Her play, Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite, currently running at London's Oval House Theatre, tells the true story of Herculine Barbin, a 19th-century intersexed Parisian whose musings were published by the French philosopher-sociologist Michel Foucault in 1980.
In a long life outlasting most of his celebrated friends, he published, reviewed, edited, translated and wrote not only poetry, but verse plays, memoirs, criticism and letters.
Active in the French intellectual scene all of her life, and a central player in the philosophical debates of the times both in her role as an author of philosophical essays, novels, plays, memoirs, travel diaries and newspaper articles, and as an editor of Les Temps Modernes, Beauvoir was not considered a philosopher in her own right at the time of her death.
After a short sojourn at Southbank, aMAZEme was deconstructed, and the designers donated the many novels, plays, memoirs, and more to Oxfam International.
How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play," a memoir by Darrell Hammond, the organization's founder, which has raised awareness of the charity.
Updike's earliest fiction was published 50 years ago; his output (an industrial term suggestive of powerful engines) -- novels, short stories, essays, criticism, poems, children's books, a play, a memoir -- comes to 54 volumes, with who knows what lavishness lies ahead.
Fifty years later this lovely ballad made its way into Joan Littlewood's Oh, What a Lovely War! at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, one of the many popular period songs that were used in a show that satirically pointed up the grim reality of a war whose horrors had already been documented in poetry, play and memoir by the men and women who were actually there.
On an early autumn morning in the basement kitchen of his house in north London, he is the very model of this look, which has recently been further popularised by Alex Jennings playing two versions of the writer (the public and the private man) in The Lady in the Van, a film version of Bennett's play and memoir about a malodorous evangelist who lived on his drive for many years.
Correction: February 6, 2000, Sunday A picture caption Jan . 23with an article about the the play "The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln" misidentified two actors.
A revival of Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound," in which he was to star, was canceled before it opened because of poor ticket sales for another Simon play, "Brighton Beach Memoirs," with which it was to run in repertory and which also got the hook.
