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Salome (or in French: Salome ) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay...

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture....

Hélène (Hélénè) est une tragédie de l'auteur grec classique Euripide (480 av. J.-C. – 406 av. J.-C.). Résumé : Raillée, par Aristophane notamment, la version alternative du mythe d'Hélène que présente Euripide commence par le postulat selon lequel ce n'est pas la vraie...

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Orestès est une tragédie de l'auteur grec classique Euripide (480 av. J.-C. – 406 av. J.-C.). Extrait : ÉLEKTRA. Il n’est aucune chose si terrible à dire, aucun mal, aucune calamité envoyée divinement, dont la nature de l’homme ne supporte le poids. Car l’heureux Tantalos,...

La Thébaïde ou les Frères ennemis est une tragédie en cinq actes et en vers du dramaturge, poète et historiographe français Jean Racine (1639 – 1699). Cette tragédie a pour sujet le combat et la mort des deux jeunes fils d'Œdipe, ainsi que celle de leur sœur Antigone. Ce...

Iphigénéia chez les Taures (Iphigénie en Tauride) est une tragédie de l'auteur grec classique Euripide (480 av. J.-C. – 406 av. J.-C.). Résumé : Remplacée par une biche au moment de son sacrifice à Aulis, Iphigénie est déposée par Artémis en Tauride (actuelle Crimée)....

Lorsque les héros de cette tragédie ont pu s'enfoncer jusqu'au centre de l'enfer dantesque, les feux de la souffrance les brûlent et rien n'empêche que ceux qu'ils enfl amment ne sentent s'embraser en eux-mêmes les cuisantes douleurs. L'Amour ( Eros ) et la Haine ( Polemos ) joints à...

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean. It descends into a savage fight for survival. Polly Stenham reimagines August Strindberg's...

In the oppressive heat of Midsummer's Eve, Julie, daughter of the lord, is drawn into a dangerous tryst with her father's butler. As the night wears on, the couple, from opposite ends of the social spectrum, dance, flirt and fight towards an explosive conclusion that will shake the existing order...

Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.

An unknown actress on movie star’s arm was how she began. An anonymous activist in a rubber gorilla mask is where she wound up. UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour follows the surprising twenty-five-year journey of a young artist, Donna Kaz, who is swept off her feet by Willliam...

There's no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I'll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins. In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege...

Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this alien country. He seeks to restore...