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Yasmina Reza
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
55 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""I was bored with my husband," says Anne-Marie, the irrepressible voice of Anne-Marie la Beauté, "but you know, boredom is part of love." Mostly she is speaking here of her more famous friend and colleague, the French actress Giselle Fayolle, in whose shadow she has spent her career. "My life was a near miss," she adds, before explaining that she enunciated well because "I loved to say the words." A very short novel with the power and resonance...
2) "Art"
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
63 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be “art”? Marc's best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive – and very white – painting. To Marc, it is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use the painting to settle scores. With friendships hanging in the balance, the question becomes: how much is a work of “art” worth? A Tony Award winner for Best Play and Oliver Award winner for Best Comedy. Includes...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
46 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
35 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter star in Yasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man, translated by Christopher Hampton. A notorious author shares a train compartment with a long-time reader. But can they connect with each other through a silent tide of self-doubt and second-guessing?
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This citation of Borges resonates with every character in Yasmina Reza's novel, except that they are never so lucky. In fact, what happens to them is the exact opposite of what they crave. The twenty short chapters that make up this unusual book deal with both marital and extramarital vicissitudes, the elusiveness of intimacy, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved or at least understood just once in our lives. The mixing of tones--cruelty...
8) Life x 3
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
66 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
9) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
