"But each spring a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground." - Lewis Gantt "One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring....
T.S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). He exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1
Bush and his advisers in the run-up to the Iraq War; The Power of Yes (2009), the playwright’s attempt, via staged “interviews,” to understand the 2008 financial crisis; and South Downs (2011), a one-act play about a solitary schoolboy’s struggles with friendship in the 1960s. ...
The RNT later experienced success with such world premieres as Michael Frayn’s Democracy (2003) and War Horse (2007), which used elaborate puppetry to bring to life a children’s book about a British cavalry steed in World War I. Hytner directed numerous other shows for the RNT, among ...
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American writer of novels and short stories about lonely and damaged people. Ford attended Michigan State University (B.A., 1966), Washington University Law School, and the University of California, Irvine (M.A., ...