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Quiet, elegant, French Canadian adaptation of a one-character play about an Algerian refugee / schoolteacher leading a class of middle-schoolers through grief and loss while managing his own. Yes.
http://www.musicboxfilms.com/monsieur-lazhar-movies-2.php Alex Gibney brings journalist Lawrence Wright's one-man-play to the masses: love it!
It's hard to be funny about death, old age and dying. Olympia Dukakis and Marco Barricelli are sublime in Morris Panych's dark play at the Mark Taper Forum, Music Center, Downtown Los Angeles.
Site: http://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/productiondetail.aspx?id=14490 Man, play, movie, movement, milieu. Documentary about the journey of the groundbreaking play: The Boys in the Band. Mart Crowley was a failed playwright, and a close personal friend of Natalie Wood. Fascinating look at how he turned it around with a little help from his friends, (and William Friedkin.)
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