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The After-Dinner Joke in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 14 September 2011. Participants will read The After-Dinner Joke by Caryl Churchill. Unfolding through a sequence of short, episodic scenes and utilizing a large number of characters, the drama explores the ...

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Poverty is No Crime in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 15 June 2011. Participants will read Poverty is No Crime by Alexander Ostrovsky. The play revolves around a marriage of convenience. Alexander Ostrovsky uses criterion of good-heartedness to judge his ...

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Leila and the Madman in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 11 May 2011. Participants will read Leila and the Madman by Salah Abdel Sabour. Inspired by the Classical Arabic story Leila and Majnun , the play is set before and during the Cairo Fire on 26 January 1952, ...

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Macbeth in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 13 April 2011. Participants will read Macbeth by William Shakespeare. One of the four great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth recounts the rise and fall of Macbeth whose hamartia , tragic flaw in Aristotle’s ...

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Private Lives in a Play Reading

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 9 March 2011. Participants will read Private Lives by Noël Coward. Private Lives is a comedy of manners, which focuses on a divorced couple, Elyot and Amanda, who discover that they are honeymooning with ...

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