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The Shadow of the Hummingbird

Athol Fugard

The Shadow of the Hummingbird

The Shadow of the Hummingbird explores the loss of innocence and the need to maintain a sense of wonder at the fleeting beauty of the world. The play premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, USA, in 2014, and an expanded version was subsequently staged at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, as well as in Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. Athol Fugard returned to the stage for the first time in 15 years to play the role of Oupa in these two productions. This publication reflects the South...

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Athol Fugard

Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen

Peer Gynt

Born in Skien, Norway in 1828, Henrik Ibsen has often been referred to as the founder of modern drama and modernism in theatre. Ibsen was widely known as an atheist and political radical, and channeled some of those sentiments into his works. «Peer Gynt» captures humankind's unsure, imperfect and opportunistic nature in many memorable scenes: a portrait so intimate and accurate that the play has become a classic in Norwegian literature. This five act play was based on the Norwegian fairy...

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Henrik Ibsen

Hello ? hello

Karen Hines

Hello ? hello

In the vast, unnamed metropolis of Hello  Hello, art and commerce have finally and completely conjoined; stylish cafés serve up zebra mussels and the air is thick with a gentle rain of sparrows plummeting down from the mirrored office towers. Everywhere, people are falling for an edgy new fashion accessory: a shiny ball filled with poison that hangs from a delicate chain. In this oddly peaceful world, Cassandra, a salesgirl at a clothing store called the Abyss, meets a...

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Karen Hines

Сирано де Бержерак

Эдмон Ростан

Сирано де Бержерак

«Зрительный зал Бургундского отеля в 1640 году. Нечто вроде сарая для игры в мяч, приспособленного и обставленного для театральных представлений. Зал имеет форму прямоугольника. Одна из его сторон составляет заднюю декорацию, которая тянется по диагонали из правого переднего угла в левый задний и образует угол со сценой, которую мы видим в разрезе. На сцене, вдоль кулис, расставлены с обеих сторон скамьи. Занавес состоит из двух раздвижных полотнищ. Над главным занавесом – королевский герб. ...

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Эдмон Ростан

The Shadow of the Hummingbird

Athol Fugard

The Shadow of the Hummingbird

"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."— Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."— Newsweek "Athol Fugard can say more with a single line than most playwrights convey in an entire script."— Variety Legendary theatre artist Athol Fugard returns to the stage for the first time in fifteen years in this, his latest work. ...

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Athol Fugard

Going Nuclear

Stephen Hart

Going Nuclear

In 1969 a young chemist, Arthur Weiss, is recruited by an anti-war group to convert uranium into plutonium for the construction of a nuclear bomb. Arthur is told the bomb's only purpose is to establish a bargaining position with the government-that it will not be detonated. But as Arthur's involvement deepens, particularly relative to the group's attractive leader, Billie Lee, his life begins to spin out of control.

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Stephen Hart

The Death of Caesar

Voltaire

The Death of Caesar

Voltaire's The Death of Caesar (Mort de César, 1735) is often erroneously described as a reworking of the first three acts of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Instead, Voltaire rewrote the text in its entirety, using a different approach that focuses on the act of tyrannicide, with the complication that Caesar has revealed to Brutus that the latter is actually his son. Brutus is an ardent republican whom Caesar wants to convert to his side. Ultimately, the son places the needs of...

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Voltaire

[boxhead]

Darren O'Donnell

[boxhead]

Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknowst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr. Wishful Thinking. The two losers fall in love, fall in science, and fail to make a baby. Their conversation, an intricately woven semantic circus, traverses boxedness, love, and the more ridiculous areas of metaphysical speculation. Through a series of rapid...

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Darren O'Donnell

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating epigrams still savored by all who enjoy artful conversation.From the play's effervescent beginnings in...

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Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

A classic satire of Victorian society, Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is one of the author’s most frequently performed works. The story trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend to be people that they are not in order to escape the burdensome demands of social conventions. When John Worthing visits his best friend Algernon Moncrieff, to whom he is known as Ernest, Algernon notices the curious inscription on his cigarette case which reads, “From...

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Oscar Wilde

The Plays of August Strindberg

August Strindberg

The Plays of August Strindberg

August Strindberg (1849-1912) has been referred to as «the father of modern literature» in Sweden, and has earned the distinction of one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. As an author unafraid of exploring new possibilities in dramatic fiction, Strindberg is noted for his psychological realism, blatant misogyny, symbolism, and his utterly fluid and subjective sequences of events. His works bore intense scrutiny in their time, but have since been recognized for the prodigious...

