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  • The Lady From Maxim’s
    Georges Feydeau / Laurence Senelick
       “It seems to me that for fertility in droll inventions, the perpetual outpouring of unforeseen misunderstandings, for the inexhaustible gaiety of dialogue, Feydeau’s new play is superior to everything he’s written so far. The most astonishing thing is the sureness with which everything is controlled, explained, justified, in the most extravagant buffoonery. The cross-purpose...
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    21,85 €

  • The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
    Jean Giraudoux / Laurence Senelick
    Hector, the peace-seeking leader of the Trojans, attempts to stop a war sparked by his brother Paris taking Helen. He appeals to the Greek strategist Ulysses in hopes of settling the matter without bloodshed, but warmongers pushing for battle and human stubbornness make the conflict unavoidable. ...
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    17,78 €

  • Prometheus Bound
    Aeschylus / Laurence Senelick
    PROMETHEUS BOUND recounts the tale of the titan Prometheus, who dared to defy Zeus, the king of the gods, by bestowing the gift of fire upon humanity.'THE PROMETHEUS BOUND has impressed all generations with wonder and delight. Here, stark hauteur has developed into a desolate magnificence. Above all, the maturity of Aeschylus’ poetic strength is to be seen in the terrific persp...
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    17,17 €

  • The Final Curtain
    Laurence Senelick
    It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of ...
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    50,32 €

  • The Would-Be Bourgeois
    Carl Sternheim / Laurence Senelick
    Life’s meaning lies in the persistence of its creatures to establish their uniqueness and freedom in confrontation with their environment. The heroes of Sternheim ae not of the traditional cast-good, but not too good. They are, in fact, repulsive, malicious, cynical, morally degenerate creatures who nevertheless seem to win the approval of the author as exemplary representative...
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    17,47 €

  • The Fraudster
    Honoré de Balzac / Laurence Senelick
    Balzac to Mme Hanska: 'This play is a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.'  The name has remained in the language to designate a glib-tongued promoter of doubtful enterprises. But it is more than a character comedy; it is also one of manners and a satire on an epoch of frenzied speculation, when small business gave way to large combinations ...
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    17,79 €

  • The Dance of Death
    August Strindberg / Laurence Senelick
     'The question is to know whether as a result of living together, one person’s evil thoughts manage to be perceived by the other person, even before they are fully formed, and whether the other person intuits them as already at the conscious phase, deliberately trying to be realized. There is nothing more hurtful than to see someone read into your very depths and only a marri...
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    17,71 €

  • Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
    Laurence Senelick
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    59,77 €

  • The Shadow
    Evgeny Shvarts / Laurence Senelick
       “THE SHADOW is a play about society, a political play. It is not so much a political parody as a poetic and philosophical work of art. It is a play about Man in Society, but also about Good and Evil, Love and Death. Like all of Shvarts’ plays it is funny, but it is also eerie. The Shadow is a play about any country under the yoke of a powerful dictatorship which works its wi...
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    16,38 €

  • Antony
    Alexandre Dumas / Laurence Senelick
       “ANTONY is not a melodrama, ANTONY is not a tragedy, ANTONY is not a stage play. ANTONY is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts.”Alexandre Dumas (père)  “…the evening of the first performance of ANTONY in 1831. It was an uproar, a tumult, an effervescence… no exaggeration could describe it. The audience was delirious; they clapped, sobbed, wept and shouted....
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    17,38 €

  • The Loser
    Georges Feydeau / Laurence Senelick
       “In Feydeau’s work, all misunderstandings and slamming doors, THE LOSER is a moment of pure hysteria, a kind of quintessence of the author’s work. In a sort of comic pendant to Zola’s Nana, Feydeau puts on stage characters guided only by the power of their desires, the will to possess someone else, the exclusive passion for pleasure. In such a society however the places are ...
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    17,74 €

  • From Marriage To Divorce
    Laurence Senelick
    This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN’T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque farceur Georges Feydeau loosely based these brilliantly funny long one-acts on the failure of his own marriage. The plays, greatly admired in his time, were described by a prominent critic as “insane merriment, inextinguishable l...
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    21,53 €

  • Oedipus The King
    Sophocles / Laurence Senelick
    The plot of the play consists of nothing other than the gradual rising and artistically protracted revelation—similar to the work of psychoanalysis—that Oedipus is himself the murderer of Laius, but also the son of the murdered man and Jocasta. King Oedipus, who has slain his father and married his mother, is only the wish-fulfillment of our childhood. Sigmund Freud, Interpreta...
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    16,02 €

  • The Ghost Sonata
    August Strindberg / Laurence Senelick
    Ghosts drift through Strindberg’s haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering. ...
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    17,05 €

