Harold Pinter
2) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Upon its premiere at the National Theatre, Betrayal was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. It won the Olivier Award for best new play, and has since been performed all around the world and made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, and Patricia Hodge. Betrayal begins with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
A Kind of Alaska: A woman awakes after twenty nine years in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. 1 man, 2 women, 1 interior.
Victoria Station: Humorous exchange between a lost taxi driver and a dispatcher. 2 men, 1 setting.
Family Voices: A radio play. Unrelated voices of a mother, father, and son reflect the complexity of familial relationships. 2 men, 1 woman, 1 setting.
12) Sleuth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Locked in a high-tech English manor and bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle have come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife. She is the woman both men are sleeping with. But as wit becomes wicked and clever becomes cutthroat, Wyke and Tindle's game of one-upmanship spirals out of control, escalating in a chess match that can have only one outcome. Someone will be murdered.
16) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
Series
Language
English
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Harry, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and infamous, is married to Louisa, who is smart and sexy. Andy is a suave and ruthless British spy, who had best come through this time, who forces Harry to eavesdrop on the powerful politicians he clothes. Harry's talent for storytelling is not only taken as truth, but sets off a series of events that threatens to destroy everything most important in his life.
19) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Vivien Bearing is an English professor with a biting wit that educates but also alienates her students. With her teaching and life both rigidly under control, Vivian would never let down her defenses, until the day comes when they are taken down for her. Diagnosed with a devastating illness, Vivian agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. For eight months her life must take an uncharted course. No longer...