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August Strindberg

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

"The Importance of Being Earnest," considered to be one of Oscar Wilde best plays, is a comedic satire of Victorian England. It is the story of Jack Worthing who lives in the country with his ward Cecily Cardew. Jack invents a brother named Ernest so that he has an excuse to travel to London to woo a woman, Gwendolen Fairfax. At the same time Jack's good friend, Algernon Moncrieff pretends to be Ernest so that he can woo Jack's ward, Cecily. A comedy of confusion is the result in...

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Oscar Wilde

Volpone, or, The Fox

Ben Jonson

Volpone, or, The Fox

Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. He worked shortly as an actor in «The Admiral's Men», but soon moved on to writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson's works are particularly recognizable because of his consistencies in style, intricacy of plot, characterization and setting. He focused on creating works that implemented elements of the realistic as well as the absurd. Jonson's most...

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Ben Jonson

The Countess Cathleen

W. B. Yeats

The Countess Cathleen

The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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W. B. Yeats

The Misanthrope and Other Plays

Molière

The Misanthrope and Other Plays

Written during the highly successful final years of his life, the plays contained in this edition represent the pinnacle of Moliere's artistry and the most profound demonstration of his vision of humanity: «The Misanthrope,» «The Doctor in Spite of Himself,» a hilarious example of Molière's long-standing skepticism of the medical profession, «The Miser,» «The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman,» «The Impostures of Scapin,» «The Learned Women,» and «The Imaginary Invalid,» the play that...

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Molière

The Countess Cathleen

W. B. Yeats

The Countess Cathleen

William Butler Yeats was born near Dublin in 1865, and was encouraged from a young age to pursue a life in the arts. He attended art school for a short while, but soon found that his talents and interest lay in poetry rather than painting. He came to prominence during a tumultuous period in Irish history, when he struggled with the idea of an independent Irish identity. Yeats dealt constantly with the contradictions he felt in his nature and in life, and spent much of his life seeking out a...

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W. B. Yeats

The Importance of Being Earnest

Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Оскар Уайльд

The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen's 1884 drama, «The Wild Duck», is the story of Gregers Werle, an idealist who returns to his hometown after some absence. While there he begins to meddle in the affairs of the Ekdals, an odd family that have constructed a strange way of living by ignoring the skeletons in their respective closets. The Ekdals escape the reality of their existence by the construction of various delusional fantasies. Gregers, who believes that the pursuit of the ideal demands the exposition of...

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Henrik Ibsen

The Importance of Being Earnest

Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Оскар Уайльд

The Only Jealousy of Emer

W. B. Yeats

The Only Jealousy of Emer

William Butler Yeats was encouraged from a young age to pursue a life in the arts. He attended art school for a short while, but soon found that his talents and interest lay in poetry rather than painting. Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. He felt an internal struggle with the contradictions he felt in his nature and in life, and spent much of his life seeking out a philosophical system to resolve...

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W. B. Yeats

Isle of Slaves and Other Plays

Pierrie de Marivaux

Isle of Slaves and Other Plays

Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates an island in the ancient Greek world where the slaves have revolted and seized power, killing all of their former masters and declaring their independence. Now, any «masters» shipwrecked on their island are forced to live as slaves of their own slaves to impress upon them the wrongs they've...

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Pierrie de Marivaux

Medea

Euripides

Medea

The <I>Medea </I>of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family—even slaughtering the sons she has born him. At its center is Medea herself, a character who refuses definition: Is she a hero, a witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All that can...

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Euripides

A Doll's House (Translated by R. Fa...

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp with an Introduction by William Archer)

First performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 21, 1879, “A Doll’s House” is one of Henrik Ibsen’s most famous plays. It is the story of Nora Helmer who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help her husband recover from a serious illness, sometime prior to the beginning of the play. Nora who has borrowed this money by forging her father’s signature soon fears that her secret will be discovered when her husband, Torvald, becomes director of the bank and fires an...

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Henrik Ibsen

The Pot of Broth

W. B. Yeats

The Pot of Broth

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Yeats felt an internal struggle with the contradictions he saw between his nature and life, and spent much of his life seeking out a philosophical system to resolve this conflict. He came to prominence during a tumultuous period in Irish history, and he struggled with the idea of an independent Irish identity. In 1899 Yeats helped found the Irish...

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W. B. Yeats

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