"e;Young playwrights don't come much hotter than Phyllis Nagy"e; (Daily Telegraph)Includesher three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon Rising "e;Here is the bestnew play I have seen in many months.
Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes blackIn And We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost story?
Iago's 'I am not what I am' epitomises how Shakespeare's work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self, the notions of being and identity, and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others.
An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dynamic narratives and richly textured characterisation.
Using only Charles Dickens extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage versions of Dickens have gathered wide critical acclaim.
Includes the plays The Lady's Not for Burning, A Yard of Sun and SiegeIn this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by the 'Summer' play A Yard of Sun, written in the mid-1930's.
A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama.
Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "e;the best literature we have as black Americans,"e; appropriated blues music for his plays.
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?
This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth.
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors' life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century.
Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.
Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigonetogether known as The Oedipus Cycle.
Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare's plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice.
Shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Award for Best New Play 2021He was like a rugby man,He hit her like a rugby man,Straight into her shoulder,The momentum of the crash,Dragging her beyond the kerb,Towards the front tyre of my bus.
Presenting an interesting approach to this once marginalized play, this edition addresses issues including collaboration, performance history, craftsmanship and sources.
Presented by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre as a double-bill as part of their Debuts season, these two shorts plays take an unflinching look at the darker side of Scottish families.
Includes the plays I Saw Myself, The Dying of Today, Found in the Ground and The Road, the House, the RoadHoward Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time.
An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism.
A study of postWorld War II plays set in ';total institutions' such as hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military basesPlays of Impasse probes the structure and significance of the numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead endsthe hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Irving Goffman as ';total institutions.
