One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus’s play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World...
St Petersburg, Russia, 1866. Nihilist revolutionaries have taken to the streets and the rule of the Tsar is under threat. In a small flat, Fyodor Dostoyevsky grafts out a novel for an unscrupulous publisher; it isn't the novel he wants to write, but...
This volume of Handke's plays includes two full-length and four shorter plays by the young Austrian playwright. The first of the full-length plays, The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of...
This play was written twenty years ago. Over the years, it has been performed many times in Russian theatres and youth art studios. Ten years ago, music and lyrics were written for this play. It has become a wonderful fantasy musical. The play has...
Welcome to our war "The Two Worlds of Charlie F" is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the play...
In these three plays — each introduced by the author — Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed novelist and a cultural and political figure in Peru, explores the complexities of Peruvian society and the writer's...
«Une sorte d'épouvante emplit Eschyle d'un bout à l'autre ; une méduse profonde s'y dessine vaguement derrière les figures qui se meuvent dans la lumière. Eschyle est magnifique et formidable, comme si l'on voyait un froncement de sourcil...