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This volume contains two new American translations of works by Valère Novarina, one of the major voices in avant-garde theater of the past forty years. Novarina is celebrated for his unique theatrical writing, exploring language beyond the conventional limits of communication, while pairing buffoonery with incantatory mysticism in the traditions of François Rabelais and Antonin Artaud.

Barcelona’s theater has experienced a remarkable renaissance in the years since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Soon the Catalan language, suppressed for more than three decades, became a vehicle of expression for new playwrights who challenged performance groups. This collection represents outstanding Catalan playwrights from three generations.

The first English-language anthology of post-1989 Czech plays exploring once-taboo subjects and new realities. Includes plays by David Drábek, Lenka Lagronová, Jirí Pokorny, Ivana Ruzicková, Egon Tobiáš, Iva Volánková, and Petr Zelenka.

Four innovative plays by Polish-Jewish playwright Amelia Hertz, whose work is based on bizarre and macabre episodes from history and legend. Hertz creates a tightly controlled theatre of cruelty that confronts extreme situations and poses "no exit" ethical and existential dilemmas. The plays included here deal with fin-de-siècle subjects rife with perverse sexuality and violence.

Four Plays From North Africa contains modern plays from the Maghreb, the northeastern part of Africa. This is the fi rst English collection of drama from the region; the book includes Abdelkader Alloula’s The Veil, Jalila Baccar’s Aberlin, Fatima Gallaire’s House of Wives, and Tayeb Saddiki’s The Folies Berbers.

Four full-length plays by Sa'dallah Wannous, the leading Syrian dramatist of the twentieth century, published in English for the first time: Rituals of Signs and Transformations, The Evening Party for the Fifth of June, The Adventure of the Mamluk Jaber's Head, and The Drunken Days. Together they represent three decades of Wannous's remarkable career and indicate the range of his political, social, personal, and metatheatrical contributions to modern drama.

Lillian Hellman's The Children’s Hour opened on Broadway in 1934. This drama about two schoolteachers falsely accused of having a lesbian affair was a popular and critical success—but the subject matter caused authorities to ban the play in many locations. This new work combines excerpts from Hellman’s controversial play and material from the 1936 case which sought to have the play banned.

This volume of plays is the first collection by Jan Fabre in an English translation. Fabre, born in Belgium, is a total theater artist: writer, director, designer, and choreographer. Includes: I am a Mistake (2007), History of Tears (2005), Je suis sang (2001), Angel of Death (2003), and many others.

This volume contains four of Pixérécourt’s most important melodramas: The Ruins of Babylon, or Jafar and Zaida; The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy;

The first multi-author international anthology of Eastern European plays to deal with the fall of Communism. Includes: Portrait by Slawomir Mrozek (Poland); Chickenhead by György Spiró (Hungary); Military Secret by Dušan Jovanovic (Slovenia); Horses at the Window by Matei Visniec (Romania); and Sorrow, Sorrow, Fear, the Rope, and the Pit by Karel Steigerwald (Czechoslovakia).

Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy's doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comédie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mrozek and Rózewicz, Polish and Russian symbolists, and erotic French puppets.

The first anthology of new Romanian Drama published in the United States, roMANIA after 2000 introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. Includes Stop the Tempo, Romania. Kiss Me, Vitamins, Romania 21, and Waxing West.

An exciting collection of Jean-François Ducis' radical reworkings of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, penned on the eve of the French Revolution. Following the rules of French neoclassicism, the result is a trio of almost totally different works. Plays included are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliette, and King Lear.

For over ten years, the annual Prelude Festival has been a force in New York theatre and performance: a free, three-day festival that celebrates artistic and academic exchange in the heart of the city. This book celebrates ten years (2003–2013) of unlimited creativity and discourse within an academic setting.

This volume contains four representative French comedies of the period from the death of Molière to the French Revolution: Jean-François Regnard’s The Absent-Minded Lover, Philippe Néricault Destouches’s The Conceited Count, Pierre Nivelle De La Chaussée’s The Fashionable Prejudice, and Jean-Louis Laya’s The Friend of the Laws.

This volume contains the first translation of the only three plays that survive from the medieval Arabic theater: the farces The Shadow Spirit, The Amazing Preacher and the Stranger, and The Love-Stricken One and the Lost One who Inspires Passion, created by Ibn Daniyal in thirteenth-century Cairo.

Claudio Tolcachir's Timbre 4 is one of the most exciting companies to emerge from Buenos Aires's vibrant contemporary theater scene. The Coleman Family's Omission and Third Wing, the two plays that put Timbre 4 on the international map, are translated here into English for the first time, accompanied by Jean Graham-Jones' introductory study.

Fleeting, a disturbing “tragedy within a play,” and Stages, with its monolithic recall of a dead actress, rank among Josep Benet i Jornet’s most important works. They provide an introduction to a playwright whose experiments in dramatic form and treatment of provocative themes have made him a major figure in contemporary European theater.

One of Poland’s most important artists and writers of the 20th Century, this collection includes: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata. Also included is “A Few Words about the Role of the Actor in the Theatre of Pure Form,” a key section of his major theoretical treatise.