Drama category: 27605 books
by Mr Howard Brenton, Mr David Hare
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function.
Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the height of Thatcherism when huge political changes were afoot. The play essentially studies,...
by Mr Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of...
National Theatre Connections 2013
The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically...
by James Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life?
What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever?
What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour?
City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a...
by Professor Alan Nadel, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh,...
by Christopher Bigsby
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender...
The Cherry Orchard
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Belarus Free Theatre: New Plays from Central Europe
The VII International Contest of Contemporary Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The International Contest of Contemporary Drama (ICCD) was set up by Belarus Free Theatre to encourage new writing and to promote Belarusian cultural identity on an international stage with the participation of artists around Europe. Belarusian playwrights, banned within their own country but recognised...
by Alexander Pushkin,Alfred Hayes (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Boris Godunov [Variant Title: A Dramatic Tale, The Comedy of the Distress of the Muscovite State, of Tsar Boris, and of Grishka Otrepyev] is a drama by Aleksandr Pushkin, written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. Its subject is the Russian ruler, Boris...
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas...
Building the Wall
The Play and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In the tradition of Hamilton and Angels in America, a powerful, politically charged, dystopian drama that couldn’t be more timely.
Written in a “white-hot fury” on the eve of the 2016 election, the stunning new play by Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan...
REED in Review
Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. The REED sessions were designed to allow critical reflection on the past, present, and future of the project...
Corruption In Africa
Fifteen Plays
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The book is a collection of fifteen plays written by Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, Africa’s most politically exposed playwright. This rare collection offers a penetrating insight of corruption and politics in Africa well as the global injustices that plagued the world in the last quarter of the 20th century...
by Jean Racine
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a princess's absolute submission to her father's will,...