Three Dublin Plays

Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571195520
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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This volume contains the three plays commonly recognized as the height of O'Casey's achievement as a playwright. His tragi-comedy has relevance to the violent politics in the North and the post-nationalist bewilderments in the Republic.

Three Dublin Plays

Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780571195527
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Three Plays

Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Three Sisters

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.

Cultural Convergence

Author: Ondřej Pilný
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030575624
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider the output of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence the dynamics of exchange, interaction, and acculturation that reveal the workings of transnational infrastructures.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Author: Shaun Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008730
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Play Index

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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Juno and the Paycock, And, The Plough and the Stars

Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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A Guide to Longer Plays

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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822236923
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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THE YALTA GAME. Developed from a theme in Chekhov’s 1899 story “The Lady with the Dog.” Two strangers meet on holiday and almost manage to convince one another that disappointments are “merely the postponement of the complete happiness to come…” (1 man, 1 woman.) THE BEAR. Elena Popova, a young and attractive widow, has immersed herself in the role of mourning for her philandering but now dead husband. Luka, her frail and ancient manservant, tries in vain to snap her out of it. Then Gregory Smirnov barges in… (2 men, 1 woman.) AFTERPLAY. 1920s Moscow, a small, run-down café. Uncle Vanya’s niece, Sonya Serebriakova, now in her forties, is the only customer. Until the arrival of the Three Sisters’ put-upon brother Andrey Prozorov. (1 man, 1 woman.)