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What happens when Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras make dinner together? Irina Brook’s “La Vie Matérielle”
"You say I idealize women? Possibly. Who can say. What’s wrong with a woman being idealized a bit now and then?" – Marguerite Duras "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size." – Virginia Woolf »
U.S. Stage Debut of “Hiroshima mon Amour” Honors the Sensuous, Memory-Laden Vision of Resnais and Duras
The lights go up on a man’s shoulder blade and a woman’s delicately curved spine; she runs her hands up that blade and into his hair, grabbing it in her fist before taking his hand in hers, their naked bodies pressed up against a vertical black wall. As the audience looks on, she lazily... »
Astrid Bas Diptych: The Lover and La Musica Deuxième
Astrid Bas: Diptych, The Lover and La Musica Deuxième, faithfully takes some of the most memorable passages of Duras on love, desire, and her youth from The Lover (1984) and pairs it with her play La Musica Deuxième (1985), a piece exploring the end of love as a soon-to-be divorced couple takes leave of... »
“Marguerite Duras par Hélène Bamberger” Opens “In the Words of Duras” Festival
One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place, a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said: “I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than... »