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National Theatre Connections 2015
Plays for Young People: Drama, Baby; Hood; The Boy Preference; The Edelweiss Pirates; Follow, Follow; The Accordion Shop; Hacktivists; Hospital Food; Remote; The Crazy Sexy Cool Girls' Fan Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2015 festival, which takes place across the UK and Ireland, finishing up at the National Theatre in London. The programme...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian)
Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays. His most important plays included...
by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche -...
by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf -...
by Simon Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't . . .
William Carlisle has the world at his feet, but its weight on his shoulders. He is intelligent, articulate and f***ed. In the...
by Mr Percy Mtwa, Mr Mbongeni Ngema, Mr Barney Simon
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Woza Albert! is one of the most popular and influential plays to have come out of the South African cultural struggle of the 1980s and a central work in the canon of South African theatre. Working with the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ taking place in apartheid South Africa, the playwrights...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks...
by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that...
Brecht Collected Plays: 2
Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes...
Brecht Collected Plays: 1
Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by...
Brecht Collected Plays: 6
Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
This sixth volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains three plays he wrote while in exile during the early...
Brecht Collected Plays: 7
Visions of Simone Machard; Schweyk in the Second World War; Caucasian Chalk Circle; Duchess of Malfi
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
The seventh volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains the plays which Brecht wrote during his six-year stay...
National Theatre Connections 2014
Plays for Young People: Same; Horizon; The Wardrobe; Heritage; A Letter to Lacey; A Shop Selling Speech; Angels; Hearts; Pronoun; Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2014 festival, which takes place across the UK and finishes up at the National Theatre in London. It offers young performers...