Tag Archives: plays

almost an evening — ethan coen

Almost an Evening is a series of three one act plays:

Wait­ing: Nel­son is wait­ing in a wait­ing room with­out a door. How did he get there? How can he leave? How long before he can leave? Surely some­body will know, right?

Four Benches: One, a British secret agent, is lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively in the dark. He is not alone though. With him is at least a very naked Texan. But who else is there? And did any­one hear that shot as well?

2009 in books

I just fin­ished my first book for 2010 and realised I didn’t post my read book of 2009. Although I didn’t read that much, I picked good ones. Not all, of course, that would be inhu­man but still.…I did good overall.


year/month author stars title
2009-02 Pink & Ten Pas The adven­tures of Johnny Bunko
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 5
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 6
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 7
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 8

wyrd sisters: the play — terry pratchett & stephen briggs

4 stars

On Dis­c­world live three witches, Granny, Nanny and Mar­grat. One day a baby is thrown into their laps and it hap­pens that it is the son of the dead king. The king, mur­dered by the Duke, who wants to be ruler. Well, the Duchess want to be ruler actu­ally: behind every good man, stands a bet­ter woman. Any­way, the witches decide to get the baby adopted by an actor and his wife, so he stays out of trou­ble until he is ready to rule as the new king. When every­thing goes awry with the Duke (the idea to burn down the whole for­est amongst other things), the witches decide to speed up time about fif­teen years. But is that the right decision?

proof — david auburn

5 stars

It’s Catherine’s birth­day. She is turn­ing twenty-five, but already spent most of her adult life car­ing for her manic-depressive father Robert, hav­ing to dis­gard her own study and stu­dent life. Now that Robert is dead she has dif­fi­culty to get her own life back on track. She doesn’t leave the house with all her father’s stuff and 103 note­books he left behind. When her estranged sis­ter Claire arrives and Hal, a stu­dent inter­ested in her father’s work, shows up, she has to get out of her shell she built after Robert’s death and has to con­front her own desires. She knows she inher­ited her father’s genius for math­e­mat­ics, but has he also enher­ited his ‘madness’?