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Long Ago And Far Away

David Ives

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LA Theatre Works

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...A series of short comedic works from playwright David Ives, with subjects ranging from the Lindbergh baby to chimps typing literary classics. The title work is a more serious, nostalgic look at two generations of apartment dwellers who meet...

Staging Hitler, Not Staging Hitler

Steve Nicholson

Steve Nicholson is the Chair in 20th-Century and Contemporary Theatre in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, where he lectures and teaches on courses in both English and Theatre. He has written and published extensively on relationships between theatre and society, as well as on the work of individual playwrights, approaching them equally from literary, historical and performance perspectives. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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British Theatre and Performance 1900–1950

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction In July 1939, a few weeks before Britain declared war on Germany, the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, which had responsibility for licensing and censoring stage plays, rejected a translation of Ernst Toller’s Pastor Hall as ‘a...

New Directions: ‘Live Free, … Rob Churches, … Lend me your Dwarf’: What’s Funny about Volpone?

Rick Bowers

Rick Bowers

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Volpone: A Critical Guide

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2011

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...According to academic critics of the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, the play is bestial at best. At worst, it is immoral, contemptible, and even blasphemous. In an article in the Ben Jonson Journal (2003), Murray Roston surveyed the distaste...

Time Flies

David Ives

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LA Theatre Works

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...A series of short comic vignettes from playwright David Ives, In the title work, two houseflies try to make the most out of their brief time on earth. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Shannon...

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Written by

Bertolt Brecht

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Ralph Manheim

Translated by

Ralph Manheim

~playauthor~Written by~ Bertolt Brecht , Ralph Manheim ~playauthor~Translated by~ Ralph Manheim

Methuen Drama, 1991

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (24), Female (3), Male (21), Unassigned (0)

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...Like The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Happy End, Saint Joan of the Stockyards is set in a mythical Chicago. Brecht's Saint Joan is a Salvation Army lieutenant who challeges the power of Pierpont Mauler, the Meat King...

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Written by

Henry Lewis

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Henry Shields

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Jonathan Sayer

~playauthor~Written by~ Henry Lewis , Henry Shields , Jonathan Sayer

Methuen Drama, 2016

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

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...Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011's production of Jack and the Bean-Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan...

Restoration

Written by

Edward Bond

~playauthor~Written by~ Edward Bond

Methuen Drama, 2006

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

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...Restoration is a forceful, darkly comic story of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Bond appropriates and parodies the conventions of Restoration theatre with barbed accuracy and style, underwriting his epigrams and double plots...

Selected Resources for Teaching and Studying The Revenger’s Tragedy

Richard Brucher

Richard Brucher

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The Revenger’s Tragedy : A Critical Reader

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016

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...Introduction Impudence – whether shamelessness, insolent disrespect or unabashed presumption – irks Vindice throughout The Revenger’s Tragedy, firing his...

The Suicide

Written by

Nikolai Erdman

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Suhayla El-Bushra

Adapted by

Suhayla El-Bushra

~playauthor~Written by~ Nikolai Erdman , Suhayla El-Bushra ~playauthor~Adapted by~ Suhayla El-Bushra

Methuen Drama, 2016

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (22), Female (9), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

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...I used to work in PR, if you’re going to kill yourself let’s make it an event . . . You can own this, Sam. For the first time in your life you. Could be. In charge. Things are getting tough for Sam...

Tragedy: a tragedy

Written by

Will Eno

~playauthor~Written by~ Will Eno

Oberon Books, 2001

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Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

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...The sun has set over streets of houses, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. The world is dark. A news team is on the scene. Their report: someone left the lawn sprinklers on; someone's horse is loose; a seashell is lying...