Titres dans Drames et pièces de théâtre

Ten contemporary reimaginings of Ovid’s iconic tales, with star-studded casts including Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister The Roman love poet Ovid has influenced writers past and present, with his witty, sexy tales inspiring authors from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound. Included here are...

Fanny Burney's wickedly funny satire follows the trials and romantic adventures of the young and beautiful Evelina as she tries to make her way through 18th-century Britain handicapped by her three great problems: being poor, being illegitimate - and being a girl. Evelina was a raging best seller when it was first published in 1778 and is widely credited with being the first of the great British domestic novels. Burney was a direct influence on her immediate follower, Jane Austen.

Writer and director David Hare is one of England's leading political dramatists, celebrated for his many award-winning plays analysing the morality of contemporary Britain. This collection comprises some of his most acclaimed pieces, as well as a fascinating radio interview with Hare himself.

The renowned masterpiece from one of the most influential writers in history, Machiavelli "It's very, very good...an engaging exploration of one of the most influential political works ever written." - Entertainment Focus The Prince, written during the Italian Renaissance by author Niccolò...

Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.

Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past—but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the...

Eschyle est le plus ancien des trois grands tragiques grecs. Treize fois vainqueur du concours tragique, il est l'auteur d'environ 110 pièces dont sept seulement nous ont été transmises. Le théâtre d'Eschyle est essentiellement remarqué pour sa force dramatique, la tension, l'angoisse qui habite ses pièces, dont la cohérence se comprend surtout par la progression qui les reliait au sein de trilogies "liées", dont ne subsiste aujourd'hui que l'Orestie.

Nous sommes au théâtre, nous dans la salle, lui sur scène. On vient de le primer pour l'ensemble de son œuvre. Il remercie son monde. Enfin, il essaie. Et Claude Piéplu prête son inimitable voix à cet exercice de gratitude où le rire le dispute à la fureur, et dont personne ne sort indemne, surtout pas le lauréat. La fureur, la tendresse, la fausse ingénuité, la rêverie, l'ironie, l'acidité : tout y est, parfois mêlés jusqu'à l'étrange.

Cette pièce analyse l'établissement du pouvoir impérial sur les nobles dans la Rome antique, mais il s'agit bien d'une transposition de la situation au siècle de Louis XIV : pour mettre fin à la spirale de violence, la réponse se trouve dans l'apologie d'un pouvoir fort, dont la magnanimité doit être l'un des attributs.

Poème écrit en 1942 alors que Genet est incarcéré pour vol à la prison de Fresnes en 1942, et dédié à Maurice Pilorgue, jeune assassin guillotiné en 1939. Y sont développés les thèmes de l'amour entre prisonniers, de la fascination pour le beau voyou, de l'homosexualité et du peu de valeur de la vie pour un être d'exception.

L'éducation des femmes. Voilà un sujet qui, dès la Renaissance, agite les cercles scientifiques et philosophiques. La femme... Etre inférieur par nature ou par manque d'instruction ? Questionnement dont le caractère tumultueux atteint son apogée à la fin du XVIIIème siècle. Toute l'éducation des femmes ne doit-elle qu'"être relative aux hommes. Leur plaire, leur être utiles, se faire aimer et honorer d'eux, les élever jeunes, les soigner grands, les conseiller, les consoler, leur rendre la vie agréable et douce", comme le dit Rousseau ?

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: Beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.

Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved: Technology has made it so no one needs to work for a living, the social sciences ensure a smooth-running social order, and, in the name of tolerance, religious beliefs have been uprooted and eliminated except for a single holdout - a largely discredited and rapidly shrinking Catholic Church. Yet people are unhappy.

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë is a tale of passion, revenge, and tragic love set on the wild English moors. This podcast delves into the intense relationships between Heathcliff, Catherine, and the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, exploring the darker sides of human emotion and desire.

In 1912, scientist Marie Curie spent two months on the British seaside at the home of Hertha Ayrton, an accomplished mathematician, inventor, and suffragette. At the time, Curie was in the throes of a scandal in France over her affair with Paul Langevin, which threatened to overshadow the accomplishment of her second Nobel Prize. Performed by Kate Mulgrew and Francesca Faridany at the Minetta Lane Theatre, this play by Lauren Gunderson is an ode to two remarkable women.

A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel...

Découvrir l'intimité des "grands hommes" est décidément une chose exquise ! Dans cette correspondance - ou plutôt ce monologue passionné ! - l'amour de Napoléon pour sa femme Joséphine s'étale sur toute la palette des sentiments. Tour à tour sensuel, exclusif, sauvage voire brutal avant de se nuancer et de s'assagir au fil et des épreuves et des champs de Batailles ! Même à la fin, Napoléon continuera de lui témoigner de l'affection sans bornes à "sa" Joséphine ! Lues par la voix bouleversante de Pierre Fresnay, ces 33 lettres écrites entre 1795 et 1814 montrent l'intimité d'un homme dont le génie s'abandonne - sans fard - à la passion des sentiments ! A tout point de vue, ce livre audio est un document exceptionnel !

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royals. Under the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy - and civil war. These dramas chart that turbulent epoch through its royal family, from Mary, Queen of Scots to the ‘last Stuart’, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s daughter Charlotte.

Richard Burton’s voice has been digitally remastered and seamlessly mixed with an all-Welsh cast to create a magical, fresh visit to the unique but universally recognisable world of Llareggub. Richard Burton’s inimitable narration as the Narrator in the BBC’s 1963 recording of 'Under Milk Wood' was hugely acclaimed.