...Christopher Durang Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang CAST OF CHARACTERS THE MARSHALL FAMILY: BETTE MARSHALL MARGARET MARSHALL, her mother JAMES...

...). at Queens College, C.U.N.Y. His trans- Gorky‘s human face (and Sholokhov’s too, lation of Vladimir Maramzin’s novella, by the way) is plainly visible. When I was still The Story of the Marriage of Ivan Petro- a schoolboy, I read his article, “Whose Side vich will appear...

... and Her Demon, Bonjour, La, Bonjour, and The Marriage. The following interview with Alvin Epstein and Literary Manager Michael Feingold was conducted by Joel Schechter and Mark Bly on March 8, 1979 in New York. Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 The Guthrie: An Interview with Alvin Epstein...

... II (Warsaw: Pan´stwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1958). By 1960, Gombrowicz’s writing was again banned by the Polish authorities. Kantor actively sought permission from Gombrowicz to produce the play, but much to Kantor’s dismay, the playwright intended that Ivona and The Marriage be produced first...

...Eric Bentley Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 Gogol's Gaiety by Eric Bentley Notes on The Marriage, A Madman's Diary, and Gamblers These notes will appear later this year as part of Eric Bentley's edition of the three Gogol works in Croft's Classics...

... of Yvonne was at the Yale School of Drama in 1970.) 31 giroud Gombrowicz’s second play, S´lub (The Marriage), was written...

... relationship is dropped. In its place symptoms of repression and abstinence are substituted culminating with a rather clinical descrip- tion of bad marriage and death. "For Payment" begins by examining...

... obstacle to be united in marriage. These predictable and obligatory happy endings are resolutely heterosexual and by all appearances heteronormative. And then there is the thorny question of gender in this corpus. At first glance it is far from obvious that Molière queers gender, first because...

... The Marriage, which he considered his most important text. He then wrote his unfinished autobiographical play Historia, which was discovered posthumously in 1975 and subsequently published and produced. He also completed three novels, his three-volume Diary, and two volumes of memoirs originally...

...? be telling the truth? No doubt. Calm down, Angélique—the note And his speech, like his actions, he sent you yesterday claiming he was going are utterly noble? to ask for your hand in marriage should clear...

... of grave silliness. This was a rare event, the more so for being an American play not writ- ten by Wallace Shawn or Richard Foreman that risked unabashed intellectualism. Two other marvelous projects differently saturated with utopian impracticality were Impossible Marriage at Roundabout...

... Chekhovian play. Two kinds of material, which point to two quite different resolutions. A realistic study of a marriage may well end with a reconciliation of the estranged spouses. But such an ending is defiantly at odds with the folkloric material which Ibsen thought the heart of his play...

... the night in a strange man's Death, in which a Scandinavian Celimene hangs old theatrical room." In this new recognition scene the wife discovers the trophies above her marriage bed or buries them in a chest. The Stranger in her own husband. Misanthrope prefigures Strindberg, but its...

... for characters from the great opera classics, such as Verdi’s La Traviata, Puccini’s Turandot, Bizet’s Carmen, and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro; for dramatis personae of well-known classical French theater, including Molière’s La Malade imaginaire, Racine’s Phaedra, and Corneille’s L’Illusion...

... the costumes stole the show. There were costumes for characters from the great opera classics, such as Verdi’s La Traviata, Puccini’s Turandot, Bizet’s Carmen, and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro; for dramatis personae of well-known classical French theater, including Molière’s La Malade...

... as they argue over their marriage and their daughter. A thunderstorm begins outside as Gerda departs, and the Gentleman is left Set design by Ezio Frigerio for Strehler‘s production of ’Tlrc Storrro to his solitude...

..., and seemswholly concerned with edy extant, an attempt to cram into the burial of Eteocles and the marriage a single play all the legends of the of Antigone. Cadmean line, and is certainly among the most profuse in its characters; its To say that the story of Menoeceus is rel• structure...

... is my desire to write something like a late Shakespearean romance; a huge sprawling play with magi- cal happenings, travel between distant lands, lost lovers reunited, near resurrections, a Stills from The Vomit happy marriage at the end, and maybe a bear. A play that would deal with death, grief...

... for future felicity. It vests the part with peppery vehemence. The pendage Parolles, played by Stephen Moore is to this rarified world that the clown first official act of the newly robust king is the with utterly persuasive asininity. Parolles is Lavache belongs, free to prattle without marriage...

... Marriage, are spiritually related three-hour performance at the intimate characters, and their contrasting reactions Theater im Marstall, just across the street. to the pressures imposed by their respective...