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Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2014 production of The Tempest, Shakespeare's magical romantic comedy, directed by Tony Taccone. This stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the OSF cast, is a must-listen.

Gegen den Willen des unbarmherzigen Statthalters Kreon bestattet Antigone, Tochter des Ödipus, ihren Bruder Polyneikes. Doch mit dieser trotzigen Tat und ihrer Reuelosigkeit löst sie eine Katastrophe aus, die unweigerlich ihr eigenes Leben kostet. Ein klassisches Drama, das bis heute nichts von seiner gesellschaftlichen Brisanz verloren hat...

Die "Metamorphosen" - Verwandlungsgeschichten - des Publius Ovidius Naso gehören zum Grundbestand abendländischer Kultur...

Liebe, Macht und Wahnsinn - darum drehen sich die großen Tragödien von William Shakespeare. Anlässlich seines 450. Geburtstages erscheinen nun die vier wichtigsten Shakespeare-Stücke in grandiosen Hörspieladaptionen. Sie versammeln die großen Stimmen der 60er bis 80er Jahre: Zu hören sind unter vielen anderen Bernhard Minetti in der Rolle des König Lear und Christiane Hörbiger als Hamlets Mutter.

Menschen entstehen aus Schlamm und Steinen, Nymphen werden zu Sträuchern, übermütige Jünglinge stürzen auf ihrem Himmelsflug ab, ein altes Ehepaar nimmt die Gestalt von Bäumen an... Die Rede ist u. a. von Pyrrha und Deucalion, Daphne und Apoll, Daedalus und Ikarus, Philemon und Baucis. Hier ist der ganze ausufernde Mythenschatz der Antike versammelt.

The day before the rebellion of the Earl of Essex in London, the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed upon commission Richard II, a play wherein Bolingbroke might be taken for Essex and King Richard for Queen Elizabeth. Amazing Insecurity presents two scenes from that performance, as revised by F. L. Light in Sophoclean English classicized. This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances.

Edward Stokes, from one the wealthiest families of Philadelphia, often impoverished himself in the illicit casinos of New York City. Associated with James Fisk in a business and cohabiting with Fisk’s former mistress, he contrived with her to bring various suits for monetary awards against the Prince of Erie. When Stokes was indicted for blackmail on a charge by Fisk, he declared, "This is the end!" This drama is part of the Gouldium, a series of plays on the life and times of Jay Gould.

Spektakl' "Otcy i deti" po motivam odnoimennogo romana russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva. Konflikt pokolenij. Glavnye geroi Arkadij Kirsanov i Evgenij Bazarov - absoljutno raznye po mirovozzreniju ljudi. V to vremja, kak pervyj bolee sklonen opirat'sja na mnenie starshego pokolenija, vtoroj sovershenno otricaet ego. I korit svoego prijatelja za izlishnjuju mjagkotelost', schitaja chto tot nahoditsja pod sil'nym vlijaniem svoih otca i djadi, vremja kotoryh, po ego mneniju, proshlo…

Radiospektakl' "Burmistr" po motivam odnoimennogo rasskaza russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva iz cikla "Zapiski ohotnika". Glavnyj geroj rasskaza, Arkadij Pavlovich Penochkin - obrazovannyj pomeshhik s evropejskim loskom, u nego mjagkij golos, izyskannye manery, no pod jetoj licemernoj maskoj skryvaetsja zhestokij krepostnik. On ne pozvolit udarit' lakeja, a tol'ko dast rasporjazhenie vysech' provinivshegosja.

Radiospektakl' "Zavtrak u predvoditelja" po odnoimennoj p'ese russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva. Predvoditel' dvorjanstva priglashaet na zavtrak rodstvennikov - brata i sestru - kotorye uzhe mnogo let ne mogu podelit' dostavsheesja im po nasledstvu imenie. Cel' vstrechi - primirit' vrazhdujushhie storon i postarat'sja reshit' vopros poljubovno i mirno.

Radiokompozicija po motivam sobranija novell "Dekameron" ital'janskogo pisatelja Dzhovanni Bokkachcho, odnoj iz samyh znamenityh knig rannego ital'janskogo Renessansa, napisannoj priblizitel'no v 1352-1354 gody. Bol'shinstvo novell jetoj knigi posvjashheno teme ljubvi, nachinaja ot ejo jeroticheskogo i zakanchivaja tragicheskim aspektami. Struktura sochinenija dvojaka - ispol'zuetsja »ramochnaja kompozicija« so vstavnymi novellami.

