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  • Doctor Faustus

    by Christopher Marlowe, Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Faustus’s restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black arts. The life-changing decision propels him into a heady, celebrity-obsessed world, as magician and illusionist to the rich and famous. Quenching sexual desires as his power grows, he must question whether the price was worth paying ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Seven Pomegranate Seeds

    by Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Seven contemporary stories grounded in prominent, mythical origins.Persephone, Hypsipyle, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra, Creusa and Demeter: the women of Euripides' plays are reimagined as people of today in an unexpected fusion of celebrity, inappropriate desires, historical police investigations and missing children.A severed maternal bond threads each story together, charting a journey through rage ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How Many Miles to Basra?

    by Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Southern Iraq, April 2003. Four soldiers, a journalist and their Iraqi translator set off on an unauthorised journey deep into the Iraqi countryside in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the deaths of some local men at a vehicle checkpoint.Developed from Teevan'shighly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra? is a superb examination of how definitions of truth and responsibility ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Diver

    by Hideki Noda, Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play, The Diver, ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a contemporary murder.In a production at Soho Theatre award-winning actress Kathryn Hunter rejoined legendary Japanese director Hideki Noda and the team behind Soho/Tokyo hit play The Bee for this physical ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Emperor

    by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power.A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, from the team that brought you Kafka’s Monkey. Hunter creates a mesmerising cast of characters, all ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Bee

    by Hideki Noda, Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    One evening, Mr Ido arrives home from work to find his house surrounded by police and TV cameras. Inside, his wife and child are being held hostage by an escaped murderer. An otherwise normal day in an otherwise comfortable life is not ending how it should. But rather than play the victim and accept this terrible fate, Ido decides to take control and embarks upon an extraordinary mission of ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Alcmaeon in Corinth

    by Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis.Alcmaeon, having killed his mother, is pursued by the furies, his madness taking the form of satyriasis. When he unwittingly finds himself in bed with his daughter, he must face his children's fury ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Seven Pomegranate Seeds

    by Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    The Seven Pomegranate Seeds are seven contemporary monologues for female speakers, thematically linked and with powerful mythical origins. Loosely based on seven of Euripides’ female characters - Medea, Phedra, Demeter, Persephone, Hypsipyle, Creusa and Alcestis - these monologues explore classical mother and child stories in the context of modern Britain. With the tale of an abducted child ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Missing Persons

    Four Tragedies and Roy Keane

    by Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the monologues The Bull, The One Within, Somedays, The Last word and The RoykeaneiadA father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Ovid’s Modern Metamorphoses

    10 Full-Cast Contemporary BBC Radio Dramatisations including Orpheus, Euridice, Phaethon, Echo & Narcissus

    by Ovid, Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Hattie Naylor, Nick Warburton, Colin Teevan, Lucy Catherine ...
    Narrated by Toby Jones, Robert Glenister, Deborah Findlay, Rosie Cavaliero, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Burn Gorman, Shaun Dooley, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Ten contemporary reimaginings of Ovid’s iconic tales, with star-studded casts including Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister**The Roman love poet Ovid has influenced writers past and present, with his witty, sexy tales inspiring authors from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound. Included here are ten scintillating retellings that take a fresh look at his classic works, viewing these ancient stories ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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    by William Shakespeare ...
    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The ... Read more

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  • Summary and Analysis of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

    Based on the Book by Mary Beard

    by Worth Books ...
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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of SPQR tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Mary Beard's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Read more

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