Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens, Fatherland confronts contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions.
This book offers readers worldwide the first edition of Juan Isidro Fajardo's Indice de todas las comedias impresas hasta el ano de 1716 preserved in a single surviving manuscript in Spain's National Library.
Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens, Fatherland confronts contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions.
Synge, who came from a middle-class Protestant family near Dublin, created a huge scandal at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where The Playboy was staged in 1907, because its audience did not take kindly to a comedy that seemed to portray the Irish as violent, superstitious sots and swaggerers.
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage.
This book offers readers worldwide the first edition of Juan Isidro Fajardo's Indice de todas las comedias impresas hasta el ano de 1716 preserved in a single surviving manuscript in Spain's National Library.
"The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded"
With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often.
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage.
"The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded"
With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often.