Lady Windermere's Fan is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs. Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for another lover. Or does she?

Professor Megan Lewis of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst takes us on an engaging journey through the history of theater in the 20th century. She explores some of the century's early movements such as Symbolism, Expressionism, and Dada, which arose amid political turmoil and quickly began to fuel rapid change in the way playwrights, directors, and actors where approaching theater.

This drama follows the myth of Iphigenia at Aulis, where she is subject to human sacrifice by her father Agamemnon. He draws her and Clytemnestra, her mother, thither with a promise of marriage to Achilles. The necessities of sacrifice are both in dialogue and in choral poetry weighed and judged. This play concludes either in an epiphany of wisdom or of violence. A form for tragedy in English, distinguished by seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances, is established in this play.

Bednost' ne porok (pervonachal'noe nazvanie "Gordym Bog protivitsja") - komedija v trjoh dejstvijah Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Ostrovskogo. Napisana v 1853 godu. Napechatana otdel'nym izdaniem v nachale 1854 g. Dejstvie proishodit v * gorode, v dome kupca Torcova, vo vremja Svjatok. Istorija ljubvi prikazchika Miti i Ljuby Torcovoj razvorachivaetsja na fone zhizni kupecheskogo doma. Ostrovskij v ocherednoj raz voshitil svoih poklonnikov zamechatel'nym znaniem mira i udivitel'no jarkim jazykom.

Les - komedija v pjati dejstvijah russkogo dramaturga Aleksandra Ostrovskogo 1870 goda. Dejstvie proishodit v pomest'e pomeshhicy Gurmyzhskoj, kotoraja po svoej vole vershit sud'by zavisjashhih ot nee ljudej. Ona prodaet prinadlezhashhij ej les potomu, chto ej nuzhny den'gi - dlja bednyh - po ee sobstvennym slovam. Odnako dovol'no bystro stanovitsja jasno, chto den'gi dlja Gurmyzhskoj - prezhde vsego vozmozhnost' kupit' sebe molodogo vozljublennogo.

Volki i ovcy - komedijnaja p'esa v pjati dejstvijah Aleksandra Ostrovskogo. P'esa napisana v 1875 godu. Dejstvie komedii proishodit v nebol'shom provincial'nom russkom gorodke v 1870-e gody. Molodaja, krasivaja i bogataja vdova Kupavina mechtaet o schast'e i ljubvi. Ona ne podozrevaet, kakie strasti kipjat vokrug nejo. Mnogim ne daet pokoja ejo bogatstvo, ogromnye lesnye ugod'ja, krasivejshee imenie.

Bez viny vinovatye - p'esa A. N. Ostrovskogo (1881 - 1883), klassicheskij obrazec melodramy. V centre vnimanija Ostrovskogo - harakter sil'noj i volevoj zhenshhiny, sposobnoj duhovno voskresnut' posle tjazhjolyh udarov sud'by. Vse jeti gody (a posle 1 akta proshlo 17 let) ona zhila s postojannoj vnutrennej bol'ju. No ona smogla vystojat', nesmotrja na vse napasti, i realizovat' sebja v tvorchestve. Ona stala izvestnoj talantlivoj aktrisoj.

Beshenye den'gi (rannie nazvanija "Kosa - na kamen'", "Ne vsjo to zoloto, chto blestit") - komedija v pjati dejstvijah Aleksandra Ostrovskogo. V jetoj p'ese, kak i v bol'shinstve svoih rabot, Ostrovskij razrabatyvaet temu krizisa dvorjanstva. Ostrovskij otmetil v dvorjanstve ego novoe otnoshenie k burzhuazii. Ono prisposablivaetsja k novomu porjadku veshhej, nekotorye ego predstaviteli stanovjatsja prizhival'shhikami burzhuazii, uchatsja u nejo novym metodam vorovstva i grabezha.

Talanty i poklonniki - komedija v chetyrjoh dejstvijah Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Ostrovskogo. Negina - populjarnaja, no bednaja molodaja aktrisa. Ejo zhenih Meluzov uchit ejo naukam i chestnoj zhizni. Knjaz' Dulebov, nadejas' ispol'zovat' ejo stesnjonnoe polozhenie, predlagaet ej stat' soderzhankoj. Aktrisa rezko otkazyvaet i vyzyvaet u Dulebova jarost' i zhelanie mesti.