Theater Classics

Mirele Efros, also known as "The Yiddish Queen Lear", is a sophisticated version of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin's work about honesty, decency and devotion towards family and community. Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow, whose devotion to her children even goes as far as hand-picking her eldest son's wife, makes a tragic mistake in evaluating her future daughter-in-law as giving and pious. Conflict ensnares the two in short order and a lesson about the value of piety is conveyed in the cautionary tale. Adapted in English by David Serero.

After Nadya, a 16 year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya's thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love for her, she, more than anything, wants to believe that they do not love her. Trying to emulate the unrequited love from the play, she writes a letter to Gorny, like the heroine in the play....

“Todo o mundo é um teatro”, escreveu William Shakespeare, “e homens e mulheres não passam de meros atores”. No novo audiolivro de Leandro Karnal, atores-ouvintes são convidados a dar um passeio pela própria consciência: a jornada de aprender com quem mais tem a ensinar no teatro do mundo - o criador de Hamlet. O que aprendi com Hamlet, dessa forma, revela os ensinamentos deixados pela principal peça de William Shakespeare numa combinação entre a experiência de um homem do século XVI e outro do século XXI.

The adventures of a talking wooden puppet who yearns to become a real boy.

Carl Zuckmayer liest die Szene zwischen Harras und Hartmann aus "Des Teufels General"...

Actor and comedian Kevin O'Brien performs Mark Twain's classic—and delivers four lectures analyzing the brilliance of this great American novel.

Don Candeloro war wirklich ein Künstler in seiner Art. Sein Vater war Marionettentheaterbesitzer, sein Großvater auch, und er war ebenfalls ein geborener Marionettenmann. Die Puppen waren sein Brot, seine Liebe, sein Ruhm, sein Leben, sein Alles. Alle diese Eigenschaften trugen dazu bei, dass sich die Tochter eines Gastwirtes, dessen Schenke neben seiner Bühne war, in ihn verliebte. Das Mädchen war ziemlich hässlich, aber sie hatte eine schöne, volle Stimme und sie musste sich auch ein hübsches Stückchen Geld erspart haben.

Texte von Goethe, Lessing, Shakespeare, Hofmannsthal, Diderot, Brecht, Dürrenmatt und Schiller, gelesen von Paul Hoffmann (1997)...

Berühmte Theater-Monologe u.a. aus Shakespeares "Hamlet" und "Romeo und Julia", aus Goethes "Faust", Schillers "Kabale und Liebe" und Lessings "Nathan der Weise".