From Marriage To Divorce

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN'T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque... Lees meer

The Inspector General

Nikolai Gogol

• Paperback | Engels
• Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick. "The emperor ... Lees meer

The Changing Room

Laurence Senelick

• Paperback | Engels | Gender in Performance
• The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room, which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cro... Lees meer

The Dragon

Evgeny Shvarts

• Paperback | Engels
• A town ruled by a dragon and compelled to pay it tribute is rescued by Sir Lancelot, at a terrible price to himself. But the mayor and his son prove t... Lees meer

The Lady From Maxim's

Georges Feydeau

• Paperback | Engels
• "It seems to me that for fertility in droll inventions, the perpetual outpouring of unforeseen misunderstandings, for the inexhaustible gaiety of dial... Lees meer

The Crooked Mirror

• Paperback | Engels
• An anthology of plays from the Crooked Mirror, the leading Russian cabaret of the Silver Age "Don't blame the mirror if your mug is crooked!" Parody d... Lees meer

The Dance of Death

August Strindberg

• Paperback | Engels
• "The question is to know whether as a result of living together, one person's evil thoughts manage to be perceived by the other person, even before th... Lees meer

Dead Souls

Laurence Senelick

• Paperback | Engels
• A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Gogol's comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia. Over one hundred characters can be played wit... Lees meer

The Complete Plays

Anton Chekhov

• Paperback | Engels
• This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a u... Lees meer

Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

• Paperback | Engels | Stage Edition
• Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning ne... Lees meer

The Chekhov Theatre

Laurence Senelick

• Paperback | Engels
• This is the first cross-cultural study of Chekhov's plays in production. Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare, and this book st... Lees meer

The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage

Laurence Senelick

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
• This is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to transl... Lees meer

Love And Intrigue

Friedrich Von Schiller

• Paperback | Engels
• Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a mid... Lees meer

Anything To Declare?

Maurice Hennequin, Pierre Veber

• Paperback | Engels
• This classic and hilarious French farce commences when a customs official barges into newlyweds Robert and Paulette's train compartment at a most inop... Lees meer

Oedipus The King

Sophocles

• Paperback | Engels
• The plot of the play consists of nothing other than the gradual rising and artistically protracted revelation--similar to the work of psychoanalysis--... Lees meer

Mustn't Do It!

Jo M Van Ijssel De Schepper-Becker

• Paperback | Engels
• A domestic comedy whose homosexual character is part of an ordinary family that views his sexual orientation as unnatural. When the play was first pro... Lees meer

The Changing Room

Laurence Senelick

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in Performance
• The Changing Room traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. This is the first-ever cross-cu... Lees meer

The Shadow

Evgeny Shvarts

• Paperback | Engels
• "THE SHADOW is a play about society, a political play. It is not so much a political parody as a poetic and philosophical work of art. It is a play ab... Lees meer

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

Laurence Senelick

• Hardcover | Engels
• Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick de... Lees meer

Crazed Women (The Bakkhai)

Euripides

• Paperback | Engels
• Of the hundred or so plays Euripides wrote in his lifetime only nineteen survive. Not all of them won first prize at the festivals, but BAKKHAI did. "... Lees meer

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

Laurence Senelick

• Paperback | Engels
• Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick de... Lees meer

Antony

Alexandre Dumas

• Paperback | Engels
• "ANTONY is not a melodrama, ANTONY is not a tragedy, ANTONY is not a stage play. ANTONY is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts." Al... Lees meer

The Madwoman Of Chaillot

Jean Giraudoux

• Paperback | Engels
• Originally written to protest thoughtless urban renewal, THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT has remained remarkably up-to-date. When it was first revived, the a... Lees meer

The Ghost Sonata

August Strindberg

• Paperback | Engels
• Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building,... Lees meer