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How the World Began de Catherine Trieschmann

How the World Began

Autor Catherine Trieschmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 oct 2013
A provocative, intelligent, and deeply felt play from the author of Crooked and The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock, Catherine Trieschmann, that earned critical acclaim Off-Broadway at The Women's Project. A Manhattan woman travels to a rural town in Kansas recently devastated by a tornado to take a teaching job in a makeshift high school. But when she makes an off-handed remark regarding the origins of life, she unleashes community outrage and the particular distress of a disturbed young boy. In an intimate and artful inquiry of her character's very souls, Trieschmann invites audiences to consider their own beliefs and their perhaps unspoken opinions of others.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780573700583
ISBN-10: 0573700583
Pagini: 66
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Samuel French, Inc.

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Sharp, thoughtful and mysterious, How the World Began is a powerful story about an outsider in a close-knit, devastated community.

Susan, a science teacher from Manhattan, starts work in a small rural Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado. When one of her pupils - the damaged, articulate Micah - takes offence at an off-the-cuff remark about how life on Earth began, Susan is thrown into an ethical firestorm about science and faith that leads to her fearing for her safety.

Casting light on the tension between religion and secular liberalism, How the World Began explores the debate between creationism and evolution, and how this is taught in schools. With hints of American classics like Inherit the Wind and The Catcher in the Rye, the play traces the inexorable, fatalistic momentum from a single casual act into an all-encompassing dispute. A dispute which then threatens the very foundations of a community still reeling from a colossal disaster. In addition to its relevant and complex themes, the play is also about human psychology and what drives people to extreme ideological positions in times of duress.

With writing which is provocative, moving and intelligent, Catherine Trieschmann asks important questions alongside in-depth character studies. This shrewd and compassionate drama is astute, perceptive and controversial.

Recenzii

Catherine Trieschmann's gripping three-hander is very much in a tradition of American issue plays such as David Mamet's Oleanna and Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter... The cleverness of this piece...is that its central drama is not about science versus creationism, but about faith and faithlessness, the gap between east-coast liberalism and small-town America, and about the way we dismiss other people's points of view.
Faith and science collide in one small room, and sparks fly spectacularly in this drama by the American writer Catherine Trieschmann... The play is gripping, disturbing and relevant... Trieschmann's writing is taut and laced with irony.