The Retreat from Moscow - Acting Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822219883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 72 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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This perfectly written masterwork shimmers with delicacy and precision.” —The Journal News. “A finely perceptive, eloquently tender and exquisite new play.” —John Simon, New York“Riveting. Subtle and powerful, with marvelous emotional complexity.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker“A tense family drama. Spare, emotionally brutal.” —Time Out New York“A truly devastating piece of theater.” —New York Daily News“The best new play in twenty years
outstanding play about divorce This fantastic play has three characters: Alice and Edward, a married couple both in their 60s and their 30 year old son.Alice and Edward's marriage has been fading for decades. Alice feels they are not close enough and wants Edward to understand and change when she utters lines about going out to dinner like: "Because I don't want to do it because I want to do it. I wa. Just saw it performed. Like bitter cold There are actually two books which play an important part in this play. THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW is a hardcover prop the husband carries around in the opening scene, reading from it whenever he wants to express anything about surviving a bitter cold catastrophe. His wife is producing an anthology of poetry which is still in notebook form, with a few loose pages lying on . Truthful study of a marriage's end This play is a bare and truthful examination of a long-lasting marriage in decline and finally, collapse. The married couple at its center have used their cool intellectual detachment and shared wit to paper over growing problems within the marriage, but when this is no longer tenable, the facade collapses, as do their defenses against real emotion. Their adult son, on
He is a teacher at a boys school, perfectly at home with his daily crossword and lately engrossed in reading about Napoleon’s costly invasion of Moscow. How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? InThe Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again.Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. Jamie, their diffident thirty-two year old son, is visiting for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. With the coiled intensity of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thingand the embracing empathy of Edward Albee’s best family dramas, The Retreat from Moscowshines a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage.. She is an observant Catholic, exacting and opinionated, and has been collecting poems about lost love for a new anthology
He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for Shadowlands and has written numerous other screenplays as well as a forthcoming novel, The Society of Others, and a trilogy of children’s fantasy adventure novels. William Nicholson is the author of the play Shadowlands, which was made into a film starring Anth