Word: giraudoux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Giraudoux created in Ondine a perfect young girl: fresh, vibrant, beautiful, spontaneous, loving. In her, as Maurice Valency has observed, "everything is possible and nothing ever happens...
Unfortunately, the same could almost be said for the Quincy House production of the play. Giraudoux, with his delicate nuances and extremely subtle text, taxes the most talented and careful actors. This play in particular, demands a great deal of skillful technical work as well as fine acting...
Amphitryon 38 is a delightfully adulterous story about gods as gods, gods as mortals, gods as lovers, and woman as Goodness. The Lowell House Drama Group's production of Giraudoux's retelling of the Amphitryon myth (supposedly the 38th version of the tale), while often sloppy and heavy, maintains much of the warmth and high spirit of the script, and is very funny...
...Newton High School, Gerard Prunier '66, a native Parisian, is teaching a French class at approximately the level of French 20. Taught entirely in French, its reading list is impressive and demands much of he 20 students in the course. Among the titles are Cocteau's La Machine Infernale, Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troie N'aura Pas Lieu and Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard...
...Destiny." says Cassandra in Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates, ''is simply the relentless logic of each day we live." Yet the logic of the day is not always immediately apparent. A great many days are filled with portents of doom, but destiny may look quite different...