Definitions, Part II

Das Kapital: An extensive examination of political economy, written by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=6TfTS9ITW7UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=das+kapital&source=bl&ots=m5WB0wduxf&sig=607cZbK9Qvv5eO69rInsjA9r1bA&hl=en&ei=03gITP7REpXkNavOpJYI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

MCC: The Marylebone Cricket Club

http://www.lords.org/mcc/about-mcc/

Henry of Mayfair: an American clockmaker

http://www.henryofmayfair.com/AboutHOM.aspx

Definitions, Part I

Save the gerund and screw the whale: Max, as the character written by Henry, corrects his own grammar in the previous sentence.  In the second scene, Henry corrects Max’s grammar in the same manner during an argument. A gerund is a noun, though with the –ing ending, appears to be a verb.  The second part of the statement is a pun directed at the “Save the Whales” campaigns popular at the time.

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/gerund.htm

Finnegan’s Wake: A work by James Joyce, largely considered one of the most inscrutable in the canons of literature.

Pics from England 1979 - 1983

Hey guys!

Here is a link to one of my Google Docs folders.

In it you will find 4 pdfs filled with pictures of people in England from 1979-1983. I thought these would be helpful for designs and actors alike. :)

Let me know if you have problems opening anything!

Thanks!

-T

Tom Stoppard

• Born Tomas Straussler in Ziln, Czechoslovakia on 3 July, 1937
• Family fled to Singapore and then India to avoid German, and then Japanese invasions during WWII
• Father, Eugene, was killed in a Japanese prison camp (though some biographies say he was on a ship bombed by Japanese forces).
• In 1946, his mother remarried, an Englishman named Kenneth Stoppard
• Family then moved to England where Tom studied at boarding schools in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire
• Left school at the age of 17 to pursue a career as a journalist
• In 1960, at the age of 23, left full-time journalism to pursue a career as a playwright, though continued to do freelance journalism and theatre criticism under the name William Boot
• Lists his first inspirations as Robert Bolt and Arthur Miller
• First play, A Walk on the Water, was completed in 1965.  It was eventually produced as a play and shown on British Independent Television in 1968 as Enter a Free Man
• Breakthrough came in 1966 with the production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, an existential play based loosely on characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet
• Became the youngest playwright to have a play produced at the Old Vic in London in 1967 (R & G)
• When asked what the play is about, he is reported to have replied "It's about to make me very rich"
• Continued writing through the 70s, when his plays started to tackle subjects of political justice and oppression.  He was especially influenced by a trip with Amnesty International through his homeland of Czechoslovakia and Russia.
• Married twice, and has two sons from each marriage
• Has written over 30 plays, screenplays, and television shows.
• Has won 5 Tonys, one Academy Award, and 5 Evening Standard Awards

Some well-known quotes:

• I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
• I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
• If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
• The days of the digital watch are numbered.
• The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Sources:

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc46.html

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Tom_Stoppard/

http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/tom_stoppard_001.html

http://www.curtainup.com/stoppard.html

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth254#bibliography

The fun of having a living playwright.

Two interviews with Tom Stoppard about the art of playwriting:

Charlie Rose:


Theatre Talk:


PS: Welcome to the Blog.  Have fun, be polite, and let's investigate!
Sarah