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Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, the Molière of Russia, was born in the sunny Ukraine in March, 1809, and died in Moscow forty-three years later. The author of Russia's famous national comedy, «The Inspector-General,» Gogol was the first dramatist of his country to write plays on the Western European model, even as his friend Pushkin was the first Russian poet to introduce the Western strain into the literature of his people. In the comedy «Marriage,» which Gogol began in 1832 as «The Wooers»...
| Автор | Николай Гоголь |
Considered by some to have contributed to the birth of modernism, «Ubu Roi» is a comical play that is at once a wild and bizarre work which overturned the cultural rules, norms, and conventions of its day. A precursor to the «Theatre of the Absurd», the play satirizes the complacency, greed and abuse of power by the ruling class. In addition to «Ubu Roi,» Alfred Jarry wrote two sequels, «Ubu Cuckolded,» and «Ubu in Chains,» which were never performed in his lifetime. According to an essay...
| Автор | Alfred Jarry |
Benjamin Jonson's career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in «The Admiral's Men», and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson had a literary knack for absurdity and hypocrisy, a trait that made him immensely popular in the 17th century Renaissance period. His works are particularly recognizable because of his consistencies in style, intricacy of plot, characterization and setting....
| Автор | Ben Jonson |
Like the 'Lysistrata,' the 'Thesmophoriazusae, or Women's Festival,' and the next following play, the 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council' are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part. In ‘The Thesmophoriazusae’ Euripides is summoned as a notorious woman-hater and detractor of the female sex to appear for trial and judgment before the women of Athens assembled to celebrate the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honour of the goddesses Demeter and...
| Автор | Aristophanes |
Our '1 Law 4 All' gang is dragged into a complex multinational, election fraud scheme. The gang's client champions fair and free elections. The battle lines are drawn. The political windmills established. The 1 Law 4 All Foundation teams with a voter justice group to ensure no tampering with the coming national election, especially in Florida, gator country.<br><br>We begin with a small group of wealthy progressives. Their influence finds two corrupt...
| Автор | Billy Angel |
Hope and Joy Hope’s labour is unusual and uneggspected. Happily, nothing fazes Joy, the hospital cleaner who helps her to escape. Then Joy is sacked from her job and she moves in with Hope and her swan-boy son, Magnus. Their lives collide in chaos – can they survive this shifting world?A deeply original play that explores love and loss in a changing environment, imagining Scotland in a time much like ours, but not quite. The Return France, 1560. In the foothills of the Pyrenees, Bertrande...
| Автор | Ellie Stewart |
<>Tay Bridge<br> On the night of Sunday December 28, 1879, the unthinkable happened. Battered by a ferocious storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed. <i>Tay Bridge</i> tells the poignant and unexpected stories of the suddenly interrupted passengers making the journey that night. Who were they? Where were they going? A powerful ensemble piece, <>Tay Bridge</i> gives a whole new perspective on this famous bridge disaster.<p> <>The Signalman<br>Winter...
| Автор | Peter Arnott |
She awakes as every morning, with the same feeling of being in a place where she didn’t want to be. She sees the many faces going through her mind. Della shakes her head, holding back tears. Her heart is aching for something more. What did her mother always say? Oh yes, “Follow your heart, Della, follow your heart.” Della rises and goes to the window. Della turns. Feeling of loneliness washes over her. Her day has already started, whether she wants it or not. The face she sees in the mirror...
| Автор | Gail Odom |
<p>&ldquo;The bitingly funny and fierce <em>Gloria</em> is one of the year&rsquo;s best shows&hellip;<em>Gloria</em> is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let&rsquo;s just say it hits the bull&rsquo;s-eye.&rdquo; &mdash;Elisabeth Vincentelli, <em>New York Post</em></p> <p>&ldquo;Funny, blistering...
| Автор | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |
A powerful verbatim play about young women’s resilience through foster care, No White Picket Fence is drawn from a research project involving in-depth interviews conducted by social work professor Sue McKenzie-Mohr with ten individuals who, as girls, grew up in the foster-care system and now identify in their own ways as living well. The play’s dialogue is entirely verbatim – that is, drawn word for word from interview transcripts featuring all of the “word stumbles” (ums, ahs, and incomplete...
| Автор | Robin C. Whittaker |
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when fully opened." – Thomas Robert «Tommy,» Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864-1930). Victor Dark is an average millennial male, caught in his past and unsure of his future. When his life turns for the better, things happen which perplex him more than all before. Victor knows he's always been different. Learn why as you explore this novel and discover the truth about COVID-19, the Deep State, and the path humanity is on. A war will rage. A...
