Shakespeare par Hogarth Séries

'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D'Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch's daughter - and put a pound of flesh on the line. Howard Jacobson's version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.

ariation féminine et féministe sur une pièce célèbre de Shakespeare, l'une de ses premières comédies, La mégère apprivoisée Le docteur Battista vit seul avec ses deux filles depuis le décès de leur mère. Savant fou aussi sympathique que farfelu, il laisse volontiers son aînée, Kate, s'occuper de tout à la maison – et notamment de sa petite sœur, Bunny. Tout ce qu'il demande, c'est un sandwich pour son déjeuner et le moins d'intendance possible. Tout fonctionne parfaitement jusqu'au jour où Louis Battista découvre que le visa de Piotr, son jeune et brillant assistant, arrive très prochainement à expiration définitive... Pour ne pas remettre en cause son précieux rythme de travail, il imagine alors joindre l'utile à l'agréable : convaincre Kate et Piotr de se marier.

'I saw the strangest sight tonight.' New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up - light as a star - and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn't know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his? New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there's a lot they don't know about who they are and where they come from. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found.

When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assistant and longtime enemy, his production of The Tempest is canceled and he is heartbroken. Reduced to a life of exile in rural southern Ontario—accompanied only by his fantasy daughter, Miranda, who died twelve years ago—Felix devises a plan for retribution. Eventually he takes a job teaching Literacy Through Theatre to the prisoners at the nearby Burgess Correctional Institution, and is making a modest success of it when an auspicious star places his enemies within his reach. With the help of their own interpretations, digital effects, and the talents of a professional actress and choreographer, the Burgess Correctional Players prepare to video their Tempest. Not surprisingly, they view Caliban as the character with whom they have the most in common. However, Felix has another twist in mind, and his enemies are about to find themselves taking part in an interactive and illusion-ridden version of The Tempest that will change their lives forever. But how will Felix deal with his invisible Miranda’s decision to take a part in the play?

She noticed him before anyone else. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.

'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions... Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

Феликс на пике своей карьеры. Он успешный режиссер, куратор театрального фестиваля. Когда из-за козней врагов, своих бывших коллег, Феликс лишается своего места, он вынужден уехать в канадское захолустье, чтобы там зализывать раны, разговаривать с призраком своей умершей дочери Миранды и - вынашивать план мести. Местная тюрьма предлагает Феликсу преподавать заключенным, и Феликс возвращается к когда-то не реализованному плану: поставить радикально новую версию "Бури" Шекспира. А заодно и отомстить врагам. "Ведьмино отродье" - пересказ "Бури" эпохи YouTube, рэп-лирики и новой драмы в исполнении Маргарет Этвуд.

Dans une ville industrielle ravagée par la pauvreté et le crime, le nouveau préfet de police Duncan incarne l'espoir du changement. Aidé de Macbeth, le commandant de la Garde, l'unité d'intervention d'élite, il compte débarrasser la ville de ses fléaux, au premier rang desquels figure Hécate, puissant baron de la drogue. Mais c'est ne faire aucun cas des vieilles rancoeurs ou des jalousies personnelles, et des ambitions individuelles. . . qu'attise Lady, patronne du casino Inverness et ambitieuse maîtresse de Macbeth. Pourquoi ce dernier se contenterait-il de miettes quand il pourrait prendre la place de Duncan ? Elle invite alors le préfet et d'éminents politiques à une soirée organisée dans son casino. Une soirée où il faudra tout miser sur le rouge ou le noir. La loyauté ou le pouvoir. La nuit ou le sang.