Tag Archives: European/General
America
by François BusnelFrom the bestselling literary magazine that took France by storm after its launch in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, a collection of…
The Seagull
by Tom Stoppard“A play that might have been written a hundred days instead of a hundred years ago.” —New York Times
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
by Eugene Ionesco“With outrageous comedy, Ionesco attacks the most serious subjects: blind conformity and totalitarianism, despair and death.” —The New York Times
The Visit (Agee translation)
by Friedrich DurrenmattFriedrich Dürrenmatt’s most renown play, The Visit, is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo.
The Ubu Plays
by Alfred Jarry“One of the epock-making scandals of Western theater. . . . Ubu’s appetite is for power. He represents the apocalyptic slob, the roaring, grasping…
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt BrechtA reissue of Bertolt Brecht’s classic play, including Brecht’s Notes and an introduction by the great actress and chanteuse Lotte Lenya.
Temptation
by Vaclav HavelIn his most challenging work to date, Czech playwright Václav Havel has given the Faust legend of Mephistopheles a provocative twist.
Surreal Lives
by Ruth Brandon“Surrealism is now associated more with whimsy than with the lacerating and uncanny effects first sought by the French poets who first formulated its…
The Screens
by Jean Genet“Only a true poet, a man possessed of verbally imagined artistry, could write such a play as The Screens. . . . [It] reveals…
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…
