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Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays
Chiori Miyagawa
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Description for Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays
Paperback. Includes seven plays that explore themes of memory and identity. Series: In Performance. Num Pages: 264 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa's "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays" explore themes of memory and identity. Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates - they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease. In one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders - emotionally (as in "Awakening"), physically (as in "Comet Hunter") or socially (as in "Broken Morning"), and the line that separates life and death is thin. In the title play, a woman in ... Read more
The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa's "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays" explore themes of memory and identity. Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates - they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease. In one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders - emotionally (as in "Awakening"), physically (as in "Comet Hunter") or socially (as in "Broken Morning"), and the line that separates life and death is thin. In the title play, a woman in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
In Performance
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420206
SKU
V9780857420206
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About Chiori Miyagawa
Chiori Miyagawa is a Japanese-born American who is playwright-in-residence at Bard College.
Reviews for Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays
"Chiori Miyagawa adamantly refuses to provide those signposts that more comforting dramatists leave to reassure audiences. The force of her work lies in its jarring historical and cultural discontinuities, its mixture of brutality and beauty, its disorienting verbal and visual impact." (Martin Harries, New York University)"