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Eugene Ionesco - Plays - Volume 6 - A Stroll in the Air & Frenzy for Two
The sixth volume of Ionesco Plays contains the important 'A Stroll in the Air' and the shorter 'Frenzy for Two'. The former is set in England , near Bristol, where Ionesco first went to learn English In…
Eugene Ionesco - Plays - Volume 10 - Oh What a Bloody Circus & The Hardboiled Egg
This tenth volume of collected plays by Eugene Ionesco contains an important long play 'Oh What a Bloody Circus' (French title: 'Ce Formidable Bordel') and 'The Hard Boiled Egg' ('L'oeuf dur') - the last…
Eugene Ionesco - Plays 11 - The Man With the Luggage & The Duel & Double Act & Why Do I Write
Since the early 1950s, Ionesco has surprised and delighted theatre audiences with a new kind of drama. He wrote plays that are often excruciatingly funny, exploring all the peculiarities of language. He…
Pelleas et Melisande - English National Opera Guide 9 (includes libretto)
In this Guide to Pelléas, Maeterlinck’s play is reprinted in full, so that the opera-lover can read the scenes that Debussy did not set to music Hugh Macdonald’s much praised English translation is published…
Pirandello - Collected Plays - Volume 4 - As You Desire Me & Think it Over Giacomino! & This Time It Will Be Different & The Imbecile
This fourth volume of Pirandello’s “Collected Plays” contains four plays written between 1916 and 1930 and covers most of the productive years of Pirandello’s life It is difficult…
Pirandello - Collected Plays - Volume 2 - Six Characters in Search of an Author & All For the Best & Clothe the Naked & Limes from Sicily
This is the second volume of a collected edition of the plays of Pirandello - one of the major playwrights of the early 20th century “Six Characters in Search of an Author” is Pirandello’s…
A Hard Heart & The Very Hours of a Reviled Man
A Hard Heart is about knowledge, self-knowledge, and the gulf between Its protagonist, a strategist and innovator, is a culture’s last defence against barbarity During a long siege she provides the intellectual…
The Last Supper
Barker’s most ambitious work to date. A meditation on the story of the last supper. A densely imagined tour of the human will to self-denial and submission Employing a contemporary deity - The People…
Antonin Artaud - The Theatre and Its Double
The most radical text on performance in print today from the legendary French playwright, poet and director He redefines the nature and purpose of drama, what the theatrical reaction of audiences should…
Antonin Artaud - The Man and His Work
Martin Esslin is one of the most respected and knowledgeable writers on serious drama and literature of the 20th century. His “Theatre of the Absurd” is a modern classic among his many other…
Barker - Collected Plays 4 - I Saw Myself & The Dying of Today & Found in the Ground & The Road the House the Road
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and contraversial dramatists of his time - his plays challenge, unsettle and expose In I Saw Myself a woman’s longing to understand her compulsion to…
Barker - Collected Plays 3 - Claw & Ursula & He Stumbled & The Love of a Good Man
The plays in this volume range over twenty years, beginning with Barker’s first major work for the stage - Claw, a study of urban discontent and political impotence, developed over three stylistically…
