de Wet: Plays Two Contributor(s): Wet, Reza de (Author) |
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ISBN: 1840024801 ISBN-13: 9781840024807 Publisher: Oberon Books OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 822.914 |
Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.78" W x 8.32" (0.56 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Includes the plays African Gothic, Good Heavens and Breathing In A farm lies in ruin. And with mother and father now gone, a brother and sister face eviction by an officious lawyer. Abandoned, they endlessly enact the rituals of punishment once visited upon them by their parents. Widely regarded as a milestone in South African theatre, the multi-award winning play African Gothic tells the story of their final 'dance macabre'. Despite overwhelming critical acclaim, it was also fiercely condemned by Afrikaans conservatives as being a subversive portrayal of repression. Good Heavens is a comedy thriller with the dark poetic heart of a folk-tale. Two spinster sisters, with their ailing mother and simple-minded brother, await the annual visit of their youngest sister. Deeply envious of her beauty and youth, they hatch a diabolical plot to rid themselves of her forever. In Breathing In, on a stormy night in the last bitter months of the Second Anglo-Boer War, a seriously wounded General and his faithful Adjutant encounter a mysterious woman and her seductive other-wordly daughter, and are confronted with the subtle methods of survival these women have been forced to adopt. Accustomed to the rigours of war, the corageous Adjutant now faces a terrible choice. |