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2) Hedda Gabler
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Henrik Ibsen's 1890 drama Hedda Gabler is one of the Norwegian playwright's best-known works and boasts one of the greatest female lead roles in the history of theatre. A new bride, Hedda is bored and disillusioned with her marriage. The reappearance of Eilert, her former lover and recovering alcoholic writer creates havoc in her own marriage to George, a sober academic. When Hedda and George come into possession of the only copy of Eilert's explosive...
3) Cymbeline
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Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
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100 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Martin, a successful architect who has just turned forty, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters."--back cover.
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77 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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A two-act play written in 1979-80 by Tennessee Williams concerning the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime. The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays the institutionalized Zelda at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, with a series of flashbacks to their marriage in the twenties.
8) Amelia 2.0
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When the husband of a dying woman is approached by a corporation pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human's relationship with technology.
10) The intervention
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Four couples convene for a booze-filled weekend, but the true intention for their vacation is an intervention for one of the marriages they believe to be toxic.
11) Diablo
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young Civil War veteran named Jackson wakes up to find his beautiful wife kidnapped by a band of ruthless bandits. With killers around every corner, the lines begin to blur between who the good and the bad are, including Jackson. As a final gunfight looms for our hero and he is asked to risk it all to save the woman he loves, this action-packed western takes twist and turns that will break even the hardest of hearts.
12) Red knot
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A stunningly shot meditation on love and loss, New York newlyweds Peter and Chloe fall into marital crisis while on a research vessel en route to Antarctica. As romantic bliss sours, Chloe takes comfort in the company of the ship's captain, a man who has good reason for setting himself adrift. As they sail towards the end of the Earth, filmmaker Scott Cohen's astonishingly assured, elegantly shot debut passes into troubled, Polanski-indebted waters....
13) The overnight
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1 videodisc (78 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In an attempt to acclimate to Los Angeles, a young couple spends an increasingly bizarre evening with the parents of their son's new friend.
14) The silent storm
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A wild Scottish island provides the backdrop for this tense drama of a stormy marriage between an authoritarian minister and his mysterious wife whose lives are shaken by the unexpected arrival of a delinquent into their home.
15) Love story
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with untimely illness and death.
16) Human traces
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Soon after the arrival of a mysterious young man, contact with the outside world is cut off for Glenn and Sarah, a husband and wife scientist team, trying to return a desolate island in the Southern Ocean, 1000 kilometres from human life, to its natural state. The new caretaker for the island causes upheaval in their marriage, and when Sarah discovers she is pregnant, and that they're trapped on the island with no contact to the outside world.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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With his marriage on rocky ground, dejected one-hit-author Jack Spencer goes "glamping" with his wife, Amanda, in search of a spark. When the isolated retreat suddenly becomes anything but private with the arrival of double booking honeymoon hipsters and a super-hunk landowner, Jack must learn to get over himself as he dives deep off the grid into a comedic exploration of love, failure, relevance, and miniature donkeys.
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wes is a young husband locked in co-dependent discontent with his beautiful and needy wife Karen. Their future prospects are as barren as the sun-bleached dunes that are the surreal setting for their one-room existence.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Talented art student Angelique is madly in love with Loic, a married cardiologist whose wife is expecting their first child. Things take a dangerous turn as Angelique grows less discrete in her affections and her attempts to separate the couple fail.
20) Georgia O'Keeffe
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
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