A playwright's legacy throbs with anguished, enduring life in "Being Harold Pinter," a work of harrowing intensity and commitment from the Belarus Free Theater at La MaMa, part of the Under the Radar Festival of experimental theater that began this week.
Like Fabrice in "The Charterhouse of Parma," the author makes his way through the Battle of Waterloo -- its literary equivalent, that is -- and comes away not with grand strategies, though in his case he attempts them, but with the enduring life of particular and obstinately colliding details.
Resilience (enduring life conditions, bouncing back and building on meaningful, supporting partnerships) can in itself enable individuals to live with inequities, to endure and survive, and to maybe fight for positive change.
There are times when the action is suspended while Stoppard heaves information at us, especially about Marxist theory or Lenin's famous train journey to Russia, but this remains an enduring, life-enhancing play that brims with intellectual gaiety.
Although antenatal mental distress may be self-limiting for many women, in those with enduring life difficulties, including poverty and abusive relationships, poor maternal mental health may persist.
Her performance parses every nuance in the writer's trajectory of decline — from embarrassment to bewilderment, from terror to loss, from nonentity to a final connection with an enduring life force, where, in the shuffle of dementia, Murdoch somehow finds a dance.
This block, with its enduring street life, its drugs, does not comport with the life she is building.
Those years abroad left the young Edith with vivid memories of Italy, France, and Spain, and an enduring dissatisfaction with life on this side of the Atlantic.
The skills with an enduring shelf life will be the uniquely human skills – emergent leadership, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, creativity and complex problem-solving.
Q: Your new memoirs, "An Enduring Love: My Life With the Shah," offer a reverential look at your late husband, Reza Pahlavi, who ruled Iran from 1941 until he was toppled in 1979.
