• Three Eritrean Plays (B), ed. Jane Plastow
  
  
• (Anonymous): Top Graduate Zhang Xie (B+)
  
  
• AIDOO, Ama Ata:
  • Anowa (B)
  • The Dilemma of a Ghost (B-)
• ALBEE, Edward: Lolita (C)
• ALI, Tariq: The New Adventures of Don Quixote (B-)
• APPARAO, Gurajada: Girls for Sale (B)
• ARISTOPHANES:
  • Birds (B+)
  • Clouds (B+)
  • Lysistrata (A-)
• AUBURN, David:
  • The Columnist (B)
  • Proof (B)
• AYCKBOURN, Alan:
  • Comic Potential (A-)
  • Communicating Doors (A-)
  • Damsels in Distress (B+):
    • GamePlan (B+)
    • FlatSpin (B)
    • RolePlay (B+)
  • Garden (B)
  • Henceforward ... (A-)
  • House (B+)
  • Intimate Exchanges (B+)
  • Things We Do for Love (B)
• BENNETT, Alan:
  • An Englishman Abroad (A-)
  • The Habit of Art (A-)
  • The History Boys (A-)
  • A Question of Attribution (A)
  • Single Spies: see An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution
• BRUCKNER, Ferdinand:
  • Criminals (B+)
  • Youth Is a Sickness (B+)
• CALDERÓN de la Barca, Pedro: Life Is a Dream (A)
• CARSON, Anne: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (A-)
• DÜRRENMATT, Friedrich: The Physicists (A-)
• EDGAR, David:
  • Pentecost (B)
  • The Shape of the Table (B)
• ENQUIST, Per Olov: The Night of the Tribades (A)
• EROFEEV, Venedikt: Walpurgis Night (B)
• FRAYN, Michael:
  • Balmoral (B)
  • Copenhagen (A)
  • Democracy (A-)
  • Matchbox Theatre (B)
• FREYTAG, Gustav: The Journalists (B)
• GIBSON, Melissa James: [sic] (B)
• GILMAN, Rebecca:
  • Blue Surge (B)
  • Boy gets Girl (B)
  • The Glory of Living (B+)
  • Spinning into Butter (B+)
• GRAY, Simon:
  • Dog Days (B+)
  • Man in a Side-Car (B-)
  • Molly (B)
  • The Rear Column (B)
• GRIBOEDOV, Alexander: Woe from Wit (B+)
• GUARE, John: A Few Stout Individuals (B-)
• HAMPTON, Christopher:
  • The Philanthropist (B+)
  • Tales from Hollywood (B+)
  • The Talking Cure (B)
  • White Chameleon (B)
• HANDKE, Peter: Till Day You Do Part (B+)
• HARE, David:
  • Amy's View (B-)
  • The Breath of Life (B-)
  • My Zinc Bed (B)
  • Stuff Happens (B+)
  • The Vertical Hour (B)
  • Via Dolorosa (B)
• HARSHA: Priyadarśikā (B)
• HERBERT, Zbigniew: Reconstruction of the Poet (B+)
• JAGADĒŚVARA Bhaṭṭāchārya: The Ocean of Mirth (B)
• JAYÁNTA Bhaṭṭa: Much Ado about Religion (B)
• JELINEK, Elfriede: Her Not All Her (A-)
• JONES, Charlotte: Humble Boy (B+)
• JOUET, Jacques: Two-Step (B+) (with Olivier Salon)
• KALIDASA:
  • Sakuntala:
    • Abhijnanasakuntalam (B) (trans. Chandra Rajan)
    • The Recognition of Sakuntala (B+) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
    • The Recognition of Shakúntala (B+) (trans. Somadeva Vasudeva)
    • Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (B+) (trans. B.S. Miller)
• KAO Ming: The Lute (B+)
• KEHLMANN, Daniel: Ghosts in Princeton (B+)
• K'UNG Shang-jen: The Peach Blossom Fan (B+)
• LI Yu:
  • A Couple of Soles (B)
  • The Fragrant Companions (B+)
• MARBER, Patrick: Closer (A-)
• McDONAGH, Martin: The Pillowman (B)
• MENANDER: Dyskolos (B)
• MICKEL, Karl: Einstein (A-)
• MULDOON, Paul:
  • Bandanna (B-)
  • Shining Brow (B+)
• MÜLLER, Heiner: Heartpiece (A+)
• NERDRUM, Odd: The Final Days of Immanuel Kant (B)
• NOTHOMB, Amélie: Human Rites (B)
• OGALI, Ogali A:
  • Adelabu (B-)
  • The Ghost of Patrice Lumumba (C)
  • Mr. Rabbit is Dead (B-)
  • Patrice Lumumba (B-)
  • Thirty Years for the Director (B-)
  • Veronica My Daughter (B-)
• PLAUTUS:
