Author: Tom Stoppard
Narrator: Andrea Bowen
Unabridged: 1 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 06/15/2009
Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but hes hopelessly nave when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, hes confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henrys search for the the real thing in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort in the end. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Andrea Bowen as Debbie Matt Gaydos as Brodie and TV Director Carolyn Seymour as Charlotte Simon Templeman as Henry Douglas Weston as Max Joanne Whalley as Annie Matthew Wolf as Billy Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
CART's faithful adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel follows young orphan Jane Eyre searching for acceptance and love from an aunt who resents and tortures her before sending her to Lowood School. There, after many trials, she learns to become an ...
“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is the fascinating tale of Henry Higgins, a professor of speech ...
Tom Stoppards Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universes influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in ...
The late master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman streamlined Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to expose the contemporary heart of the 19th century masterpiece. Taut with suspense, this critically-acclaimed adaptation focuses on Nora, a young wife and moth...
A 1997 recording of Christina Calvits stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austens classic romantic comedy is a sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off. The tempestuous pa...
An L.A. Theatre Works commissioned adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit.” Adapted from the novel by Kate McAll. In Christie’s clever and beautifully crafted tale, Detective Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter fr...
Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throug...
Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seems destined to destroy everyth...
In the best known of the Bertie and Jeeves series, Bertie's aunt pressures him to steal a silver creamer, and he nearly gets lynched, arrested and engaged by mistake. As always, Jeeves is on hand with a last-minute brainstorm to set everything strai...