David Belasco

Broschiertes Buch

The Return Of Peter Grimm

Beschreibung

The return of Peter Grimm offers a meditative inquiry into the enduring power of love, duty, and spiritual continuity beyond death. It examines how deeply one life can imprint upon others and questions whether emotional bonds truly dissolve with mortality. At its heart lies the exploration of presence after absence how guidance, affection, and intent linger even when the physical body is gone. The story reflects on the moral weight of familial expectations, particularly the tension between legacy and individual desire. Through the figure of Peter Grimm, it contemplates the unseen forces that shape decision-making in the wake of grief and obligation. The play gently blurs the boundary between life and the afterlife, suggesting that some promises and dreams are too forceful to be silenced by death. Within its portrayal of relationships strained by unspoken truths, it offers a quiet assertion of love s permanence and the belief that influence, especially when rooted in care, can transcend even the finality of death.

Autor

David Belasco (July 25, 1853 May 14, 1931) was a theater producer, impresario, director, and playwright from the United States. He was the first to stage adapt the short novel Madame Butterfly. Many performers, including James O'Neill, Mary Pickford, Lenore Ulric, and Barbara Stanwyck, had their careers begun by him. In order to achieve realism and authenticity, Belasco pioneered several inventive new techniques of stage lighting and special effects. David Belasco was born in 1853 in San Francisco, California, the son of Sephardic Jews Abraham H. Belasco (1830-1911) and Reyna Belasco (n e Nunes, 1830-1899), who had moved to the United States during the California Gold Rush from London's Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community. As a teenager, he began working in a San Francisco theater doing a range of ordinary tasks such as call boy, script copier, and extra in minor roles. While on the road, he gained his first stage management experience. We used to play in any place we could hire or get into a hall, a big dining room, an empty barn; anywhere that would take us, he explained.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9789371810197
• ISBN-10: 937181019X
• Artikelnr.: 75908490