  • Amphitryon (B+)
  • The Comedy of Asses (B)
• REZA, Yasmina:
  • See the complete review's Yasmina Reza page
  • 'Art' (B)
  • Conversations after a Burial (B-)
  • The God of Carnage (B)
  • Life x 3 (B)
  • The Unexpected Man (B)
• SA'EDI, Gholamhoseyn:
  • Mirror-Polishing Storytellers (B)
  • Othello in Wonderland (B)
• SALON, Olivier: Two-Step (B+) (with Jacques Jouet)
• SAND, George: Gabriel (B-)
• SCHMIDT, Arno:
  • See the complete review's Arno Schmidt page
  • The School for Atheists (A-)
• SCHMITT, Eric-Emmanuel: Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (B+)
• SOBOL, Joshua: Soul of a Jew (B)
• SONY Labou Tansi: Parentheses of Blood (B+)
• SOYINKA, Wole: A Play of Giants (B-)
• STOPPARD, Tom:
  • See the complete review's Tom Stoppard page
  • Arcadia (A+)
  • The Coast of Utopia (A-):
    • Part I - Voyage (A-)
    • Part II - Shipwreck (B+)
    • Part III - Salvage (B+)
  • Enter a Free Man (B)
  • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (B)
  • Hapgood (B+)
  • The Invention of Love (A)
  • Jumpers (B+)
  • Night and Day (B)
  • The Real Thing (A-)
  • Rock 'n' Roll (B+)
  • See also: The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-), ed. K.E.Kelly
  • See also: Stoppard's Theatre (B), John FLEMING
• ŚŪDRAKA: The Little Clay Cart (B+)
• TAKEDA Izumo (et al.): Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy (B+)
• TONG Dik Sang: The Flower Princess (B+)
• TOUMI, Alek Baylee: Madah-Sartre (B)
• UKRAINKA, Lesia: Cassandra (B+)
• VARGAS LLOSA, Mario:
  • See the complete review's Mario Vargas Llosa page
  • Three Plays (B)
    • La Chunga (B+)
    • Kathie and the Hippopotamus (B)
    • The Young Lady from Tacna (B)
• VISHÁKHA·DATTA: Rákshasa's Ring (B+)
• VISNIEC, Matéi:
  • And Now Who's Going to Do the Dishes ? (B+)
  • Richard III Will Not Take Place (B+)
• WEDEKIND, Frank: Spring Awakening (A-)
• WEISS, Peter:
  • See the complete review's Peter Weiss page
  • Hölderlin (B+)
  • Inferno (B+)
  • The Investigation (A-)
  • Marat/Sade (A-)
  • The New Trial (B)
• WERTENBAKER, Timberlake:
  • After Darwin (B)
  • The Break of Day (C+)
  • Credible Witness (B-)
• WHITE, Patrick:
  • See the complete review's Patrick White page
  • Big Toys (B)
  • Signal Driver (B)
• WILSON Robert Anton: Wilhelm Reich in Hell (B-)

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Books about Theatre under Review

• AYCKBOURN, Alan: Conversations with Ayckbourn (with Ian Watson) (B+)
• DENING, Greg: Performances (B+) -- history as theatre
• FLEMING, John: Stoppard's Theatre (B)
• FIGUEIRA, D.M.: Translating the Orient (B+) -- The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe
• FRAYN, Michael: Celia's Secret (B+) -- behind-the-scenes joke
• GRAY, Simon:
  • An Unnatural Pursuit (B) -- theatre diary
  • Fat Chance (A-) -- theatre diary
  • How's That for Telling 'em, Fat Lady ? (B) -- theatre diary
• HARE, David: Acting Up (B-) -- acting diary
• HONEGGER, Gitta: Thomas Bernhard (B+) -- biographical study
• KELLY, Katherine (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-)
• SMITH, A.C.H.:Orghast at Persepolis (B) -- Peter Brook/Ted Hughes production
• STOPPARD, Tom: Conversations with Stoppard (with Mel Gussow) (B-)
• WECHSLER, Robert: Performing without a Stage (B-) -- translation as theatre
• WYSS, Monika (ed.): Brecht in der Kritik (-) -- reviews of Brecht's plays

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