| Автор | Blaine Sims |
“One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century. Pinter’s work gets under our skin more than that of any living playwright.” —New York TimesUpon its premiere at the National Theatre, Betrayal was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. It won the Olivier Award for best new play, and has since been performed all around the world and made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, and Patricia Hodge....
| Автор | Harold Pinter |
David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross.The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly...
| Автор | David Mamet |
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion...
| Автор | Tom Stoppard |
The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard’s long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term “intelligentsia” was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander...
| Автор | Tom Stoppard |
Five unique short plays for television by one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. A 'Waitress in Yellowstone' (or: 'Always Tell the Truth') is a parable about an honest waitress and a corrupt congressman. In Bradford, a new police chief arriving in a small New England town is plunged into the midst of its cozy secrets and uncovers the truth behind his predeces­sor's mysterious fatal hunting accident. The Museum of Science and Industry Story is a...
| Автор | David Mamet |
Comprising of three sequential plays, The Coast of Utopia chronicles the story of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard’s long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term “intelligentsia” was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx...
| Автор | Tom Stoppard |
“Letts is a master of pitch-dark comedies that measure the grisliest depths of human behavior… Linda Vista is very funny, equally unsettling…An inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy.” —Ben Brantley, New York Times Fifty-year-old Wheeler is moving into his own apartment after a nasty divorce. With a blend of humor and humanity, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts demonstrates the ultimate midlife...
| Автор | Tracy Letts |
Plays in this collection: Rest, A Great Wilderness, The Few, Pocatello.Rest premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre (Costa Mesa, CA) in the spring 2014. A Great Wilderness premiered at Seattle Repertory Theatre in the winter 2014. The Few premiered at The Old Globe (San Diego, CA) in the fall 2013 with a subsequent Off-Broadway run at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Pocatello premiered at Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in the fall 2014. Pocatello and Rest are recipients of an Edgerton...
| Автор | Samuel D. Hunter |
– Premiered at Yale Rep starring playwright-actor Tracy Letts (author of August: Osage County) in May 2012 to great critical acclaim- March 13 – July 6, 2014: Will receive its Broadway premiere directed by Sam Gold and starring Marisa Tomei, Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Tracy Letts, Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine, The Sixth Sense)– Will Eno has been called “A Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” – New York TimesAwards for Will Eno:– Pulitzer finalist for Thom Pain (based on...
| Автор | Will Eno |
In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told. The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife, another kind of love story in the form of a comic operetta, takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendary cowpuncher and his mate Slue-foot Sue, with...
| Автор | Sam Shepard |
Siana ist derart mit ihrem Job auf der Pferde-Ranch beschäftigt, dass ihr sonst keine Zeit für andere soziale Kontakte bleibt. Als sie ausgerechnet dort Kay kennenlernt, wird ihr Leben von jetzt auf gleich ziemlich auf den Kopf gestellt. Der Sunnyboy bringt nicht nur Sianas Gefühlswelt mächtig durcheinander, sondern auch ein Familiengeheimnis kommt ans Licht. Ob es Siana trotz allem schafft, die nötige Ruhe zu bewahren, um sich weiterhin um die ihr anvertrauten Pferde zu kümmern? Besonders River...
| Автор | Jasmin Windfeder |
Wilhelm Tramitzke, geboren im Februar 1926 in Wischniovka, Bessarabien, ein Landstrich zwischen den Flüssen Djestr und Pruth, heute Moldaurepublik, ist Nachfahre deutscher Kolonisten in Bessarabien, welche in den Jahren 1814 bis 1842 Mutterkolonien errichteten. Bis zur Umsiedlung 1940 (Heim ins Reich) bestanden durch ihre Nachfahren bereits 150 Tochterkolonien mit deutschen Namen. Die Umsiedlung nahm ihnen ihre Heimat, und nach der Ansiedlung in Polen verloren sie 1945 zu zweiten Mal ihre...
| Автор | Wilhelm Tramitzke |
Sie wollen wirklich, dass ich Ihnen mein Leben erzähle? Keine Ahnung, wen das interessiert, aber ich habe sowieso nichts Besseres zu tun und Sie wollen mir ja auch ein paar Riel dafür geben, also abgemacht. Geld kann jeder gebrauchen. Wie alt ich bin? 17, sehe jung aus, oder? 36? Sie sehen jünger aus. Wie 27. Okay, dann werde ich Sie duzen, dich meine ich. Wenn man von hier aus aufs Meer schaut und die fröhlichen Menschen am Strand sieht, kann man sich nicht vorstellen, dass auch eine sehr...
| Автор | Johannes Kunz |