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Все книги издательства IngramMolière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote
“Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” – James Wood, New Yorker Best known for his novel The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov had a knack for political allegory. Both Molière, or the Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote were contentious in their time, written as a challenge to Soviet politics of the early twentieth century, especially Stalin’s harsh regime. Charged with cultural subtext and controversial intrigue, the plays in this exceptional new volume from TCG’s Russian Drama Series are given new light by the foremost translators of Russian classic literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, in collaboration with renowned playwright Richard Nelson. Richard Nelson ’s many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country ( That Hopey Changey Thing , Sweet and Sad , Sorry , Regular Singing ); The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family ( Hungry , What Did You Expect? , Women of a Certain Age ); Nikolai and the Others ; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Oliver Award for Best Play); Franny’s Way ; Some Americans Abroad ; Frank’s Home ; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical). Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002 respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.
Sweat (TCG Edition)
• World premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 2015, with a subsequent production produced by Arena Stage in Washington DC• Highly anticipated New York production coming this Fall, directed by Kate Whoriskey (Ruined)• Glowing review of OSF production in NY Times• Likely contender for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama• Made “The List,” an initiative begun by The Kilroys to promote women playwrights in the national theatre scene by listing the most highly recommended plays in the country by industry elites• Significant play in the context of recent American history, specifically dealing with the financial crisis of 2008; has the same contextual relevance as the major 2016 Academy Award-nominated film, The Big Short – indicating a market for this topic.• Would appeal to the academic sector, for both Theatre and American History courses• Nottage is one of the most highly regarded contemporary American playwrights from the past decade:• Nottage’s previous work Ruined earned her the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama• Nottage has received Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships• Her play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which premiered in 2011, received rave reviews from the critics and was nominated for the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play
Daphne's Dive (TCG Edition)
• World premiere in the spring of 2016 at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway, New York), directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton)• Hudes’ work deals with both human interest stories as well as more specifically cultural topics relevant to Hispanic Americans. Target readership might be as broad as anyone with an interest in theatre, as well as any Hispanic/Latino-leaning organizations or academic curricula.• Daphne’s Dive is Hudes’ first contribution to her residency as part of Signature’s “Residency One” program, which offers an established playwright complete artistic freedom in the development of new work for one year at Signature Theatre.• Hudes is an award-winning playwright with mass contemporary appeal.• She is currently the Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Writing and Theatre at Wesleyan University• Hudes’ play, Water by the Spoonful, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012.• She is best known for writing the book to the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights. She collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the lyricist, composer and star of In the Heights, who also wrote and stars in the current Broadway phenomenon, Hamilton.• In the Heights is on stage now in the West End.• She was named a Fellow by United Stated Artists in 2010.
The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek (TCG Edition)
World premiere at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway) at the Pershing Square Center in New York City the spring of 2015. The original production was widely acclaimed by New York critics.Inspired by the life of outsider artist Nukain Mabuzza.As it centers on the historical context of apartheid, the play would do well in academic courses of history, theatre, and African studies.Fugard discusses this play in an interview for an episode of “All Things Considered” on NPR.The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek marks the 16th book by Athol Fugard published by TCG, the most by any writer.Athol Fugard has been writing plays since the 1970s, winning numerous awards throughout his expansive career.In 2011, he was honored with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.He has won two New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play (A Lesson from Aloes) in 1981 and Best Foreign Play (The Road to Mecca) in 1988.His play «Master Harold»…and the Boys won a Drama Desk Award in in 1982.In 1996, Fugard won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, in addition to a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival in 1992 for his play Boesman and Lena.
Marie Antoinette / 3C
• World premiere was co-produced by American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, MA) and Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT) in 2012. • New York premiere Off-Broadway at Soho Rep in 2013, starring Marin Ireland (who also starred in the Yale production). Received rave reviews.• Upcoming production at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC) in September 2014.• Upcoming production at Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago) in February 2015, directed by Robert O’Hara (also a TCG author). • Depicts the iconic 18th century French queen and the events of her reign.• Many of the play’s reviews drew comparisons to the 2006 Sofia Coppola film starring Kirsten Dunst, also titled Marie Antoinette.• Adjmi’s other most recent play, 3C, is a deconstruction of the sitcom Three’s Company. The play premiered Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2012. It has since been the subject of a highly publicized copyright legal dispute.
Tartuffe
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so irresistible that he is eventually promised the hand of Orgon's daughter in marriage. But the rest of Orgon's family have grave doubts – is there more to Tartuffe than meets the eye? When the threat of eviction for the family and imprisonment for Orgon become apparent, is it all too late to find out? This hilarious and irreverent whirlwind of lies, religious hypocrisy and family feuds features one of theatre's most perfect comedy creations, the beguiling Tartuffe .
Mies Julie
South African born internationally acclaimed director and playwright, Yael Farber, sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo. Transposed to a post-apartheid kitchen a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm-labourer, the daughter of his master and the woman who has raised them both. The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare, as John and Mies Julie spiral in a deadly battle over power, sexuality, mothers and memory. Haunting and violent, intimate and epic, the characters struggle to address issues of reprisal and the reality of what can and cannot ever be recovered.
Richard Bean: Plays Two
Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Toast , Mr England , Smack Family Robinson and Honeymoon Suite .
People, Places & Things
‘Drugs and alcohol have never let me down. They have always loved me. There are substances I can put into my bloodstream that make the world perfect. That is the only absolute truth in the universe. I’m being difficult because you want to take it away from me.' Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
Theatre Uncut
Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to public spending since WWII – cuts which are the turning point of a generation, undermining the welfare state, higher education and the arts in one fell swoop. Theatre Uncut is a national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK’s leading dramatists. Theatre Uncut ’s flagship event took place in London from 16- 19 March 2011. Drama groups, universities, youth clubs and theatre companies nationwide joined the event, staging their own versions of the shorts in a national theatrical uprising. Now published in this new collection, Theatre Uncut containsthese short plays, addressing audiences who want to think about what the budget cuts really mean, and who they are really hitting. A debate is underway. Protest might begin, minds might be changed, views challenged, ideas formed. Theatre Uncut is a response to a situation that we cannot control, and over whichwe had no say.