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PaperbackEngels9781783207329
15-5-2017
This volume is a collection of plays created by András Visky, one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theatre. Translated for English-language audiences, the book provides critical analyses, scripts, director's notes and interviews with creative teams behind the productions to reveal a holistic, insider's view of Visky's artistic vision. Meer
GebondenEngels9781783208487
15-4-2018
This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841501666
30-11-2007
Gabriela Zapolska was an actor, journalist and playwright. Her best-known play, The Morality of Mrs. Dulska, is an uncompromising look at gender, class and relationships in fin-de-siècle Poland. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841501697
15-10-2007
Contains an introduction, which contextualises Point Blank's work in the wider tradition and history of British political theatre. This publication of Point Blank's early work is a useful reading for students, audiences, actors and directors interested in radical writing for performance. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841501840
15-3-2008
Challenges the subjects of grief and sexual abuse and defies national and personal pressures to keep silent about such issues. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841502243
15-3-2009
Presents a collection of three plays "The Hammerstone" (1994); "Drift" (1994); and, "Holy Ghost". "The Hammerstone" (2005) is about two professors ageing gracelessly, "Drift" is about marriage and divorce, and "Holy Ghost" portrays the plight of German POW's kept in camps in the American South. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841502366
15-10-2009
This book features three of Gabriela Zapolska’s plays that focus on the economic and social pressures women faced in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841505558
1-3-2012
Between 1930 and 1960 women dramatists Paola Riccora, Anna Bonacci, Clotilde Masci, and Gici Ganzini Granata achieved a high degree of popularity and success, and set the stage for the next generation of feminist theatre in the 1970s. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841505565
23-7-2012
Raises questions about the interplay in contemporary theatre between the processes of rehearsal and the theatrical metaphors that shape our everyday dealings with trauma, including death. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841504865
15-4-2012
Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France's storied Belle Époque. This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation: Business is Business and Charity. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841504308
15-10-2011
This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan; Through the Roof, a Faustian trip through the social history of natural disaster in New Orleans; and Celestial Flesh, a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841500812
1-1-2003
This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister), analyses of their processes and themes, and photographs of the performances. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841501055
1-1-2002
Bertold Brecht was an important dramatist/director/theorist of the 20th century. This play focuses on Brecht's life in America, where he resided from 1941 through to 1947. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841504148
15-3-2013
Contains English-language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: "Snow" by Stanislaw Przybyszewski; "In a Small House" by Tadeusz Rittner; "Ashanti" by Wlodzimierz Perzynski; and "All the Same" by Leopold Staff. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841504162
27-8-2013
Includes three related performance texts for undergraduate performance which take Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of Carnival as a starting point for an exploration of physical, moral and cultural upheaval in a post-modern age. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841504278
15-3-2011
A collection of two plays. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783208159
15-11-2017
Karen Malpede's four plays are set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture programme; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack from well-funded climate change deniers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783204304
15-2-2015
The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. This book provides a glimpse into period of Polish literary culture unfamiliar to most English readers and scholars. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781783204625
15-9-2015
In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Meer