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3 produkter
3 produkter
213 kr
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213 kr
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Two women scientists living hundreds of years apart explore the meaning of love motherhood family art and science in this contemporary comedy.Legacy of Lightjuxtaposes the story of milie du Chtelet a mathematician scientist and lover of the great 18th-century philosopher Voltaire who became unexpectedly pregnant at 42 and that of a 21st-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child.Legacy of Lightmade its world premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington DC on May 8 2009. Directed by Molly Smith the production featured Lise Bruneau Carla Harting Stephen Schnetzer Michael Russotto David Covington and Lindsey Kyler.
Karen Zacarías: Plays One
Native Gardens; The Book Club Play; Destiny of Desire
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
300 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacarías, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA.Contains the plays Native Gardens / The Book Club Play / Destiny of DesireThe Book Club PlayA hit comedy about books and the people who love them. When the members of a devoted book club become the subjects of a documentary filmmaker and accept a provocative new member, their long-standing group dynamics take a hilarious turn. Sprinkled with wit, joy and novels galore.Destiny of DesireOn a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born — one into a life of privilege and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a former beauty queen with an insatiable lust for power the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes to grow into one remarkable destiny. Karen Zacarías infuses the Mexican telenovela genre with music, high drama and burning passion to make for a fast-paced modern comedy.Native GardensYou can’t choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.