![]() Butterfly by David Henry Hwang.ġ982: Performed as Madame Butterfly in April by the Market Theatre Company in the Market Theatre Restaurant, directed by Richard Haines, with Vanessa Cooke, Beverley Melnick, David Eppel, Robert Whitehead, Charlotte Ewins. Puccini's opera in its turn again inspired the 1988 play M. ![]() The text was published in Six Plays by Little, Brown 1928, and as a single play text by Samuel French, New York in 1935.īelasco's play, along with the original story, were - more famously perhaps - used as sources for the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924). Madame Butterfly was first performed March 5, 1900, at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City, produced by David Belasco. Considered Belasco's most famous work, the play is an adaption of the 1898 short story Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long (1861–1927), in turn based on the recollections of his sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The circus is powered by real magic, with performers frequently pulling off feats that seem impossible to spectators. The circus has no set schedule, appearing and disappearing in random cities and towns without warning. ![]() Le Cirque des Rêves (The Circus of Dreams) features exhibitions such as illusionists, fortune-tellers, and attractions that defy the laws of physics and reality. The Night Circus is a phantasmagorical fairy tale set near an ahistorical Victorian London in a wandering, magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. The novel has a nonlinear narrative written from multiple viewpoints. It was originally written for the annual writing competition National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) over the span of three competitions. The Night Circus is a 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern. ![]() ![]() In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be found meditating, playing music and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order – authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of wealth and power.įollowing the “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, NY that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world. ![]() ![]() Now he says a Chinese fleet brought encyclopaedias of technology undiscovered by the West to Italy in 1434, laying the foundation for the engineering marvels such as flying machines later drawn by Italian polymath Leonardo. Gavin Menzies sparked headlines across the globe in 2002 with the claim that Chinese sailors reached America 70 years before Christopher Columbus. Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book. British historian Gavin Menzies speaks during an interview with Reuters at his home in north London July 15, 2008. ![]() |