Les Miserables known in English as “The Terrible” is a musical portrayal of the French Revolution. It is a musical tragedy, which served as a major powerhouse competitor for Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals in the early eighties and nineties. When first debuting on Broadway in 1987 it traveled a long hard road to compete with…
This passage is all too true, both in Peter Shaffer’s ‘Amadeus’ and in life in general. However, the play is also concerned with the destructive nature of ignorance and naivety. Salieri is jealous not just of Mozart’s talent, but of the fact that God gave the talent to “Mozart … spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart”.…
Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?” is a drama exploring the anxieties of modern life. By personalizing aspects of the epic Albee has inverted many of its features to create satire. This internalization pits individuals against each other and themselves. M. H. Abrams’s definition of epic, in his book “A Glossary of Literary…
The play “Violet” takes place in the mid-1960’s and focuses on a young woman in search for a miracle, and who bears a horrendous scar on her face from an accident when she was a child. The musical opens with Violet boarding a Greyhound bus that is traveling to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she hopes to…
History: This sport was devised in 1967 in New Jersey by students at Columbia High School in Maplewood. It is a unique sport in that it relies on high competition and the “spirit of the game” (honesty and a sense of fair play) since it has no official referees, only observers. Objective: This competitive, non-contact…
Born 1564; died 1616 We know surprisingly few details about Shakespeare’s early life married Anne Hathaway in 1582 Worked as an actor and a playwright in London by the early 1590’s Versions of his plays circulated as hand-written manuscripts, prompt books, and possibly pirated texts, None of these versions have survived Publishing Plays Folio: Books…