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Plays – Random

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard

The Fever by Wallace Shawn

The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill

June 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sorry, Wrong Number – 4/5 A short thriller written by Lucille Fletcher, and one that uses the recent technology (so to speak) to sell the suspense. A disabled woman waits at home for her husband to return from work. Becoming anxious, she calls his office and the lines get crossed and she hears a cryptic, but malicious conversation about a murder plot. The conspirators discuss some of the details of the plot which includes going to the apartment by the bridge. When the call reconnects, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Athol Fugard, Edmond Rostand, Eugene O'Neill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lucille Fletcher, Wallace Shawn

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:287 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Athol Fugard, Edmond Rostand, Eugene O'Neill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lucille Fletcher, Wallace Shawn ·
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51: An intriguing play that riffs off Plato’s cave allegory

June 19, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’m developing a “new global literature” online course, which means lots of lovely reading! For each of the literature courses I have developed, I like to implement a variety of genres. Further, since this is global literature, I need to think about several nations or regions being represented that are not European or Western in focus. Finally, since this is “new” global literature, I decided that everything needed to be published after 9/11, as a starting point to thinking about how globalization changed. This is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Athol Fugard, bonnie, drama

bonnie's CBR10 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Athol Fugard, bonnie, drama ·
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