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  • Dead at Last, at Last No More Air
    Werner Schwab / Meredith Oakes
    Foreword by Diana Damian Martin Werner Schwab’s final work, also known as a theatre-extinction comedy, is a brutal, irreverent and bizarrely comical piece about what happens when an emerging stage production is sabotaged by outsiders. Following a dispute with the cast, the director replaces all the actors with pensioners from a nearby home for the elderly. At first compliant an...
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    21,61 €

  • Punishment Without Revenge
    Lope De Vega / Meredith Oakes
    Punishment without Revenge is a dark and thrilling drama, an audacious blend of unbearable tension and delicious comedy, which both terrifies and delights. Regarded as the greatest tragedy of the Spanish Golden Age and the finest play of its presiding genius, Lope de Vega, this elegant work is set in the dangerous and glamorous world of Renaissance Italy. The Duke of Ferrara ha...
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    18,94 €

  • Heldenplatz
    Thomas Bernhard / Meredith Oakes
    Highly controversial in Austria, this play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. Heldenplatz is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss. ...
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    18,95 €

  • Meredith Oakes
    Meredith Oakes
    Includes the plays The Neighbour, The Editing, Faith,Her Mother and Bartok, Shadowmouth, Glide and The Mind of the MeetingTwo highly regarded early plays, The Neighbour and The Editing Process (here presented in a revised version) present a study in contrasts: the first a battle of wills between two young men on a housing estate; the second an urbane but despairing comedy set i...
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    33,56 €

  • Scenes from the Back of Beyond
    Meredith Oakes
    Bill is sustained by his deep sense of a wider culture and an improving world. The only thing the human race needs to do is learn. When he meets a person who embodies this idea, he naturally likes them. Especially if his wife doesn’t.Set at the end of the 1950s, Scenes from the Back of Beyond, explores the comfort, hopes and fragility of family life in a new Sydney suburb.Scene...
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    18,69 €

  • Holy Mothers
    Werner Schwab / Meredith Oakes
    The holy mothers are three ordinary women. Their lives are grotesque and their fantasies are lurid. In a world full of problems, what can anyone do but have a bit of fun?Erna, Grete and Mariedl watch the pope on TC then settle down to discussing Erna’s dreadful son, Grete’s dreadful daughter and Mariedl’s unusual vocation. Why does Herrmann refuse to have intercourse? Why did H...
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    18,17 €

  • The Editing Process
    Meredith Oakes
    Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes’ comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Stephen Daldry. ...
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    21,06 €

  • The Three Plays (Lenz)
    Jacob Lenz / Meredith Oakes
    Includes the plays The Soldiers, The New Menoza, The TutorIntroduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. Published to coincide with performances at the Edinburgh International Festival. Three forward-looking plays that question the abuse of privilege, attitudes to women and the values of the theatre by Goethe’s protegé, Jacob Lenz. ...
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    33,00 €