Methuen Drama, 1999

World Classics

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (11), Female (2), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...A funny and surreal story of servitude and technology, R.U.R. was legendary Czech writer Karel Čapek’s first major work for the stage. In their introduction to the play, translators Peter Majer and Cathy Porter write...

Methuen Drama, 1999

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (29), Female (6), Male (23), Unassigned (0)

...The Insect Play (or Ze života hmyzu in the Czech) is an unconventional and much-celebrated satire which tells the story of myriad insects and the multi-layered and complex society which binds them; its comical allegory serves illuminate...

Methuen Drama, 1999

World Classics

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...‘The Makropulos Case (1922) [is] a tragic-comic fantasy about ageing and human mortality. There are many inspirations for this marvellous play: the Russian zoologist Professor Mechnikov’s tehories about the ageing process...

Methuen Drama, 1999

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (26), Female (0), Male (26), Unassigned (0)

...Unlike many other plays by Čapek, The White Plague is pervaded not by hope with a little nihilism, but with anguish and fear for what the future would hold. Written in the late 1930s, shortly before the Munich Agreement delivered much...