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Albert’s Bridge in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 14 July 2010. Participants will read Albert’s Bridge by Tom Stoppard. The play is about Albert, a bridge painter, who finds his peace of mind in the geometrically ordered bridge girders, away from the chaos ...

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Animal Farm in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 9 June 2010. Participants will read Animal Farm based on the novel with the same name by George Orwell and adapted by Peter Hall. Animal Farm is a dystopian (anti-utopian) allegorical text that satirizes the ...

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Fate of a Cockroach in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 12 May 2010. Participants will read Fate of a Cockroach by Tawfik Al-Hakim. The play depicts the feelings of a husband while watching the struggle of a cockroach to climb out of the bathtub. The husband, in ...

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Julius Caesar in a Play Reading at the BA

The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 14 April 2010. Participants will read Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. One of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies, the play deals with the rise and fall of Caesar and his friend Marcus Brutus. Brutus joins ...

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Agamemnon in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 10 March 2010. Participants will read Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Agamemnon is part of The Orestia trilogy tracing the fall of the House of Atreus, and the best representation of tragedy as ...

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