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Eurydice is a play by French writer Jean Anouilh, written in 1941. The story is set in the 1930s, among a troupe of travelling performers. It combines skepticism about romance in general and the intensity of the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice with an other-worldly mysticism.
Eurydice est une pièce de théâtre de Jean Anouilh créée au théâtre de l'Atelier le 18 décembre 1942 dans une mise en scène et des décors d'André Barsacq. Elle fait partie des Pièces noires avec L'Hermine ( 1931 ), La Sauvage ( 1934 ) et Le Voyageur sans bagage ( 1937 ).
May 10, 2019 · Perhaps best known of the Pièces brillantes is Ring Round the Moon. Recalling the ludic wit of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (pr. 1895), Ring Round the Moon features twin brothers intended to be played by the same actor, with split-second entries and exits.
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Works, such as Antigone (1944), of French playwright Jean Anouilh juxtapose harsh reality and fantasy. A Basque family bore Anouilh in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux. From his father, a tailor, Anouilh maintained that he inherited a dignity in conscientious craftsmanship.
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Anouilh's Eurydice: A Mystical Initiation Rite by Adriaan de Wit WE KNOW THAT IN ANTIQUITY MYSTICAL INITIATIONS took place at Eleusis and other sacred places. The process consisted in raising the consciousness of aspirants to omniscient, cosmic awareness by means of ceremonial magic, and was supervised by high priests functioning as soul guides ...
Pièces noires (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1942) – comprises L'Hermine, La Sauvage, Le Voyageur sans bagage, and Eurydice; L'Hermine translated by Miriam John as The Ermine, in Jean Anouilh ...
Eurydice by Jean Anouilh - The 5369th greatest book of all time. The play reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the perspective of his wife, Eurydice, a young actress who dies tragically in a car accident. In the afterlife, she is reunited with her father, and they share a bittersweet existence in the underworld.
