When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first opening night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
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Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage
Jean Anouilh adapted Greek playwright Sophocles' Antigone and paid homage to it by hitting most of the same story notes, but also made it his own by using it as an inspiration for anti-Nazi sentiment.
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Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve aka Chris Marker aka Palotin Giron aka Chris Mayor aka Christian Villeneuve aka Marc Dornier aka Chris and Magic Marker aka Christian Marker aka Fritz Markassin aka T. T. Toukanov aka Jacopo Berezini aka Jacopo Berenzini aka Boris Villeneuve aka Sandor Krasna aka Michel Krasna aka Dolorès Walfisch aka Hayao Yamaneko aka Guillaume-en-Egypte aka Sergei Murasaki aka Kosinki aka Iterovitch
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Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding - moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KwT4B43Hfw