Links in EN 230 -- Angels, Living Out, & M. Butterfly

 

We have tickets for the performance of Living Out on Thursday, March 3!  The performance is in the Parilla Performing Arts Center at the south end of campus.  The play will begin at 8 pm and continue until 10:15 pm with one intermission.  Therefore, we will meet at HU 115 at 7 pm, have a mini-class on M. Butterfly, and walk over to the Parilla Center.

Here are some links about Living Out.  The first review is of a 2004 performance at Bethesda's Round House Theater.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21865-2004Sep14.html

A year earlier the play was performed in NYC:

http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=&tols_title=LIVING%20OUT%20(PLAY)&pdate=20031001&byline=By%20MARGO%20JEFFERSON&id=1077011430608&scp=3&sq=%22living%20Out%22&st=cse

More recently, Portland Oregon's Actors' Conservatory performed the play:

http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2009/04/theater_review_living_out.html

Below are some links to videos that we saw in class tonight:

The HBO version begins here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt2eEmJhAF4

Here we see Prior & Harper's encounter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOBNr_qPVo&feature=related

Here is a scene with Al Pacino as Roy Cohn.  (Remember him as Richard III?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98fBiOVEcyI

These two videos are from the 2010 Broadway revival of Angels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLoZA4zCLM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asXRYggXy-w&feature=related

Note that the second video includes scenes from the second part of Angels.

Ah, time & energy paid off!  Here are some scenes from other stage versions.  The first is from a community college in New Jersey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBwFOTXMY8

Next is a trailer from the University of North Carolina's professional theater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP6EnnBdM_g

I'm not sure where this clip is from, but the comments praise it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-cr9rOwzYQ&feature=related

I'll close with a few clips from M. Butterfly.

Yes, yes, in the 1990s, there was a movie version starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkTMSm2dRZw

For an interview with playwright David Henry Hwang, see this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqZKx4MV4pQ

This recent version was performed at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h2zdmmIE9M

Here are clips from Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly.  Gallimard and Song are referring to this opera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaY2VcIEqo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWcxmyK7aSw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMHVncVMEzU

Enjoy!

Tartuffe!

 The picture above is from a recent production of Tartuffe at SMU in Dallas.  Yes, yes, yes, it's a modern-dress production, but this picture above gives you a good idea of what this satirical play will be about: a conman passes himself off as a spiritual advisor in order to bilk a wealthy man and his wife. 

See this site for a summary from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival:

http://www.osfashland.org/browse/production.aspx?prod=60

See this site for a biography of the playwright Moliere (1622-1673):

http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Theatre/Moliere/moliere.shtml

The picture below is from a French bio pic of Moliere:

As I look around, I see a number of (more or less) modern-day productions, but I'd like to show you some pictures of more historically accurate versions.  Tartuffe was written and first performed in 1664, so I want to emphasize the historical aspects of this play.  It is timeless, but I want you to realize that this play is a 17th century satire and was performed at the French court (which probably explains the ending!).

Here the maid Dorine confronts Tartuffe in a production at the East Carolina Playhouse in Greenville.

 

In the picture below, Orgon hides under the table and hears Tartuffe propositioning his wife.  The production pictured is from Hampton-Sydney College in Virginia:

 

These actors from the University of South Carolina played this scene even more farcically:

 

I guess this must be the most celebrated scene in the play as when I looked for other interpretations of this play I saw this print from 1892:

 

This woodcut (of the same scene) appears to be from the 17th or 18th century.

 

 

 

Field Trip for Fall 2008

Link

Just to let you know that you're invited to join my world literature class on our field trip to see an exhibit of Indian paintings at the Smithsonian.  (The picture above is an example of the type of work we will see.)  The field trip will be on Saturday, November 1.  For more information, check the link above.  Hope to see you there.