The making of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Fin de partie’ / ‘Endgame’ by Van Hulle, D, Weller, S

“…<p>Originally written in French and first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957, Samuel Beckett's Endgame is widely regarded as one of his most important works. …”

The making of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ / ‘La Dernière Bande’ by Van Hulle, D

“…<p>First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most important and powerful plays.…”

Polska premiera «Mieszczanina szlachcicem» w roku 1687 by Julian Lewański

“…The performance in Rydzyna may have been prepared by the royal court theatre or an amateur theater. The author supposes that it was organized upon Leszczyński’s own initiative. …”
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« Perhaps That Taste of Nothing Is What You Can Taste » : Sensory Landscapes, Absence, and Objects in Martin Crimp’s « The Country » by Maria Elena Capitani

“…When Martin Crimp’s The Country was first performed at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2000, critics focused on its Pinterian echoes, the popular motif of betrayal, as well as its attack on the rural myth, and described it as a disturbing and ambiguous play. …”
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Witnesses Inside/Outside the Stage: The Purpose Of Representing Violence In Edward Bond's Saved (1965) And Sarah Kane's Blasted (1995) Testigos Dentro/Fuera Del Escenario: El Objet... by Laura López Peña

“…In spite of the thirty years span of time between the two productions, Edward Bond's Saved and Sarah Kane's Blasted provoked a similar outburst of reactions when they first opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965 and 1995, respectively. Depicting various types of violence onstage, the two plays aim at making spectators connect different forms of cruelty so that they can be moved to react against them in real life. …”
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Anger, Faith and Bewildered Fragments of Self: The Shaping of Ethos in an Argentinean Translation of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis by Maria Laura Spoturno, Mariano Zucchi

“…Its opening took place at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London in June 2000, only a few months after Kane’s suicide at King’s College Hospital. …”
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