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Turcaret
6 Male, 6 Female
Fraud, theft, extortion and sexual corruption are the themes in this eighteenth-century masterpiece of French comedy "A real discovery ... the play is sharp and brisk, and might have been written by Molière…
Franziska
Large Mixed Cast
Franziska sells her independence to a Mephistophelean impresario in return for two years of pleasure and brilliant success in her operatic career She moves from cabaret to court theatre, leaving behind…
From Marriage to Divorce - Four One-act Plays
Four of Feydeau’s celebrated one-act farces Written between 1908 and 1911, they are loosely based on the breakdown of Feydeau’s own marriage The 4 One-act plays are ... Better Late & One Month Early &…
Hercules
In this new translation Seneca’s poetic account of this classic story reveals the passion for rhetoric that was to have such a strong influence on Elizabethan drama and particularly on Marlowe and the…
The Government Inspector
One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol’s masterpiece has lost none of its bite In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made So when they learn…
The Boat Plays - The Boat to Hell & The Boat to Purgatory & The Boat to Heaven
A trilogy of medieval morality plays that remain fiercely relevant today Portuguese dramatist, Gil Vicente, puts humanity in the dock in three religious plays written between 1516 and 1519
The Venetian Twins & Mirandolina
Two of Goldoni’s best comedies The Venetian Twins (I Due Gemelli Veneziani) and Mirandolina (La Locandiera) brilliantly brought to life in these acclaimed translations The Venetian Twins is a classic tale…
The Hypochondriac & George Dandin & Scapin
This offers new versions of Moliere’s plays by distinguished translators Ranjit Bolt and Gerard Murphy The Hypochondriac was the Moliere’s last play The edition includes an Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole
The Wedding
A witty but ultimately tragic satire about Polish society, this remarkable play is set around the celebrations of a wedding between a poet from the city of Krakov and a peasant girl from a rural village…
The Conspirators
This hilarious satire on the French conservative aristocracy and their incompetence portrays an elaborate plan to overthrow the government but which is hopelessly bungled A rare comic gem from Prosper…
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…
Madness in Valencia & Peribanez and the Comendator of Ocana
Madness in Valencia is a riotous and hilarious translation in which no one is quite who they appear to be Peribañez is a classic piece in which the aristocratic Comendador woos peasant farmer Peribañez’s…
Don Juan & Friends and Lovers & The Battlefield
The first published English-language edition of Goldoni’s worldly vision of the Don Juan legend, in verse, alongside translations of the naturalistic Friends and Lovers and The Battlefield, all of which…
Lucifer
8 Male, 0 Female
An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost An angel returns from Eden, his wings…
Britannicus
6 Male, 3 Female
This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero’s tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos “The tragedies of Racine (1639-99)…
The Island of Slaves
2 Male, 3 Female
Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on…
The Last Days of Don Juan
Large Mixed Cast Male, 7 Female
Sometimes known as The Trickster of Seville, this is the text of the brilliant version produced by the RSC of the first great treatment of the Don Juan Tenorio legend by the seventeenth-century dramatist,…
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Large Mixed Cast Male, 5 Female
Molière’s ferociously funny interchanges between the gullible hero and a succession of dancing masters, philosophy tutors, dubious tailors and penniless aristocrats make this a hugely enjoyable play which…
The Dispute
5 Male, 5 Female
What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth? What if, tonight, they were to be released? How would bodies and minds reared in darkness respond to the…
The Liar & The Illusion & Le Cid
Pierre Corneille (1606-84), the great neo-classical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at the core of the repertory…
