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Faust in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 12 August 2009. Participants will read Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe’s masterpiece, a classic of German and Western literature published in two parts, dramatizes the ...

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Ezbet Panayotti in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in Arabic on Wednesday, 29 July 2009. Participants will read Ezbet Panayotti (Panayotti Manor) by Mahmoud El-Saadany. The play takes place at the eve of the sixth decade of the last century when Egypt was a British ...

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The Seagull in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 8 July 2009. Participants will read The Seagull by Anton Chekov. The play dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingénue, the fading actress, her son the ...

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Yerma in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 10 June 2009. Participants will read Yerma by Federico García Lorca. Written in 1934, Yerma is the story of a woman slowly driven mad by her inability to understand why she cannot have a ...

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Miss Julie in a Play Reading at the BA

Alexandria— The Reference Services Unit is holding its monthly play reading in English on Wednesday, 13 May 2009. Participants will read Miss Julie by August Strindberg. A naturalistic play written in 1888, Miss Julie is a play about social class, love, lust, power, and gender. The young ...

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