Fabulous Quotes From Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director, who's La Vie Matérielle (as well as Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own) is the basis for Irina Brook's upcoming Shakespeare's Sister (or La Vie Matérielle) at La MaMa. 

We've found some fabulous quotes (with the help of www.brainyquote.com) attributed to Duras that we's like to share: 

"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny."

"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that." 

"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."

"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."

"The best way to fill time is to waste it."

Come see Irina Brook's 
Shakespeare's Sister (or La Vie Matérielle) 
at The Ellen Stewart Theatre.

September 20 – October 6, 2013

Tickets are $25 for adults; $20 for students and seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are availavle as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 initiative.

For tickets call 212-475-7710 or Click Here.

New York Times Fall Theater Preview

Steven McElroy's Fall Theater Preview in the New York Times took a look at I CAME TO LOOK FOR YOU ON TUESDAY as well as mentions for A SERIES OF ONE, QUEER NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL and Irina Brook's SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER (Or La Vie Matérielle) among "slew of offerings at the downtown mainstay La MaMa this fall."

You can read McElroy's entire Fall Theater Preview HERE. 

59 Things You Didn’t Know About Virginia Woolf

In honor of La MaMa's upcoming production of Irina Brook's Shakespeare’s Sister (or La Vie Materielle), which is partially based on Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One’s Own, we bring you Flavorwire's 59 Things You Didn’t Know About Virginia Woolf:

1. As a child, it took Woolf longer than usual to begin speaking in coherent sentences. 

2. For a time, Woolf wrote while standing at a desk 3’6″ tall because she wanted to be like a painter who could instantly step away from her canvas to get a better view. 

3. While still in the nursery, she was nicknamed “The Goat.” 

4. Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.

You can read the other 55 things: HERE.