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Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid
€12.00Tim Supple and Simon Reade have taken ten tales from Hughes's version of the greatest poem of classical inspiration and transformed them for the stage. Erotic, elegant, violent and magical, this dramatisation of Tales from Ovid realises the immense power of Hughes's original text, which is already recognised as a literary landmark. Learn More -
The Misanthrope and Other Plays
€11.99This collection demonstrates the range of Moliere's comic vision, his ability to move between the broad and basic ploys of farce to the more subtle and sophisticated level of high comedy. Learn More -
Sunjata: Gambian Versions of the Mande Epic
€12.99Sunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child said to have crawled until the age of seven who grew up as prophecy foretold to become a mighty warrior, renowned for his bravery and superhuman strength. Learn More -
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
€15.99"In Grief Lessons, the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson's spare and beautiful new translation of four of Euripides' lesser known tragedies, we have a kind of primer on the intrinsic dangers of blind devotion to ideology. --The New Yorker Learn More -
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and A Requiem
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In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Learn More -
The Theory of the Modern Stage: From Artaud to Zola: an Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama
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The ideas of theatre's great makers are revealed by their best expositors, as Eric Bentley writes about Stanislavsky belief in the importance of emotional memory when creating a dramatic role and Arthur Symons considers Richard Wagner and the relationship between genius, art and nature. Learn More -
Ghosts or Those Who Return
€13.00Rebecca Lenkiewicz s version of Henrik Ibsen s Ghosts, or Those Who Return, premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in a co-production with ATC in July 2009. Learn More -
Theatre of the Oppressed
€17.00Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. Augusto Boal is a renowned dramatist and the author of several works on politics and theatre. He lives in Brazil. Learn More -
The Empty Space
€13.00In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Learn More -
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€11.00As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and villains, and focused instead on the individual grappling with a moral dilemma. Learn More
Bullshit Bingo
Viral, Stepping Up, Non-Traditional Management, Multitasking, Team Player. BINGO!
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