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Este volumen reúne cinco obras dramáticas tempranas de Matei Visniec, escritas en rumano antes de que se exiliara a Francia en 1987. Las tres primeras tienen como eje central una espera que alude, más o menos discretamente, a la Rumanía autoritaria en que fueron escritas, pero también indagan en lo mejor y lo peor del ser humano y en las paradojas que lo envuelven. En 'Se contrata payaso viejo', tres viejos amigos que han leído un mismo anuncio...
2) The Promise
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It's the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel-the first practicing Jew ever to sit in a British Cabinet-dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine after 1800 years. However, his cousin, Edwin Montagu-also in the Cabinet-is implacably opposed to the idea, a conflict complicated by Montagu's passion for the beautiful aristocrat, Venetia Stanley, a confidante of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.
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The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain. Uproarious, occasionally macabre and always compelling, Lally the Scut draws a line in the mud for Northern Ireland.They say the child was tempted down with toys and slices of teddy-bear ham.Abbie Spallen's Lally the Scut premiered at the MAC, Belfast, in a Tinderbox production in April 2015.
4) L'Héritier
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Jean, un quinquagénaire délaissé et négligé, habite dans une petite maison tombant en ruines, à la périphérie d'une mégapole. Il est seul depuis que sa femme Ophélia est partie, il y a 25 ans, sans aucune explication et sans avoir jamais donné de ses nouvelles.
Jean aurait continué son existence sans but, si un beau jour ne s'était présenté à sa porte un jeune homme, Léonard, qui vient pour louer la cabane à cté de la maison.
Celui-ci...
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"Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a captivating Spanish play that explores the blurred lines between reality and illusion. The story delves into the adventures of Segismundo, a prince imprisoned from birth, who grapples with questions of fate, free will, and the nature of dreams. As he awakens to the world beyond his cell, the play unfolds with rich symbolism, challenging the audience to ponder the significance of...
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"Keep Your Own Secret" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a Spanish play. Rosaura disguises herself as a man to escape a vengeful suitor, leading to tangled love triangles. Calderón delves into themes of gender roles, identity, and honor. Amidst humor and mistaken identities, the play unveils society's constraints and personal truths. Through witty dialogue and theatrical twists, it underscores the complexity of relationships and self-discovery, making...
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"The Mayor of Zalamea" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a Spanish Golden Age play. It tells the story of Pedro Crespo, a humble mayor, who stands up for justice when a nobleman dishonors his daughter. The play explores themes of social class, honor, and justice. Through dramatic confrontations and moral dilemmas, Calderón delves into the complexities of human nature and societal values. This timeless work reflects the enduring struggle for fairness...
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"Three Judgments at a Blow" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a Spanish play. A king's decree sends a witty shoemaker on a journey of three tasks, testing his resourcefulness. With humor and clever wordplay, Calderón explores themes of justice, wit, and societal hierarchy. The shoemaker's triumphs reveal human ingenuity, highlighting the power of the common man. This comic tale, through entertaining plot twists and allegorical elements, imparts a...
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"The Painter of His Own Dishonour" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a Spanish drama. It depicts the downfall of nobleman Raimundo due to false accusations. Betrayal, deceit, and honor clash as Raimundo's life unravels. Through intense dialogue and intricate plot, the play explores themes of justice, loyalty, and human flaws. Calderón's poetic language delves into moral complexity, delivering a cautionary tale about self-inflicted downfall and the...
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John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of Separation, recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Olivier Best Play Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize...
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"Beware of Smooth Water" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a captivating Spanish play from the 17th century. The story revolves around the complex dynamics of love and honor. The protagonist, Arsenio, finds himself torn between his love for Marcela and his sense of duty to his father. Marcela, a strong-willed woman, grapples with her own desires and societal expectations. As the plot unfolds, misunderstandings, secrets, and betrayals threaten to shatter...
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"Gil Pérez, the Gallician" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a Spanish play. Mysterious time-traveler Gil appears in Madrid dressed as a Galician soldier from centuries ago. His arrival disrupts events, triggering intrigue and confusion. Through witty exchanges and fantastical elements, the play delves into time's fluidity and human nature's constants. Calderón explores the intersection of past and present, blurring reality's borders, offering a...
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In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance.
The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In...
15) Les chanteurs
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Dans l'atelier parisien de Madame Suzanne, cantatrice sur le déclin et professeure de chant de renom, les jeunes chanteurs lyriques se réunissent pour une séance de travail collective : cours de chant et de technique vocale, o ils s'écoutent mutuellement. La soprano Clémence, le ténor Victor et le baryton Franck n'y chanteront finalement que brièvement, se faisant interrompre par des envies de confessions intimes et des visites et performances...
16) Y la disparition
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Nous sommes en 2038. Le nombre des naissances de garçons est en chute libre depuis une vingtaine d'années, sans raison apparente. L'homme rejoint les espèces en voie de dispari-tion. Les politiques tentent d'apporter des solutions sur le court terme, et les chercheurs des explications plausibles auxquelles se raccrocher. Face à l'urgence de la situation et au vi-sage changeant de la société, les hommes et les femmes n'ont pas d'autre choix que...
17) Elle(s)
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Monologues pour comédiennes.
Tantt naïves, drles, caustiques ou révoltées, des femmes se racontent.
Elles attendent, espèrent, rêvent, dénoncent, questionnent.
Quelquefois le quotidien les a salement meurtries.
Mais elles ne perdent ni l'humour, ni la vitalité, ni la force d'affirmer qu'elles sont femmes avant tout, fières d'être femmes malgré tout.
Le prince charmant les a oubliées. Ou son cheval n'est pas passé très loin....
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Que se passerait il si le Pape rencontrait la vierge aujourd'hui ?
Qu'une vierge soit reçue, au Vatican, en audience par le Pape, ce n'est pas impossible, mais que cette vierge prétende être la nouvelle Vierge, enceinte, elle aussi du Christ, cela paraît totalement improbable !
Et pourtant, la pièce met en scène la confrontation entre Katia, jeune orpheline d'origine palestinienne adoptée par un couple d'orléanais, et Pierre II, vieux pape...
19) Polko
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I like this car.
It's sort of horrible but I like it.
It's a good place for something bad like a
breakdown or -
As teenagers, Emma, Joe and Polko thought they'd never grow apart. When Emma returns to the suburb of their childhood ten years later, she discovers that nothing, and everything, has changed. Joe is stuck, living with his mum while working part-time in a hotel; Polko has vanished, leaving a cloud of stories and misremembered nights in his...
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Listen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round...Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a mere obstacle in the way of sex, sambuca and a night back home with the submarine crew in Mantrap.
Funny, sad and raucously rude, Lee Hall's musical play Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted from Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos, premiered...
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