Fr. 19.50

A Pocket Guide to 20th-Century Drama

English · Paperback / Softback

Shipping usually within 3 to 5 weeks

Description

Read more

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Unwin is Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston. He founded English Touring Theatre in 1993! where his Shakespeare productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream! Hamlet! Macbeth! As You Like It! Henry IV! Parts One and Two! King Lear and Romeo and Juliet . He is the winner of the 2003 Sam Wanamaker Shakespeare Globe Award. He directed Kenneth McLeish's translations of A Doll's House! Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder . He has directed more than fifty theatre and opera productions for the Royal National Theatre! English National Opera! the Royal Opera House! the Royal Court Theatre and many others. His work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse! the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic. He has co-written A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama and A Pocket Guide to Ibsen! Chekhov and Strindberg (Faber & Faber)! So You Want to be a Theatre Director? (Nick Hern Books) and A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht (Methuen). Klappentext Are you searching for an overview of the most significant plays? puts each play into historical and theatrical context; gives the storyline and an analysis of each play! and provides details of major productions around the world. And! finally! there's a chronology of one thousand twentieth-century plays. A Pocket Guide to Twentieth-Century Drama , by Stephen Unwin and Carole Woddis provides an overview of the twentieth century's most significant plays, with snapshot analysis, social and theatrical context, and much besides. Zusammenfassung Are you searching for an overview of the most significant plays? Are you looking for a snapshot analysis? Do you want to know the social and theatrical context? A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama gives all this and much, much more. It provides a short introduction to a dramatic century; puts each play into historical and theatrical context; gives the storyline and an analysis of each play, and provides details of major productions around the world. And, finally, there's a chronology of one thousand twentieth-century plays....

Product details

Authors Stephen Unwin, Carole Woddis
Publisher Faber & Faber
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.06.2001
 
EAN 9780571200146
ISBN 978-0-571-20014-6
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 111 mm x 178 mm x 24 mm
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

Theatre Studies, Modern & contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Acting; Criticism; Pocket Guides; Stagecraft

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.