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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

King Henry V (Arden Shakespeare Third Series)

Written by

William Shakespeare

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T.W. Craik

Edited by

T.W. Craik

~playauthor~Written by~ William Shakespeare , T.W. Craik ~playauthor~Edited by~ T.W. Craik

The Arden Shakespeare, 1995

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 29, Roles: Total (48), Female (5), Male (42), Unassigned (1)

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...Henry V is the final play in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy. Having shaken off his less savoury companions at the end of Henry IV Part 2, Hal takes his place on the throne following his father’s death, proving himself a pious and sensible...