Зарубежная драматургия
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Savannah Hudson always looked for a surprise from her husband, Sheldon, when he returned home from his travels. It was a tradition that began at the start of their twenty-three-year-long marriage. But when her husband returned from his latest trip, Savannah finds surprises she never expected: one pretty red thong and lots of questions. But before Savannah can get answers, her husband goes into cardiac arrest. Now, as Sheldon fights for his life, Savannah struggles to put her bitterness aside....
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Abortion is of course a highly contentious issue. This play deftly wields feminist, pro-choice politics without hitting one over the head with it, using complex characterizations, smart dialogue, emotional nuance and audience implication.Produced in Toronto in September 2015 and in Edmonton in April 2016 to rave reviews, the written script is just as delightful to read, and we love that it is, in some ways, a different thing than the performed play. 5 character play.Connell is a graduate of the...
| Автор | Jill Connell |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Faust I in einer spannenden Hörspiel- Fassung für alle Generationen. Erleben Sie Faust I – eine Tragödie, von jungen Schauspielern im Original szenisch gelesen und mit lebhaften Hörspielszenen illustriert. Ein Erzähler führt durch die Handlung und erläutert das Werk. Johann Wolfgang Goethes (1749-1832) literarisches Schaffen umfasst neben zahlreichen Schriften Gedichte, Dramen und erzählende Werke. Neben Friedrich Schiller wird Goethe zum wichtigsten Repräsentanten...
| Автор | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
William Shakespeares Romeo und Julia in einer spannenden Hörspiel-Fassung für alle Generationen. Erleben Sie Shakespeares Tragödie von jungen Schauspielern im Original szenisch gelesen und mit Hörspielszenen lebhaft illustriert. Ein Erzähler führt durch die Handlung und erläutert das Werk. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) schuf mit Romeo und Julia eine bewegende Liebesgeschichte und dramatische Weltliteratur. Im italienischen Verona leben zwei verfeindete Familien, die Montagues und Capulets....
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
In einem gepflegten Lokal auf einer gepflegten Urlaubsinsel am Meer.Vorsaison. Oder Nachsaison. Menschen unterhalten sich an den Tischen. Eine Frau sitzt an einem kleinen Tisch für zwei Personen. Eigentlich wollte sie nur den Rum – wegen der kühlen Brise am Abend. Doch ein schönes Eis soll sie stattdessen wählen, oder einen schönen Kaffee – das Richtige eben für eine alte Frau. Sie lehnt ab. Sie will den Rum. Und feiern. Leise feiern, am Leben zu sein, hungrig noch immer nach dieser Welt, der...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, the unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. This story features lives that hang in the balance, including a single job with a misdiagnosed newborn that sends Cross and...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The plays selected for this anthology reflect the issues and styles typical of the new wave of dramatic writing in Russia.<br><br>New drama flourished (almost) exclusively in small spaces, often in dingy basements that employed and accommodated small numbers of people. The big theaters largely turned a blind eye to what was happening on small stages and in backrooms in playhouses, libraries and community centers in a few chosen hot spots around Russia — primarily Moscow,...
| Автор | John Freedman |
Flight of the Forgotten is the true story of one of the most closely-guarded American military secrets of all time. It is intriguing, controversial and thought-provoking. The story traverses 50 years, two generations and the realities of our physical world. The triggering event is the tragic loss of an American Eighth Air Force bomber crew in 1945 under mysterious circumstances while enroute home after the end of World War II. The loss represents a 50-year-old aviation mystery, officially...
| Автор | Mark A. Vance |
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 away frm his life and to do some research on the Holocaust. Thwarted by witnesses unwilling to talk, he...
| Автор | Michael Redhill |
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 to face confounding questions about authorship, racism, and ethical behavior. Weaving between...
| Автор | Anton Piatigorsky |
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 died in ten years prior, and Grace, a rough-and-tumble hellcat who owns the local dump. At the...
| Автор | Claudia Dey |
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 landscape? Will she have to smudge her lipstick to «cowboy up»? Drama, a new play by the master of edgy dark...
| Автор | Karen Hines |
Winner of the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian PlayWinner of three Dora Mavor Moore AwardsStage Award for Best Performance, 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Two performers express the inner conflict that exists within a modern woman's head: the push and pull, the past and the present, the progress and the regression. Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text, and physicality, ...
| Автор | Norah Sadava |
This is a pressed bruise. This is Greta Garbo's smile. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations is an imperfect chronicle of a life lived; a body pulled through time, encountering meteorological phenomenon, mythology, political calamity, pop culture, and everyday happenstance along the way. Written in the wake of his mother's terminal cancer diagnosis, Tannahill's Declarations is a staggering archive of sensations, memories, and voices asserting that here lived, for a time, a...
| Автор | Jordan Tannahill |
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. In this oddly peaceful world, Cassandra, a salesgirl at a clothing store called the Abyss, meets a...
| Автор | Karen Hines |
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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 boxedness, love, and the more ridiculous areas of metaphysical speculation. Through a series of rapid...
| Автор | Darren O'Donnell |
"One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory."— Entertainment Weekly "Fascinating and hilarious . . . With each of its three acts, Mr. Burns grows grander."— Village Voice "When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin? . . . Mr. Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas . . . with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination."— The New York Times An...
| Автор | Anne Washburn |
"A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm."—Vogue "It may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original's raw fragility."?Hollywood Reporter Retaining the film's popular music and lyrics, acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh adapts this charming tale of a complicated...
| Автор | Enda Walsh |
• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton• Four star review in The Guardian• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David...
| Автор | Wallace Shawn |
Originally premiered Off Broadway at Signature Theatre Company in the spring of 2017<p><p> Selected as a <i>New York Times</i> Critics’ Pick<p><p> “A Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” – <i>New York Times</i><p><p> Eno has been honored with the following awards: <p><p> Pulitzer Prize finalist for <i>Thom Pain (based on nothing) </i> <p> 2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation...
| Автор | Will Eno |
Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play “THE BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR” – The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Hollywood Reporter, Time Out New York, NPR «Drawn in subtle but indelible strokes, Mr. Karam's play might almost...
| Автор | Stephen Karam |
'What I admire most is that his plays are beautifully well made, economical, sharp and coherent. He's not a misanthrope, but he's in pursuit of why people behave as badly as they do along with having a great compassion for them. That's an unusual and interesting combination.'—Tony Kushner, on John Patrick ShanleyWhen a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx finds himself shipped off to a private school in New Hampshire, the adjustment to the alien...
| Автор | John Patrick Shanley |
• World premiere Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2014, directed by Craig Lucas and starring Kathryn Erbe (Law and Order: Criminal Intent) and Arliss Howard (True Blood). • Play deals with issues of substance abuse and addiction, and is inspired by Lucas’s own struggles with addiction, about which he has spoken openly.• Lucas’s other most recent play, The Lying Lesson, about Bette Davis, ran Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in 2013, starring Carol Kane.• Other recent...
| Автор | Craig Lucas |
“Your fear, your own lives, have become your entertainment.”—Talk Radio “More timely today than it was twenty years ago . . . Radio crackles with intensity.”—Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News “The most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting. . . . This revival, like the original production, allows its star to grab an audience by the lapels and shake it into...
| Автор | Eric Bogosian |