The Ubu Plays: Ubu Rex / Ubu Cuckolded / Ubu Enchained

Author

Jean Anouilh

TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS -
WE LIVE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS.
1960's song.

If Sophocles' version of this is the best, Anouilh's is the one that's most like we all are INSIDE.

When I was 16, a callow youth, I thought Anouilh's heroine just couldn't compromise. I thought, how dumb!...

Author	Marsha Norman
ISBN	0822208210

'night, Mother is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won the Dramatists Guild's prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize...

Author	Daniil Kharms
ISBN	1585677434

Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language...

Author	Euripides
ISBN	1854594117

Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"


- The Young...

Author

Eugène Ionesco

MARGUERITE, se dirigeant vers le Roi : Sire, je dois vous mettre au courant.
MARIE : Non, taisez-vous.
MARGUERITE, à Marie : Taisez-vous.
MARIE, au Roi : Ce n'est pas vrai ce qu'elle dit.
LE ROI : Au courant de quoi ? Qu'est-ce qui n'est pas vrai ? Marie, pourquoi cet air désolé ? Que...

Author	Eugène Ionesco
ISBN	2070362361

La cantatrice chauve / La leçon = The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays, Eugène Ionesco
La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco. The play opens on Mrs. Smith reciting...