Paradise Hotel

Georges Feydeau

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend. Plays fo... Lees meer

On the Waterfront

Budd Schulberg

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Here, adapted for the stage, is Budd Schulberg's classic story of the New York waterfront and the kid who "coulda been a contender." Lees meer

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that eleva... Lees meer

The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Plays for Performance
• The only play in which Ibsen denies the validity of revolt, The Wild Duck suggests that under certain conditions, domestic falsehoods are entirely nec... Lees meer

An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• A fresh and contemporary translation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People by Nicholas Rudall. Lees meer

The Trojan Women

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage, The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chillin... Lees meer

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Marlowe's classic treatment of the myth of man's greed and ambition has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama. Plays for Performan... Lees meer

Woyzeck

Nicholas Rudall

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor... Lees meer

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• A play of stinging contemporaneity-about religious and societal hypocrisy, guilt that feeds on innocence, the terror of the inevitable, and the battle... Lees meer

The Marriage of Figaro

Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais, Bernard Sahlins

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Sensual gaiety is at the heart of this comic masterpiece which continues the merry tale of the little barber of Seville, a clever common man whose wit... Lees meer

Iphigenia in Aulis

Euripides

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many r... Lees meer

The Bourgeois Gentleman

Moliere

• Hardcover | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Moliere's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning. Lees meer

Medea

Euripides

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on st... Lees meer

The Bacchae

Euripides

• Hardcover | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as w... Lees meer

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Chekhov's treatment of theatre and love against the background of a magical lake attempts to define the role of the artist in the modern world. Plays ... Lees meer

When We Dead Awaken

Henrik Ibsen

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Ibsen's last work concludes the series of autobiographical dramas begun with The Master Builder which deal with the aging rebel, despairing of life an... Lees meer

The Servant of Two Masters

Carloe Goldoni, Louise Dorothy

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Dorothy Louise's adaptation uses contemporary language to involve actors and audiences in Carlo Goldoni's great classic commedia dell'arte play. Plays... Lees meer

La Ronde

Arthur Schnitzler

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day ... Lees meer

Electra

Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. Lees meer

The Father

August Strindberg, Robert Brustein

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• By far Strindberg's most aggressive work. The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the treacherous we... Lees meer

Oedipus the King

Sophocles

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Plays fo... Lees meer

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Aristophanes' great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Plays for Performance Series. Lees meer

Electra

Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles

• Hardcover | Engels | Plays for Performance
• The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. Lees meer

The Prince of Homburg

Heinrich Von Kleist

• Paperback | Engels | Plays for Performance
• Von Kleist's last work and his masterpiece-a story of guilt, innocence, and moral righteousness involving a prince who violates his orders of battle w... Lees meer