Orchards
ISBN: 9780881450552 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DROWNING by Maria Irene Fornes, A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by Michael Weller, EVE OF THE TRIAL by Samm-Art Williams, THE TALKING DOG by John Guare, and RIVKALA'S RING by Spalding Gray. The plays were commissioned by the Acting Company, and the volume is of particular interest to those concerned with both the short story and short play forms. Some of the plays are faithful adaptations of the original stories. Others take the original short stories as jumping...
This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DROWNI...
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The Lower Depths
ISBN: 9781840028942 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adapted by Phil Wilmott for the stage. Perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled Scenes from Russian Life, it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga
Adapted by Phil Wilmott for the stage. Perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitl...
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All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition
ISBN: 9781934843819 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers" of the Russian tradition: Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In this section, emphasis is comparative: the riddle of Pushkin's life, why "Tolstoy versus Dostoevsky," how Chekhov reads Tolstoy, why Kundera dislikes Doestoevsky and Tolstoy dislikes Shakespeare. The final section addresses the transposition of...
All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the l...
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My Reminiscences, Volume 2.
ISBN: 9781906830496 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and friend of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and creator of an original system of actor's training that included both expressive gesture and expressive speech.In 1899 Wolkonsky became Director of the Imperial Theatres, the post for which he is most remembered. Although he held the position only until 1902, he achieved a great deal; Serge Diaghilev was his immediate assistant, and Wolkonsky entrusted him with the publication of the Annual of the Imperial Theatres...
Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and frien...
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My Reminiscences, Volume 1.
ISBN: 9781906830489 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and friend of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and creator of an original system of actor's training that included both expressive gesture and expressive speech.In 1899 Wolkonsky became Director of the Imperial Theatres, the post for which he is most remembered. Although he held the position only until 1902, he achieved a great deal; Serge Diaghilev was his immediate assistant, and Wolkonsky entrusted him with the publication of the Annual of the Imperial Theatres...
Prince Serge Wolkonsky (1860 - 1937) was an influential Russian theatrical worker, one of the first Russian proponents of eurhythmics, pupil and frien...
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Uncle Vanya (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559364478 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.- - Clancy Martin, Paris Review
-Strikingly intimate... Free of the stilted or formal locutions that clutter up some of the more antique-sounding translations... Ms. Baker has given the play a natural but distinctly contemporary American sound.- - Charles Isherwood, New York Times -Devastatingly beautiful... People are going to be talking about this one for years.- - Jacob Gallagher-Ross, Village Voice -More than a modern-dress treatment... -Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.- - Clancy Martin, Pari...
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A Government Inspector
ISBN: 9781408173633 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government. Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger is mistaken for a government inspector. Fearing discovery of their corrupt goings-on, the town's unscrupulous councillors attempt to ingratiate themselves. Bribes, backhanders and brown envelopes abound, and the young chap, who has an eye for a quick buck, takes full advantage... This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a s... |
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Sons Without Fathers: (The Untitled Play, Known as Platonov)
ISBN: 9781783190041 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Village school teacher Platonov is a man who is loved by women. Despite his best intentions he is drawn into a series of extra-marital affairs that all hold the promise of escape from the provincial Russian reality where he and his circle of friends are trapped. Consumed by bitterness and disappointment, they attempt to fill the void in their lives with sex and vodka, blaming their fathers for the mess they've been left in.
Sons Without Fathers is a brand-new version of Chekhov's remarkable first play. Helena Kaut-Howson's version chooses to focus on just one of the many themes... Village school teacher Platonov is a man who is loved by women. Despite his best intentions he is drawn into a series of extra-marital affairs that al...
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Old Money
ISBN: 9781849434997 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty years of respectable marriage should have prepared Joyce for respectable widowhood, bus she has other ideas. A secret life of champagne, strippers, and chance encounters unfolds in this tender comedy. After decades of playing the part her husband, mother, father and daughter thought appropriate, she's free and open to a whole new world of possibilities.
Forty years of respectable marriage should have prepared Joyce for respectable widowhood, bus she has other ideas. A secret life of champagne, strippe...
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52,12 zł |
Uncle Vanya
ISBN: 9781421849980 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden. In an avenue of trees, under an old poplar, stands a table set for tea, with a samovar, etc. Some benches and chairs stand near the table. On one of them is lying a guitar. A hammock is swung near the table. It is three oclock in the afternoon of a cloudy day. MARINA, a quiet, grey-haired, little old...
Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society...
