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Eastern European Plays
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Reading the Apocalypse in Bed - Selected Plays & Short Pieces
Collected together for the first time are six astonishingly radical plays and ten short pieces from one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the aftermath of WW2 In The Card Index the fractured…
Revenge & Virgins’ Vows & The Annuity
Three nineteenth-century plays masterfully rendered in stylish and witty verse These landmark translations confirm Fredro’s importance and explain his centrality in Polish culture
Rhinoceros & The Chairs & The Lesson
These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality…
Sawney Bean
Like all great myths, this beautiful and powerful fable - based on the true story of an 18C Galloway cannibal - touches our primal instincts and respomds to our deepest needs for artistic expression The…
Short Plays From Twelve Countries - The Sorrows of Han & Benkei on the Bridge & more
Includes: The Sorrows of Han, Benkei on the Bridge, High Life Below Stairs by David Garrick, The Vezir of Lankuran by Fath Ali, Diamond Cuts Diamond by Nikolai Gogol, Vaclav the Bandit by Tadeusz Przeworsky,…
The Chairs
2 Male, 2 Female
Ionesco’s farce combines a comic portrait of human folly with an experiment in theatrical possibilities. In a house on an island a very old couple pass the time with private games and half-remembered…
The Golem
Large Mixed Cast Male, 2 Female
Drenched in the magic and mystery of the Kabbala, The Golem retells the legend of a sixteenth-century Rabbi in Prague who defies God when he molds and animates a huge clay figure to defend the Jewish community…
The Guardsman
3 Male, 4 Female
An elegant jeu d’esprit, highly praised by Shaw, in which Molnár casts both the jealous husband, impersonating an ardent admirer, and the wife who claims not to be fooled, as consummate professional actors…
