Tag Archives: European/English
Pirandello’s Henry IV
by Luigi Pirandello‘stoppard in his new pared-down, updated, and racily colloquial adaptation, finds both the intellectual rigor and the dramatic momentum and presents us with a…
Party Time and The New World Order
by Harold Pinter“Party Time‘s last loaded encounter is better than anything Pinter has written in years.” —The Times (London)…
One for the Road
by Harold PinterNamed as 1984’s Play of the Year by Drama magazine, Harold Pinter’s One for the Road is a chilling study of power and powerlessness.
Old Times
by Harold PinterLike Pinter’s earlier plays, Old Times deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters—a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a…
No Man’s Land
by Harold Pinter“No Man’s Land remains palpably the work of our best living playwright in its command of language and its power to erect a coherent…
The Norman Conquests
by Alan Ayckbourn“To write one brilliant comedy is a feat. To write three in a row, all about the same people, is a tour de force…
Nice Fish
by Mark RylanceFrom celebrated actor Mark Rylance, a comedic existential play centering on two ice fishermen in Minnesota, based on the prose poems of Louis Jenkins.
A Night Out with Robert Burns
by Robert Burns“O’Hagan makes the point about the universality and relevance of Burns with eloquence and economy. . . . Accessible, lightly glossed, and eruditely formatted….
Mountain Language
by Harold Pinter“[Mountain Language] effortlessly encapsulates the world. . . . If to want, to have, to use or abuse power over others is the essence…
Moonlight
by Harold Pinter“There is no playwright his equal. He is the natural descendant of James Joyce, by way of Samuel Beckett. Pinter works the language as…
