Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho - our pairing with The Blue Room

The Laws of Time and Attraction. 

You may have heard of Coelho's international best-seller The Alchemist - Eleven Minutes is very different.  This daring novel follows the life of a young girl from her beginnings in the Brazilian interior through her adventures in self-discovery and search for love in urban Switzerland.  But the longer she is away the further she drifts away from love.  She develops a fascination with sex - and eventually must choose between a path of darkness, and risk everything to find her own inner light and the possibility of a "sacred" sex in the context of love.  This book is poetic, dream-inducing, sexy and brave.  

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Sage Theatre's production of  The Blue Room
runs November 24th to December 4th, 2010

For tickets call (403)263-0079 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (403)263-0079      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visit www.sagetheatre.com

All performances at the Pumphouse Theatre - 2140 Pumphouse Ave. SW Calgary Alberta

Visit Owl's Nest Books for 15% off the cover price of all Book Nook selections

815 49 Ave SW, Calgary, AB

www.owlsnestbooks.com

Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese – our pairing with Blood: A Scientific Romance

Maybe you can get Blood from a Stone. 

This beautiful novel follows the lives of twins Marion and Shiva.  Brothers who, orphaned by the death of their mother and the disappearance of their surgeon father, come of age as their beloved country of Ethiopia is on the brink of revolution and civil war.  As the novel unfolds the brothers follow in their father’s footsteps – delving into the mysteries and miracles of medicine, love, betrayal, and the inexplicable connection between twins.  This book is epic, magical, and absorbing – take the journey around the world and to the deepest parts of the human heart.   

One being at birth, rudely separated, we are one again.

Sage Theatre's production of  BLOOD: A Scientific Romance 
runs September 30th to Oct 9th, 2010

For tickets call (403)263-0079 or visit www.sagetheatre.com

All performances at the Pumphouse Theatre - 2140 Pumphouse Ave. SW Calgary Alberta

Visit Owl's Nest Books for 15% off the cover price of all Book Nook selections

815 49 Ave SW, Calgary, AB

www.owlsnestbooks.com

Welcome to Sage Theatre's Book Nook!

Welcome to Sage Theatre’s Book Nook – it’s like a bookclub but NO Pressure!  

We’ve teamed up once again with the fine folks at Owl’s Nest Books – and we’ve chosen three books for your reading pleasure.  These books uncover, illuminate, and celebrate some of the themes of Sage Theatre’s 2010-2011 mainstage productions.  So Get Closer and cozy up in Sage Theatre’s Book Nook – connecting what’s on the stage with what’s on the page.

 I’m really excited about the three books we have on offer this year.  I hope you are as captivated, touched, and entertained by these novels as I am.  In this year’s Book Nook, we meet a pair of twins who’s lives become so intertwined that we see their blood connection realized in bold new ways; we will dance with a Brazilian woman who explores the sacred nature of love and sex; and finally, in the not so distant future, we meet a precocious girl on a mission to claim what is hers.