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Life X 3 (Paperback, First)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Life X 3 presents three versions of two couples (and an offstage six-year-old) trying to make a success of one evening despite the fact that they neither like nor respect one another. When Hubert and Inès arrive a day early to dinner at the home of Henri and Sophie, Sophie barely has time to change out of her robe and Inès is in a foul mood about a run in her stocking—from there, the evening can only go downhill. Over an improvised meal of chocolate fingers, potato chips, and wine, the couples trade insults on every social and professional level and loyalties are changed with the same rapidity that glasses of Sancerre are drained. However, as she has so astutely done in the past, Yasmina Reza uses these acidic exchanges to illuminate the innate desire for love and acceptance in us all.
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the
unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate
between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave
properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears
before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse
- much worse. Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's
sharp-edged new play The God of Carnage premiered at the Gielgud
Theatre, London, in March 2008. Christopher Hampton has translated
five plays by Yasmina Reza: 'Art', The Unexpected Man,
Conversations after a Burial, Life x 3 and The God of Carnage.
Yasmina Reza's award-winning comedy Art is collected here with
three more of her sharp witty and sexy plays, all translated with
elegance and elan by Christopher Hampton. Art Serge has bought a
modern painting for a huge sum of money. Mark hates it and cannot
believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan
attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. The question is,
are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you
are? If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what
happens when one person does something completely different? Life x
3 Henri and Sonia are putting their son to bed when an unexpected
knock at the door throws them into disarray. Hubert and Ines have
arrived for dinner, a day earlier than expected. As the evening
degenerates, Yasmina Reza blends cruel observations with high
comedy in an hilarious and poignant examinatioin of our most
personal intimacies and private longings. The Unexpected Man A
train compartment. A man and a woman. In a series of dazzling
internal monologues, the man, a novelist, muses on his latest work,
contemplates the futility of writing and considers his life in
terms of his daughter, her lover and the workings of Ex-Lax on his
digestive system. The woman thinks of her life, her loves and
friendships in the full knowledge that the man she is facing is the
novelist she admires and would love to speak to, and whose latest
work she has tucked in her handbag. Conversations After a Burial
Simon Weinberg is dead. On a November morning, six people gather at
his funeral - siblings, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows them
special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in
another world under a lingering sun, in the shadow of the deceased.
Conversations After a Burial examines the intense pause between
loss and life; between absence and the return to everyday
existence.
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Babylon (Hardcover)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Linda Asher
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R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
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What happens when two sets of parent's meet up to deal with the
unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate
between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave
properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears
before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse
- much worse. God of Carnage won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy
and the Tony award for Best Play.
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Babylon (Hardcover)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Linda Asher
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Discovery Miles 3 220
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Art (Paperback, Main)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Winner of the Moliere Award for Best Play, Production and Author Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best New Comedy
Art, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, premiered at the prestigious Schaubuhne in Berlin. The play deals with men's friendship, honesty, the obsession with modernism and social status. It revolves around a white-on-white painting which Serge, a dermatologist, has bought for 200,000 francs. This so irritates Marc that his contempt threatens their long-time friendship. Yvan, the third character in the play, vacillates, distracted by his own premarital mess. At issue, in part, is the famous question: "What is art ?" The white canvas pushes at the limits of the definition in the age-old debate.
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