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Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
In “Pride's Crossing”, Tina Howe has created a remarkable heroine for the nineties: Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel. We first meet her at the age of 90 as she looks back on her life during much of the twentieth century. Structured like memory, the play's scenes crisscross between her youth growing up in Pride's Crossing and the events in between which shaped her life.
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 822
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A film star comes face to face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
13) The color purple
Language
English
Formats
Description
The decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mr.", Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
15) Zero bridge
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Kashmiri
Description
A truly independent film of integrity and offhand grace, Zero bridge tells the deeply affecting tale of a student and small-time criminal in Kashmir who develops a crush on an older, college educated woman.
16) Guarding Tess
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A delightful comedy about a cantankerous former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard.
17) Tilly Trotter
Series
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural England during the 1930s, Tilly Trotter is the compelling story of a courageous young girl, envied by women and lusted after by men, who is accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the predjudice of her community.
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