Tag Archives: European/English
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…
Jumpers
by Tom Stoppard“Jumpers is the kind of gem that few playwrights other than Stoppard could have crafted: a freewheeling farce with a soulful, searing conscience.” —Elysa Gardner, USA Today…
The Judas Kiss
by David HarePortraying the two critical moments in Oscar Wilde’s late life—when he decides to stay in England and face imprisonment and the night after his…
The Invention of Love
by Tom Stoppard“So beautifully constructed that the playwright seems to be discovering his play only one jump ahead of the audience. It has that sense of surprise and wonder.” —Vincent Canby, The New York Times…
I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
by Samuel Beckett“A rich anthology . . . . An exemplary introduction to the world of Beckett.” –Mel Gussow, Newsday
Howard Katz
by Patrick Marber“In Howard Katz, Patrick Marber skillfully recaptures the essence of one man’s cosmic struggle. . . . A dream-play, a nightmare-play, a sad-funny life…
The Hothouse
by Harold Pinter“The playwright has an unfailing ear for institutionalized doublespeak, and The Hothouse is full of rapid-fire bits that sound like old vaudeville routines as…
The Homecoming
by Harold PinterThe Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965.
Happy Days
by Samuel Beckett“A marvelously constructed tragicomedy. It helps to remind us of Beckett’s skills as a portraitist—a draper of vigorous flesh on what might have resulted…
The Hard Problem
by Tom Stoppard“Tom Stoppard’s first play for nine years is typically witty—an intellectually charged piece that delights in the slippery nature of language and pulses with…