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53,57 zł |
Uncle Vanya
ISBN: 9781494410605 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A refreshingly intimate and modern spin on a Chekhovian classic. "Devastatingly beautiful. . . . People are going to be talking about this one for years."?"The Village Voice" One of the most-produced playwrights in the United States, Annie Baker lends her truthful observation and elegant command of the colloquial to Chekhov's despairing masterpiece. A critical hit in its sold-out Off-Broadway premiere, this contemporary telling is "the most intimate and engaging exploration of Chekhov's bleak comedy since Andre Gregory's "Vanya on 42nd Street"" (Bloomberg News). Annie Baker's works... A refreshingly intimate and modern spin on a Chekhovian classic. "Devastatingly beautiful. . . . People are going to be talking about this one fo... |
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Горе от ума: Gore OT Uma /
ISBN: 9781604448061 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woe from Wit (Russian:, also translated as "The Woes of Wit," "Wit Works Woe," and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow." The play, written in 1823 in the countryside and in Tiflis, was not passed by the censorship for the stage, and only portions of it were allowed to appear in an almanac for 1825. But it was read out by the author to "all Moscow" and to "all Petersburg" and circulated in innumerable copies, so it was as good as published in 1825; it was...
Woe from Wit (Russian:, also translated as "The Woes of Wit," "Wit Works Woe," and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the...
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98,47 zł |
Поэмы
ISBN: 9781604448146 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Sea-Gull
ISBN: 9781502836892 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in a rural Russian house, the plot focuses on the romantic and artistic conflicts among an eclectic group of characters. Fading leading lady Irina Arkadina has come to visit her brother Sorin, a retired civil servant in ailing health, with her lover, the successful hack writer Trigorin.
Set in a rural Russian house, the plot focuses on the romantic and artistic conflicts among an eclectic group of characters. Fading leading lady Irina...
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Fade from Red: The Cold-War Ex-Enemy in Russian and American Film, 1990-2005
ISBN: 9780990693918 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a political reading of Russian and American films in the Yeltsin era. It explores how, after the initial euphoria, both Russian cinema's and Hollywood's representation of the "partner" relied on old strategies to preserve claims of national superiority. This study investigates the close correlation between politics and mainstream cinema vividly evidenced in Russian and American screen images of the former Cold War enemy from 1990 to 2005. Whereas glasnost and the demise of the Soviet Union ushered in a period of official cooperation that soon inflated into rhetorical...
This book offers a political reading of Russian and American films in the Yeltsin era. It explores how, after the initial euphoria, both Russian cinem...
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Social Identity in Imperial Russia
ISBN: 9780875807287 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A broad, panoramic view of Russian imperial society from the era of Peter the Great to the revolutions of 1917, Wirtschafter s study sets forth a challenging interpretation of one of the world s most powerful and enduring monarchies. A sophisticated synthesis that combines extensive reading of recent scholarship with archival research, it focuses on the interplay of Russia s key social groups with one another and the state. The result is a highly original history of Russian society that illuminates the relationships between state building, large-scale social structures, and everyday life.... A broad, panoramic view of Russian imperial society from the era of Peter the Great to the revolutions of 1917, Wirtschafter s study sets forth a c... |
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104,29 zł |
The Sea-Gull
ISBN: 9781519747303 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Blue Blood: Herzschlag - Marquess Alexander of Lancaster Gesamtausgabe
ISBN: 9781523351923 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marquess Alexander Arthur Louis of Lancaster: charismatisch, heroisch, dominant und ausserst attraktiv. Ein Mann, der genau weiss, wie man mit einer Frau umzugehen hat, die noch Jungfrau ist. Zudem ist er Trager des Titels eines Marquess sowie zweitaltester Sohn von Duke Phillip David Edward of Lancaster und hat somit in der Rangfolge an zweiter Stelle ein Anrecht auf das Erbe des Titels Duke of Lancaster. ******** Alexander ist Mitglied der Elite Einheit Blue Blood, dessen Agenten ausschliesslich der Aristokratie angehoren. Die Black Panther sind zwar recht einflussreich und uberall gut...
Marquess Alexander Arthur Louis of Lancaster: charismatisch, heroisch, dominant und ausserst attraktiv. Ein Mann, der genau weiss, wie man mit einer F...
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The Sea-Gull
ISBN: 9781533647078 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. Though the character of Trigorin is considered Chekhov's greatest male role citation needed] like Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of...
The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the fi...
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Plays by Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9781533651358 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,22 zł |