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The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza

February 6, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“Bitter. It’s all so bitter.” This is a play from the mid-1990s, and you might otherwise know Yasmina Reza from her play “God of Carnage”, which involves two sets of pretentious upper-class parents duking it out after a playground incident of violence. I have also read her play “Art” which tackles some of the more silly questions related to the contemporary art world. This play only involves two people, passengers on the same train, and is primarily their internal monologues that are dominating their thoughts […]

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vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: yasmina reza ·
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My friend Serge has bought a painting.

Art by Yasmina Reza

Boy by Anna Ziegler

An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein

May 14, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Art – 4/5 Stars From the author of the play God of Carnage, this play begins with a short monologue from one of the three characters explaining how his friend has just bought a new piece of art of 220,000 euros. This painting is solid white, with a white background, but with the smallest indication of three diagonal stripes across the middle and maybe something at the bottom. The friend who bought it is a dentist of modest means and this piece represents a giant part […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an american daughter, Anna Ziegler, art, boy, Wendy Wasserstein, yasmina reza

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:250 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an american daughter, Anna Ziegler, art, boy, Wendy Wasserstein, yasmina reza ·
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Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they’d be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they’re clumsy and maladjusted.

April 28, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a very funny and weird and good play completely ruined by Roman Polanski’s adapting it. The casting was even great…Jodie Foster, John C Reilly, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz….that’s five Oscars right there, plus Roman Polanski adding another. So anyway! I was mad because I otherwise would have watched it, but knowing that I would have been too distracted by the associations I couldn’t. So I read it. In the play, two sets of parents living in New York are meeting after a […]

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vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:115 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: the god of carnage, yasmina reza ·
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Sitting on a French Bench

July 14, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I think I would be pretty mad if a monster who is deservedly a pariah bought the rights to my award winning play. Yasmina Reza had the unfortunate circumstances of having her play The God of Carnage bought up by Roman Polanski and turned into a movie. Anyway, this is an earlier novel that starts with an almost 50 sadsack of a writer fresh off a divorce and nursing a recent glaucoma diagnosis that could leave him blind in one of his eyes. He is thinking […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adam haberberg, yasmina reza

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:281 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adam haberberg, yasmina reza ·
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