Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company,
Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend. Their determined struggle toward emotional honesty and liberation by no means guaranteed at the play s ambiguous end exemplifies the strength, humor, and complexity of all of Lanford Wilson s work and confirms his standing as one of America s greatest living playwrights.
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The Library of Trinity College Dublin has acquired the Beckett archive of the play
Rockaby building on its world leading Beckett collections. The Beckett material is being digitised and will be accessible online.
Marking the acquisition of the 1981 play
Rockaby, one of the iconic plays of the Beckett canon, an online exhibition curated by Dr Jane Maxwell has been launched today. The entire archive will be made available later this year as part of the Library’s Digital Collections. It includes 30 items of correspondence from Beckett; copies of the original play and its French translation; productions notes; photographs; and a printed commemoration booklet of photographs from the premiere among other items.
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Joan Micklin Silver, Director of âCrossing Delancey,â Dies at 85
She broke barriers for women, directing seven feature films, including âHester Streetâ and âBetween the Lines,â as well as TV movies.
Joan Micklin Silver in the late 1970s while filming an adaptation of the Ann Beattie novel “Chilly Scenes of Winter.” She had a love-hate relationship with movie studios.Credit.United Artists, via Photofest
Published Jan. 1, 2021Updated Jan. 4, 2021
Joan Micklin Silver, the filmmaker whose first feature, âHester Street,â expanded the marketplace for American independent film and broke barriers for women in directing, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.