Category: Drama

By Albert Bermel

ISBN-10: 1408148285

ISBN-13: 9781408148280

The definitive advisor to the existence and paintings of Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is without doubt one of the most crucial forces in international theatre, but the concept that is among the most often misunderstood. during this incisive learn, Albert Bermel appears to be like heavily at Artaud's paintings as a playwright, director, actor, clothier, manufacturer and critic, and offers a clean perception into his rules, options and, notably, his writings.

Tracing the theatre of cruelty's origins in past dramatic conventions, tribal rituals of detoxing, transfiguration and exaltation, and in comparable arts resembling movie and dance, Bermel examines each one of Artaud's six performs for shape and which means, in addition to surveying the appliance of Artaud's theories and strategies to the foreign theatre of modern years.

By William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen

ISBN-10: 1588368270

ISBN-13: 9781588368270

This joyous play, the final comedy of Shakespeare's profession, sums up his stagecraft with a exhibit of doubtless easy ability. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, dwelling on an enchanted island, has the chance to punish and forgive his enemies whilst he increases a tempest that drives them ashore--as good as to stop a uprising, to rearrange the assembly of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently appropriate younger prince, and, extra very important, to relinquish his magic powers in popularity of his advancing age. Richly choked with track and magic, romance and comedy, the play's subject matter of affection and reconciliation deals a excellent banquet for the senses and the guts.

By Erich Kästner, Carl Miller

Imprint: Oberon performs for younger People

Growing up is the main fascinating event of all

Join younger Emil as he says see you later to his mom, leaves his small city and units off on a trip that might swap his lifestyles. whilst his cash is stolen at the educate through a mysterious stranger, Emil thinks he's misplaced every little thing. yet as he starts off monitoring down the thief, he quickly discovers that he's no longer by myself within the immense urban finally. For this vintage story of a boy studying to depend upon himself – and on his new acquaintances – the Olivier degree transforms into Twenties Berlin: a spot jam-packed with surprises and possibility, the place every little thing strikes on the velocity of your mind's eye.

By Caryl Churchill

By John E., Jr. Thorburn

ISBN-10: 0816052026

ISBN-13: 9780816052028

ISBN-10: 0816074984

ISBN-13: 9780816074983

By William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen

ISBN-10: 1588368890

ISBN-13: 9781588368898

"Golden lads and ladies all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
--Cymbeline

Eminent Shakespearean students Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen supply a clean re-creation of this vintage tragedy during which not anything is because it seems.

THIS quantity additionally comprises greater than 100 PAGES OF particular FEATURES:

• an unique creation to Cymbeline
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and research with very important evidence in regards to the work
• remark on earlier and present productions in line with interviews with major administrators, actors, and designers
• images of key RSC productions
• an outline of Shakespeare's theatrical occupation and chronology of his plays

Ideal for college kids, theater execs, and normal readers, those smooth and available variations from the Royal Shakespeare corporation set a brand new general in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

By Anthony S. Abbott

ISBN-10: 0817303960

ISBN-13: 9780817303969

By Daniel Mendelsohn

ISBN-10: 0199249563

ISBN-13: 9780199249565

The 1st full-length research of kids of Herakles and Suppliant ladies to seem in fifty years, Gender and the town in Euripides' Political performs makes use of clean insights into the Greek perception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic id to illustrate ultimately the formal beauty and highbrow complexity of 2 works which are nonetheless disregarded as creative mess ups in the poet's oeuvre.

By Freddie Rokem

ISBN-10: 0804763496

ISBN-13: 9780804763493

ISBN-10: 080476350X

ISBN-13: 9780804763509

By Lizbeth Goodman

ISBN-10: 0203359518

ISBN-13: 9780203359518

ISBN-10: 0203376277

ISBN-13: 9780203376270

ISBN-10: 0415073065

ISBN-13: 9780415073066

Modern Feminist Theatres is a huge evaluate of the varieties feminism has taken within the theatre considering that 1968. Lizbeth Goodman presents a provocative and interdisciplinary examine of the advance of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the therapy of key matters similar to gender, race, sexuality, language and gear in functionality. in line with unique learn and clean info, modern Feminst Theatres is an absolutely complete and admirably transparent research of a flourishing box of perform and inquiry.