Kurzdramen, oft in einem Akt, haben im englischen Theater des 20. Jahrhunderts Tradition. Bedeutende Dramatiker haben sich immer wieder erfolgreich mit dieser konzentrierten Form der Darstellung auseinandergesetzt. Der Band enthält fünf charakteristische, brillante Stücke. Texte in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.
August Strindberg's Miss Julie was written at a time of industrial and social unrest, a ground-breaking masterpiece that still provokes and shocks audiences today. Award-winning playwright Howard Brenton brings Strindberg's genius to life in this brilliant new adaptation premiering in July 2017.
This collection of plays by one of Britain's most prominent political dramatists offers the best of his work from the 1980s. The plays include "The Romans in Britain", "Thirteenth Night", "The Genius", "Bloody Poetry" and "Greenland".
Howard Brenton depicts the culmination of the mid-seventeenth century. In these dangerous and dramatic times, in a country exhausted by Civil War, the great men of the day were trying to think the unthinkable: to create a country without a king.
A provocative and witty play about an uncompromising voice in dangerous times.
Howard Brenton's epic play for Shakespeare's Globe theatre presents a dramatic portrait of one of the most famous figures in English History, Henry VIII 's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I.
Featuring a diverse collection from ten prominent playwrights, this anthology provides young performers aged thirteen to nineteen with an exciting array of plays. It includes works from both established and contemporary writers, making it ideal for performance, reading, or study. The selection aims to inspire and engage the next generation of theater artists.
Howard Brenton was born in 1942 in Portsmouth, where his father was a policeman and a lay preacher. He had written several plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre before "Romans in Britain" (1980) was famously the cause of a failed prosecution by moral crusaders.
A timely play based on the true story of a Nobel Laureate.