Twentieth Century by Charles MacArthur
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Musical comedy Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden Music by Cy Coleman Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a play by Bruce Milholland Characters: 17 Principal roles, plus chorus (doubling possible) Whether performed with elaborate scenery or on a simple scale, this br ...Show more
The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their brilliant wit and understanding of the human conditio ...Show more
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare | Reading Level: good-very good
'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional w ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from ...Show more
King Henry V:Arden Shakespeare Series by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: The Arden Shakespeare
Distinguished editor T.W. Craik makes an independent and balanced examination of the many textual problems of Henry V, providing many new emendations. "Craik's commentary is particularly ample and detailed, with careful attention to the play's language, textual problems, the interpretation of stage dire ...Show more
Shakespeare and Me: Great Writers, Actors and Directors on What the Bard Means to Them - and Us by Susannah Carson
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Shakespeare and Me, Susannah Carson invites 38 actors, directors, scholars and writers to share stories of their own personal relationship with Shakespeare. We hear from Ralph Fiennes on interpreting Coriolanus for a m ...Show more
The Boys: The Screenplay by Stephen Sewell
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Screenplays S.
This an analysis of the violence which lurks at the heart of Australian society. Returning home from prison, Brett sets about establishing control over his wayward brothers Stevie and Glenn. Unemployed and without prospects, Brett needs something to keep them under his thumb.
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Theatre of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Classical tragedy is timelessly powerful - not only does it still move us, but it heals, too. Bryan Doerries produces performances of Greek tragedies for soldiers returned from conflict, addicts, prison communities, victims of natural disasters, and other vulnerable people. His dramatisations have explo ...Show more
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays by Steve Martin
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Steve Martin is one of America's most treasured actors, having appeared in some of the most popular moves of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has in the past few years turned his hand to writing plays. The results, collected here, hilariously explore serious questions of love, happi ...Show more
Aeschylus: Agamemnon by Aeschylus
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama is a series of new translations which are faithful to the original Greek plays in content and tone, but which have the immediacy of modern English. The series aims to enable both Classics students and Drama students, and indeed anyone with an interest in the theat ...Show more
Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and describes the rise of the royal commander Macbeth to the King of Scotland, his transformation into a tyrant and his fall. In his drama Shakespeare linked historical facts about the historic Scottish King Macbeth and the contemporary English King James I wi ...Show more