![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Julie Vatain-Corfdir (Moderator) is Associate Professor of English at Sorbonne Université, where she teaches theater and translation studies. In this discussion, noted Wilder scholar and translator Julie Vatain-Corfdir spoke to Tappan Wilder, the literary executor of the Wilder Estate and nephew of Thornton Wilder, and Michel Hausmann, the Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, about the genesis of this new version of the beloved classic and the process of translating a major work. Infused with layers of culture and community, this new version celebrates Grover’s Corners as an international address. Published 2020.Īrguably America’s best-known and most celebrated play, Our Town depicts the small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” In the next step for a work that Wilder conceived as a play about everywhere, Our Town (Multilingual) presents the material for the first time in three languages: English, Spanish and Creole. ![]() Spanish and Creole translated portions © 2017 Miami New Drama. Our Town (Multilingual) by Thornton Wilder / Translations by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin ![]()
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She doesn’t know whether to tell him off-or kiss him.ĭarius knows firsthand what happens when cops arrest the wrong person. As unemotional and cold as he is good-looking, Darius Silva both irritates her and tempts her, tying her in knots. As the town rallies around her and she begins to heal, the sheriff brings in a big-city detective with experience handling celebrity stalkers. But her sense of safety is shattered when two unknown attackers in an SUV run her down, destroying her shot at her sixth world championship title. ![]() She loves the tiny mountain town and its quirky residents and finds happiness using her climbing skills to save lives. Sasha Dillon, a five-time world champion climber, moved to Scarlet Springs to join the Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue Team. Featuring characters from Pamela Clare’s acclaimed I-Team series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Clockwork Prince, the second installment in a prequel trilogy to the bestselling The Mortal Instruments series, Cassandra Clare demonstrates her relentless authorial alchemy, blending societal restraint and an otherworldly battle into a steamy steampunk drama. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa answers about who she really is? As their search leads to deadly peril, Tessa learns that secrets and lies can corrupt even the purest heart."A purple page turner." Kirkus Reviews "Whether it's the overly tight corsets or the smell of dark magic that hangs in the air like sulfur mixed with the Thames on a hot day, there's something about Victorian England that heightens tensions, both romantic and paranormal. Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister knows their every move-and that one of their own has betrayed them.Tessa is drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will continues to unsettle her. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors. ![]() But that safety proves fleeting when it becomes clear that the mysterious Magister will stop at nothing to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.With the help of the handsome, tortured Will and the devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal and fueled by revenge. ![]() In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has found safety with the Shadowhunters. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the author of seven books, including The Blood of Guatemala, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for best book published on Latin America in any discipline, The Last Colonial Massacre, Empire’s Workshop, Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Award, The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history, Kissinger’s Shadow, and The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was a finalist in the history category. ![]() Greg Grandin, who received his doctorate at Yale University under the direction of Emilia Viotti da Costa and Gilbert Joseph, previously taught at New York University for nineteen years. ![]() ![]() For a queer boy with no family history, illiterate, and alienated from his peers, silent films offer an opportunity to lose himself in fantasy, intrigue, and drama. ![]() He wanders around town, services “gentlemen” for money, and spends hours in the cinema. But the most devastating impact arrives in the form of the plague that is presently sweeping the globe–the Spanish flu.