Playwrights & Stage Actors
Read profiles of international playwrights and their works from Anton Chekhov to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams to Harold Pinter, Henrik Ibsen, Bertholt Brecht, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett.
Discover talents like Caryl Churchill, Joe Orton, Lillian Hellman, David Hare, Paula Vogel and Doug Wright, and experience the plays that won awards, audiences and rave reviews.
Check here for bios and reviews of productions from classic American tragedy to European satire. Discuss the script, staging, direction, dramaturgy and reception of writers that have shaped modern theatre.Email me with requests or post in the discussion forum.
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Phil Willmott's A Christmas Carol
MokitaGrit Productions reprises Charles Dickens' adaptation at England's first pub theatre which produced playwrights Noel Coward Terrence Rattigan, and Harold Pinter.
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Anthony Herrera's Poetry Theatre
Famous British sculptor / painter and Winston Churchill's granddaughter, with Mississippi building magnate, help to promote timeless work of the world's best poets.
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Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a pessimistic symbolic depiction of a larger society called England at the outset of the First World War.
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David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
M. Butterfly is a play rich with layers of meaning that attempt to deconstruct fixed perceptions about gender, race and sexuality.
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Top Contemporary American Playwrights
Contemporary American playwrights, including Tony Kushner, David Mamet, and John Patrick Shanley, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.
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Biography of James Robinson Planché
The British playwright James Robinson Planché wrote 176 works for the theatre and is remembered for his research on historical costume design.
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Christopher Marlowe's Edward II
Christopher Marlowe with his introduction of blank verse to the Elizabethan stage, changed dramatically the writing style from prose to a challenging height for talent.
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Contemporary American Playwrights
Contemporary American playwrights, including George Abbott, Edward Albee, and Christopher Durang, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.
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A Potted Biography of Bertolt Brecht
One of the most influential theatre artists in twentieth century European theatre lived and worked at the heart of last century's biggest theatrical and political changes
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Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland
In her book The Feminist Spectator as Critic, Jill Dolan examines the "male gaze" in Forman's work. This review applies her critique to a later work by Richard Foreman.
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Cassandra's Prophetic Monologue
Cassandra, daughter of the king of Troy, is cursed with the gift of prophecy that no one listens to. Her speech before her death serves as the play's messenger speech.
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The History of Light
A young black woman explores her long-lost father's relationship with a white woman during the college demonstrations of the 1960s.
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