New Plays from Spain

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A selection of plays representing the most innovative and respected voices working in contemporary Spanish theater.

Quick Change

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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.

Ten Years Prelude

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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 (20032013) of unlimited creativity and discourse within an academic setting.

Barcelona Plays: A Collection of New Plays by Catalan Playwrights

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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.

Barcelona Plays: A Collection of New Plays by Catalan Playwrights

Jan Fabre: The Servant of Beauty

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This volume of monologues is the second collection of works by Jan Fabre for the theatre in an English translation.

Comedy

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An essential guide and resource, providing authors, titles, and pulication data for over a thousand books and articles devoted to this most elusive of genres.

Czech Plays: Seven New Works

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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 Works for the Theatre

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Four taboo-tackling plays from the foremost writer of Dutch language theatre, poetry and prose.

roMANIA After 2000

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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.

The Heirs of Molière

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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.

Shakespeare Made French

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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.

Witkiewicz: Seven Plays

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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.

Four Millennial Plays from Belgium

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Four millennial plays from the French side of the language divide in Belgium.

This anthology captures the tendencies of contemporary European playwright in the beginning of the new millennium, as interracial, intercontinental marriage, the privileges afforded to society's leaders, the resurgence of the Extreme Right, and creative ways of juggling love relationships are presented in a variety of accessible styles.

The Magnolia by Jacques de Decker:
Marie-Antoinette has two boyfriends, neither of whom knows that the other exists. She's Marie to Adrian, and Antoinette to Julian. This arrangement, though it suits her perfectly, can't last forever. Her vain efforts to keep her novel way of life running according to plan yield great hilarity. Marie-Antoinette finds she'll just have to eat cake.

The Sorcerers by Serge Goriely:
Luc brings his bride Paula back from Nigeria to live in Brussels. His family, open-minded, urbane, and liberal as they are, cast a spell on her, bringing about her sickness and demise. This shocking drama provides an intimate, unvarnished look at black/white relationships in contemporary Europe subsequent to the colonial era.

Patriot's Cafe by Jean-Marie Piemme:
A view into the lives of members of the Extreme Right in Wallonia. Forging an innovative, lyrical style, this play reveals the personal motives -- the quest for power, a longing for significance, the need to belong to something larger -- that cause ordinary people to succumb to the lure of totalitarian rhetoric.

This Is Not A Real Pipe by Pascal Vrebos:
A famous French statesman reminiscent of Dominique Strauss-Kahn finds himself alone with a cleaning lady in his New York hotel room. Various possible scenarios ensue, none of which may be the real "pipe." The gears of class, race and gender disparities grind away in this prismatic comedy-drama of epic proportions -- a signature tale for our times.

Playwrights Before the Fall

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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).

BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation

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Brings US readers cutting-edge work from one of Latin America's most vibrant theatrical scenes.

The Arab Oedipus

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Four plays based on the Oedipus legend by four leading dramatists of the Arab World.

Timbre 4: Two Plays by Claudio Tolcachir

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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.

Timbre 4: Two Plays by Claudio Tolcachir

Two Plays: Fleeting Stages

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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.

Theatre Research Resources in New York City

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A complete guide to over 100 libraries and special collections in New York City.

Theatre Research Resources in New York City

Pixérécourt: Four Melodramas

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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;

Christopher Columbus, or the Discovery of the New World; and Alice, or The Scottish Gravediggers. Also included is Charles Nodier ’s introduction to the 1843 Collected Edition of Pixérécourt’s plays and two theoretical essays by the playwright, “Melodrama,” and “Final Reflections on Melodrama.”

Intermeddlers: The Censorship of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour

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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.