Three Sisters
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Three Sisters
A late play by the famous Russian author, first published in 1901. It portrays the hopeless provincial life of the Prozorov sisters--Olga, Masha, and Irina--who yearn for excitement and glamor but whose hopes are dashed when their brother marries a woman they dislike and mortgages their house. Later on, the army garrison, whose officers provide the only glamor the sisters have known, is moved from the town, and Irina`s fiancee is killed in a duel.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
'Hiroshima Mon Amour is overwhelming... A motion picture landmark.
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The Colored Museum
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The Colored Museum
Eleven sketches, exhibits in the Colored Museum, offer a humorous and irreverent look at slavery, Black cuisine, soldiers, family life, performers, and parties
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The Hours
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The Hours
Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel, which is inspired by Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, tells three simultaneous stories. One is about Virginia Woolf while she is writing the novel in the mid-1920s. In another, a woman reading MRS. DALLOWAY in 1949 fights off despair. In the third, a woman named Clarissa (whose nickname is Mrs. Dalloway) prepares a party for a friend in the late 1990s. The main action of each part of the novel takes place over the course of one day--as MRS. DALLOWAY does. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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The Same Sea
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The Same Sea
Albert Danon, a widower still grieving for his wife, develops an ambiguous relationship with his son's girlfriend, much to the chagrin of a woman his own age who loves him. Oz's novel eschews his usual political themes to explore matters of the heart in both poetic prose and prose-like poetry. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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Postcards from the Edge
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Postcards from the Edge
Carrie Fisher`s first novel is about life in the fast lane in Hollywood. Drawing on her own experiences, she tells the story of a young actress and her recovery from addiction.
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The Weather in Berlin
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The Weather in Berlin
A film director who no longer feels inspired travels to Germany hoping to find renewal, and is given an improbable directing assignment that ends up changing his life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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The Ecstatic
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The Ecstatic
In this humorous novel, Anthony James, who weighs 300 pounds and lives in Brooklyn, is a fan of horror films and not much else, but he does manage to escort his younger sister to Virginia to enter a beauty contest, a trip that has farcical results.
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Phedre
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Phedre
A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen`s obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus` love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.In this
tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation
(Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine`s alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his protagonists. The translation was performed to acclaim in London in 1998, and the London production, starring Diana Rigg, was staged in 1999 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. We are still catching up with Ted Hughes`s gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid,
one English critic observed after the London premiere.
Little needs to happen on stage when there`s a swirling action-packed disaster movie-riddled with sex and violence-in Hughes`s free verse. Ted Hughes died in October 1998 at the age of sixty-eight. He received the Whitbread Prize in 1997 for Tales from Ovid (FSG, 1997) and again in 1998 for Birthday Letters (FSG, 1998).
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Noises Off
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Noises Off
Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play about the troupe of actors struggling to put on a production of a play called NOTHING ON, in which backstage and onstage begin to merge--disastrously.
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The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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