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Extrait : "Dr JOSÉ à MUGNOZ : Ensuite ? MUGNOZ : Ensuite, monseigneur, voyant que cela ne suffisait pas pour le faire parler, je lui ai donné trois autres bons tours de corde. DONA CATALINA, se bouchant les oreilles : Encore ! Dr JOSÉ à Mugnoz : Et le coquin n'a rien dit malgré cela ? MUGNOZ :...

Extrait : "SOPHIE : Alors, madame, il ne faudra pas de poisson ? MADAME MALINGEAR, assise à droite du guéridon et travaillant : Non !... Il a fait du vent toute la semaine, il doit être hors du prix... Mais tâchez que votre filet soit avantageux. SOPHIE : Et pour les légumes ?... On commence à...

Extrait : "LE TRAITEUR, à la cantonade : Allons, chaud, chaud, mes enfants ! à vos fourneaux ! (En scène.) La journée sera bonne ! c'est aujourd'hui samedi... et M. le maire de Ménilmontant ne marie que le samedi... C'est une bonne idée, parce qu'on a le dimanche pour se reposer... Le père Reculé,...

THE CLOUDS is revised version of a comedy first performed at the Dionysia in 423 BC, and revised by Aristophanes several years later.  The play satirizes intellectual fashions in classical Athens.  The original version has not survived. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a...

Adam Ferro, a young salesman that just learned he has cancer. Under the advice of his therapist, he chooses to take the opportunity to do the number one thing on his bucket list- write a novel.He creates a character also named Adam, who is everything that he is not. He's smooth and smart...

If we help, we invite trouble. If we don't, we bring shame. Fifty women board a boat in North Africa. They flee across the Mediterranean, leaving everything behind. They are escaping forced marriage in their home and seeking asylum in Greece. Written 2,500 years ago, The Suppliant Women...

The second story in the Oedipus Trilogy, "Antigone", examines the conflict between public duty and personal loyalty. Following the banishment of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices kill each other over a dispute of succession to the thrown of Thebes. Creon, Antigone's uncle, succeeds to the thrown and declares...

Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabuki—its history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and music—to the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki. Kabuki, the popular theatre of Japan, began in about 1603 and is still flourishing today. It...

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, first produced in 458 BC, is the opening play in his Oresteian trilogy. Agamemnon returns home after the Trojan Wars with his concubine Cassandra and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. The ensuing blood feud continues until the third and final play,...

Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly...