Word: plat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Veaux, 40, chef of the classic Parisian restaurant Lasserre: "Don't do too much. Concentrate on one plat. One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. She or he will become lost. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Perhaps no plat has passed so quickly into the standard repertoire as Tom Stoppard's early masterpiece. If you've never seen it, you own yourself a treat, like the first time you read Lewis Carroll or Evelyn Waugh. R & G is an actor's showcase, and if the eponymous reads are any good-you should laugh from the beginning until the surprisingly, tender conclusion. The play is about two characters in search of a language and contains the most brilliant wordplay on the English stage (always rich in wordplay) since Shakespeare or at least Wilde...
Included in the group's traveling repertory is The Water Play, a short work about the revolutionary implications of ecology. The play tells two mortality tales-the first mourning the death of a once-upon-a-time lovely river (killed by a polluting Union Carbide plat) and the second extolling praise upon the Good Samaritan who saves a weary, fellow traveler from the certain doom of thirst, resulting from the impurification of the river's water...