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Esquilo (h. 525-456 a. C.) es el autor más antiguo del que conservamos tragedias completas. Además de dramaturgo, fue también soldado en una época difícil para Atenas y participó en algunos de los combates determinantes de las Guerras Medicas. Esa experiencia personal emerge con fuerza en una pieza de trasfondo belico como Los siete contra Tebas.Situada en el tiempo mitico justo antes de la Antigona de Sofocles, Los siete contra Tebas narra el asedio de la ciudad defendida por Eteocles ante el ataque de su hermano Polinices y sus aliados de Argos. Esquilo despliega en esta obra sorprendentemente realista un conflicto entre hermanos que se ve enriquecido con una adversidad superior: la de una ciudad que teme la derrota y sus terribles consecuencias. Quiza fue eso lo que convirtio a Los siete contra Tebas en una de las tragedias favoritas de sus contemporaneos.

MAMARRogelio vuelve a casa borracho. Su viejo amigo del instituto Leonardo (también borracho), a quien no ve desde hace años, está con él. Deben permanecer en silencio, de otra manera María (la novia de Rogelio) y su bebe se despertaran. Rogelio y Leonardo se estan meando mucho. Aqui mismo en el jardin, pero en silencio, ¡por favor! Mientras estan meando, Maria sale fuera. Ella no parece contenta, por decir algo suave. Leonardo mira a Maria y se enamora en ese mismo instante.CenizasMonica va a pasar las vacaciones con su prometido Paolo al bungalo que el tiene en una isla. Los hijos adultos de Paolo, Enrique y Ramiro, iran con ellos tambien. Monica esta muy emocionada de conocerlos por primera vez. Las vacaciones no van como se esperaba. Monica tiene problemas para adaptarse a la familia de Paolo. El hijo menor, Ramiro, es un tanto peculiar y Enrique no tiene muy buen comportamiento. Para colmo, la ex de Paolo regresa inesperadamente.

"Se aprecia madurez en el tejido de los componentes que construyen la dramaturgia. La obra es una metáfora del país que ha sido invadido, prostituido, transformado, robado, ultrajado, donde quedan atrapados una pareja de adultos mayores totalmente desprovistos de seguridad social y economica, y en el que el nuevo orden ya no los quiere cerca. Apreciamos a los personajes protagonicos como sujetos de desecho, personajes urbanos arrinconados en una ciudad que ya no los reconoce, ni quiere asumir. Adultos mayores ingeniosos, llenos de juventud y picardia que llegan a transgredir a ese sistema que los quiere desplazar.Una de las virtudes de la obra ganadora es el lenguaje no explicito; la palabra esta en funcion de la accion".

Una obra ingeniosa, divertida y elegantemente crítica, que ridiculiza a los celosos posesivos y celebra la inteligencia femenina y la libertad de amar. Perfecta para lectores que buscan humor brillante con fondo humano. La obra tuvo un exito rotundo que proporciono grandes ingresos a Moliere asi como el reconocimiento del propio rey Luis de Francia. Edicion ampliada con un extenso estudio de la vida y obra de Moliere a cargo de Julio Gomez de la Serna y Jose Lopez Rubio.

You think the world owes you something and it doesnt. You dont inherit your chance, you earn it. And Im earning it. I take my shots, and its not our fault you keep missing yours.T is the new summer hire at Cafarelli & Sons, an iconic New York butcher, but life in a messy cutting room isnt glamorous. She quickly discovers that no-nonsense boss Paula is fighting to hold her struggling business together. When the season ends, someones for the chop.With the American Dream of a better life hanging in the balance, JD and Billy find themselves pitted against each other, each determined to secure their future. Around them, David and T are drawn into shifting alliances and fractured loyalties. But how far will they go to survive?The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights carves into the dark underbelly of Americas anti-immigration policies and the brutal sacrifices that drive the pursuit of prosperity.Winner of the 2024 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record-breaking 1,589 submissions, Hannah Dorans searing play was first performed at Park Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Papatangos Artistic Director George Turvey. Previous Prize discoveries have won Olivier, Critics Circle and OffWestEnd Awards and received productions in thirty-three countries.

