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Description for Lidless
Paperback. Lidless is a work of extraordinary intelligence and finely-balanced sensibility. It marries the implacable logic of a Greek tragedy with an all-too-modern setting. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful drama Lidless asks important and difficult questions: is guilt a necessary form of moral reckoning, or is it an obstacle to be overcome? Will the price of national political amnesia be paid only by the next generation - the daughters and sons who were never there? It's been fifteen years since Guantánamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and demands that she donate ... Read more
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful drama Lidless asks important and difficult questions: is guilt a necessary form of moral reckoning, or is it an obstacle to be overcome? Will the price of national political amnesia be paid only by the next generation - the daughters and sons who were never there? It's been fifteen years since Guantánamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and demands that she donate ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408152881
SKU
V9781408152881
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Ref
99-5
About Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale, and the Santa Fe Art Institute, and is under commission from South Coast Rep and Seattle Rep. Frances received an MFA in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, a BA in Sociology from Brown University, and a certificate in Ensemble Created Physical Theatre from ... Read more
Reviews for Lidless
Intelligent [and] impassioned
Dominic Maxwell
The Times
Potent and seething with justified indignation.
Maxine Szalwinska
Sunday Times
Although it was stylishly written, although the governing metaphor and basic realism were held in a fine balance - it also recalled the political urgency which propelled a previous generation of writers into the theatre in the ... Read more
Dominic Maxwell
The Times
Potent and seething with justified indignation.
Maxine Szalwinska
Sunday Times
Although it was stylishly written, although the governing metaphor and basic realism were held in a fine balance - it also recalled the political urgency which propelled a previous generation of writers into the theatre in the ... Read more