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...ver the TV and is distorted when traversing through a partner’s personal tragedy.

...y had to fight for anything or to want for anything until experiencing the tragedy of lost love. Matthew Lyne & Richard Watkins truly believable ‘too long t

...towards a fragile reconciliation between the pub couple, as their own dark tragedy is revealed. All these characters are linked by the bar, but also by their

A cynical play of family greed and revenge not unlike a Greek classical tragedy. Set in the 1900s, the wealthy Hubbard family steal, deceive and plot again

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s first great tragedy. It tells the story of the conspiracy to kill Caesar, his assassination, an [[Category:Tragedy]]

...y live are indestructible, giving the whole play an optimism which softens tragedy. The play is full of joy and laughter as well as suppressed passion.

...sical suspense drama between dream and reality, life and death, comedy and tragedy. Schmitt's play is another desperate quest as well as a variation on the no

...few of us actually understand the hidden twists and turns of this complex tragedy.

Shakespeare's classic tragedy is a hugely challenging and rewarding piece of theatre, ideally suited to t

...the adults revert to children in their attempts to deal with the greatest tragedy - their lives.

The plot could be simplistically stated as a 'poor little rich girl' tragedy but the subtleties of Miss Julie's character as she ranges from willful pro

The play is full of surprises and the tragedy of the situation is offset by a fairly steady tone of burlesque and farce.

...tment, is gripping stuff, and paced with all the deliberation of gathering tragedy. Mike Mattey plays the arduous and taxing role of Eddie, torn between famil ...rice, bewildered by the gathering storms but unable to prevent the ensuing tragedy. Its agent, Rodolpho's brother Marco, is played by Brian Scoltock in what i

...le of passion and retribution in colonial Africa under Queen Victoria. The tragedy was compellingly directed by John Woodroofe.

...those dark days of 1944 to follow comedy, drama and in one case eventual tragedy, as the girls of B Company A.T.S. come to grips with the Great British mili

...one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays”, since it is neither comedy nor tragedy, but uses elements of both genres to focus on its themes of morality and hy

Greek is based on Sophocles' tragedy of Oedipus, who, Berkoff writes, 'found a city in the grip of a plague and

...magination they will be well prepared for life. In many ways the book is a tragedy, as Dickens describes the slow destruction of Gradgrind's daughter, Louisa,

...his own efforts he raised French comedy too the height attained by French tragedy. He rescued it from the domain of farce and in his hands it became a vehic

...cast acted with absolute conviction as they veered from the most harrowing tragedy to pitch black humour; Tom Hancock's solo piece about the death and funeral

...ar will modern humans go to exact revenge? This poetic play draws on Greek Tragedy and South African folklore to create a powerful portrayal of modern relatio

Macbeth, first performed in 1606, is William Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is one of his darkest and most powerful works. Shakespeare's source for the tragedy is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff and Duncan in Holinshe

Funny, racey, full of pathos and tragedy, definitely not a show to miss.

...as become a modern classic that combines romance, humour and heartbreaking tragedy. ...y. We’ve had to bring out the humour of the play and also the underlying tragedy of some of the characters.

...stablishing that both John and Michael had died in the First World War - a tragedy that Wendy was still not reconciled to. For this, the actor playing Mrs Dar

The other challenge has been treading the line between comedy and tragedy. I hope we’ve achieved it through a delicate understanding of the play by

A musical tragedy of the revenge of a barber badly mistreated by almost everyone. The action

...the humour of nonsensical banter to survive. Comedy is never far from the tragedy and pathos of their existence, and hope is rarely lost. This entertaining a

...uable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best

...ived and worked in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Miller was keen to write a dramatic tragedy, but originally wrote a shorter, quite stark, drama which was performed in '''You mentioned the parallels with Greek tragedy - what themes does the play explore?'''