) PARIS Gone Too Far! (Bola Agbaje) HAZEL Black Crows (Linda Brogan) MOJITOLA Muhammed Ali and Me (Mojisola Adebayo) NANA GRACE Family Man (Rikki Beadle-Blair) SISTER Random (Debbie Tucker-Green) MAUREEN Identity (Paul Anthony Morris) MRS ANYIA Egusi Soup (Janice Okoh) TRACEY GORDON Chewing Gum Dreams (Michaela Coel)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Since U Been Gone
Book Synopsis‘He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more binary?’ When friends die and pronouns change, what’s left of the memories that don’t fit anymore? Brought to life with storytelling, an original pop music score, and way too many America’s Next Top Model references, Since U Been Gone is a moving and powerful autobiographical account about childhood co-stars, teenage rebellion, growing up queer in the mid-noughties, and finding yourself while losing a friend.Trade Review‘Bold, honest and swollen with love’ – The Guardian * The Guardian *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Eve
Book SynopsisEve tells the story of a child raised as a boy, when she knew all along that was wrong. That child grew up to be one of the 10 Outstanding Women in Scotland in 2017. With trans rights again under threat, legendary playwright, performer, father and grandmother Jo Clifford tells a story both gentle and passionate, intimate and political, to remind us that the journey towards our real selves is one we all need to make.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Typical
Book SynopsisFrom the makers of 2018 hit Queens of Sheba comes this powerful new play by Ryan Calais Cameron, following the events over one typical night out that is turned upside down by racism and police brutality. Typical uncovers the man and the humanity behind a real-life story: a Black ex-serviceman who spent his life fighting for his country and ends up fighting for his life in police custody.
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Nick Hern Books Four Play
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Liverpool University Press Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
Book SynopsisAeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his people, who vote to accept the girls, but while they sing blessings on Argos, Danaus spies their cousins' ships arriving. Left on their own when he goes for help, they sing more seriously of suicide, and seek sanctuary upstage when the Egyptians enter. A remarkable tussle of two choruses ensues; in the nick of time the king arrives, sees off the Egyptians (but they promise a return) and offers his hospitality. The girls want their father, however, and go when guided by him and his escort of Argive soldiers. Their final song has elements of wedding song in it; they share it, provocatively, with the Argives. The rest of the tetralogy is lost, but enough is known to indicate that marriage is the theme. Aeschylus probably surprised his first audience in his use of the myth; his command of theatre and poetry is fully mature. A.J.Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University.Trade ReviewThis is a fine commentary, in which the editor has omitted no point of significance or dispute.Colin Leach, Classics for AllTable of Contents Introduction: Synopsis (1) Text and facing translation Apparatus criticus Commentary Bibliography Index
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Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escenicas y de la Musica EL ALMA
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Linkgua Auto de los Reyes Magos
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Stay Strong Publishing Fierce Funny and Female A Journey Through Middle
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Arsonists Modern Plays
Book SynopsisFires are becoming something of a problem. But Biedermann has it all under control. He's a respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, so surely nothing can get to him. The great philanthropist is happy to meet his civic duty by giving shelter to two new guests but when they start filling his attic with petrol drums, will he help them light the fuse? Max Frisch's parable about appeasement is given its first major UK revival since its Royal Court premiere in 1961, which was directed by Lindsay Anderson.The play is published as a programme text for the production that runs from 1 November - 15 December on the main stage at the Royal Court.Trade ReviewFrisch's theme, as Alistair Beaton's sharp new translation makes clear, is bourgeois guilt … compact, well-characterised and easily applicable to today's world … a timeless political satire. -- Michael Billington * Guardian *Alistair Beaton's new translation has a witty zest about it -- Charles Spencer * Telegraph *A fresh, felicitous translation -- Nicholas de Jongh * Evening Standard *
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Square Halo Books It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God
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McSweeney's The Domestic Crusaders
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Editorial Sntesis, S.A. Cómo se comenta una obra de teatro
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University of Toronto Press April in Paris
Book SynopsisDrawing extensively from unexplored archival documents from France, Austria, and North America, April in Paris is the first major study to focus on theatre arts at the 1925 Paris Expo and on the audacious and far-reaching impact of the Soviet contributions to this fair.Trade Review"This book would be of particular interest to researchers investigating the general topics of arts and exhibitions, and the role of international fairs in presenting new concepts in art and design to a world audience. In addition, for scholars of Soviet history this book provides detailed information on the topics of the Soviet Union’s self-image and how it tried to depict itself to the outside world in its first decade of existence, as well as the early Soviets’ attitudes on the role of the arts in promoting their country." -- Ayse Dietrich, Middle East Technical University * International Journal of Russian Studies *"Both engaging and informative, April in Paris offers the reader the ultimate experience: to go back in time as if strolling through the Grand Palais and the numerous pavilions which presented their diverse national achievements and ambitions." -- Catherine