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5) Hamlet
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009]
Language
English
Description
This version of Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, is presented in modern dress.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary, or cynical characters drift in and out of the bar and each others lives. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young hooker named Kitty.
Language
Italiano
Description
The Chevalier des Grieux meets and seduces the young Manon when she is being escorted by her brother to a convent. Manon lives with des Grieux in Paris, but leaves him for a rich admirer. She is later arrested, charged with prostitution, and deported to Louisiana. Des Grieux accompanies her and during an escape attempt she dies in his arms.
9) Tartuffe
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Moliere's timeless comedy, starring the incomparable Donald Moffat portraying the scoundrel Tartuffe, who manipulates his way into the confidence and affection of Orgon, an affluent bourgeois concerned with his own salvation, and whose wife and daughter Tartuffe attempts to seduce.
10) Enemies
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Maxim Gorky's powerful drama about the social ferment that culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution is set on an estate in provincial Russia in 1905. In a sunlit-dappled garden, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest amongst the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping...
12) Tosca
Language
Italiano
Description
The story begins with Napoleon Bonaparte, political enemy of Scarpia advancing upon Rome. Cavaradossi a painter and Angelotti an escaped prisoner are political allies and see Napoleon as a hero. Angelotti has taken refuge in a chapel of a church in Rome in which Cavaradossi is painting a portrait of the Madonna. Cavaradossi has as his lover a famous singer Floria Tosca who attempts to enter the church and finds the door locked. She becomes jealous...
13) Big blonde
Series
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
The Dorothy Parker short story chronicles the decline of a vivacious showroom model and good-time party girl in the 1920's, who gives up her high-life for marriage with a travelling salesman. When he turns out to be a hard-drinking philanderer, the marriage deteriorates, as she turns to drinking for solace, moving from man to man, and sinking into an alcoholic haze and deep funk.
15) Ernani
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ernani, the dashing outlaw, wins the hand of Elvira over two other suitors.
16) June moon
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In homage to the heyday of American comedy, this satire takes on 1929's Tin Pan Alley. Its main characters are a gullible lyricist and a composer who claims as his big hit a ditty called "Paprika ... the spice of my life." Look for composer Stephen Sondheim as a wisecracking pianist in his acting debut.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The waif Marie is adopted by a French army regiment, falls in love with a Tyrolean youth called Tonio, but is carried off to live with the Marquise of Berkenfeld who plans to turn her into a genteel lady and marry her to an aristocrat; but the Marquise turns out to be her long lost mother who lets her marry Tonio in the end.
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