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Camille ~La Dame aux camellias
Marguerite Gautier, The Lady of Camelias became known as Camille and 16 versions have been performed at Brodayway theaters alone.
The title character Marguerite, is based on Marie Duplessis, the real life lover of author Duma, fils. The theme of Lady of Camelias is a love story between Marguerite Gauiter, a kept woman by various lovers, frequently more than one at a time, suffering from tuberculosis and a young provincial, Armand Duval. The narration of the love story is told by Duval himself.
Running time: 80 minutes
Venue: The Common Place Theatre Ð 750 Eight Avenue @ 46 Street, 5th floor |
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Miss Julie
The battle of the sexes where class, love and lust collide. The action takes place in the kitchen of Miss Julie's father's manor.
The plot is primarily concerned with power in its various forms. Miss Julie has power over Jean because she is upper class. Jean has power over Miss Julie because he is male and uninhibited by aristocratic values.
Running time: 50 minutes
Venue: The Pantheon Theatre - 303 W. 42nd Street, 8th floor |
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Betrayal
The plot of Betrayal exposes different permutations of betrayal and kinds of betrayal occurring over a period of nine year affair involving a married couple.
Pinter's particular usage of reverse chronology in structuring the plot is innovative. The Betrayal structure strips away all artifice. It shows, hearthessly, that the very capacity for love itself is sometimes based on betraying not only other loved ones, but even ourselves.
Running time: 50 minutes
Venue: The Pantheron Theatre Ð 440 Lafayette Street, 4th floor |
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The Vise
A drama in which Giulia has abandoned a wealthy family to marry Andrea, who atones for his wife's sacrifice by amassing a fortune.
Pirandello disliking the word "realism" was nevertheless a master of the realistic. Realistic characters, dialogue, and physical details were his tools but not his material. With these tools he shaped a new dramatic world in which realism becomes the play's mask, just as appearance is a life's work. And beneath this apparent realism whirl the chaos and the contradiction, ready to appear at any moment and prove reality a lie.
Running time: 50 minutes
Venue: The Musical Theater Works - 440 Lafayette Street, 4th floor |
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The Human Voice
It is in fact a one act monologue directly inspired by his frustrating experience with Desbordes. A woman on the verge of despair is speaking on the phone to her long term male lover and represents more of an unrealized love.
There was of course nothing he could do for her. His compassion is palpable in his account of the incident, but it fascination is to see him the object of the sort of projection which he practiced all his life, whether on his lovers or on the artist whom he idolized.
Running time: 50 minutes
Venue: The Musical Theater Works, 440 Lafayette Street, 4th floor |
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Sorry, Wrong Number
A murder mystery thriller.
Since its birth in radio it has been done also on television, on the stage as a one act play, and finally, in expanded form as a movie with Barbara Stanwyck playing the role of Mrs. Stevenson. It what we do not see but merely guess at, even in her speeches, the overtones of querulousness, and hints of her life she let's drop, that give the script it's mood and mounting horror.
Running time: 50 minutes
Venue: The Musical Theater Works, 440 Lafayette Street, 4th floor |