Arthur Hastings (Jake Leif) who has returned from the Great War with wounds both seen and unseen. Photo: Anya MagnusonĬhristie wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles in answer to a challenge from her sister to, “write a mystery that will keep people guessing to the end.” She answered the challenge by writing this brilliant novel filled with eccentric characters, all of them hiding something, and connected in some way. They guard their secrets even as they’re accused of murder.Ĭast of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, on stage at Theatre in the Round through 12/18/22. In what was to become her signature style, she creates a cast of characters who all have something to hide. Poirot has a line, “Suspect everyone,” and I did! Christie brilliantly sets up this mystery to keep us guessing. As I watched the stage production, I questioned everything. I listened to the audio of The Mysterious Affair at Styles about a year ago, and I thought I knew who the murderer was, but many of the details were gone from my memory. You can see her adaptation of Christie’s first mystery novel, and the introduction of her famous detective Hercule Poirot at Theatre in the Round, through Dec. “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” is a masterpiece with strokes as genius as any Vermeer or Monet. Kate Danley, playwright. Poirot has a line that says: Everything is important. Quote of the Day: As I sat down to adapt her story, time and again I was left in awe, staring at the page with my jaw hanging, at what she did.
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Tangles provides a window on the complexity of Alzheimer's disease, and ultimately opens a knot of moments, memories, and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart. In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimers disease transformed her mother Midge-and her family forever. Midge, a Harvard-educated intellectual, struggles to comprehend the simplest words Sarah's father Rob slowly adapts to his new role as full-time caretaker, but still finds time for word-play and poetry with his wife Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge get to sleep, rage about family friends who have disappeared, or collapse in tears at the end of a heartbreaking day. 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I: Beginnings - European expansion and Catholic settlement - The English re formation and the Puritans - Other beginnings - II: Americanization - A renewal of piety, 1700-1750 - The churches in the revolution - The revolution in the churches - III: The "Protestant century" - Evangelical mobilization - "Outsiders" - "Evangelical America," 1800-1865 - His dominion: "Christian Canada" - The last years of "Protestant America," 1865-1918 - IV: The emergence of religious pluralism - The Civil War - Non-white, non-Protestant - Protestantism shaken - Legacies of "Christian America" - V: Wilderness once again? - Turbulent decades - Trends - Communities - Personalities, leaders, exemplars - American Christianity, Christianity in AmericaĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:05:50 Boxid IA40083316 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Includes bibliographical references and index Discusses how Christian thought has influenced various issues over the years and includes black-and-white photographs and illustrations Chronicles the history and development of Christianity in the United States and Canada, detailing its growth and overall presence through the years. |