Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)

In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.

Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution.

A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.

While some of Shaw s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known.

This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "e;The Millionairess"e;, "e;Too True to be Good"e; and "e;The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles"e;.

This volume features the play Misalliance, which explores the incongruities of human nature and family life, and Shaw's one-act burlesque, The Fascinating Foundling.

'We don't live alone .

When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione protests vigorously against the pragmatic young woman's choice.

Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France.

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life.

New edition with bonus featuresThis hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle s front seat passenger, Jo.

A fascinating playbill of stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre through the centuries, including distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole.

Wenn eine Anglerin extrem harmlos den Fischen winkt, Sankt Falstaff verzweifelt nach Henri greift und Eliza erschopft den Konig kopft, wenn Ja und Nein uberhaupt kein Widerspruch und Glorias Welt einzig Geruch, dann schwingt er uberall schon betorend mit, der abgrundig feinsinnige Humor dieser neuen und sehr politischen Dramatischen Rundschau 07.