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Kristy_K
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand
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Pickpick

Read for #classicschallenge2025 Q3: #plays

I saw the play years ago and enjoyed it. Just as dramatic as I remember.

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rubyslippersreads One of my favorites. I especially like the version with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner. ❤️ 16h
Kristy_K @rubyslippersreads I haven‘t seen that version! I‘ll have it look it up. 🙂 13h
Lunakay Amazing! Glad you enjoyed it! 41m
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dabbe
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#wildwomen
Traditions:
1. Watching “Easter Parade“ and “Singin' in the Rain“ every Easter with my Family. Same with “It's a Wonderful Life“ and “A Christmas Carol“ on Xmas Eve.
2. Sitting on the porch during a rainstorm.
3. Getting away with the pups every autumn to see the leaves change.
4. Going with Matt to at least one football game (high school or college) instead of watching from home.
The list goes on ...
Not afraid of judgement. 🧡💜💛

Chrissyreadit all lovely traditions! 21h
TheBookHippie 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️ 21h
dabbe @Chrissyreadit 🧡💜💛 20h
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dabbe @TheBookHippie 🧡💜💛 20h
lil1inblue 💓 💓 💓 All are just lovely - but I adore sitting on the porch during a rainstorm! 😍 6h
dabbe @lil1inblue I have the fondest memories of doing this with my mom, grandma, and sisters. 💙🌧️💙 2h
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Pip2
Hamlet | William Shakespeare
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I made another attempt at reading this classic and I so badly wanted to like it and I couldn‘t even finish it. I know I‘m a minority in this but I‘ve always thought Ibsen was a better playwright.

BookNook You're not alone. Among Shakespeare's critics you have, T.S. Eliot who declared: “Hamlet... is an artistic failure“, stating it was a “mismatch between emotion and object.” Leo Tolstoy hated Shakespeare altogether calling his plays “trivial and positively bad,” and said people admired them only because of cultural pressure. He thought Hamlet was confused, immoral, and full of nonsense. (edited) 1d
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MamaGina
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Pickpick

“Each of us is afraid. It‘s there in the way we hold our cups. It‘s in the way we look about us, squinting into the misty nooks of the bar to see what‘s hidden…….Tonight we‘re not drinking to forget, but to remember and dream. It‘s hope that makes us afraid and I remind myself that a man should be grateful for his fears, because it means he has something to lose and to win.”
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Lindy
Macbeth | William Shakespeare
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I‘m in Stratford Ontario this week, enjoying the theatre festival. Today‘s our last day, with As You Like It and Danté‘s Inferno on the agenda. Favourite so far is a difficult choice, but I think I will never again see such a remarkable production of Macbeth as Robert Lepage‘s, which is set amidst a biker gang in the 1990s. ?❤️

Amiable How fun! 3d
mcctrish I‘m going to see Anne in November with my sister, I saw Sense & Sensibility in July. How amazing that you could just immerse yourself for a week in theatre awesomeness 3d
Cuilin What a fabulous week!! 3d
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Lindy @mcctrish Anne is a wonderful production—I‘m sure you will enjoy the show. 2d
Lindy @Cuilin It‘s been great! 😊 2d
Lindy @Amiable Yes, good times! 😁 2d
Reggie A 1990s biker gang MacBeth?!!!! Sounds amazing!!! 2d
Lindy @Reggie Macbeth‘s court is a motor court motel—brilliant set with use of mirrors and actual motorcycles on stage. Mesmerizing! 1d
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Susanita
Jumpers (Rev) | Tom Stoppard
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Today is not only the anniversary of a horrible day in US history, it‘s also my mother‘s birthday. We lost her several years ago, and Litsy was wonderfully supportive at the time. @Chrissyreadit suggested that I share something special about her, so here goes.

I still think of her often and the influence she had on my life. When I was in high school, she thought it was important that I have some “culture” in my life, so she bought us ⬇️

Susanita …subscriptions to Arena Stage. It was a stretch of the budget, but she thought it was important so she made it work. They were fun mom-daughter dates. I did not, however, see the Tom Stoppard play. It was probably a bit much for me, so my sister went with her that day. 5d
dabbe What a L♥️VELY way to honor your mom. 🧡🩶💜 5d
Bookwormjillk Love this ❤️ 5d
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AmyG All the❤️❤️❤️❤️ 5d
Amiable ❤️🩵❤️ 5d
Chrissyreadit ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘 5d
Chelsea.Poole She‘s lovely. 🤍 5d
Kerrbearlib ♥️♥️♥️ 5d
julieclair This is a beautiful tribute! 💙💙💙 5d
CBee Beautiful 💚 5d
Ruthiella Wonderful way to remember your mother. ❤️ 5d
Eggbeater I'm so glad you have those memories of her. She sounds like she was a wonderful mom. I can tell you really love her. 5d
Deblovestoread Lovely! ❤️ 5d
AnnCrystal 🎭 Lovely 👏🏼🥲 thank you for sharing this precious post with us 💝💝💝. 5d
squirrelbrain ❤️❤️❤️ 4d
LeeRHarry Love this Suzanne 💕 the 11th was also my aunt‘s birthday, she would have been 80 this year. 4d
lil1inblue 💓 💓 💓 💓 💓 4d
CarolynM 🩵 4d
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Hooked_on_books
Translations | Brian Friel
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It‘s here!! National Book Awards longlist week!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Today‘s lists are translated lit and young people‘s lit (you‘ll have to go their website for the latter, which I don‘t follow). I‘ve actually read 2 of these, the Kang and Hunchback, and the Balle and Barrera don‘t release until November, which is always frustrating. I am loving the cover of Sleep Phase and We Computers only has 3 ratings on Goodreads, so I love seeing it elevated here.

