Around the Southern Table
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Around the Southern Table by Rebecca Lang
Often described as 'the father of realism', Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman. Ibsen's A Doll's House is relocated to 1879 India in Tanika Gupta's Audio Drama Award-winning dramatisation, while the provocative and scandalous Ghosts is adapted by Richard Eyre, with the cast of his Olivier Award-winning Almeida Theatre production.
Also featured are vibrant dramatisations of Hedda Gabler, whose desperate heroine is trapped in a suffocating marriage; The Lady from the Sea, about a woman torn between security and passion; and An Enemy of the People, in which a whistleblower reveals an inconvenient truth and is vilified for it.
The casts of these stunning dramas include David Threlfall, Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter.
She learned to cook at her grandmother's heels, apprenticed with legendary Southern chef Nathalie Dupree and earned a culinary arts degree from Johnson and Wales University. She worked as an assistant food editor for Oxmoor House in Birmingham, Ala., before returning to Athens, Georgia.
Her Quick-Fix Southern (Andrews McMeel, March 2011) went into a second printing even before its official launch. Her previous books include Mary Mac's Tea Room (Looking Glass Books, 2005) and Southern Entertaining for a New Generation (Cumberland House, 2004). Her blog, rebeccalangcooks.com, has been featured on the James Beard Foundation's Delights and Prejudices and twice in the Food News Journal's Best of the Blogs. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
She serves her own family at the same dining room table where her precious grandmother, Tom, enjoyed decades of meals with her ten siblings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780848736538 |
| ISBN 10 | 0848736532 |
| Title | Around the Southern Table |
| Author | Rebecca Lang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxmoor House, Incorporated |
| Year published | 2012-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Commended for Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Cooking) 2013 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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