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Culture Corner

    1. Avice Chrichton played in a Sunday night show.

Do you know that Sunday night plays are performances given by amateur actors (sometimes with one or two professionals) in a local pub, theatre, church (as a rule theatres in England don’t give evening performances on Sundays)?

2. Do some research and tell your group-mates about:

-theatre life in Great Britain;

-theatres in London.

You may find the following links helpful:

http://www.visitbritain.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Theatre_Guide

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/britishtheatre/0,,748029,00.html

Part VII Chapters 26-29

Pre-text Discussion

  1. Answer the following questions:

  1. What episode characterizing Julia as an actress struck you most of all? Do you think she will be able to get over her love for Tom and act with the accustomed virtuosity?

  2. Julia intended to settle a score with Avice Chrichton. What are the possible variants of doing it?

  3. Julia doesn’t feel at home with Roger. Account for it. Can Julia be closer to him?

  4. Do you think the ending of the book is going to be optimistic or pessimistic? What does it imply?

  1. Read Part VII and check your answers. General Comprehension

  1. Who said it?

  1. “She’s so awkward, her gestures are so meaningless”.

  2. “Unfortunately for me you’ve taken away my belief in everything”.

  3. “You don’t exist, you’re only the innumerable parts you’ve played”.

  4. “She wants her freedom. She says an engagement would interfere with her career”.

  5. “You simply wiped the floor with her. She didn’t even look pretty in the second act”.

  6. “I shall never in all my life have another moment like this. I’m not going to share it with anyone”.

  1. Who did it?

  1. Who insisted on keeping Avice in the cast?

  2. Who was once greatly impressed by an episode in the wings?

  3. Who advised Julia to leave Roger alone?

  4. Who invited Julia to have tea?

  5. Who considered Julia to be jealous?

  6. Who invited Julia to have supper after the performance?

  1. Mark the following statements as true (t), false (f), not stated (ns). Correct the false statements.

  1. Avice Chrichton was madly in love with Michael. She had fallen for his fatal beauty.

  2. As Julia saw Tom on the platform she hugged him with affection and started asking him questions about his stay in Vienna.

  3. The conversation with Roger was so intolerable that Julia felt relieved when she heard Michael’s car drive up to the house.

  4. At Taplow Roger made use of Tom in order to learn something he wanted to know. He considered Tom to be very intellectual.

  5. Charles believed that Roger might find what he was looking for, if not in God, then in art.

  6. Julia, as usual, was intolerably nervous before the first night.

  7. Everything in Tom’s room was so familiar to Julia, everything meant so much to her. It had been the scene of so many emotions. So Julia could hardly keep from crying.

  8. Michael rehearsed Avice’s big scene in the second act so as to give it all to the girl. But Julia changed the scene completely.