Tag Archives: European/General
The Physicists (Agee translation)
by Friedrich DurrenmattThe Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists.
The Peasants’ Bible and The Story of the Tiger
by Dario Fo“The provocative Italian winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize is both playwright and actor, as well as an all-round iconoclast.” –The Washington Post
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.
The Mrozek Reader
by Slawomir Mrożek“Mrozek’s brief fables are something like Kafka’s stories, but they’re funnier.” –The Spectator
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht“In its humor, irony, and truth, it is a work to welcome and cherish.” —The New York Times
The Mother
by Bertolt Brecht“The virtue of Brecht’s plays is good sense carried to the point of grandeur.” —Harold Clurman
Manual of Piety
by Bertolt Brecht“A great poet. . . . Brecht may be considered to have made the major German contribution to world literature in our time.” —Rudolf…
The Maids & Deathwatch
by Jean Genet“The absurdist style of Jean Genet’s The Maids, with its detours and mystifications, is taken over and consumed by its extraordinary perception of pain,…
Largo Desolato
by Vaclav Havel“A funny play that tells the truth.” —Dan Sullivan, Los Angeles Times
Jungle of the Cities and Other Plays
by Bertolt BrechtThe three plays gathered in this volume are among Bertolt Brecht’s most remarkable.
