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The Time Being by Joseph O’neill
»In my early thirties, I began to cultivate the friendship of older people—people born twenty or thirty or even fifty years before me. I read many novels in those days. My new friends contained the experiences of life in the way that novels did, with chapters involving marriages, careers, wars, intergenerational dramas, travels, dénouements, deaths. Their biographical force field was strong. They embodied the theme of time. Time was thematic. It was not yet a source of ever-worsening personal harm. Read more. »
One illustration for the New Yorker (AD : Emily Roemer) about Becky, Nurse if Salem, a play by Sarah Ruhl. Becky Nurse of Salem, a dark contemporary comedy by Sarah Ruhl, follows Becky (Deirdre O’Connell), a modern-day descendant of accused witch Rebecca Nurse in Salem
“The playwright Sarah Ruhl burst to prominence nearly twenty years ago, with plays that melded lyricism and whimsy. Her breakout works included “Eurydice,” a retelling of the Greek myth, and “The Clean House,” about a Brazilian housekeeper fascinated by jokes, which was staged at Lincoln Center Theatre’s Mitzi E. Read More.“
Lucas Burtin 