Gaughan * The French Review *"April in Paris is a consistently engaging and insightful monograph, full of the connections that provoke further study." -- Laurence Senelick * Theatre Journal *"Organizing her study through a series of questions that bring to the fore the role of modern theater design in charting new forms of space, creativity, and audience, Makaryk also tracks for readers the cultural dynamics of expositions and the role of recalcitrance, primarily on the part of the exposition’s planning committee, in dampening the impact the most modern designs and theatrical experiments could have had on the evolution of theater." -- Jordana Mendelsohn * Slavic Review *"Makaryk’s book is a useful addition to literature on both the Paris 1925 Exposition and theatrical modernism and its dissemination, and it is especially heartening to see these topics addressed together. Long may the revolution continue." -- Alexandra Chiriac * Art Margins *"The combination of analysis of theatrical art and a chronological and geographical expansion of the history of the 1925 expo makes this book an important study for understanding the pivotal moment that this international show represents in Western cultural history." -- Juliette Milbach * H-SHERA *"Makaryk gives a graphic account and gathers up the threads of her thoroughly researched and documented narrative of the international cultural significance of the spectator-designer-performer nexus in this period." -- Natalie Rewa, Queen’s University * University of Toronto Quarterly *"Overall, April in Paris is extremely well researched, informative, and very readable." -- Maureen Boulanger * Chukyo University Repository for Academic Resources *"For those interested in modernism in theater arts, this book analyzes a crucial moment on the global stage that captures a diverging yet linked path between revolution and restoration, internationalism and nationalism." -- Tara M. Wheelwright, Brown University * Slavic and East European Journal *"This book allows us to see that our very understanding of theatrical modernism, even modernism itself, as crafted for and around the Paris Expo, is impoverished if we do not see it as arising explicitly within, and informed by, particular spaces and the meanings ascribed to them." -- Charles R. Batson, Union College * French History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the Reader on Transliteration Introduction. April in Paris 1925: "as important as the Renaissance" 1 Theatricalizing the City: Space, Modernism, and the Paris Expo 2 April in Paris 1925: Staging the New Spirit 3 Conquering Space: The Soviets in Paris 4 Great Expectations: Space and Theatre Arts 5 Trial by Space: Incarnating the Revolution 6 Battling Traditional Space: Bringing Modernism from Paris to New York 7 Transformative Space: Into the Future Notes Works Cited Index
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Nimbus Publishing Limited The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time
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Aurora Metro Publications Disposing of the Body
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Scirocco Drama Forever Young
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£17.10
Grols Verlag Reigen
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£13.50
Josef Weinberger Plays Do I Love You
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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Hofenberg Figaro läßt sich scheiden: Komödie in drei Akten
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£8.01
Hofenberg Die Freier: Lustspiel in drei Aufzügen
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University of New Mexico Press Waiting for Godínez
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Wheelchair on My Face
Book SynopsisI got my first pair of glasses when I was seven.A nurse came to the school and tested everyone's eyes. And so it was discovered why I'd thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our local pond and walked into lamp posts and said, 'excuse me'. Until that day the world was a swirl of moving coloured blobs. I thought it was the same for everyone.How wrong I was.'Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award 2012Critic's Pick, New York TimesPart memoir, part theatre and part standup comedy this delightful story of a myopic seven year old is brought to you by actor, comedian and playwright Sonya Kelly. Sonya tells her story about growing up with poor vision that went undiagnosed until she was seven years old. Combining several forms of theatre, this delightful story shows us how we can better the world even if we cannot see the world.Trade Review‘Hilarious, poignant... it will please viewers of all lens prescriptions and none.’ * Irish Theatre Magazine *Delightfully whacky... hilarious... tight script and engaging performance... terrific.’ * The Irish Times *‘Wonderfully fresh script... highly endearing.’ * The Sunday Business Post *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Alistair McDowall Plays 2
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cinderella: A Fairytale
Book SynopsisThis stage version of Cinderella has captivated audiences with its dazzlingly original take on one of the oldest and best-loved fairytales of all times. When Ella’s mother dies, she is brought up by her devoted and loving father who teaches her the names and calls of the woodland birds that surround their home. But when her father marries again, Ella’s peaceful life is turned upside down by a host of new and unpleasant relations. It appears her only allies are the feathered friends who roost in the trees, but they are no ordinary birds… With crystal-clear storytelling, this classic tale of fortunes reversed is brought startlingly and imaginatively to life. Since its premiere in Bristol in 2011/12, Cinderella has gone on to brilliantly successful Christmas runs at two London venues, won a 2014 Off West End Award and was nominated for a 2013 Olivier Award.Trade ReviewIt’s not often that I want to see a show a third time, but then it’s not often that a show is as properly enchanting as Cinderella: A Fairytale. * The Times *... beautifully formed, this is not just a great Christmas show, but a great night for all times and all ages. * The Guardian *This Cinderella is a treat. * The Independent *
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