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A Dybbuk
Large Mixed Cast Male, 5 Female
“Seventy-four years after its first production, A Dybbuk, S. Ansky’s tale of supernatural possession in a 19th century Polish village, still haunts the imagination with the fierce tenacity…
Capek - Four Plays - R.U.R. & The Insect Play & The Makropulos Case & The White Plague
"There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" ~ Arthur Miller This volume brings together fresh new translations…
Death and the Ploughman
3 Male, 1 Female
Written in the 15C by the Bohemian humanist Johannes von Saaz in Middle High German, Death and the Ploughman is a tragic dialogue between Death and a recently widowed farmer “Quite extraordinary…
Don Juan Comes Back From War & Figaro Gets Divorced
Two modern classics by Austrian dramatist, Ödön von Horváth ... Hampton’s translation of Don Juan Comes Back from the War presents the anti-hero of the title returning from the front in a fervour of despair.…
Embers
2 Male, 1 Female
A remote 18th-century Hungarian castle is the setting for a meeting ... Forty-one years after a tragic event two former friends must confront each other in a devastating bid to lay the past to rest Betrayal,…
Farewell Waltz
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father And so begins a…
Fragile!
3 Male, 4 Female
A darkly humorous play about the people behind the tabloid stories of migrant workers and forced prostitution in today’s Europe - the first play in English by an award-winning writer who is well-known…
Hunting Cockroaches - Hunting Cockroaches & Cinders & Fortinbras Gets Drunk
Highly theatrical and often hilarious works concern the immigrant experience of the Easter European in America, the struggles of the individual in a repressive state, and the manipulations of political…
Our Class
A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions - one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor They are learning the ABC and this is Poland, 1925 As the children…
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…
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…
