pickThorough, thoughtful, but also thrilling, this cultural history of Fiddler on the Roof explores the hit musical from book to Broadway to film and far beyond, from its beginning in Sholem Aleichem‘s stories and their many incarnations, through the complexities of Jewish identity across a century of history, finding its legacy in powerful interpretations across the world: Japan, Poland, a Black Brooklyn middle school amid integration, and more.
I would love to see this performed live! (because I'm not really a fan of reading plays...)
pickThirty Years War (1618-1648):Mother Courage,a shrewd woman travelling through Poland,Italy and Germany with her canteen business contained in a cart,struggles to keep herself and her 3 children alive.She needs the war to survive-mainly making business with the troops but the war kills everyone she loves.At the end of the play, she is the only survivor, yet still follows the army caravan with her cart. War has no meaning and teaches us nothing.
so-soIf you ever wondered where Roz in The Wild Robot got her name, this is it. This play written in 1920 about the rise of an army of robots, and the extinction of the human race was revolutionary for its time. It has tons of melodrama, and the one woman in it certainly feels like a fake character that all the men can‘t help but fall in love with, but there are some excellent sci-fi themes about man‘s hubris that stand the test of time.
“Don‘t feed the plants.” I had a blast watching my local high school‘s production of Little Shop of Horrors today.
We had a fun night out at the theatre last night.
I‘ve never read the play but now I want to see the Hitchcock film!
Stefan Zweig's autobiography led me to poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Electra, which I borrowed from the library and started reading last night. It was turned into an opera by Strauss. I am listening to it on deezer, but it's not grabbing me so far. Any tips or info to help ease me into it? A passage to look forward to? A recording that's less strident than the one I am listening to? I'm OK with modernist music, so that's not it 😊
she‘s not crazy — she‘s
just been in a very bad
mood for forty years!
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