Presents a re-working of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" set in the Middle East. The setting of this version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a "new democracy".
Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside back of a coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at cafe. When he meets two young men he is irresistibly drawn to their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical musings and great-bands that never-were.
A poignant, moving and darkly funny play about young girls slipping through the cracks in society. Joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.
Helena, physician's daughter of humble birth, cures the King of France, and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man she chooses, the proud young Bertram, count of Rosillion, flees to Florence, refusing to consent to the forced marriage unless Helena can pass two seemingly impossible tests.
This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Transnational Studies.
The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.