They say that, when you start getting older. Anything you wanna be able to do, keep doing it often cos youll never get it back. I thought they meant touching your toes or running 5K, I didnt think they meant getting on trams.Ian has gone out less since he became a widower. In fact, he hasnt gone out at all, and his relationship with his daughter Lauren is suffering. But when charity volunteer Raz finds Ian in the garden wearing his late wifes dress, an unlikely friendship develops. Before long, Ian finds himself back in the local working mens club, preparing to give the performance of his life.Going Out Out is an infectiously story about music, love and the courage it takes to cope with grief. It opened at HOME, Manchester, in October 2025.

A collection of vivid and revelatory monologues from the people of Barnsley, by award-winning theatre company LUNG, with a foreword by Ian McMillan.In Barnsley town, emergency services stand on a bridge trying to save a strangers life. At a sports hall in Penistone, a pair of sumo wrestlers prepare to fight. Up Goldthorpe way, a burning effigy of Maggie Thatcher is paraded down the high street.This is Barnsley, speaking for itself - past, present and future.Calling Barnsley was first produced as an audio installation in a public phone box at Barnsley Civic arts centre in January 2025.LUNGs work continues to challenge and inspire the nation, consistently creating bold, deeply human work like Calling Barnsley - a timely collection of monologues that bring real voices vividly to life.Indhu Rubasingham, Artistic Director, National Theatre This book is Barnsley through and through: tender, funny, and beautifully real. A true celebration of the voices that make us who we are.Kate Rusby, singer-songwriterBarnsley made me a tough, ambitious, cultured, proud Yorkshirewoman. This book proves Im not alone in loving our little town.Jenni Murray, broadcasterThe pieces in this collection resound with genuine authenticity of place and character, this is the heartbeat of South Yorkshire. Writing so full of the stuff of life you can almost taste it.John Godber OBE, playwrightMoor rattle than a can o mabs.Ian McMillan, poet

As a boy, you would never leave me alone. You were always bringing me things. Drawings, or dead animals . . . Larry is an acclaimed television celebrity, but his life and career are rapidly unravelling. Forced to unpick his past and confront his future, he is met by his troubled twin brother, his domineering mother and his dangerously unpredictable former lover, the famous actress Marianne Barre.A lush and unsettling tale of love and Hollywood, Small Hotel opened at Theatre Royal Bath in October 2025.

A tender and funny play about growing up in Romford in the shadow of Canary Wharf.1995. Big buildings are rising in Londons Docklands. But marooned miles to the east, half-in and half-out of the city, Romford has not been invited to the party. Confused about its identity, the inhabitants of the only town in London with its own ring road are trying to cope. The relationships they forge have painful implications, in this poetic and passionate play that explores growing up, identity and loss.Ben Musgraves play Pretend You Have Big Buildings won the 2005 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2007. This revised version of the play was published as an ebook in 2025, with an introduction by the author, and is available in the collection Bruntwood at 20: Five Plays from the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.An exceptional play... original, sophisticated, intelligent... and highly entertainingBrenda Blethyn, Bruntwood Playwriting Competition panel of judges

A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and adapted into a six-part BBC television drama, Just Act Normal.Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tianas keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework.But Tionnes experiments are getting stranger and Tanikas starting to act up. As the outside world begins to press in, the three will do anything to keep their secret safe from the adults who come to call.Janice Okohs play Three Birds won the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2013 before transferring to the Bush Theatre, London.It was adapted into an acclaimed six-part television drama for BBC3, Just Act Normal, first broadcast in 2025.A play that is as humane as it is savage... as funny as it is alarming. It is written with as much warmth as it is with truth. Its funny and theatrical and alert and alive. Its terrific.Simon Stephens, playwright and Chair of the Judges for the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting

A shattering and heartbreaking play, joint winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.From the moment he came into the world as the snow fell and the cold wind blew, Oscars existence has been a stagger through an underworld peopled by loners and losers. Hes aching to piece it together, but the figures that clot his life are unwilling to fix him when theyre unable to fix themselves.Oscar must discover if a bird with a broken wing can learn to fly, or is destined to stay earthbound for ever.Andrew Sheridans play Winterlong was joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It was first staged at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2011.

