Sentences with phrase «french playwrights»

It was a particularly interesting time for theatre, only a few decades before the emergence of the French playwrights of the 17th century.

French playwright Antonin Artaud, and many postmodern thinkers, for example, would say that reality is experiential.

And the French playwright Dorimon penned a version in which Juan treats his own father so callously that the old man dies from emotional shock, which may be how the element of parricide entered the standard narrative.

The famous 19th - century French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac held coffee in the highest esteem and praised its invigorating impact on his mental capabilities.

Entitled «Gods of Carnage,» the film was written by Polanski and French playwright Yasmina Reza, based on her Tony - winning play.

The French playwright Yasmina Reza has made a career out of penning wry social satires («Art,» «Life x 3») that savagely skewer the hypocrisies, absurdities, and pretenses of bourgeois values.

«God of Carnage» is a black comedy by French playwright Yazmina Reza.

At Museo Tamayo, artists respond to the myth of the French playwright and theorist's drug - fuelled collapse in the mountains of rural Mexico

Influenced by absurdist theatre, in particular Samuel Beckett and the satire of 16th century French playwright Molière; Fitzpatrick has devised a short three - part play (the horse, the king and the nurse) considering transgression and rebellion.

Her live performance is based on a radio play by French playwright, and theatre director Antonin Artaud.

Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud's writings, with their implications of strangled speech and glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier's groundbreaking 1969 recording «I Am Sitting in a Room»; Erik Satie's looped composition «Vexations»; Marina Abramovic's confrontational performance «Rhythm 0»; Adrian Piper's «Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City»; Herman Melville's short story «Bartleby, the Scrivener»; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary film First Contact; and of course the work that most looms over this topic: John Cage's paradigm - shifting 1952 composition «4» 33».»

The show also highlights a key early influence on Flanagan's practice — the absurdist «Pataphysics» of French playwright and author Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), best summed up as «the science of imaginary solutions».

«Artaud 1936» celebrates the poetics of the French playwright Antonin Artaud, his legendary trip to Mexico in 1926, and the influence of his artistic, literary, and life legacy in the American contine...

Other outside influences include the Outsider Art movement Art Brut, the work of French playwright Antonin Artaud, and African primitive artwork.

Not exact matches

• The French poet and playwright Paul Claudel is, despite what many think unfortunate political views, still read «because of a rare quality: unflinching jubilance,» writes the poet Eric Ormsby in an essay on Claudel in the New Criterion.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

Sacha Guitry: Four Films 1936 - 1938 Limited Edition This impressive set brings together a quartet of 1930s features by Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957, the celebrated French filmmaker, playwright and actor of the stage and screen, each based on his earlier works.

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Also in attendance were the stars of the play Billy Carter, Johnny Flynn, Mark Addy, Reece Shearsmith, Gaby French and Sally Rogers, as well as playwright Martin McDonagh, director Matthew Dunster and managing director Jeffory Lawson.

(In French, Arabic and Russian with subtitles) Theater of War (Unrated) Drama - driven documentary featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Tony Kushner takes a look at the life and ideas of playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) via a NYC Public Theater production of his play «Mother Courage.»

Runners - up Presenting Sacha Guitry (Eclipse Series 22)(Criterion) How did the reputation of actor, playwright and filmmaker Sacha Guitry, once the toast of French theater and cinema and popular culture, slip into such obscurity over the years?

Several years ago, the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous gave Grant one of her books, Philippines, as a source for imagery and entreated the artist to make work about the concepts present in the text.

«Light Shall Lift Them» (Vander Barbette, Texas - born cross-dressing aerialist, and Jean Cocteau, French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker)

Gregg is also a playwright; he has published three full - length plays with Samuel French.

The basic idea behind the exhibition is a fictional investigation of what may have happened in the mind of French artist, playwright and actor Antonin Artaud during his journey on a freighter in 1937 from Ireland to France.

As a playwright, he has been produced at MCC Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Soho Rep; published by Samuel French and Broadway Play Publishing.