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...mean, besides just messing around, but it’s written into the script, a lot of it. And I think it’s less supposed to be accurate and more supposed to be ridiculous.RR: Do you have anyone who inspired you for the role of an adulteress?EB: Well, that’s a bit difficult. I don’t think I could name that one without getting in any trouble. So I’ll have to go with no.Delon J. de Metz ’10RR: Who do you play?DD: I play Edouard...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: French Farces at Adams House | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...bodies in psychology, politics, ethics, religion. Middleton dramatized incest, an adult son obsessed with his mother's sexuality, a husband happily pimping his wife, a husband literally selling his wife, a husband brutally raping his wife. He wrote of transvestism, stalking, sexual blackmail, castration, impotence, masochism, necrophilia and an adulteress forced to eat her lover's corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bawdy Bard | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...hotel upholstery. The music, composed by Leonid Desyatnikov, is catchy if far too loud. Michael Chybowski, the lighting designer, creates beautiful scenes of glowing parasols, gleaming water and golden dust against the black background of the stage. The actors, especially Waterston as the beautiful and fiercely determined young adulteress, are all competent, though their frenetic energy is not enough to ward off the interminable boredom that the slow-moving staging imposes. Lady With a Lapdog also features what has to be one of the most bizarre and entertaining sex scenes in the history of theater, in which Gurov copulates with...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Lapdog’ Fails To Fill Space | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...loved the thieves, prostitutes and sinners shunned by the “righteous” of his day. His longest conversation with an individual in the Bible is with a sexual sinner many times over, the Samaritan woman in John 4, and he saves the life of an adulteress by telling an angry crowd, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone...

Author: By Kate G. Ward, | Title: Drop the Stone | 1/22/2003 | See Source »

...most often. Although Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is said to have discouraged the practice because of the brutal image it gave Islam, conservative judges have inflicted the punishment recently, most likely to embarrass and undermine reformist President Mohammed Khatami. Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large enough to cause pain but not large enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting Stones | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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