  • Crazed Women (The Bakkhai)
    Eurípides / Laurence Senelick
    Of the hundred or so plays Euripides wrote in his lifetime only nineteen survive. Not all of them won first prize at the festivals, but BAKKHAI did.'From the outset, it is essential to understand that in Greek theater, as in fact in Shakespearean theater, the self that is really at stake is to be identified with the male, while the woman is assigned the role of the radical othe...
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    17,30 €

  • The Madwoman Of Chaillot
    Jean Giraudoux / Laurence Senelick
    Originally written to protest thoughtless urban renewal, THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT has remained remarkably up-to-date. When it was first revived, the actor Georges Wilson wrote, 'It is a prophetic play in the sense that the dangers denounced more than twenty years ago have become true and immediately observable in everyday life. The theme is alienation. The Madwoman tells us, ’P...
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    17,90 €

  • Stanislavsky
    Laurence Senelick
    Konstantin Stanislavsky, one of the greatest artistic innovators of the early twentieth century, transformed theatre throughout the world. His life and work intersect with some of the most significant cultural and political milestones of a tumultuous period, from the emancipation of the serfs, to the Russian Revolution, to the Stalinist Terror.Laurence Senelick, one of the worl...
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    75,30 €

  • The Dragon
    Evgeny Shvarts / Laurence Senelick
    A town ruled by a dragon and compelled to pay it tribute is rescued by Sir Lancelot, at a terrible price to himself. But the mayor and his son prove to be just as bad as the dragon, and Lancelot has to save the town again, this time judging it harshly. ...
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    17,87 €

  • Mustn't Do It!
    Jo M Van Ijssel de Schepper-Becker / Laurence Senelick
    A domestic comedy whose homosexual character is part of an ordinary family that views his sexual orientation as unnatural. When the play was first produced in 1922, it enjoyed two performances and then was quietly removed from the repertory as too progressive for its time. It is, however, just right for ours. 'Highly amusing.' -Pieter Liefhebber, Der Telegraaf 'It goes withou...
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    15,88 €

  • to Z of Russian Theater
    Laurence Senelick
    The A to Z of Russian Theater is the only reference work in English devoted exclusively to Russian theater and drama. It provides information on the popular plays and playwrights while also offering information on many persons, works, and phenomena omitted from standard encyclopedias. Through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, an appendix, and hundr...
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    62,10 €

  • National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746 1900
    Laurence Senelick
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    88,61 €

  • Theatre Arts on Acting
    Laurence Senelick
    During its fifty year run, Theatre Arts Magazine was a bustling forum for the foremost names in the performing arts, including Stanislavski, Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg, John Gielgud and Shelley Winters. Renowned theatre historian Laurence Senelick has plundered its stunning archives to assemble a stellar collection of articles on every aspect of acting and theatrical life....
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    71,82 €

  • Love And Intrigue
    Friedrich von Schiller / Laurence Senelick
    Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke’s court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to end their affair. The President instead wants to expand his own influence by marrying Ferdinand to Lady Milford, the duke’s mistress,...
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    17,84 €

  • The Inspector General
    Nikolai Gogol / Laurence Senelick
    Nikolai Gogol’s classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick.'The emperor deigned to attend the premiere with the heir apparent: he was extremely pleased and laughed heartily. The play is very entertaining but an intolerable insult to the nobility, the civil service, and the merchantry.' -Khrapovitsky’s ...
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    17,87 €

  • The Changing Room
    Laurence Senelick
    The Changing Room traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. This is the first-ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. ...
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    90,12 €

  • The Chekhov Theatre
    Laurence Senelick
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    80,26 €

  • Lovesick
    Laurence Senelick
    An international collection of plays from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, providing an essential resource. Includes 6 plays, each with individual introductions, including an author biography and production history. ...
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    78,12 €

  • Russian Comedy of the Nikolaian Rea
    Laurence Senelick
    These four Russian comedies were written during the reign of Nicholas I, a period of considerable repression and censorship. They represent the most popular genres of the period. Lensky’s Her First Night was an immensely popular vaudeville which held the stage for years; Kozma Prutkov’s Fantasy is a parody of vaudeville which was banned after one night. Turgenev’s Luncheon with...
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    77,78 €

  • Anything To Declare?
    Maurice Hennequin / Pierre Veber / Laurence Senelick
    This classic and hilarious French farce commences when a customs official barges into newlyweds Robert and Paulette’s train compartment at a most inopportune moment on their wedding night, rendering the poor fellow impotent. His parents-in-law demand that he consummate the marriage or it will be annulled, and Paulette will marry La Baule instead. Enter Mademoiselle Zeze, a cour...
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    14,38 €

  • Dead Souls
    Laurence Senelick
    A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Gogol’s comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia. Over one hundred characters can be played with any number of actors from 15 on up. ...
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    14,38 €


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