Product Description: First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist ― perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment ― and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism...read more

Product Description: A shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now. As witnesses to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against...read more

Product Description: Arthur Miller’s penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today? In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader...read more

Product Description: The latest dramatic offering from one of Ireland's master playwrightsJohnny Silvester should be enjoying his retirement in his opulent home outside Dublin, but the past is catching up with him. Once lionized for ushering the Irish Republic into the modern world, Silvester has fallen out of favor not only with the public, but also with his family and friends...read more

Product Description: Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men is one of the undisputed classics of American literature. Fifty years after the novel's publication, Warren's characters still stand as powerful representations of the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in positions of power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Fargeau, Jean-Pol, Mnouchkine, Ariane, Kourilsky, Francoise, Temerson, Catherine, Manheim, Ralph, Brewster, Townsend, Mac Dougall, Jill, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Bemba, Sylvain, Kesselman, Wendy