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The Threepenny Opera
One of Brecht's best loved and most performed plays - a landmark of modern theatre Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm…
The Threepenny Opera - STUDENT EDITION with Commenary & Notes
This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes,…
The Ugly One
Lette thought he was normal, but when the extent of his ugliness is revealed to him, he turns to a plastic surgeon for help And after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing…
The Visit
Large Mixed Cast Male, 8 Female
The Lunts chose this unforgettable play for their swan song. A wealthy woman returns to her debt ridden home town and offers a sum greater than they have ever imagined to help out But there is a condition…
The Woman Before
Frank doesn’t recognise the woman at the door She’s come to remind him of a promise made twenty years before. She tells his wife, ‘Frank and I were lovers ... and we still are now’ Roland Schimmelpfennig’s…
The new Theatre of Europe - 3
Includes Inadmissable Evidence - John Osborne, The Sunday Promenade - Lars Forsell, The Curve - Tankred Dorst and The Laundry - David Guerdon Published by Dell 1968
Theatre Machine
Since the Berlin Wall came down, the German playwright Heiner Mueller has travelled freely in Europe, speaking to students and experimental groups This book contains an introduction to Mueller’s…
Three Plays - The Soldiers & The New Menoza & The Tutor
Three forward-looking plays that question the abuse of privilege, attitudes to women and the values of the theatre by Goethe’s protegé, Jacob Lenz Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole “Lenz emerges…as a…
Through the Leaves
1 Male, 1 Female
The first major English language version of a contemporary German classic A study of the frail, flawed relationship between a middle-aged woman tripe butcher and a loud-mouthed factory worker. Since its…
Through the Leaves & The Nest & Mensch Meier
‘The most fascinating of contemporary West German playwrights. Through the Leaves sticks like a splinter in the mind.’ Frank Rich, New York Times. Frank Xaver Kroetz’ unsparing portraits…
Wedekind Plays 1 - Spring Awakening & Lulu - A Monster Tragedy
Wedekind's expressionist plays influenced the whole course of modern drama. A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie His work was censored and the…
Woyzeck
Large Mixed Cast Male, 4 Female
A modern classic which remains frighteningly relevant to today’s headlines. Based on a real-life murder trial that took place in Germany in the 1820s, the play was written in 1837 but not staged…
Woyzeck
8 Male, 3 Female
Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly “modern” play The story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman millitary discipline and acute social deprivation is told in splintered…
Woyzeck
Large Mixed Cast
Eric Bentley’s adaptation of the classic drama ... Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck suffers at the hands of a corrupt system, and ultimately ends in tragedy