Is there even a word for "non-binary" in Tamil? How is Amma meant to get me, if I dont exist in her language?A Tamil teenager is preparing for their period party a coming-of-age ritual meant to mark womanhood. But Krish isnt a girl. And this celebration feels more like the start of a never-ending performance. As expectations mount, Krish decides to take control. With help from their best friend Brenavee and a growing chosen family, Krish imagines the degendered party of their dreams.Set in 2010, in the aftermath of the Tamil genocide, Gayathiri Kamalakanthans play Period Parrrty is at once a story of survival and a trans Tamil rom-com for the ages. Nominated for the Tony Craze Award, it was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in 2025 as a coproduction between Soho Theatre and Kali Theatre Company.

1980s Ireland. Five sisters, bound together under their mothers watchful eye, spend their lives longing for escape, power and the one local eligible bachelor.Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, BÁN is a reworking of Lorcas The House of Bernarda Alba. Carys D. Coburns play was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.

A woman looking for her child is lied to. An artist pitches a memorial that is never built. A landlord raises rents. And thousands of children disappear.Absent The Wrong is an intimate and sweeping play by Carys D. Coburn about seventy years of Irish adoptees and their search for answers. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre as part of the 2022 Dublin Theatre Festival, where it was named Best New Production.

Dormant Sky: "What if you believe youre seeing the sky, but even the sky is an illusion?"After the collapse of Earth, Kael Mirror lives beneath a vast dome on Mars, in the immaculate colony of Mars Unum clean, safe and perfectly regulated. He conforms to the system. He falls in love with Solena, an educator with deep faith in Mars Unum. But when Kael begins to notice the first cracks in reality, he embarks on a dangerous path filled with doubt, betrayal, and forbidden questions. Is Mars Unum truly salvation or a cage? While micro-drones and control officers monitor every move, Kael must decide: risk the truth or preserve the illusion he has always known. What he uncovers shakes not only his own existence but the foundation of an entire civilization. And what if truth itself is not freedom? A haunting, dystopian science fiction novel about truth, deception, and the courage to look beyond the sky.

Wallenstein, Volume Two The Piccolomini marks the dramatic turning point in Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein trilogy. Written in 1799, it follows Wallensteins Camp and delves into the psychological and political tensions that drive the empires most powerful general toward rebellion. Whereas the first volume presented the broad social landscape of war, The Piccolomini narrows the focus to the intricate interplay of ambition, loyalty, and deception among the leaders of the imperial army.The central conflict revolves around Albrecht von Wallenstein, commander of the imperial forces, who begins to waver between allegiance to the Emperor and his own growing desire for autonomy. Schiller portrays him as a deeply complex figure visionary yet indecisive, proud yet tormented by doubt. Around him gathers a circle of allies and enemies whose motives are as ambiguous as his own. Among these figures, Octavio Piccolomini emerges as the embodiment of loyal service to the Emperor, while his son Max Piccolomini becomes a tragic intermediary, torn between filial obedience and his love for Wallensteins daughter, Thekla.The Piccolomini is structured as a political and moral chess game. Through scenes of diplomatic intrigue and intimate dialogue, Schiller explores the slow unraveling of trust. Wallensteins officers hesitate, his subordinates question his loyalty, and imperial spies close in. The plays tension derives not from open conflict but from the silent erosion of faith the moment when ideals collapse under the weight of ambition and fear.At its heart, The Piccolomini is a study of divided loyalties. Maxs inner struggle mirrors that of his commander: both men seek integrity in a world ruled by deceit. His tragic love for Thekla humanizes the plays political drama, giving it an emotional depth that balances its intellectual rigor.Through this volume, Schiller deepens his meditation on freedom, moral responsibility, and destiny. He shows how Wallensteins greatness and downfall stem from the same source his belief that he can command both history and fate. The Piccolomini thus serves as the moral and emotional bridge between the panoramic realism of Wallensteins Camp and the tragic culmination of Wallensteins Death, combining historical grandeur with profound psychological insight.

