Luise Miller (NHB Classic Plays) - Softcover

With Poulton reuniting with director Michael Grandage to give us another electrifying, fleet-footed reading of an under-known Schiller play (Verdi's opera notwithstanding) in the mould of their West End-conquering Don Carlos...what matters is that we're given the scintillating gist of the drama its rapier-sharp wit, its whiplash cruelty, its successive body-blows of agonising dilemmas which first torment then break the two young protagonists. --The Telegraph

Mike Poulton's muscular translation is impressive, allowing us to taste fully Schiller's modern vision of romantic love and radical hopes for a world without rank. --The Stage

A rare, exquisitely well-judged and richly involving revival at the Donmar Warehouse. It's directed by Michael Grandage and presented in a version by Mike Poulton that is robustly alive both to the play's sardonic take of twisted courtly intrigue and to the fervid force of its attack on the innocence-crushing abuse of power. --The Independent

"A love story laced with indignation. . . . The language in Mike Poulton's fine version is alternately highflown and splendidly raunchy."--The Times Adapted from Friedrich Schiller's 1784 play Kabale und Liebe, a masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honor and corruption, between truth and betrayal.