Profiles the dynamic and tumultuous, 50-year, on-again, off-again "open" marriage of Willem and Elaine de Kooning, whose lives were at the epicenter of the postwar art world. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage : The Lives of Willem and Elaine De Kooning

Hall, Lee

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

Author Lee Hall takes the unusual tack of melding the hypothetical life” of one mythological beingthe goddess Athenainto a single, chronological narrative. By drawing upon the richness of ancient history, archaeology, and classical art and literature, she follows the metamorphosis of Athena's identity, tracing through it not only the origins of our concepts of justice and revenge, our attitudes toward wisdom and the useful arts, but the disturbing mistrust of women inherited from the ancient world, as well as the struggle between male and female that attended the very birth of western culture.Hall traces the earliest vestiges of Athena back to the fertility and survival rituals of prehistoric Crete. She then follows this diety associated with the mother goddess” as she migrates to the mainland. But once there, Hall finds, Athena becomes an honorary male,” complete with helmet, spear, and sheild. The goddess once associated with rituals of nurturing and fecundity now relishes the savagery of war, even masterminds the triumph of the Greeks over the Trojans in Homer's Iliad. Athena forsakes her elemental female virtues and identity as she is co-opted by the male-dominated warrior culture of the Mycenaeans.The third distinctive phase of Athena's career is as the special deity of Athens, wher she makes herself felt in the great festivals, art, and architecture of her city, but here too she must betray her gender as the price of civilization. In completing the transition to urban life, one of her last acts is to drive underground the Furies, trapping and containing the ancient and angry female energy.Athena is thus a profound and often troubling exploration of the changes in human consciousnessespecially with regard to gender and powerthat brought humanity from fertility cults to the Age of Heroes to a time that embraced civic order and the search for wisdom and beauty. A fascinating story, is is also a boon to anyone looking for an entertaining and comprehensible narrative that effectively weaves together the Homeric epics, Greek drama, and modern archaeological discoveries.

Athena: A Biography

Religion & Spirituality

Da Capo Press

Life and painting of Wallace Herndon Smith, American painter born in 1901

Wallace Herndon Smith: Paintings

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Abe Ajay

The brilliant and meticulous relief constructions, executed mainly in geometrically shaped bits of natural and colored woods, suggest ordering and reordering, the connections and interconnections between the intellect and the world. An important and beautiful study of the man and his work, with 112 illustrations, 78 in color. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The brilliant and meticulous relief constructions, executed mainly in geometrically shaped bits of natural and colored woods, suggest ordering and reordering, the connections and interconnections between the intellect and the world. An important and beautiful study of the man and his work, with 112 illustrations, 78 in color. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A Christmas pantomime with an Italian accent from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic Company
 "Two wages. Two men's meals. Am I mad? Not half." Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook and crook is one of the great classic commedia dell'arte scripts of world drama. In this new, rapid fire adaptation by award winning dramatist Lee Hall, the language has been updated to now in order to give the action the fast-paced feeling of a Christmas pantomime.A cracker of a version certain to please all and fill the theatres.

Servant Of Two Masters

Literature & Fiction

GOLDONI, Carlo

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Two comic plays by Lee Hall which have had success at the Edinburgh Festival and are coming to London in February 2000Cooking with Elvis is a domestic play that is both farcical and upsetting. Mam and Jill live together in an uneasy calm. Jill is overweight and a fiendish cook who whips up one exotic dish after another. Her father (and Mam's husband) is stuck in a wheel chair as the result of a stroke. He can neither speak nor move, but he can hear. He was a famous Elvis impersonator and from time to time steps out of the wheel chair in a series of fantasy scenes to give stirring renditions of some of Elvis's most famous hits. But Mam brings into the house a new young lover whose presence in the house become the source for hilarity and big time trouble. The ending is a deadly one, you can be sure. The play has been compared to the early black farces of Joe Orton. Also included in this volume is Bollocks!, Lee Hall's contemporary version of the Expressionist German playwright Ernst Toller's Hinkemann, which has been updated from twenties Bavaria to contemporary Tyneside.

Cooking With Elvis & Bollocks (Modern Plays)

An award-winning play which took the nation by storm when first heard on BBC Radio 4, now in a new stage version
 Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. A monologue by an exceptional autistic seven-year-old girl called Spoonface Steinberg, who is dying of cancer, touched the hearts of all who heard it. It is a moving, funny and exhilarating piece of drama. The radio version was immediately repeated due to popular demand and a cassette of the play was rushed into shops and has sold over 80,000 copies. This play edition was performed in Sheffield's Crucible Theatre in December 1999 and then in London's West End in January 2000 at the Ambassador's Theatre. The production starred Kathryn Hunter."And what was the meaning of all these things? And the meaning was as if you found the spark - and it was finding the sparks inside you and setting them free" (Spoonface Steinberg)

Spoonface Steinberg (Modern Plays)

A hilarious dramatisation of a classic children's storySince it first appeared in 1883, Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the mischievous puppet who becomes a boy has enchanted readers of all ages. Now dramatised by Lee Hall (acclaimed writer of Billy Elliot, Spoonface Steinberg and Cooking with Elvis) Pinocchio's hilarious and treacherous journey through childhood comes alive in the spirit of the Italian commedia dell'arte and good old-fashioned slapstick.The Adventures of Pinocchio, directed by Marcello Magni, premiered at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in November 2000.

Pinocchio (Modern Plays)

COLLODI, CARLO

A new version of Holland's most popular play, brilliantly adapted by Lee HallDisplaying his characteristic disdain for bourgeois hypocrisy, in The Good Hope Heijermans takes up the cause of exploited fishermen. Set in Whitby, this fresh adaptation by Lee Hall breathes new life into a modern European classic.This adaptation is published to tie in with the play's premiere at London's National Theatre in November 2001, to be followed by a nationwide tour.

The Good Hope (Modern Plays)

Heijermans, Herman

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Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage : The Lives of Willem and Elaine De Kooning

Athena: A Biography

Wallace Herndon Smith: Paintings

Abe Ajay

Abe Ajay

Servant Of Two Masters

Cooking With Elvis & Bollocks (Modern Plays)

Spoonface Steinberg (Modern Plays)

Pinocchio (Modern Plays)

The Good Hope (Modern Plays)