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Racine: Phedre
Here is a spectacular French production of Racine's great play that treats the classical past with respect while demonstrating its continued, living interest. If it was the playwright's goal to show people as they are-not as they ought to be-then thi...(more details) |
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Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi
This stylized farce, first translated in 1951, satirizes middle-class tendencies to abuse authority and become irresponsibly complacent. The play's grotesque characterizations, scatological references, and pompous style drive the plot in which Ubu de...(more details) |
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Colette: Bella Vista
A very stylish production, based on Colette's novel, and set in a country inn where the author is herself a visitor. The focus is less on what happens than on how, and with what, and to whom, all seen through the discerning eye of France's greatest w...(more details) |
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Samuel Beckett: Tous ceux qui tombent
Beckett, expatriate Irishman resident in Paris, was a truly bilingual author who wrote both in French and in English, translating most of the works he wrote in English into French, and vice versa. Tous ceux qui tombent (All that Fall)-written in Engl...(more details) |
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Balzac: Le Cousin Pons
Pons, an art collector, is considered a parasite by those who know him until they discover the value of his collection of objets d'art. In various ways and by various means, unscrupulous characters try to separate the old man and his heir from their ...(more details) |
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