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Clockfire
Jonathan Ball
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Description for Clockfire
Paperback. Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising Writer Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce -- plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising Writer Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce -- plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452363
SKU
V9781552452363
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Ref
99-15
About Jonathan Ball
Jonathan Ball is the author of Ex Machina. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Calgary, and is the former editor of the literary journal dandelion. He lives in Winnipeg.
Reviews for Clockfire
'In these spare, nightmarish theatrescapes, Ball directs our 'impossible dreams' by blurring the script between actor and audience, the real and the staged, the lived and the dreamed, the self and the other ... At times reading more as horror-film treatments than prose poems (no doubt Ball's intention),Clockfire finds its strength in irony.'
Winnipeg Free Press '[Ball is] one ... Read more
Winnipeg Free Press '[Ball is] one ... Read more