Art Drama

In 1998 Mark died of AIDS, cared for in the end by his lover John and their friend (and nurse) Marcia. Twenty years later, John and Marcia reflect on what they survived that Mark didn't. In December, 2018 Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center invited a variety of artists who had been present during the AIDS crisis to contribute to a show.

Clifton Webb was one of those rare motion picture actors who became a major box-office star when he was in his mid-50s. Indeed, his first sound movie was Laura (1944), and his role as Waldo Lydecker in that classic film noir earned him the first of three Oscar nominations. Four years later, Clifton Webb became a household name when he played Lynn Belvedere and poured a bowl of mush onto a baby's head in Sitting Pretty.

A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.

Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well-rounded, and who knows—Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the play.

This single inherited epic in our language has it all: drama, blood, heroism, mourning, and teaching with soul-searching thought about all this. It looks back. In its top layer of listening, we are brought along with heroic figures, even with a superhero, to challenge agonizing monsters. This world also includes beautiful sea voyages, crafty disputes, the falling of tribes, and moving elegies. Most often its Old English poetry can translate directly into fresh pictures. The epic Beowulf is a masterfully told story.

Biograficheskiy i politicheskiy podtexty povesti I.S. Turgeneva "Pervaya lyubov". Drama Gertsena. Dacha naprotiv Neskuchnogo sada. Varen'ka Bogdanovich. Na zare detektivnogo zhanra. Politichesky podtekst povesti.

Donte is a young and aspiring musician looking to turn his life around and head in a better direction. To his surprise, one night at a club changes everything and places him into a whirlwind of different events. Alongside him is his best friend Tye, who seems to have all the answers, even to questions Donte didn't think he'd know the answer to. Follow the friends along as they struggle to figure out the troubling new path they now find themselves on. Will the trust in their friendship win out in the end or will the everyday tests of life drive them crazy?

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

A Christmas Carol, but not as you've ever heard it before. A surprise all-star cast gather to bring Dickens' timeless classic to life. Introduced by Jonathan Dimbleby. Starring John Nicholson and Richard Katz, with Jane Horrocks, Dara O'Briain, Charlotte Green, Richard Madeley, Peter Purves, Gwyneth Williams and Chris Evans. Written by John Nicholson and Richard Katz. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Abridged, full-cast drama version of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Starring Ronald Colman.

Rumi, claimed as the national poet of Iran, Turkey & Afghanistan had an early life dedicated to scholarly studies. He only started to write poetry after encountering a holy man called Shams whose subsequent death instilled a profound grief in Rumi and an outpouring of many thousands of verses in Persian. He also intrinsically linked with Sufism.

Boris Karloff is the star of our Hollywood Stage presentation of David Copperfield. Charles Dickens is rightly regarded as amongst the foremost of English novelists. One of his great creations is David Copperfield which chronicles the young mans journey from childhood to maturity and the problems and hurdles that bestride his path.

Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, desde 1802 von Schiller fue un poeta, dramaturgo, filósofo e historiador alemán, considerado el dramaturgo más importante de Alemania y junto a Goethe, una de las figuras centrales del clasicismo de Weimar. Muchas de sus obras de teatro pertenecen al repertorio habitual del teatro en alemán y sus baladas se cuentan entre los poemas más famosos.

Every funeral is an unplanned occasion thrown together under terrible circumstances by people in shock and mourning. No one involved in burying the dead can fail to recognize their own mortality or confront the course their life has taken to date. In this full cast audio play about the death of a philandering family patriarch in a small town, characters reveal shocking secrets and struggle to decide if, when, and how they will ever see one another again. This moment marks the end of who each character is and allows us to understand who they will become.

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Tomas Kyd, the son of the notorious Captain William Kyd, had always had well enough. Yet enough was not at all satisfaction. Enough only stirred within him a desire for more: a desire for love, adventure, and a life of nobility that he felt he, too, so richly deserved. However, his father's curse, that which he shares with the pirate crew of his father's unfinished voyage, has always kept him from discovering a life he thought worth living.

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