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Ein klassisches Schauspiel von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nach der Vorlage von Euripides’ "Iphigenie bei den Taurern." Es gilt als ein Meisterwerk der Weimarer Klassik, ebenso kunstreich wie sinnvoll. Goethe bringt einen alten Mythos zurück, und veranschaulicht sowohl die künstlerischen Bewegungen dieser Zeit als auch die Ideale von Humanität, Gerechtigkeit und Unschuld.

The play Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill tells of the reunion of a troubled daughter and her absent father in New York. Having spent his life on the seven seas, Anna’s father last saw her when she was 5 years old. There are things about her life and work she keeps hidden from her father. While living with him on a barge, they save the lives of five survivors of a shipwreck. One of them, Matt Burke, falls in love with Anna, and after a period of resistance, she returns the feeling. This development upsets her father who would rather not have Anna marry a sailor.

Named to The Wall Street Journal's top-six list for "The Year's Best Books for the Journey Ahead," on "making the most of later life" (12/1/2014, R4). Cicero's classic ON OLD AGE is now adapted, explained, and updated to today's world. “Getting old is not for sissies”: the mortal words of Bette Davis. And somewhat the theme of Marcus Tullius Cicero's ON OLD AGE. Except that Cicero did not believe in denying aging or hiding its effects. What he believed has been passed on for generations and still speaks to a modern world. Now 'De Senectute' can be read with a real understanding of it, ...

Steven Adler examines the dynamic life and workings of the theatre company responsible for some of the world's most compelling performances and influential productions of the last 40 years, including Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Les Misérables, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Nicholas Nickleby.

In this play, the past revisits Paual Tanqueray, resulting in dire consequences.

William Shakespeare is of course England's greatest play right and revered the World over. The Merchant of Venice is a masterly tale and is on a par with many of his other works. In his creation of Venice Shakespeare revels in his characters and story. Perhaps best well known for the creation of the character Shylock in a world of money lending the play has survived admirably down the years. This play is performed by a quite magnificent cast and in the lead role of Shylock we have Michael Redgrave.

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia.

14 let p'esa Ivana Turgeneva "Nahlebnik" nahodilas' pod cenzurnym zapretom. Otnoshenie k nej bylo neodnoznachnym. Gogol' schital p'esu beznravstvennoj, zato Gercen otzyvalsja o nej vostorzhenno: "Drama, kotoruju pishet Turgenev - prosto objaden'e." Sjuzhet p'esy prost: v dome Ol'gi Petrovny Eleckoj zhivet "na hlebah" obednevshij dvorjanin Kuzovkin - chelovek dobryj, no besharakternyj. I mog li hot' kto-nibud' predpolozhit', chto odno sluchajno proiznesennoe im slovo mozhet tak kruto izmenit' sud'bu vseh geroev jetoj istorii...

Radiospektakl' "Zavtrak u predvoditelja" po odnoimennoj p'ese russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva. Predvoditel' dvorjanstva priglashaet na zavtrak rodstvennikov - brata i sestru - kotorye uzhe mnogo let ne mogu podelit' dostavsheesja im po nasledstvu imenie. Cel' vstrechi - primirit' vrazhdujushhie storon i postarat'sja reshit' vopros poljubovno i mirno.

Radiokompozicija spektaklja "Mesjac v derevne" po odnoimennoj p'ese I. S. Turgeneva. P'esa dvazhdy menjala nazvanie (prezhnie - "Student", "Dve zhenshhiny"). Opublikovana v 1855 godu. V osnove p'esy lezhit ljubovnyj chetyrjohugol'nik. Natal'ja Petrovna, zhena bogatogo pomeshhika Arkadija Sergeicha Islaeva, vljubljaetsja v Alekseja Nikolaevicha Beljaeva (21 god) - studenta, uchitelja Koli Islaeva. Mihail Aleksandrovich Rakitin - drug sem'i, uzhe davno ljubit Natal'ju Petrovnu.

Radiospektakl' "Burmistr" po motivam odnoimennogo rasskaza russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva iz cikla "Zapiski ohotnika". Glavnyj geroj rasskaza, Arkadij Pavlovich Penochkin - obrazovannyj pomeshhik s evropejskim loskom, u nego mjagkij golos, izyskannye manery, no pod jetoj licemernoj maskoj skryvaetsja zhestokij krepostnik. On ne pozvolit udarit' lakeja, a tol'ko dast rasporjazhenie vysech' provinivshegosja.

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on February 14, 1895, at the St James' Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious persona to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

The initials stand for Rossum's Universal Robots. This Czech play, first produced in 1921, introduced the word "robot" into the world lexicon. The Rossum factory robots are so human that a well-meaning beauty travels to R.U.R.'s island headquarters to liberate them. She ends up fomenting more revolution than the human race can handle.

In this wickedly funny play, a seemingly ideal couple and their charming, privileged friends surmount such details as selling government secrets, theft, and bribery with love triumphant over all.

Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. Dickens' tale of Pip, a young man "removed from his present sphere of life" and cast into a Victorian nightmare, is a powerful audio drama to be enjoyed and appreciated as an important piece of social criticism.

Esta versión de Fuenteovejuna es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. Nosotros editamos el audio para su placer. Usamos procesos de la computadora y trabajo manual para crear una experiencia buena de volumen y calidad sin ruidos malos. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Fuenteovejuna por Lope de Vega, narrado por Ciel Vivona!

Komedija v pjati dejstvijah.Tut smeshalsja glas rassudkaS bleskom legkoj boltovni.Vodevil'.

Vodevil' "Svad'ba" - sozdannyj po odnoimjonnoj p'ese Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, javljaetsja jazvitel'noj satiroj na obyvatel'skie nravy meshhan dorevoljucionnoj Rossii. Meshhane Zhigalovy, u kotoryh na vydan'e doch' Dasha, k uzhasu svoemu uznajut, chto chinovnik Aplombov, ezhednevno obedavshij u nih i zarekomendovavshij sebja zhenihom, zhenit'sja vovse ne sobiraetsja. S bol'shim trudom udalos' otcu Dashen'ki ugovorit' ambicioznogo zheniha sdelat' predlozhenie.

"Milostivye gosudaryni i milostivye gosudari" - radiopostanovka po jumoristicheskim rasskazam Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Za 26 let tvorchestva Chehov sozdal okolo 900 razlichnyh proizvedenij (korotkih jumoristicheskih rasskazov, ser'joznyh povestej, p'es), mnogie iz kotoryh stali klassikoj mirovoj literatury.

"Leshij" - komedija v 4 dejstvijah Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Napisana v 1889 godu. V "Leshem", kak i vo vseh proizvedenija Chehova nashli otrazhenie vse cherty nacional'nogo russkogo haraktera i priznak vremeni - utrata duhovnyh cennostej, sposobnost' k sochuvstviju, gotovnost' soperezhivat' gore i radost'.