Amadeus is the most talked about play in many years. In England it won both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the best play of the year.aAmadeus is the story of Salieri's war against God for making him mediocre, for implanting in him a desire to serve as a composer and then making his service seem shameful in his own ears. The play is centrally ...(展开全部)

Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning. The first act takes place in Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes his ideals on his family and the natives. Betty, his wife, is played by a man because she wants to be what men want her to be;...(展开全部)

Peter Saville is arguably the most influential graphic designer of his generation. Best known for his seminal record covers for Joy Division and New Order and as the co-founder of legendary independent music label Factory Records, Saville has created designs for fashion, advertising, and art. The intensity and timelessness of his work has ensured his cult status for twenty-five...(展开全部)

作者简介 彼得.谢弗（Peter Shaffer 1926- ）英国戏剧家。《群马》一剧使他为美国观众所熟悉。他创作的《五指练习》、《私人的耳朵和公众的眼睛》、《追赶太阳的国王》、《黑色喜剧》也获得成功。在《上帝的宠儿》这出戏里，他给我们描绘的莫扎特（基于其深厚的研究），也许将毁掉这位作曲家在人们心目中的形象，他不再是一个坐在纲琴键上的瓷娃娃……这个故事绝非是一个“谋杀”之谜，也不仅仅是两个奇人之间的过招，而更多的是描写天才的实质，一个动辄出错、喜欢幻想、脆弱潦倒的人，源源不断地写出历史上最美妙的乐章，而另一个专一、聪明、成功的人，却除了平庸之作外一无所成…… 许多年来，在英国和美国，《上帝的宠儿》是人们谈论最多的一部戏剧。在英国，它获得“晚间标准戏剧奖”和为年度最佳戏剧所设的“剧评奖”。它还使著名的大不列颠国家剧院享有独一无二的巨大成功。198...(展开全部)

作者简介 彼得.谢弗（Peter Shaffer 1926- ）英国戏剧家。《群马》一剧使他为美国观众所熟悉。他创作的《五指练习》、《私人的耳朵和公众的眼睛》、《追赶太阳的国王》、《黑色喜剧》也获得成功。在《上帝的宠儿》这出戏里，他给我们描绘的莫扎特（基于其深厚的研究），也许将毁掉这位作曲家在人们心目中的形象，他不再是一个坐在纲琴键上的瓷娃娃……这个故事绝非是一个“谋杀”之谜，也不仅仅是两个奇人之间的过招，而更多的是描写天才的实质，一个动辄出错、喜欢幻想、脆弱潦倒的人，源源不断地写出历史上最美妙的乐章，而另一个专一、聪明、成功的人，却除了平庸之作外一无所成…… 许多年来，在英国和美国，《上帝的宠儿》是人们谈论最多的一部戏剧。在英国，它获得“晚间标准戏剧奖”和为年度最佳戏剧所设的“剧评奖”。它还使著名的大不列颠国家剧院享有独一无二的巨大成功。198...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn’t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war a...(展开全部)

Yes, Minister, and the equally successful sequel Yes, Prime Minister captured a niche in the political consciousness of the nation. First broadcast thirty years ago, the original writers of these classic series have reunited to create a bang up to date Yes, Prime Minister for the stage. Spin, blackberries, sexed-up dossiers, sleaze, global warming and a country on the brink of ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences--mortality--while she also probes...(展开全部)

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time and the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in l...(展开全部)

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pup...(展开全部)