Tag Archives: European/General
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
by Bertolt BrechtThese six plays represent the best and most humorous of Bertolt Brecht’s shorter works.
Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
by Dario Fo“We have political theater and we have comic theater. But the astonishing thing about Dario Fo is that he manages to combine the two…
India Song
by Marguerite Duras“Unusual and magnificent . . . a shock to received ideas delivered by a dramatist of genius.” –Harold Hobson
Heroes
by Gerald Sibleyras“Achingly funny, piercingly sad . . . Line by beautifully delivered line the play proves wonderfully entertaining. There are echoes of Waiting for Godot…
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen“This revised text . . . flows quite naturally. . . . [Baitz has] boldly chipped away at the romantic patina and found a…
Guernica and Other Plays
by Fernando Arrabal“I watched scenes onstage of sodomy, intercourse, defecation, urination, profanity, and nudity, and found them not only acceptable but exactly and most powerfully right….
Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht“The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht’s great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo.”…
The Garden Party & Other Plays
by Vaclav Havel“If there are any theatres left that base work entirely on the writer’s text, theatres that value the development of poetry in drama, then…
Fernando Pessoa & Co.
by Fernando Pessoa“One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal’s premier modernist.”—Washington Post “Pessoa has had many English-language interpreters but none better than…
Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett
by Eugene Ionesco“[Macbett] is…a grotesque joke . . . [and] a very funny play. . . . Ionecso maliciously undermines sources and traditions, spoofing Shakespeare along…
