Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's law overruling the laws of the gods. The clash between her and Creon with its tragic consequences have inspired continual reinterpretation. This translation was made for a BBC TV production of the "Theban Plays" in 1986.
Collection of three plays by Spanish Golden Age playwright Pedro Calderon, all translated by British playwright, poet and novelist Adrian Mitchell. Includes Mayor of Zalamea which was staged at the National Theatr.
Molina's tragedy of epic proportions, based on the Old Testament story, which transcends its biblical origins. Premiered at The Lyric Hammersmith in a successful and much-lauded production.
Regarded as Von Kleist's masterpiece. Prince Friedrich of Homburg is the indisputable dramatic masterpiece of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), a leading figure, along with Goethe and Schiller, among early German Romantics.
A hilariously funny adaptation of a French comic classic, by French dramatist Jean-Baptist Moliere. This adaptation by British writer Nick Dear premiered at London's National Theatre.
A collection of plays from Ernst Toller, this is a translation for the stage in this unique book by Alan Raphael Pearlman
The most famous of the hilarious, heartbreaking comedies with which Marivaux shocked and delighted eighteenth-century Paris. A wickedly funny translation, as performed at the Royal National Theatre.
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