Beautiful, kind and virtuous, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother . . . until, in a fit of jealousy, she leaves her dull, distracted husband and infant children to run off with a handsome, aristocratic suitor. Her fall from grace is absolute as she suffers the terrible punishment of those who dare to disobey a merciless moral code.
Beautiful, kind and virtuous, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother . . . until, in a fit of jealousy, she leaves her dull, distracted hu...
A man arrives in the underworld in search of his love, only to find a mysterious guitar-wielding guide who may or may not be able to help him. He begins to mistake the underworld for the real world, and is caught there until he can break a cycle of violence. Passion, retribution, fate, and forgiveness collide in this contemporary take on Orpheus.
A man arrives in the underworld in search of his love, only to find a mysterious guitar-wielding guide who may or may not be able to help him. He b...
In monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence, Guardians offers storytelling at its simplest--and its most complex. A disgraced American soldier tells her story, and a clever English journalist tells how he got his. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence, Guardians offers storytell...
-Like a quiet, lethal explosion somewhere in the very heart of you.---Guardian A father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths.
-Like a quiet, lethal explosion somewhere in the very heart of you.---Guardian A father denied access to his children, a footballer des...
In a world of high-speed technology, some expect to live life as efficiently as the machines they depend on. And when a machine breaks down, there is usually a technician to fix it. But in an age where things that don't work and can't be mended are trashed, what do we do with something as human and messy as love?
In a world of high-speed technology, some expect to live life as efficiently as the machines they depend on. And when a machine breaks down, there...
John Barton has adapted the texts of Greek historian Thucydides and a Socratic dialogue from Plato into 'The War That Still Goes On.' The text is a mixture of tragic, comic and political material as originally voiced in ancient Greece.
John Barton has adapted the texts of Greek historian Thucydides and a Socratic dialogue from Plato into 'The War That Still Goes On.' The text is a mi...
