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Corneille’s Tragedies - The Role of the Unexpected
In this book Professor Knight reviews all twenty of Corneille’s heroic and tragic plays and in the process challenges some received interpretations. But he also distances himself from the new critical…
Crime Passionnel
Large Mixed Cast Male, 2 Female
Crime Passionnel reflects Sartre’s fascination with the mentality and morality of Communism in its story of a young Party member assigned to shoot a “deviationist”. It was first staged…
Cyrano
9 Male, 3 Female
“Cyrano need not have diminished emotional impact when divorced from the grand acting style for which the play was conceived. Its lyrical scenes still etch a portrait of Cyrano as a man of uncompromising…
Cyrano de Bergerac
Large Mixed Cast
Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand’s hero has become a figure of theatrical legend ... Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless…
Don Juan
8 Male, 3 Female
“Richard Nelson’s supple translation accommodates this transposition comfortably, without infidelity to the original” ~ Julius Novick, The Village Voice “Richard Nelson’s…
Don’t Fool With Love & The Candlestick & A Door Must Be Kept Open Or Shut
Three translations of one of France’s most important, influential and original dramatists Don’t Fool with Love, written in 1834, is set against a backdrop of rural France and peopled by a host of colourful…
Eleutheria
Written in French in the late 1940s before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in ‘normal’…
