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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…
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 3 - The Rules of the Game & Each in His Own Way & Grafted & The Other Son
The third volume of Pirandello “Collected Plays” contains major work, but “The Rules of the Game” is by far the best known. First performed in 1918, the subject is a tense one -…
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…
Pirandello - Collected Plays - Volume 1 - Henry IV & The Man With the Flower in his Mouth & Right You Are If You Think You Are
This is the first volume of a collected edition of the complete plays of Pirandello - one of the major playwrights of the 20th century - in revised or new translations, under the general editorship of…
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…
Antonin Artaud - Collected Works - Volume 3
To Antonin Artaud, drama was necessarily the drama of life - a dram that involved the audience as an integral part of the action.This revolutionary theory of the indistinguishable link between the incarnation…
Antonin Artaud - Collected Works - Volume 4
In the 53 years since his death in Paris, Artaud’s reputation has continued to grow and his influence on contemporary theatre can be seen in the plays of Adamov, Audiberti, Camus and Genet and in…
Antonin Artaud - Collected Works - Volume 2
Antonin Artaud is one of the two or three most influential innovators of the 20th century, whose theories, production ideas, writings and plays have brought a new poetic impulse and dynamic intensity to…
Antonin Artaud - Collected Works - Volume 1
Artaud is one of the two or three most influential and radical theatrical innovators of the twentieth century, whose theories, production ideas, writings and plays have brought a new poetic impulse and…
The Operas of Monteverdi - English National Opera Guide 44 (includes libretti)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretti from The Operas of Monteverdi is included in both the…
The Stage Works of Bela Bartok - English National Opera Guide 44 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from The Stage Works of Bela Bartok is included in both…
Oedipus Rex & The Rake’s Progress - English National Opera Guide 42 (includes libretti)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretti from Oedipus Rex & The Rake’s Progress is included…
Wozzeck - English National Opera Guide 42 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from Wozzeck is included in both the original language…
Macbeth - English National Opera Guide 41 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from Macbeth is included in both the original language…
