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  • Chekhov on Theatre

    Series series ... On Theatre
    A unique collection of everything that Chekhov wrote about the theatre.Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor Alexei Suvorin, his wife and leading actress, Olga Knipper, and to the two directors of the Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky and ... Read more

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  • The Misanthrope

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Molière ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolière's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble.Alceste, the 'misanthrope', hates all mankind, and despairs of its hypocrisy and falseness. He believes that the world could be perfected if people were more honest with each other.But when ... Read more

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    Hand in Glove – The Casebook of Dr Wallace

    Six BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramas

    Unabridged

    5 hours 41 min

    Series 1 & 2 of the mystery drama featuring the crime-solving exploits of a Scottish pathologist and his daughter.1920s Stirling, and Chief Pathologist Dr Wallace is the town's acknowledged expert on all matters forensic. But he's not the only detective in the family - his daughter Barbara, a medical student, also has quite a talent for investigating. In these six one-off dramas, the two amateur ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Turgenev Plays

    by Ivan Turgenev ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Turgenev (1818-1883) tends to be seen in Chekhov’s shadow, yet his plays pre-date Chekhov’s work by nearly half a century. A Month in the Country is Turgenev’s acknowledged masterpiece.Includes the plays; A Month in the Country, Stony Broke, One of the Family, The Bachelor, Lunch at His Excellency's and A Provincial Lady. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Seagull

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceChekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.Arkadina, a famous actress, and her lover, a famous novelist, are spending the summer on her country estate, but their glamorous presence proves fatally disruptive to the lives of all those present, especially her son, Konstantin and Nina, the girl he loves.Anton ... Read more

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  • The Government Inspector

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I.A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.This ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    High Fantastical

    Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas

    Unabridged

    4 hours 19 min

    Five fantastical tales, each with a magical twistDiscover a lady with a taste for immortality, a man who becomes a dragon, a man-eating witch and a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Perfect for fans of fantasy, these epic tales are packed with magical elements, fantastical creatures, and heroic conflicts between good and evil.In Lady Faustus by Michael Payne, the town gossips have only one ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceLuigi Pirandello's 1921 play about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality, in which six characters, whose author has abandoned them mid-process, turn up at a rehearsal and demand to be played by the actors present in order to resolve their tragedy and become 'real'.This edition of Six Characters in Search of an Author, ... Read more

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  • Summerfolk

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMaxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died.Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where ... Read more

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  • Ibsen: Three Plays

    Full Texts and Introductions (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    'I'm going to find out – which of us is right, society or me.'Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century society and sparked a revolution in European theatre. Their female protagonists, Nora Helmer, Helene Alving and Hedda Gabler, continue to exert their power over modern audiences.This volume brings ... Read more

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  • The Wild Duck

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceShould the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den ... Read more

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  • The Cherry Orchard

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceChekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.Aristocratic landowner Ranevskaya can no longer afford to keep her childhood home with its beautiful but barren cherry orchard. She rejects the compromise offered by Lopakhin, a local businessman, to cut down the orchard and sell the land for holiday homes. ... Read more

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