2017’s Playwright of the Year Kate Hamill’s adaptation of the two-centuries-old novel Pride and Prejudice is set to run on the Syracuse Stage from March 20 – April 7, 2019. Image Via Biography A little history: A comedy of manners in Britain’s Regency era, the novel charts the emotional development of Elizabeth Bennet, known as Lizzy, whose family faces a financial crisis. Her mother urges her to marry any man who can provide for her and right on her porch are two men: Mr. Bingley, who’s rich, and Mr. Darcy, who Elizabeth falls head over heels for, in spite of the fact …
Today, the Tuesday March 19th, shortlist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize has been announced. Here’s a little history: the Wellcome Book Prize is the annual British literary award that was started in 2009. Sponsored by Wellcome Trust, The Guardian describes the prize as a “£30,000 award [which] is open to fiction and non-fiction, and aims to celebrate a book that best illuminates “the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives”. There are six books in the final roundup and, as described by the organize itself—the 2019’s shortlist has “works covering gender, mental health, trauma, and death.” …
It’s hard to believe that nearly sixty years ago in 1960, Harper Lee’s literary classic To Kill A Mockingbird hit the shelves. From Atticus Finch’s wise words, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,” to the roller coaster of emotions that is the Tom Robinson Trial to Scout Finch’s loss of innocence to her transition into adulthood, the story has stayed in our hearts ever since. The story has been written through words, visualized by the film adaptation, but we’ve hardly had a definitive sound to the story. Image Via Amazon If you would please, …
It’s hard to believe that nearly sixty years ago in 1960, Harper Lee’s literary classic To Kill A Mockingbird hit the shelves. From Atticus Finch’s wise words, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,” to the roller coaster of emotions that is the Tom Robinson Trial to Scout Finch’s loss of innocence to her transition into adulthood, the story has stayed in our hearts ever since. The story has been written through words, visualized by the film adaptation, but we’ve hardly had a definitive sound to the story. Image Via Amazon If you would please, …
Did you know that just last week, Agnes Idella Jones Owens, affectionately called “Dorothy” by her friends and family, turned ninety-seven-year-old? You may not have heard her name, but you need to know her story because let’s face it: a lot has changed in America in the last hundred years, and ninety-seven-year-old Agnes Idella Jones Owens has lived through the most of it. The best part? She has an impeccable memory too – on Amazon it’s written that “[h]er amazing memory recalls her life as early as three-years old and includes details like names and dates that most forget.” Image Via Summerowens That’s …
