Find Drama for Students articles and WSA Library books with plays written by the playwrights listed below, from these countries:
China | Ghana | Guatemala |
India | Japan | Mexico |
Nigeria | South Africa | Venezuela |
Also see:
Digital Theatre Plus - films of leading theatre productions
Drama Online - films of National Theatre productions
Writers with plays in the WSA library are marked with:
Kobo Abe ( 1924 - 1993 )
Ama Ata Aidoo ( 1942 - )
Emilio Carballido ( 1925 - )
John Pepper Clark ( 1935 - )
Athol Fugard ( 1932 - )
Moisés Kaufman ( 1963 - )
Zeami Motokiyo ( 1363 - c. 1443 )
Carlos Solórzano ( 1922 - )
Wole Soyinka ( 1934 - )
Rabindranath Tagore ( 1861 - 1941 )
Gao Xingjian ( 1940 - )
Includes 'The Man Who Turned into a Stick' by Kobo Abe: Two hippies come across a stick. The stick is without meaning to them until two individuals appear with great interest in the stick and offer to purchase it from them. These individuals turn out to be agents from hell given the task of surveying what objects the dead turn into.The dead man, trapped inside the stick, is left alone for eternity.
Includes 'Izutsu' ('The Well Curb') by Zeami Motokiyo: A traveling priest stops at the Ariwara Temple where a beautiful woman appears offering water and flowers at the grave of the ancient poet Ariwara no Narihira. She tells of the relationship of Narihira and the daughter of Ki no Aritsune, known as the “well curb lady”, and finally reveals that she is, in fact, the spirit of that woman. She disappears and after the priest prays for her, she reappears wearing the costume of Narihira. She dances, and then vanishes at dawn
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