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Drama
This first English publication of Maria Lampadaridou Pothou's work is a collection of her critically...
Duo for Obstinate Voices is set in Quebec between 1970 and 1975, against the backdrop...
Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously....
Camerado is a play presenting the very dramatic life and compelling thoughts of Walt Whitman,...
A powerful drama on the struggles encountered by immigrant families caught in worlds they didn't...
In June 1940, as Benito Mussolini took Italy into war against the Allied Powers, the...
Pasolini published the Manifesto for a New Theatre in Nuovi Argomenti in 1968, while preparing to direct Orgia, another of his six verse tragedies. While betraying his personal dissatisfaction with his own theatre work, the Manifesto mercilessly dissects Italian theatre into two types and exposes the presumption and uselessness of both. Later, in 1968, when his production of Orgia is met with hoots of derision, he will take the blame upon himself, saying: "My fault. I hoped to create a shift by leaping over the rules decreed by mass culture. But to do that, you have to commit yourself...
