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BOGAAZAN!

Akira Hayasaka

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Ichiko Flynn

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Robert Solomon

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LA Theatre Works

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...As the Japanese battleship Yamato steams towards the island of Okinawa in the closing months of World War II, a naval officer on board makes an unexpected discovery among the stores of rice, leeks, and pickled radishes. A child has stowed...

The Devil's Disciple

Bernard Shaw

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LA Theatre Works

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...Shaw stands “do or die” melodrama on its head in this tale set during the American Revolution. A young hero who disdains heroism makes the ultimate sacrifice for honor and country. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring...

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

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Globe on Screen

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...Injustice, hypocrisy and the challenge of inflexible virtue combine in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of sexual politics and social justice...

The Devil’s Disciple

Bernard Shaw

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BBC Video

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...The Revolutionary War serves as the backdrop for this brilliant satire penned by Bernard Shaw. Self-professed ‘devil's disciple’ Dick Dudgeon (Mike Gwilym) -- who long ago scorned the piety and traditional values of his mother (Elizabeth...

A Doll House

Henrik Ibsen

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Rolf Fjelde

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LA Theatre Works

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...Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen...

Henry V

William Shakespeare

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Globe on Screen

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...Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host...

Theban Plays: Antigone

Sophocles

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BBC Video

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...The story of one sister’s loyalty to both her brothers, regardless of their acts or opposing political beliefs, Antigone is one of the most consistently popular plays in the history of drama. This translation, by Don Taylor...

Di and Viv and Rose

Written by

Amelia Bullmore

~playauthor~Written by~ Amelia Bullmore

Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

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...Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Di and Viv and Rose charts the steady but sometimes chaotic progression of these three women's lives and their ultimately enduring bonds...

King Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession

William Shakespeare

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Charles Newell

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David Bevington

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LA Theatre Works

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...Shakespeare’s riveting, epic drama of a family in crisis, and a country on the brink of civil war. Wracked by illness and tormented by guilt, King Henry IV fears for England’s future after his death. The heir to the throne, Prince Hal...

A Patriot for Me

Written by

John Osborne

~playauthor~Written by~ John Osborne

Faber and Faber, 1998

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (30), Female (4), Male (26), Unassigned (0)

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...A Patriot for Me shows how a young, able and ambitious officer of the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was, through his homosexuality, blackmailed into becoming a spy for Tsarist Russia. When John...