Daily guide to television and radio Aug 29, 2009
Jean Anouilh s play about a general (Peter Sellers) torn between an old flame and his wife. NR (1962). (Boston Globe)
A playwright's marathon in ancient Greece May 5, 2009
Sophocles wrote the most famous plays about the city Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus and other playwrights, including Jean Anouilh, Bertolt Brecht, Athol Fugard and Wajdi Mouawad, to name a handful, have been inspired millennia afterwards. Dickens's cycle isn't simply an adaptation of these older works. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Imas Sobariah: Putting women's issues on center stage Feb 16, 2009
Plays she has directed - most of which feature strong female characters - include her own Wanci (1995), Kosong (Empty) by M. Noor (1996), Lysistrata (Aristophanes, 1997), Antigone (Jean Anouilh, 2000), Pelayan (Waitress) (Jean Genet, 2003) and Nyai Antosoroh (Strong Women) adapted from the novel Bumi Manusia (Earth of Mankind) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (2007). It was Nyai Antosoroh that really earned Imas acclaim and helped her gain a reputation for representing on the stage the social oppression... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
