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MacDonald: Plays Two
Includes the plays De Sade Show, Persons Unknown and Salto Moltale A second series of plays, originally written for and performed by the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.
The Ice House
A drama of sexual jealousy between three characters: a successful writer, his wife and his male secretary. The play dramatically reveals the side effects of sexual fantasy as an aphrodisiac.
MacDonald: Plays One
Includes the plays Summit Conference, Chinchilla and Webster Three plays first performed by the Citizens Theatre Company, Glasgow, later with further acclaimed productions including the West End and Broadway. Rober David MacDonald has created imaginary worlds, stylish, witty and frightening: a fictitious meeting between the mistresses of Hitler and Mussolini; the backstage world of the playwright John Webster; and the rarified atmosphere of the Diaghilev ballet.
Brittanicus
An Almeida Theatre production that opened at the Albery Theatre with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens, and then played for a season on Broadway. This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero’s tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos.
Plays
Webster; Summit Conference; Chinchilla; De Sade Show. A memorial volume featuring four of the acclaimed playwright's works following his death earlier this year.
In Quest of Conscience
Adapted by Robert David MacDonald from Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness "Robert David MacDonald’s In Quest of Conscience, based on Gitta Sereny’s Into That Darkness, a record of her interviews with death camp commandant Franz Stangl, takes it for granted that the Holocaust was a shocking crime against humanity; what it wants to know, with an urgency amounting to desperation, is how it happened, and how it can be prevented from happening again." - Joyce Macmillan, Scotland on Sunday "Stangl... bureaucrat of death who administered as massive an evil as the Holocaust in the same routine spirit in which he would have administered butter rationing ... What manner of man can be responsible fo...
The Robbers
The Robbers (1781) was written in great secrecy under the prison-like conditions of Württenberg's Karlsschule: Karl, the son of a count, is disinherited through the machinations of his brother Franz, and, turning his back on a social order he finds unjust and corrupt, becomes the leader of a band of robbers.
Tasso/Clavigo
Goethe's classical verse play Tasso (1790) examines, in his own words, 'the disproportion of talent to life' and the predicament of the artist at odds with the world around him. In Clavigo (1774), a play which Goethe claimed only took him a week to write, we find the first of the double-portraits which culminates in two souls wrestling for dominion in the breast of Faust. Both these translations were premiered at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
Faust: Parts One and Two
The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on this poetic drama in bursts from his twenties until the end of his life. He reshaped the perpetually fascinating legend, probing the nature and process of human striving and questioning the assumed divisins between the forces of good and evil. His Faust has become a landmark in world literature. Robert David MacDonald's translation of Faust, used in acclaimed productions in Scotland (Glasgow Citizens') and England (Lyric Hammersmith), offers access to the play in the English language for readers and playgoers alike and opens up the extraordinary range and pace of Goethe's language, rhythms, imagery and ideas, without sacrificing any of the play's humour. The Open University has adopted the translation as a set book for the course entitled 'From Enlightenment to Romanticism'.
