Lettice and Lovage

Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573692598
Category : Tour guides (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London's stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither impressed or entertained by Lettice's freewheeling history lessons, Schon fires her. Not one however, to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventionial Lotte in battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown. This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus featured a triumphant award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith in London and on Broadway.

Lettice & Lovage

Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060390983
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description

The Private Ear

Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573624179
Category : Plays, British
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description

Ripcord (TCG Edition)

Author: David Lindsay-Abaire
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559368454
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
"A lyrical and understanding chronicler of people who somehow become displaced within their own lives…Mr. Lindsay-Abaire has shown a special affinity for female characters suddenly forced to re-evaluate the roles by which they define themselves."—New York Times Set in the Bristol Place Assisted Living Facility, this glorious and biting new comedy from David Lindsay-Abaire centers around Abby, who takes pride in her residence in one of the most coveted rooms in the rest home. Things turn sour quickly when she must take in Marilyn, a new roommate to share her precious space. In a satirical conflict of territory and control, Lindsay-Abaire spins a benign, typically mundane setting into an absurdist, colorful battleground. This high-stakes comedy examines our expectations of what it means to grow old in twenty-first century America, and what happens when a sense of possession collides with a mania of obsession. David Lindsay-Abaire's plays include Good People, Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World, High Fidelity, A Devil Inside, and Rabbit Hole, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lindsay-Abaire wrote the book for Shrek the Musical, and the screen adaptation of Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman. Lindsay-Abaire is a proud New Dramatists alum, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a member of the WGA and the Dramatists Guild Council.

Lettice & Lovage

Author: Theatre Aquarius Archives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Lettice & Lovage

Author: Theatre Aquarius Archives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Lettice and Lovage

Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233983172
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
'Enlarge! Enliven! Enlighten!' is the watchword - one might almost say battle cry - of Miss Lettice Douffet, expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, indefatigable enthusiast of History and the Theatre. Her encounter with Miss Lotte Schoen, devotee of unvarnished fact, could hardly be expected to be fruitful; yet a strange and wonderful friendship develops between the two women.

Shrivings

Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
English pacifist, his devoted American secretary, and young guest, the son of the pacifist's former poet-student await the latter's visit. The poet manages to destroy belief in man's improvability of the entire household by his nihilistic, violent nature.

LETTICE AND LOVAGE.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : ja
Pages : 179

Book Description

Women of Will

Author: Tina Packer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.