"BBC Radio 3 in 1993. The actors included John Wood as Charles Arrowby, Joyce Redman as Hartley Fitch, with Sian Phillips, Sam Crane & Peter Kelly. Episode 3 included an interview with Iris Murdoch. A two-part adaptation of ""The Sea, the Sea"" by Robin Brooks appeared on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015. The actors included Jeremy Irons as Charles Arrowby, Maggie Steed as Hartley Fitch, and Simon Williams as James Arrowby. The Sea, the Sea The Sea, the Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1978, it was her nineteenth novel. It won the 1978 Booker Prize."
"""editor"" of the book in a series of afterwords. Though her novels differ markedly, and her style developed, themes recur. Her novels often include upper-middle-class male intellectuals caught in moral dilemmas, gay characters, refugees, Anglo-Catholics with crises of faith, empathetic pets, curiously ""knowing"" children and sometimes a powerful and almost demonic male ""enchanter"" who imposes his will on the other characters—a type of man Murdoch is said to have modelled on her lover, the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. Murdoch was awarded the Booker Prize in 1978 for ""The Sea, the Sea"", a finely detailed novel about the power of love"
"Book 18, Molly Bloom echoes the phrase in the closing moments of her monologue: ""and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire."" Iris Murdoch wrote a novel called ""The Sea, The Sea"" which won the Man Booker Prize in 1978. The following year saw the release of The Warriors, based on the novel by Sol Yurick, which included at the end the line, ""The sea! The sea!"" Thalatta! Thalatta! Thálatta! Thálatta! ( — ""The Sea! The Sea!"") was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black"
"The Sea (play) The Sea is a 1973 comedy by Edward Bond. It is a comedy set in a small seaside village in rural East Anglia during the Edwardian period and draws from some of the themes of Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". Set in 1907, the play begins with a tempestuous storm in which a well-known and loved member of the community drowns and explores the reactions of the villagers and the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the hierarchical, and sometimes irrational, society. At the same time, the town's draper struggles with abuse and"
"The Sea Wall (novel) The Sea Wall () is a 1950 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It was adapted for film in 1958 as ""This Angry Age"" and in 2008 as ""The Sea Wall"". Inspired largely by her own adolescence in French Indochina, Duras wrote this novel in 1950, just after divorcing her first husband and remarrying. In the south of French Indochina, in 1931, a widow is living with her two children, Joseph and Suzanne (20 and 17 years old). Their isolated and uncultivable concession is located in the marsh plain of Ram (Prey-Nop, Sihanoukville Province). Their"
"Theatre (novel) Theatre is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1937 by William Heinemann (UK) and Doubleday Doran (US). The novel describes a successful actress and her husband, a theatre manager; her life and career is disturbed by an stormy affair with a young accountant. In the preface to a collected edition, Maugham writes that during the thirty years between the productions of his first play and his last play, he knew ""a great number of distinguished actresses. Julia Lambert, the heroine of ""Theatre"", is a portrait of none of them. I have taken"
"Irons as Michael. Theatre (novel) Theatre is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1937 by William Heinemann (UK) and Doubleday Doran (US). The novel describes a successful actress and her husband, a theatre manager; her life and career is disturbed by an stormy affair with a young accountant. In the preface to a collected edition, Maugham writes that during the thirty years between the productions of his first play and his last play, he knew ""a great number of distinguished actresses. Julia Lambert, the heroine of ""Theatre"", is a portrait of none of them."
"Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and ""The Red Shoes"", as well as the libretto for the musical ""The Color Purple"" and the book for the musical ""The Bridges of Madison County"". She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School. Norman was born"
"Norman currently serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City, and is Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America. She was honored at the 2011 William Inge Festival for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre. ""Note: plays or musicals unless otherwise indicated"" Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award"
"The Lady from the Sea The Lady from the Sea (Norwegian: Fruen fra havet) is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen inspired by the ballad ""Agnete og Havmanden"". The drama is notable in the Ibsen corpus for introducing the portrayal of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's later play ""The Master Builder"". The character portrayal of Hilde Wangel has been portrayed twice in contemporary film as a culturally relevant portrayal, most recently in the 2014 film titled ""A Master Builder"". This symbolic play is centred on a lady called Ellida. She is the daughter"
"Julia Cameron Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is best known for her book ""The Artist's Way"" (1992). She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays. Julia Cameron was born and raised in a Chicago suburb, and grew up Catholic. She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for ""The Washington Post"" and then ""Rolling Stone"". She met Martin Scorsese when interviewing him for ""Rolling Stone"". They married"
"The Bay of Noon The Bay of Noon is a 1970 novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. A young Englishwoman, Jenny, is working in Naples some years after World War II. Alone in the ruined city, she follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance, through which she meets Gioconda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and her lover Gianni, a noted Roman film director. Meanwhile at work she meets Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As Jenny becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of"
"the three, she discovers that the past is not easily forgotten. The Bay of Noon The Bay of Noon is a 1970 novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. A young Englishwoman, Jenny, is working in Naples some years after World War II. Alone in the ruined city, she follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance, through which she meets Gioconda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and her lover Gianni, a noted Roman film director. Meanwhile at work she meets Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds"
"and is autobiographical in inspiration. Joseph<br> Suzanne <br> (The name of Suzanne refers to the Bible and the episode of ""Susanna and the Elders"" or ""Suzanne in the bath"", which here is replayed as Monsieur Jo asking to see Suzanne naked in the shower.) The mother <br> Monsieur Jo<br> Carmen <br> The Sea Wall (novel) The Sea Wall () is a 1950 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It was adapted for film in 1958 as ""This Angry Age"" and in 2008 as ""The Sea Wall"". Inspired largely by her own adolescence in French Indochina, Duras wrote this novel"
"Døre"" from 1877. She published the travel book ""Billeder fra Vestkysten av Norge"" in 1872, and another travel book, ""Billeder fra Midnatsolens Land"", in 1882. Thoresen's personality became a model for several female characters in Norwegian literature, including Ibsen's ""Rebekka West"" (from ""Rosmersholm"") and ""Ellida Wangel"" (from ""The Lady from the Sea""), and Bjørnson's ""Maria Stuart"" (from his 1864 play), the wild girl ""Petra"" from ""Fiskerjenten"" and ""Leonarda"" (from his 1879 play). Magdalene Thoresen Anna Magdalene Thoresen, née Kragh (3 June 1819 – 28 March 1903) was a Danish-born Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is said"
"Katharine Cornell Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York. Dubbed ""The First Lady of the Theatre"" by critic Alexander Woollcott, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for ""Romeo and Juliet"" in 1935. Cornell is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic. The couple formed C. & M.C. Productions, Inc., a company that gave them complete artistic freedom in choosing and producing plays."
"the spring of 1974, directed by Marya Bednerik. The play begins on the night librarian/aspiring writer Ben rescues a beautiful naked woman, Tracy, from the ocean and brings her into his Cape Cod beach house to recuperate. Tracy claims it was not a suicide attempt but that she was dancing in the ocean. Ben doubts this but does his best to take care of her. Soon the two find that they have conflicting personalities, but try to work through them and gradually get closer to one another. Ben is fascinated and amused by her feisty behavior and eccentric sense of"
"her husband. Dr Wangel finally recognizes her freedom to choose since he understands that he has no other options. This goes in his favour as she then chooses him. The play ends with the sailor leaving and Ellida and Wangel taking up their lives again together. The Lady from the Sea The Lady from the Sea (Norwegian: Fruen fra havet) is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen inspired by the ballad ""Agnete og Havmanden"". The drama is notable in the Ibsen corpus for introducing the portrayal of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's later"
"become an actress. Her parents were opposed to that career choice; she lost courage and did not pursue that path but ran away. She fell in love with Norwegian writer Axel Jensen when they were both teenagers. They married, against her parents' wishes. The pair left for the Greek island of Hydra in 1958, where Jensen, already a poet and novelist, was going to write. There, they had a son, Axel Jr., and, she said, she became Jensen's ""Greek muse""; she sat at his feet while he wrote and she carried the groceries up from the harbour to their home."
"in 1978. The play concerns a travelling circus and its star attraction, Siamese twins. Her next play, ""'night, Mother"", would turn out to be her best-known work, given its Broadway success and its star-powered film version. ""'night, Mother"" brought Norman a great deal of recognition. The play, dealing frankly with the subject of suicide, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Hull-Warriner, and the Drama Desk Award. However, her follow-up play, ""Traveller in the Dark"" received scathing reviews from the New York critics, some of whom were as blunt to say"
"Man Booker Prize, which in general promotes good, middlebrow fiction."" A film adaptation has been shot, with Banville having penned the script. The movie is directed by Stephen Brown and stars Ciarán Hinds (Max Morden), Rufus Sewell (Carlo Grace), Charlotte Rampling (Miss Vavasour), and Natascha McElhone (Connie Grace). The film is produced by Luc Roeg, scored by Andrew Hewitt, with cinematography by John Conroy. The Sea (novel) The Sea (2005) is the fifteenth book (thirteenth novel) by Irish writer John Banville. It won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian"
"The Lake (play) The Lake is a British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles. Directed by Jed Harris, the infamous ""big bad wolf"" of American theater, the play was a critical and popular flop, though it had a respectable run of 55 nights. Hepburn in particular drew sharp rebukes in the newspapers, many of which were penned by the same critics who loved her in ""The Warrior's Husband"". One infamous review, by Dorothy"
"'night, Mother 'night, Mother is a play by American playwright Marsha Norman. The play won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The play is about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma. It begins with Jessie calmly telling her Mama that by morning she will be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very evening. The subsequent dialogue between Jessie and Mama slowly reveals her reasons for her decision, her life with Mama, and how thoroughly she has planned her own death, culminating in a disturbing, yet unavoidable, climax."
