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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Edward Albee - 1962

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play.

A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art--an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come."

Caligula and Three Other Plays

Albert Camus - 1962

This English edition includes the plays Caligula, The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu), State of Siege (L'État de siège), and The Just Assassins (Les Justes)..

This English edition includes the plays Caligula, The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu), State of Siege (L'État de siège), and The Just Assassins (Les Justes).

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 2: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, the Rose Tatoo, Camino Real (Theatre of Tennessee Williams)

Tennessee Williams - 1962

"The Theatre of Tennessee Williams" brings together in a matching format the plays of a genius of the American theatre.

Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.

The Old Pine Tree and Other Noh Plays

Makoto Ueda - 1962

An orthodox Noh preformance consists of a cycle of five plays, one from each of five categories: God Plays, Man Plays, Woman Plays, Frenzy Plays, and Demon Plays.

Each Noh play, while complete in itself, has a part to preform within the sequence as a whole, and in this larger context takes on greater scope and complexity of meaning . In the present volume Makoto Ueda has arranged five of the finest Noh plays (hithero untranslated) in the orthodox order of performance. This arrangement not only exhibits the artistic unity of a Noh cycle but also greatly clarifies the religious implications of the Noh. Primarily a religious drama, the Noh reveals the sinful nature if human life and suggests a scheme of salvation. The five-play sequence shows man's live in five stages: innocence, fall, repentance, redemption, and final glory. The Noh is far more than mere mood drama: it contains, as does every true work of art, mature comments on human experience in a beautiful and sophisticated form.Three of the plays translated are attributed to Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443); one is attributed to Kannami Kiyotsugu (1334-1384); and one is of unknown authorship.Cover design by Jack Brodie.

Last Plays of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen - 1962

1960s Bantam Classics edition, featuring:RosmersholmHedda GablerThe Master BuilderJohn Gabriel BorkmanWhen We Dead Awaken.

1960s Bantam Classics edition, featuring:RosmersholmHedda GablerThe Master BuilderJohn Gabriel BorkmanWhen We Dead Awaken

Three Plays: Old Man/ Tomorrow/ Roots in a Parched Ground

Horton Foote - 1962

Three early teleplays by Horton Foote:"Old Man" (adapted from story by William Faulkner)Playhouse 90November 20, 1958"Tomorrow" (adapted from story by William Faulkner)Playhouse 90May 7, 1960"Roots in a Parched Ground" Du Pont Show of the MonthMarch 21, 1961.

Three early teleplays by Horton Foote:"Old Man" (adapted from story by William Faulkner)Playhouse 90November 20, 1958"Tomorrow" (adapted from story by William Faulkner)Playhouse 90May 7, 1960"Roots in a Parched Ground" Du Pont Show of the MonthMarch 21, 1961