A story of lust; madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zolas classic novel. The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin; Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt; Madame Raquin; play dominoes... until one day her husband brings along an old friend; the alluring and athletic Laurent. As Laurent and The#180;rese embark on an illicit affair; a turbulent passion is unleashed that drives them ultimately to violence and murder. Helen Edmundsons sensuous adaptation of Th#233;r#232;se Raquin premiered at the Theatre Royal; Bath; in July 2014. [a] compelling; poetic and fleet adaptation#133; riveting The Times period noir; a psychological thriller that will pin you to your seat as surely as a Hitchcock film Daily Mail highly intelligent and horribly compelling Independent
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. delightfulBy joanette seidenThe notion of movement is changed forever after reading this analysis. Same goes for Art and Photography.Book arrived in excellent condition and within the estimated time frame.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. To Think through Movement; To Move through Thought...By StreetlightReaderHow does one come to grips with process? How does one capture a movement? Hitch the implacable? A: You move along with it; blend with its forces; enter into a mutual becoming and make of oneself a line in the flux and tapestry of striations. To think not of movement; but with movement. This is the task that Erin Manningrsquo;s Relationscapes sets itself; poised as it is at the nexus of dance; art; film; and philosophies of process. Less a book of exposition and analysis; Relationscapes is instead a guide to a certain conduct of thought: not lsquo;what to think but lsquo;how to think is at stake in this book. Indeed; to see - or rather to feel - the universe though Manningrsquo;s touch is to feel a universe in constant composition; suffused with tendencies and articulations-in-the-making that never quite congeal into isolated terms without relations.Hence: relationscapes. To lsquo;be is to be implicated and folded though fields of individuation always in excess of any one identity: to be composed by relations; rather than merely entering into them from without; as it were. And it is to these vital fields of excess; this virtual overhang of actual occasions that Manning so vividly draws our attention to though her discussions - demonstrations; really - of movement and affect in the choreography of Anne Terese De Keersmaeker; the lsquo;animate sculpturesrsquo; of David Spriggs; the chronophotography of Etienne-Jules Marey; and even the cinema of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. This is; after all; just what the bookrsquo;s subtitle promises: philosophy; art; and movement; imbricated in an intellectual performance - a graphic choreography - performed by Manning herself.As far as the philosophy goes; Manning does not so much lsquo;read the tradition as much as she puts it to work: the concepts of Alfred Whitehead (whom she accidentally calls lsquo;Albertrsquo; Whitehead at one point!); Gilles Deleuze; Gilbert Simondon and William James are drawn into a singular constellation of Manningrsquo;s making; resonating and playing off each other in order to be folded into her already richly composed chronicle. And of course; more than a mere synthesis; Manningrsquo;s own originality shines through as well; with her development of a vocabulary of lsquo;incipiencyrsquo;; lsquo;pre-accelerationrsquo; and lsquo;intervalsrsquo;; allowing the force of her thought to be felt in its own right; expanding upon and deepening the many insights offered by the intellectual inheritance she draws upon.It should be said though; that to the degree that Relationscapes is in fact something of a performance; its dazzling ornateness can be as exhausting as it is exhilarating. Manningrsquo;s poetics; while playful; constantly turn on flourishes of expression eschew explanation in favour of illustration. This is in line with Manningrsquo;s attempt at lsquo;worldingrsquo; though words; but endless novelty brings with it its own measure of readerrsquo;s fatigue. Still; at its best; Relationscapes is a sparkling example of what process philosophy; done well; can achieve. Manningrsquo;s treatment of Australian aboriginal art (like the gorgeous Emily Kngwarreye painting that adorns the cover); and her sympathetic engagement with autistic experience are two particularly striking instances of exactly this. This is a philosophy-in-the-making all the more interesting for attending to its own vertiginous becoming.1 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Attempting to develop a theory of the incipiency of movementBy ROROTOKO"Relationscapes" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Mannings book interview ran here as the cover feature on April 14; 2010.
