MODERN CLASSICS

ANTA Theatre, Theatre Guild Productions, Theodore Mann, Gerard Oestreicher, in association with Hope Abelson, present Christopher Plummer in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun," a new play by Peter Shaffer, also starring David Carradine, George Rose, with Cal Bellini, Tony Capodilipo, Paul Collins, Clayton Corbin, Thayer David, Ben Hammer, Michael Lamont, Michael Levin, Gregory Rozakis, George Sampson, John Vernon, scenery & costumes by Michael Annals, lighting by Martin Aronstein, mime by Madame Claude Chagrin, music & sound effects by Marc Wilkinson, musical director Herbert Harris, production stage manager Randall Brooks, New York production supervised by George Jenkins & Ben Edwards, associate producer Don Herbert, an ANTA presentation by arrangement with David Susskind & Daniel Melnick, directed by John Dexter.

Written against a backdrop of brutal conflict and rising racism across Europe, this collection of writings by Sigmund Freud explore the underlying forces of modern neuroses and war.

En 1945, dans un palace abandonné des Alpes autrichiennes, un écrivain américain traqué, zélateur du fascisme, couvre les murs et les plafonds de ses souvenirs : la Chine de 1924; la France de 1936; l'Espagne de 1938; les Bahamas de 1942. Une méditation sur l'homme et sur l'histoire, par un écrivain canadien anglais de calibre international.

« Visions de Cody est sans doute l’œuvre la plus ambitieuse de Jack Kerouac. Composée d’esquisses du New York des années 1950, du portrait intime des proches de l’écrivain, de la retranscription de leurs conversations sous drogues et alcool, elle constitue le complément indispensable au célèbre Sur la route. «Visions de Cody est une étude de caractère de six cents pages du héros de Sur la route, "Dean Moriarty", dont le nom est désormais "Cody Pomeray". Je voulais entreprendre un hymne immense qui unirait ma vision de l’Amérique avec des mots crachés selon la méthode spontanée moderne. Au lieu d’un simple récit horizontal des voyages sur la route, je voulais une étude verticale, métaphysique du personnage de Cody et de sa relation à "l’Amérique" en général.» Jack Kerouac. »--

"Based on Truman Capote's classic novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's tells the story of a young Southern-born writer, known only to us as Fred, who becomes infatuated with his Upper East Side neighbor: the beguiling, effervescent beauty Miss Holiday Golightly. As Holly pulls Fred into her world of spontaneous parties and luxury, he finds himself increasingly fascinated with this captivating woman"--

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, he agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however - scandal erupts.

" ... An ageing man writes an apology for his rudeness to a librarian thirty-five years earlier, unleashing a dazzling, rancorous comic riff on growing old, regret, rudeness, smoking and 'the world's grandeur'."--Publisher description.

Gora (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj. It is the fifth in order of writing and the longest of Tagore’s twelve novels. It is rich in philosophical debate on politics and religion. Other themes include liberation, universalism, brotherhood, gender, feminism, caste, class, tradition versus modernity, urban elite versus rural peasants, colonial rule, nationalism and the Brahmo Samaj.

In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.

One of the greatest fiction writers in Hindi, Munshi Premchand (1880-1936) wrote over 300 short stories, a dozen novels and two plays over a prolific career spanning three decades. This book brings together 23 classic tales which provide a glimkpse of the author's extraordinary range and diversity.

A community of chickens continually preyed on by hungry foxes is saved by the birth of three wonder chicks, who grow into magnificent flying machines and lead a climatic barnyard battle.