Tag Archives: European/English
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…
Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
by Samuel Beckett“In love with the aside, the tangential comment, the footnote and the mathematical calculation . . . . Beckett has fashioned a vehicle for himself in drama and prose that allows him to be romantic and irreverent at one and the same instant.” –The New Republic…
