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В этом томе четыре пьесы Ибсена: «Враг народа» (1882 г.), «Дикая утка» (1884 г.), «Гедда Габлер» (1890 г.) и «Строитель Сольнес» (1892 г.) в новом переводе Ольги Дробот, уже отмеченном жюри профессиональных премий «Мастер» и...
В этот сборник вошли две известнейшие пьесы Теннесси Уильямса – «Трамвай “Желание”» и «Татуированная роза», – положенные в основу одноименных фильмов – фильмов, которые, в свою очередь, стали классикой мирового...
В сборник вошли три пьесы Бернарда Шоу, раскрывающие разные грани его драматургического таланта. «Цезарь и Клеопатра» – абсолютный шедевр его творческого наследия, беспощадная историческая сатира на вечные темы...
Юн Фоссе – выдающийся современный норвежский драматург, писатель и поэт, эссеист и переводчик художественной литературы. Почетный доктор Бергенского университета, имеет степень бакалавра философии и социологии и...
Авангардные пьесы 1940-х–70-х годов связаны в сборнике «Театр в театре» двойным узлом: во‐первых, все они устроены наподобие шекспировской «мышеловки» из «Гамлета»: актёры разыгрывают для других актёров спектакль, за...
Бессмертная комедия Лопе де Веги (1562–1635), повествующая о сердечных муках молодой красавицы, вынужденной выбирать между высоким положением знатной дамы и любовью к простолюдину, адаптирована (без упрощения текста...
История девушки, обреченной всю жизнь ждать своего возлюбленного, написанная Лоркой в период творческой зрелости и ставшая одной из вершин его таланта поэта и драматурга, адаптирована в настоящем издании (без...
Блистательная комедия Мольера – о глупом и чванливом буржуа, мечтавшем стать аристократом, а в результате превратившемся в «дойную корову» для разного рода проходимцев и угрозу для счастья собственной дочери, –...
«Немезида» – единственная драма основателя Нобелевских премий, изданная на шведском языке в Париже в 1897 г., после смерти А.Нобеля. Драма вышла из печати в количестве всего 100 экземпляров, да и те уничтожены...
Более 20 лет «Монологи вагины» звучат со сцен сотен стран мира. Они исцеляют сердца миллионов женщин, помогают им принять себя без робости и стеснения, дарят вдохновение жить. Эта книга стала феноменом. Она была...
«Действие, охватывающее время от начала XIX столетия до шестидесятых годов, происходит частью в Гудбраннской долине и в окрестных горах, частью на берегу Марокко, в пустыне Сахаре, в доме для умалишенных в Каире, на...
Welcome to Miami. Home of the nation’s most notorious Haitian organization… It’s where  Low and Rob, inner city teens from Lil Haiti, Florida, are small-time car thieves. They take part in an organized huge payout-carjacking scheme. Low and Rob do whatever is necessary to complete the deal, including stealing and committing murder. After attaining the required cars, Low and Rob...
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd , written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story «Odour of Chrysanthemums» and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of events that unfold in the miner's kitchen,...
Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel’s widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma.
This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story. Goodness is the writer breaking his word. Recently divorced, Michael Redhill goes to Poland to get...
In the vast, unnamed metropolis of Hello … Hello, art and commerce have finally and completely conjoined; stylish cafés serve up zebra mussels and the air is thick with a gentle rain of sparrows plummeting down from the mirrored office towers. Everywhere, people are falling for an edgy new fashion accessory: a shiny ball filled with poison that hangs from a delicate chain....
Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by Amiel Gladstone, introducing a wide range of fascinating characters and a formidable new voice in Canadian drama. In The Wedding Pool, three single friends in unsatisfactory jobs decide to place a bet on who will marry first. The friends – waitress and wannabe dancer Sylvia, rock critic Miles and inventory manager Dave...
These four plays – White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad and Over – written by Darren O'Donnell for his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, will challenge your politics, your ontology and everything you hold to be safe, stable and sacrosanct.
Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada’s most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising refuge, treatment and healing to millions of addicts. But all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, McArthur...
Ogres, trolls, demons – monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is determined by her obsession with race, bloodlines and genetic...
Beckett meets Betty Boop in this trilogy of monologues by Canadian cult heroine Pochsy, a nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen. In Pochsy's Lips, she's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because she's got a squid where her heart should be. In Oh Baby, she's at the Last Resort, on holiday from her job packing mercury. And in Citizen Pochsy, our little minx is in the...
pppeeeaaaccceee, is a vast, imaginative and mesmerizing glide through Life and Power. The play is set in Ephemeral; three people firmly floating chat – in O'Donnell's inimitable rapid-fire style – about the revolution. Which revolution? Good question. A gently aggressive meditation, pppeeeaaaccceee examines our being, asks us what we're doing and reminds us...
Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, isn’t really a show; it’s an interactive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a...
Described by Variety as ‘Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar, a complicated, insecure waif who still wears the tracksuit her mother...
Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknowst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr. Wishful Thinking. The two losers fall in love, fall in science, and fail to make a baby. Their conversation, an intricately woven semantic circus, traverses...
It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries...
When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international audience for the book. But Vivian's obsession with the dead author, who has materialized in her life, is challenged by the work of a contemporary historical novelist, and she's forced...
'There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.' RM Vaughan's play about Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner comes off the stage and onto the page in this handsome edition from Coach House Books. An insightful look at the gender politics behind the cameras and studios of the golden age of cinema.
'This is a record of our version of grassroots theatre. The idea was to take a group of actors out to a farming community and build a play of what we could see and learn. There is no story or «plot» as such … Nevertheless, we hope that you can see many stories woven into the themes of this play and that out of it will emerge a picture of a complex and living community.' –...
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for DramaPenelope Douglas is an ex–forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her sleek bathroom and her oil-wife friend pronounces Penelope her baby's godmother. Will she be able to find heart in this wild and soulless...
In Greenland, the discovery of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island's discoverer and his family. In Iceland, set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and tenant takes an unexpected turn. A young woman's idealism is challenged by the infamous whale hunt in Faroe Islands.
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