In June 2025 Claire Dowie returned to the Finborough Theatre where she started her career as a stand-up comedian, playwright and performer more than forty years ago.
Jack Gelber: Consider This explores the works of American playwright Jack Gelber (1932-2003), whose groundbreaking, immersive play The Connection (produced by The Living Theatre in 1959) served as the link between the Art Theatre/Beat Generation and the Off-Off-Broadway movement.
In June 2025 Claire Dowie returned to the Finborough Theatre where she started her career as a stand-up comedian, playwright and performer more than forty years ago.
First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, as well as Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and Shakespeare.
First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, as well as Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and Shakespeare.
In Mans Estate, the exploration of masculine identity takes center stage as Shakespeare's works are examined through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and historical context.
Luigi Pirandello: A Study of Genius and Isolation offers a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and legacy of one of Italys most enigmatic literary figures.
Luigi Pirandello: A Study of Genius and Isolation offers a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and legacy of one of Italys most enigmatic literary figures.
The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century's most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity.
The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century's most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity.
In Mans Estate, the exploration of masculine identity takes center stage as Shakespeare's works are examined through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and historical context.
Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic, by Gary Schmidgall, situates *The Tempest* and the other late plays within the elaborate cultural and political framework of Jacobean court art.
The Anatomy of Drama by Alan Reynolds Thompson argues that drama, as an art form, is essential to the vitality of civilization, especially during times of global upheaval.
Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic, by Gary Schmidgall, situates *The Tempest* and the other late plays within the elaborate cultural and political framework of Jacobean court art.
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico.
Avec son imagination et son humour, Victor Haïm propose son tout dernier opus sous forme d’une fable haletante… Une belle artiste de music-hall dévoile, avec une franchise décapante, sans tabous ni censure, les péripéties de sa vie tumultueuse au sein d’un cirque dirigé par un mari brutal, porte-drapeau des phallocrates de tous poils.
John Webster's tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, stand as monumental achievements in Jacobean drama, often regarded as second only to Shakespeare's work.
John Webster's tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, stand as monumental achievements in Jacobean drama, often regarded as second only to Shakespeare's work.