Īt the centre of the tale is sixteen year-old Máni Steinn, an orphan who lives with an old woman who is, as far as he knows, the sister of his great-grandmother. A number of critical events converge over the course of a few months: the volcano Katla erupts in a dazzling display of fire and ash, the First World War comes to an end, and the small Nordic country achieves sovereignty. ![]() Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, Icelandic writer Sjón’s fourth novel to be released in translation, is set in Reykjavik in late 1918. And they are darker than a youthful mind can imagine. He’d had no inkling that when the pestilence took hold Reykjavik would empty and convey the impression that nothing was happening at all that the town would become an abandoned set that he, Máni Steinn, could envisage as the backdrop for whatever sensational plot he cared to devise, or more accurately, for the kind of sinister events that in a film would be staged in this sort of village of the damned–for those days the real stories are being acted out behind closed doors. ![]() ![]() ![]() I told her that I might just write my memoirs, but did not know where to begin. While waiting for the rest of the family to arrive, she served me an authentic Mexican mezcal, on the rocks, because it was a warm day. ![]() Florentino throwing that chest full of jewels into the sea? She painted the “wedding scene” with Simoun’s deadly lamp, a classroom scene with Basilio, and “what else, Lola?” – she asked. I was pleasantly surprised that she had indeed read Rizal’s second novel and that her teacher is among the adherents of the Rizal Law. As we crossed the street to her home, she said that for history homework, she had to paint three scenes from El Filibusterismo. ![]() Last Sunday, I had lunch with my youngest granddaughter, Uma Leona, who will turn 19 at the end of the year and will probably be taller than I am by then. ![]() ![]() He tells the dog: "Everywhere I go it's as though I'm wearing a spacesuit which buffers me from other people.when I pitch and clump and flail down the street, grown men step into the drain gully to avoid brushing against my invisible space suit. ![]() He sees himself as a troll in a book of fairy tales and believes the people in his village dislike and avoid him. ![]() Ray is fifty-seven, fearful of social interaction and filled with self-loathing. He proceeds to describe his world and tell his story in first person present to the dog he adopts and names One Eye. ![]() The narrator, Ray, describes himself as a hulking man who lives alone in his recently deceased father's house. The book opens with a dog running wild, his left eye dangling from "some gristly tether."Īnd then we are inside the head of a man peering in the window of a junk shop, noticing an ad from the local shelter seeking a compassionate and tolerant owner. The title is a descriptive word play on the four seasons over which the story takes place, and sets the novel's slightly dark and melancholy tone. Spill Simmer Falter Wither, set in a small seaside town in Ireland, is the story of two outcasts: a socially crippled man and a one-eyed dog, who find - and bring comfort to - each other. Laced with dark undertones, this story about a special human-animal relationship will appeal to many despite its languorous pace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one in town seems to realize their nice, well-mannered Oak King has iron at his core and their fearsome Holly King only wants to make people happy. It's no wonder Will is the embodiment of spring and life as the Oak King and Chester was given the cold, dark Season of Holly. Defiant, outspoken Chester is disliked and avoided despite being a direct descendant of the town's founders. Additionally, the new plan makes it easier for those with a poorer credit score (639 or below) to buy homes, even with a down payment of 5. Quiet, polite Will is the town's beloved adopted son, popular and admired. Under the old plan, that fee would be 1,600 (0.500). To the coven who founded the town, it's a magic so important they entrusted it to the two strongest witches in generations.Will Battle and Chester Sibley are opposites in every way, or so Ravenscroft residents insist. To most people, it's a pagan ritual that has lost all meaning in the modern world, harmless fun during the week of Christmas. Once a year, the town of Ravenscroft celebrates the winter solstice by watching the Oak King symbolically slay the Holly King to ensure the death of winter. ![]() ![]() They could make you like it as they fucked you to death. It was why they were considered the most deadly of the Otherworld. Sparks had flown from his touch, the fire he’d created inside of me, and the feelings I’d felt were dangerous and exciting. Now the Fae are known for manipulating human emotion, especially when they just want to turn on a woman, you just can’t say no! And that’s where Syn finds herself, under the control of this intriguing, sexy but dangerous Fae. She’s nowhere near enthusiastic, even though Ryder, the dark prince, is the hottest man she’s ever seen. She’s recruited to solve the murders… just one thing, she has to work with the Prince of the Dark Fae. Someone or something is killing off Fae and witches. She’s managed to avoid the Fae, until something mysterious starts happening. ![]() If there’s one thing she absolutely hates, it’s the Fae – beautiful, magical, and deadly creatures who she blaims for the death of her parents. Synthia is a witch, human but with the power to wield magic. ![]() I’d read snippets so I knew the hero would be alpha, possessive, controlling and incredibly sexy, I had to give it a go. ![]() I decided to stick to Vampires and Shifters and avoid the rest. There were too many preternaturals and my poor brain couldn’t keep up. I read just one Urban Fantasy book and decided that it wasn’t my thing. ![]() As a lover of Paranormal Romance, it was a given that I’d give Urban Fantasy a try. ![]() |