Dramatik

Power of Darkness

In the Land of Nod

Hubert Butler

Orestes

Euripides

Amphitryon, by Moliere

Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Moliere play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high com...

Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness

Tony Kushner

<div>The first collection of writings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. Includes Slavs!</div>

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney

John Wilson Foster

The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international repu...

Illusion

Pierre Corneille

<div>Already a favorite of theatres throughout the country, Tony Kushner's free adaptation of Pierre Corneille's most original, theatrical comedy, L'Illusion Comique, blends magi...

Bright Room Called Day

Tony Kushner

<div>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. "It's...

World's Classics: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

Sophocles

Maids and Deathwatch

Jean Genet

The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic ...

Balcony

<div>Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of ...

Farm Show

Ted Johns / Paul Thompson

'This is a record of our version of grassroots theatre. The idea was to take a group of actors out to a farming community and build a play of what we could see and learn. There is no story or ...

Between the Lines

One hundred and forty-four poems were selected by the editor from the two hundred or so displayed on DART carriages between 1987 and 1994: short enough for passengers to read without missing their...

Rhapsody in Stephen's Green/The Insect Play

Flann O'Brien

Using a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann O'Brien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking- territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule and invective,...

Homecoming

Cathal O Searcaigh

Six Plays

Romulus Linney

<div>Uniquely adept at capturing the idiomatic poetry of his native South, Linney maneuvers with equal grace through the vernacular of New York's contemporary intelligentsia and the voic...

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in the 1980s. "e;A vast, miraculous play.... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting.... a sea...

Masters and Lords

Shearer Davis Bowman

Freeing Shakespeare's Voice

Kristin Linklater

<div>A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater p...

Driving Miss Daisy

Alfred Uhry

<div>Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for B...