Wallenstein, Volume One marks the beginning of Friedrich Schillers monumental dramatic trilogy about ambition, loyalty, and betrayal during the Thirty Years War. Written between 1798 and 1799, the trilogy comprising Wallensteins Camp, The Piccolomini, and Wallensteins Death explores the rise and tragic downfall of the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein, a historical figure whose pursuit of power leads him into fatal conflict with the very empire he once served.Volume One, Wallensteins Camp, serves as a vivid prologue to the main drama. Rather than focusing on the general himself, Schiller depicts the life and atmosphere within his army encampment. Through a mosaic of voicessoldiers, peasants, officers, and camp followers the play captures the social and moral disarray of a Europe consumed by war. The rough humor, greed, and cynicism of the camp stand in stark contrast to the ideals of honor and loyalty that are soon to be tested in the main action. This first volume paints a broad tableau of wars corruption and the breakdown of unity within the imperial forces.Behind the seemingly chaotic scenes of military life, Schiller introduces the central theme that will dominate the later volumes: the tension between personal ambition and political duty. Wallenstein, though not yet on stage, is already present as a looming figureadmired, feared, and suspected. The camps gossip and rumors reveal the complex web of alliances and betrayals surrounding him, setting the stage for the psychological and moral conflicts that will define the trilogy.Friedrich Schiller (17591805), one of Germanys greatest dramatists and philosophers, combined historical realism with profound ethical inquiry. Alongside Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , he shaped the ideals of Weimar Classicism. In Wallenstein, Schiller transforms a historical episode into a meditation on freedom, destiny, and the moral costs of political power. Volume One establishes this world with a sweeping sense of realism and prepares the reader for the tragic grandeur that unfolds in the later parts of the trilogy.

Id like you to promise me that youre not going to try and set yourself on fire again.Its 3 a.m. and Brigids phone rings. Her brother Niall is by the river with a plastic bag and lighter fluid. Sometimes being there for people you love is very, very difficult.Little Brother is a darkly comic play about sibling love, self-destruction, and what it means to save someone who doesnt want to be saved. Set in modern-day Belfast, it asks what happens when the systems designed to help us fall short, and love is doing more heavy lifting than it should.Winner of the 2024 Verity Bargate Award, Eoin McAndrews play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Emma Jordan.A masterfully crafted, heart-wrenching play... a rare gem Anupama Chandrasekhar, Verity Bargate Award judgeGreat theatricality, humour and compassion. It stayed with me long after I had finished reading Moira Buffini, Verity Bargate Award judge

iGirlStylishly, mysteriously, and with a soaring imagination, Marina Carr has upended the definition of feminism.Independent on SundayGirl on an AltarMesmerisingly compelling . . . Carrs words are a delight to hear, even at their most bleak. Bracingly good.Evening StandardAudrey or SorrowAll facets of Marina Carrs precious mineral are on display in this startling play.Irish TimesTo the LighthouseGloriously ambitious and inventive . . . Woolf and Carr are an inspired match, the Irish playwright detecting the absolute truths of Woolfs work with laser-sharp focus and mining them to their fullest effect. Irish ExaminerThis collection also includes Gilgamesh, Carrs adaptation of the ancient Sumerian epic, a bold exploration of its enduring themes of power, love, mortality and our ruinous relationship to the natural world.

I am remembering something and becoming something all at once.In a last-ditch attempt to be happy and sane, Bryony uproots her life to go and live with her young son in a tumbledown cottage in the wilderness. Bryony Kimmingss play Bog Witch is about being the least likely eco-convert, the last person to let go of their capitalist trappings. It explores what happens when ordering things online, drinking booze and coffee, and stuffing your face with Deliveroo no longer brings happiness. Have we been disconnected from our ecosystems for too long? This is the story not of dropping out but of plugging back in, and one that changes absolutely everything.A spellbinding play by an acclaimed artist renowned for her tearjerking and hilarious autobiographical theatre creations, Bog Witch was premiered at Soho Theatre Walthamstow in 2025, co-produced by Avalon and Tellus Studio, and co-directed by Kimmings and Francesca Murray-Fuentes.Kimmings is an artist of exceptional integrity, compassion, imagination and gutsGuardian