"This Is the Sea (film) This Is the Sea is a 1997 Irish film directed and written by Mary McGuckian and produced by Michael Garland. It is a romance film, focusing on the relationship between the character Hazel Stokes, played by Samantha Morton, and Malachy McAliskey, played by Ross McDade. The two lovers live in Northern Ireland. Stokes is a Protestant, while McAliskey is Catholic. Their relationship is complicated by the spying of Stokes' brother Jef, played by Marc O'Shea, and by the attempts of Rohan, played by Gabriel Byrne, to recruit McAliskey into the Republican movement. The film also"
"Oates was a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016. Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I"
"Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I Lived For"" (1994), ""Blonde"" (2000), and short story collections, ""The Wheel of Love"" (1970) and ""Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories"" (2014)"
"marrying in 1975. Between the two, they have four children, Alexander's son Jace and Sherin's three sons, Tony, Geoffrey, and Jon. Jane Alexander Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American author, actress, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner. Alexander made her Broadway debut in 1968 in ""The Great White Hope"" and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, ""6 Rms Riv Vu"" (1972), ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1988), ""The Sisters Rosensweig"" (1993) and"
"although he himself is unaware that they are related. She falls in love with a young fisherman named Peter, but her love for painting and rumours about her friendship with a French painter, separates them. They come together again at the end, and Peter proposes. She accepts but says she wants to carry on learning to paint. She is also reunited with her father, who was really the man she thought was her uncle. Between Two Seas Between Two Seas is a children's novel by Marie-Louise Jensen, published in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. It"
"and ""Sun & Moon"". Fiona Templeton Fiona Templeton is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer. Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's ""Theatre of Mistakes"" in the 1970s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance work includes the pioneering urban theatrical journey, ""You-The City"". She has received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2002); and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Judith E. Wilson Fund at Cambridge. She is founder and Artistic Director of The Relationship. The Relationship, founded in"
"Sophia Lee Sophia Lee (1750 – 13 March 1824) was an English novelist, dramatist and educator. She was the daughter of John Lee (died 1781), actor and theatrical manager, and was born in London. Her first piece, ""The Chapter of Accidents"", a three-act drama based on Denis Diderot's ""Le père de famille"", was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780 and was an immediate success. When her father died in 1781, Lee spent the proceeds of the play on establishing a school at Bath, where she made a home for her sisters Anne"
"A View of the Harbour A View of the Harbour is a novel by Elizabeth Taylor. First published in 1947 in England and the United States, it was her third novel. It is the first of her novels in which one of the main characters is a creative artist. The relationship of the artist to society and other people was to be an important theme in Taylor's subsequent work. The narrative, which is set in a postwar English seaside town, is told from the points of view of several characters. The story involves an abortive love affair between the husband"
"Keller in Her Story"" (1954), becoming the first woman to win that award. Nancy Hamilton Nancy Hamilton (July 27, 1908 - February 18, 1985) was an American actress, playwright, lyricist, director and producer. Hamilton was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1909 and graduated from Smith College. At Smith, she was active in the theater and was president of the school's Dramatic Association her senior year. She caused a bit of a scandal at the college with ""And So On"", a tropical revue that she wrote and directed. Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke, in their book ""The"
"which she had previously directed, also for The Canterbury University Players, in 1946. The subject was close to the author's heart. In 1981 she wrote to her close friends Maureen (née Rhodes) and John Balfour that the novel had been in her mind for a long time, was 'hell' to write and would, she thought, appeal to theatre people rather than to her usual fans. Her characteristic modesty proved her wrong, as the novel sold extremely well, receiving especially favourable reviews in the US. Her biographer describes the novel as effectively Ngaio Marsh's third production of the play. Like Shakespeare's"