squirrelbrain Exciting! I‘ve only read the Kang. I thought I owned Perfection, but apparently not! 🤷‍♀️ Going out for a walk this morning before the weather turns to s*** for a couple of days 😬 so I‘ll have lots of van-time to explore the list later! 😜 6d
BarbaraBB Exciting! I read Perfection, Hunchback and On the Calculation of Volume III and have We do not Part and The Remembered Soldier on my shelves! I loved the ones I read and the Dutch author is very good so I have high hopes for her book! (edited) 6d
Hooked_on_books @BarbaraBB That‘s good to hear about the Dutch author! In past years, I‘ve often found this to be the most interesting of the lists, with books that I would not have found otherwise on it. 6d
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HuzaifaPC
Computers as Theatre | Brenda Laurel

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#Software #Windows #HowTo #Tutorial #CineMatch #Technology

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ShelleyBooksie
The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Wendy Ann Kesselman
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@dabbe and @TheBookHippie - just came across this on social media and thought of you both and your passionate posting. I know we try to keep the content book related but I also want you to know - you are not alone. #silenceiscompliance

TheBookHippie Thank you. ♥️ 3w
kspenmoll Thank you! 3w
dabbe Thanks, Shelley. I know you know that there are a LOT of us who are resisting, fighting, protesting (especially @TheBookHippie), and doing everything we can to fight for our democracy. And we know the lovely Canadians are with us on this. ♥️🇨🇦🤍 3w
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TheLudicReader Accurate. 3w
lil1inblue 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 3w
marleed Couldn‘t agree more. 3w
Dralex090 I have never seen app like this . As a book lover I am excited to be a member .I am new here. Nice to meet you dear 2w
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JenlovesJT47
Arsenic and Old Lace | Joseph Kesselring
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Cary Grant is my fave Old Hollywood actor (I own all 72 of his movies 😳). My fave movie of his by far is the hilarious dark comedy Arsenic & Old Lace. It was filmed in 1941 but released in 1944. During this time, Cary became a United States citizen & donated his entire salary from this movie to the war effort. Can‘t recommend it enough!

insanity runs
in his family — no it
practically gallops!

#haikuhive #moviehaiku #CaryGrant #OldHollywood

lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 3w
AmyG Great movie! I love old movies. 3w
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mrp27 One of my favorites too! 3w
Bookzombie I love this one too! 3w
dabbe Perfect ode-haiku! Love Archie! 🩶🤍🖤 (edited) 3w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🎬😍👍🏼...LOVE Cary Grant! And I'm the worst fan, because I haven't watched all his movies nor do I own them 🤔😂...Bravo! I didn't even know that he donated his entire salary, a sweet Champion!

Excellent Haiku 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🎬🐝💖.

BBC made his life story. I so hope I get to see it one day. Have you? I read that his childhood wasn't a happy one. As an adult, he found his mother (who his father told him was dead), and took care of her 💝.
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AnnCrystal P.S.

I always wanted to see a continuation to Arsenic & Old Lace...a fun storyline might be where Mortimer's child or grandchild comes to own the “house“ by inheritance. It's been all boarded up and abandoned by Mortimer. The grandchild goes against the warning left by Mortimer, and plans to open a restaurant or B&B only to learn the place is haunted by the buried bodies in the basement and “the uncle.“

I'm always making up continuations 😂🎬💝.
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JenlovesJT47 @AnnCrystal ooh that sounds so intriguing! You should write some fanfiction! I downloaded a copy of the play today, I‘ve never read it. There are a bunch of Cary bios, I‘m not sure which one the BBC is but I‘ve seen most of them, they‘re very good. Jason Isaacs played Cary in a movie a couple of years ago, based on Dyan Cannon‘s book about him. It‘s not perfect but he did a good job. They focus a lot on his mom and their difficult relationship. 3w
JenlovesJT47 @AnnCrystal I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the bio I‘d call the “definitive” one, but it came out in the mid 2000s and I have a copy of it on DVD somewhere, I‘ll have to dig it out. The movie with Jason Isaacs is called Archie. It‘s a miniseries. They mess up the timelines of some of the dates which irked me, but other than that, I enjoyed it. Dyan‘s book is very good, as is his daughter‘s, Jennifer. Can‘t get enough of Cary. ♥️ 3w
AnnCrystal Thank You @JenlovesJT47, I will keep this screen shot for reference info...I need to become a better fan 😂👌🏼, even with my Batman obsession, I am so far behind on info. 💝🤔💝🤗💝. (edited) 3w
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