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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices....
By: Sophocles
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Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck
- Theatre Classics
- By: Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Mulrine
- Narrated by: Janet Fullerlove, Sean Connelly, Denny Hodge, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based....
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Excellent play, Very disappointing production.
- By Neal on 28-02-15
By: Henrik Ibsen, and others
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Much Ado About Nothing
- A BBC Radio Shakespeare Production
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Tennant, Samantha Spiro, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own....
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Classic Version
- By Ms on 23-12-12
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and More
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Sophocles' The Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, are brought to life by celebrated writers, poets, and playwrights....
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A great selection of adaptations.
- By Amazon Customer on 15-03-24
By: Sophocles
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SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to An Inspector Calls (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
- By: Gil Maine, J. B. Priestley
- Narrated by: Full-Cast Drama
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Combined for great value! The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options....
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Brilliant study tool
- By Karen Zea on 03-04-15
By: Gil Maine, and others
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Arsenic and Old Lace
- By: Joseph Kesselring
- Narrated by: Joseph Kent
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar....
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Flawed but passable reading
- By BobBr on 15-09-21
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices....
By: Sophocles
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Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck
- Theatre Classics
- By: Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Mulrine
- Narrated by: Janet Fullerlove, Sean Connelly, Denny Hodge, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based....
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Excellent play, Very disappointing production.
- By Neal on 28-02-15
By: Henrik Ibsen, and others
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Much Ado About Nothing
- A BBC Radio Shakespeare Production
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Tennant, Samantha Spiro, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own....
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Classic Version
- By Ms on 23-12-12
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and More
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Sophocles' The Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, are brought to life by celebrated writers, poets, and playwrights....
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A great selection of adaptations.
- By Amazon Customer on 15-03-24
By: Sophocles
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SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to An Inspector Calls (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
- By: Gil Maine, J. B. Priestley
- Narrated by: Full-Cast Drama
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Combined for great value! The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options....
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Brilliant study tool
- By Karen Zea on 03-04-15
By: Gil Maine, and others
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Arsenic and Old Lace
- By: Joseph Kesselring
- Narrated by: Joseph Kent
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar....
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Flawed but passable reading
- By BobBr on 15-09-21
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Tartuffe
- By: Molière, Richard Wilbur - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Bedford, JB Blanc, Daniel Blinkoff, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church....
By: Molière, and others
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Julius Caesar
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Andrew Buchan, Sean Barrett
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most compelling Roman plays. The plot against Caesar and the infamous assassination scene make for unforgettable listening....
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Great performance
- By Mrs W. on 25-04-16
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Vlada Chernornirdik
- Narrated by: Josh Radnor, Stacy Keach, Martin Jarvis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth....
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Great Performances
- By Maddie on 07-11-19
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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Three Sisters
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Chekhov’s masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm....
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Passable production
- By woodwild on 30-05-16
By: Anton Chekhov
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The Oscar Wilde Collection
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature....
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Excellent performances of superb plays
- By Amazon Customer on 13-02-17
By: Oscar Wilde
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Three Greek Tragedies
- By: Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Blood, gore, thrills, chills, and romance abound in these plays by three of the great Greek authors....
By: Euripides, and others
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Penelope
- By: William Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Jeff Moon, David Prickett, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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In this elegant comedy of manners, Penelope O'Farrell discovers that her husband has been having an affair with an attractive married woman....
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Matt Montanez
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895....
By: Oscar Wilde
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Salomé
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, James Marsters, Andre Sogliuzzo, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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A dark tale of hubris, lust, and self-destruction… as told by a man who famously fell prey to those same impulses in his own life....
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Oscar Wilde
- By Mrs W. on 03-01-18
By: Oscar Wilde
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Trifles
- By: Susan Glaspell
- Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett, Amy Madigan, Sam McMurray, and others
- Length: 28 mins
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Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband....
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I listened to this for a study of ‘Trifles.’
- By Jezebella on 27-01-20
By: Susan Glaspell
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School for Wives
- By: Richard Wilbur - translator, Molière
- Narrated by: William Brown, Wellesley Chapman, Joe Damour, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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In this biting comedy of errors, the hapless Arnolphe is undone by his own double dealing and double standards....
By: Richard Wilbur - translator, and others
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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TN
- By grandma on 27-03-21
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Pygmalion
- By: Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....
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I LOVE ❤️PYGMALION
- By Highlight on 23-08-17
By: Bernard Shaw
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Faust: Parts I & II
- By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement....
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I tried but it's so boring!
- By Amazon Customer on 16-09-22
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Rough Magic
- Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company
- By: Steven Adler
- Narrated by: Samuel Valor
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Steven Adler examines the dynamic life and workings of the theatre company responsible for some of the world's most compelling performances....
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Interesting book but read by a theatre novice
- By Mrs R. on 04-05-19
By: Steven Adler
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Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
- Theatre Classics
- By: Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Mulrine
- Narrated by: Caroline John, Trevor Cooper, Frank Jarvis, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Controversy and hidden pasts are suddenly and painfully exposed as wealthy widow Mrs Alving prepares to open a new orphanage in memory of her husband....
By: Henrik Ibsen, and others
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Medea
- By: Euripides
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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The story of Medea is only one part of a myth about the Argonauts' campaign. It portrays Jason joining a battle with fire-breathing bulls...
By: Euripides
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Et dukkehjem [A Doll's House]
- By: Henrik Ibsen
- Narrated by: Karsten Pharao
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Et dukkehjem er et af Ibsens mest læste og opførte dramaer. Dramaet udspiller sig i et af Københavns velhaverhjem, hvor den skønne Nora udfylder rollen som hustru og moder til perfektion....
By: Henrik Ibsen
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Death of a Salesman
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream....
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Linda Kazmarek, as Linda, is outstanding.
- By AlanKS on 21-12-23
By: Arthur Miller
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dramatised)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, Sarah Woodward
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text....
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A lovely performance
- By Andrew on 13-04-13
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Measure for Measure
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Royal Shakespeare Company
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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A performance of the tragi-comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company....
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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference....
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Good representation
- By Anonymous User on 30-09-19
By: Sophocles
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Macbeth
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar....
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A great play, poorly performed/recorded
- By Jklaw on 31-12-17
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The George Bernard Shaw Collection
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Shirley Knight, Anne Heche, JoBeth Williams, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection....
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Good collection, good acting
- By muovikassi88 on 08-06-17