The Lion and the Jewel is a play of the Nigerian playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. The play comprises three scenes. It was performed…
Stolen is an Australian play written by Jane Harrison in the year 1998. It focuses on the lives of five Aboriginals who were taken away…
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is a Canadian drama authored by George Ryga in 1967. It is one of the most significant and influential plays…
‘Tughlaq’ is a largely acquainted historical play by the popular Indian playwright Girish Karnad, first published in 1964 in Kannada and then translated into English (by Karnad himself).
‘Evam Indrajit’ is a three-act play by the Padmasri Award winning writer Badal Sircar. One of the best examples for the genre of ‘Absurd Drama’ by an Indian playwright
‘Bali : The Sacrifice’ is a play written by Girish Karnad in Kannada as ‘Hittina Hunja’ in 1966. The story is taken from Jain mythology.
Yayati is an excerpt from Mahabharata, the great Indian epic. Yayati is a topsy-turvy tale of King Yayati that dwells on his obsession with lust and sex and how he is cursed to premature old age for his infidelity.
Ned Kelly by Douglas Stewart is a play partly in verse written in 1940s. Originally staged in 1956 by the Elizabethan Theatre Company, the drama is set in historical context revolving around Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly.
Larins Sahib by Gurcharan Das, published in 1970, is a historical drama that focuses on the political events in Punjab during 1840s.
‘The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore’ is a two-act play with no scenes to divide between the actions. No lack of lucidity is there however as…