Marc Robinson

Discusses the words various languages, including English, Spanish, Chinese, and Hebrew, use for such sounds as a dog's bark, a train's whistle, and water dripping.

"Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy's haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma, madness and terror. Her understanding of the inner lives...

Interweaves the stories of 20 young women trying to win the Miss India crown along with an examination of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls.