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Classical One-act Play Before Breakfast

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Date: Aug 29-Sep 14－7:30 pm

Venue: Drum Tower West Theatre, Beijing

Tickets: RMB 100-400 Eugene O'Neill is one of America's great playwrights. He wrote more than forty plays and won three Pulitzer Prizes. He is still the only American dramatist to have received the Nobel Prize for literature (1936). Before Breakfast, though one of O'Neill's earliest plays, shows his characteristic control of point of view, conflict, character, and setting. The play was first staged in December 1916 by the Provincetown Players in New York City's Greenwich Village (where Christopher Street, the address of the Rowland's apartment, is located). The play contains little action, and yet it is charged with conflict. The plot is simple and straightforward-a wife onstage berates her offstage husband for 20 minutes. The conflict between them is longstanding and bitter, and it is resolved in the play's horrifying conclusion.

India through Chinese Eyes: Travel Photography Talk & Book Launch

Date: Sep 6－5 pm

Venue: Beijing's Capital M, 3/F, No 2 Qianmen Pedestrian Street

Tickets: RMB 75 With her debut travelogue, The Farther I Walk, the Closer I Get to Me, author Hong Mei becomes the first Chinese woman to backpack across the entire Indian subcontinent. Alongside her husband, travel photographer Tom Carter, she deliberately selected off-the-beaten path areas and survived on an extremely limited budget as the couple drifted for nearly one year across the length and breadth of India. Hong and Carter will be debuting their new book and discussing (in English and Chinese) the transforming nature of independent travel while presenting a photo slideshow of India's brilliantly diverse life and culture. An inspiring event for solo travelers as well as families.

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