Category Archives: Drama

Audiobook: Hindle Wakes

Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle’s richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of

Audiobook: History Plays for the Grammar Grades

A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young – ranging

Audiobook: Enemy of the People

A small coastal town in Norway is experiencing an economic boom from its newly found

Audiobook: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

One of the most shocking plays produced in England during the reign of Charles I,

Audiobook: John Gabriel Borkman

John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate play of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in

Audiobook: Father

The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is

Audiobook: He and She

A feminist drama that gained considerable critical and commercial success when it originally ran on

Audiobook: There are Crimes and Crimes

Maurice, a playwright on the brink of success, feels so confident in his professional future

Audiobook: Mary Tudor

If Queen Mary I of England wants something, you’d better not try and stop her,

Audiobook: Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged

Audiobook: Melting Pot

Russian-Jew David Quixano has come to America after surviving a pogrom which has killed his

Audiobook: Verge

This play is Glaspell’s recognition of the way in which Victorian society left some women

Audiobook: Return of Peter Grimm

“Mr. Belasco has written the following account of “Peter’s” evolution: [ ] The play, “The

Audiobook: Rada; A Belgian Christmas Eve

This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play

Audiobook: Camp of Wallenstein

This is the first play of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein Trilogy. Set in a Bohemian camp

Audiobook: Dream Play

A Dream Play (Swedish: Ett drömspel) was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August

Audiobook: Time is Not Yet Ripe

Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (1878 – 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist and playwright. He

Audiobook: Exiles

Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It

Audiobook: R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power’s president, is a woman on

Audiobook: Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society was Ibsen’s first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick

Audiobook: Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)

One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with “The Master Builder,”

Audiobook: Saxon and Norman

Edward the Confessor is very weak and will die soon. But with no son to

Audiobook: Thirteenth Chair

Your best friend has been murdered, stabbed in the back, and the police haven’t been

Audiobook: Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)

At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the

Audiobook: Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles

Freely adapted from Lord Byron’s Fragment of a Novel, J.R. Planché’s The Vampire; or, the

Audiobook: Saint Joan: Preface

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan

Audiobook: Broken Hearts

Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame also wrote non-musical plays without Sullivan as a partner.

Audiobook: Life is a Dream

Of all Calderon’s works, “Life is a Dream” may be regarded as the most universal

Audiobook: Dan’l Druce, Blacksmith

A drama from the Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. Pursued by the Parliamentary Army after

Audiobook: Touch and Go

A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They