Paris, 1870. Adultery ought to be a serious business...but it's hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she suspects that something is up. Not to mention the fact that your lover is not only stuck up a drainpipe, but is also your husband's best friend.
Paris, 1870. Adultery ought to be a serious business...but it's hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she...
A Busy Day is a love story, as well as a witty and wonderfully observed satire on class and greed by the most popular woman writer of her time. The scene is London in the summer of 1800. In the course of just one busy day, we are gleefully tumbled into a world of frustrated love, mistaken identity, snobbery, and downright vulgar bad manners.
A Busy Day is a love story, as well as a witty and wonderfully observed satire on class and greed by the most popular woman writer of her time....
Ernst Toller was the most prominent of the German Expressionist playwrights. Transformation is a poetic distillation in stations of the author's conversion from patriot to pacifist in the First World War. In Masses Man, utopian socialist realism clashes with Leninist revolutionary violence. With Hoopla We're Alive , Toller espoused -new sobriety- and presented a contemporary political cross-section of Berlin.
Ernst Toller was the most prominent of the German Expressionist playwrights. Transformation is a poetic distillation in stations of the author'...
L'avare (1666) is Moliere's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by his family and servants. Will the children be able to marry their heart's desires or will the old skinflint scupper the situation and secrete the stash?
L'avare (1666) is Moliere's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by t...
he religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of the rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and imprisoning Orgon.
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he religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of the rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit ...
Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsession is ignited--one that tears both their worlds apart. Set amidst the glittering splendors and miseries of 19th century Paris, Camille has scandalised and fascinated audiences and theatres, cinemas and opera houses for over a hundred and fifty years.
Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsess...
This is a collection of four one-act plays, by one of France's leading writers. Translated here by Peter Meyere, these translations were originally commissioned for BBC Radio and are here adapted for stage.
This is a collection of four one-act plays, by one of France's leading writers. Translated here by Peter Meyere, these translations were originally co...
Sophocles' age-old existential questions are asked again, and are found to be as relevant as ever. In a translation from playwright, tv presenter and journalist Keith Dewhurst. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize.
Sophocles' age-old existential questions are asked again, and are found to be as relevant as ever. In a translation from playwright, tv presenter and ...
