Зарубежная драматургия
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежная драматургияThe Importance of Being Earnest
A classic satire of Victorian society, Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is one of the author’s most frequently performed works. The story trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend to be people that they are not in order to escape the burdensome demands of social conventions. When John Worthing visits his best friend Algernon Moncrieff, to whom he is known as Ernest, Algernon notices the curious inscription on his cigarette case which reads, “From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.” John, who has come to visit in order to propose to Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, must explain his deception before Algernon will consent to the proposal. The discovery prompts Algernon to reveal a similar deception of his own; he pretends to have an invalid cousin whom he can visit in the country in order to escape any unwelcome social obligation. What follows is a scheme between the two to assume each other’s imaginary personas in order to enable the ruse. A roaring farce which plays upon the consequences of deception and the social absurdities of Victorian society, “The Importance of Being Earnest” remains to this day as one of Wilde’s most popular plays. This edition includes a biographical afterword.
Unique
In a not-so-perfect world, Sharon Lordes is living in a not-so-perfect life. Being a single mother of two, she longs for a bit of happiness in her stressful life. So when she meets the man of her dreams, she becomes so lovestruck that she ignores all of her womanly intuitions. Having a teenage daughter in high school and a grown son who lives the life no mother wants for her son.
Sharon Lordes asks no questions. Having a teenage daughter at home never crossed her mind when letting her new boyfriend stay with several nights a week. Until one night, the unthinkable happens and the mother’s drunken boyfriend walks into her daughters room and rapes her. This becomes a weekly thing, and to her daughter’s surprise, her mother just acted as if she does not know what is happening under her own room.
Unique looks up to her older brother so much that she begins to do music to impress him. He was not only her brother, but he is also her father. Unique keeps her dark secret from her brother out of fear what he would do, not just to his mother’s sick boyfriend but to her mother as well. So Unique pours her heart and emotions into her journal, telling no one of the pain and hurt that she feels. Unique is blessed with beauty and brains, and a gift for wordplay that she can out rap any boy at her school, and that makes her very popular and very unpopular with some of the girls at her school.
Major is the biggest fan of his little sister’s music and always listens to it while driving. Major is the most ruthless young hustler that the local drug pushers have seen in a long while. He is kind and poised and respectful, but cross him and it is lights out. Major catches the attention of one of Los Angeles’ most crooked drug dealers who controlled two-thirds of the drugs in the city. Not one outdone by his pupil. Mr. Jon puts in play a plan to take Major out the game for good. But what he has failed to realize was that the very people he sets Major up with, is actually gunning for him.
Never Quit Again
The human psyche is a remotely amazing, mostly strong, yet sometimes an incredibly fragile thing. The brain protects its host, like a parent does their child. But what’s to become of a child who’s brain seemingly abandoned all hope? Deceit, and rape lead Samantha Hive to a world she has never known. A world where there is more than one state of mind. The good and behaved; the confused and altered… The decrepit, and deadly. Karma has a sick sense of delivering its justice.</
The Sea-Gull
Written in 1895 and first performed in 1896, “The Sea-Gull” is widely hailed as the first of Anton Chekhov’s four most important plays. It is acclaimed for its brilliant use of subtext and remains widely studied and performed as a significant dramatic work. It is the story of the romantic and artistic conflicts between four main characters: Nina, a young, aspiring actress and the daughter of a wealthy landowner; Madame Irina Arkadina, once a great leading actress; Konstantin Treplyov, her son and a playwright; and Trigorin, Irina’s lover and a well-known writer. While Chekhov intended that the play be more comedic in tone, it is often performed and interpreted as a subtle and nuanced tragedy, full of doomed romances, frustrated artistic ambitions, loneliness, and regret. “The Sea-Gull” is frequently adapted for stage and screen and the roles of Nina, Irina, Konstantin, and Trigorin are famous for the subtle depths of emotion the parts call for. Over a century after it was first performed, “The Sea-Gull” remains a theatrical masterpiece and the work that established Chekhov’s reputation as a brilliant playwright. This edition follows the translation of Marian Fell and includes a biographical afterword.
Plays for Earth and Air
There is an imagination and unworldly quality about these ten short plays which fits them not only for the state but for the reader. included are:<P> PLAYS FOR EARTH"<BR> FAME COMES LATE<BR> A MATTER OF HONOUR<BR> MR. SLIGGEN’S HOUR<BR> THE PUMPKIN<P> PLAYS FOR AIR:<BR> THE USE OF MAN<BR> THE BUREAU DE CHANGE<BR> THE SEVENTH SYMPHONY<BR> GOLDEN DRAGON CITY<BR> TIME’S JOKE<BR> ATMOSPHERICS
The Prophet of Berkeley Square: A Play in Five Acts
Based on the novel of the same title by the British writer, Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950), THE PROPHET OF BERKELEY SQUARE is a send-up of the astrology and psychic reading craze that so permeated London society circa 1900. With its witty dialogue and hilarious plot, Frank Morlock's adaptation of Hichens's satiric masterpiece is just as funny today as the bestselling novel was when first published in 1901. Hennessey Vivian, the would-be Prophet of Berkeley Square, must fend off his rival, Jupiter Malkiel II, to secure the devotion of enough fashionable adherents to win the prophecy «battle of the stars.» The over-the-top characters are easily recognizable as familiar types in today's modern society. Great comedic drama!
The Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts
Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain.<P> Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades–all expressly forbidden, of course, by both Church and State. Once satiated, the ladies have their lovers murdered, and the bodies dumped into the Seine. One man (Buridan) manages to escape, and uses his knowledge of what's taking place to force the Queen to make him Prime Minister. In the end of course, the secret cannot be maintained. Dumas and Gaillardet have used a murky legend of misconduct by the daughters-in-law of King Philip the Fair to construct a compelling picture of life in court in the middle ages, and its ruthless focus on power and sex.<P> Another stunning achievement by one of the greatest French writers!
Castor and Pollux: An Opera Libretto
In CASTOR AND POLLUX, by Pierre Bernard, one of the twins from ancient myth attempts to rescue his brother from the underworld. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.
Penelope: An Opera Libretto
PENELOPE, by Jean-François Marmontel, tells the story of Ulysses' return to Ithaca after his long journey home from Troy, and how he takes revenge on the boorish suitors of his wife, Penelope, who have browbeaten her for years. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.
Sappho: An Opera Libretto
Émile Augier presents the story of SAPPHO, another tragedy set in classical times, full of betrayal and self-sacrifice. Ancient Greek drama had much in common with modern opera, emphasizing story lines that have been simplified to focus very tightly on particular emotional themes. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.