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Katrina: Modern Plays

Autor Jonathan Holmes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2009
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina narrowly missed New Orleans. The resulting storms breached rotting levees and emptied neighbouring lake Pontchartrain into the city. Marooned by floodwater that swamped over 80% of their homes, the inhabitants had to wait a week without food or clean water before their own government came to their aid.

Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich cultural tradition of New Orleans to tell the story of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. Shedding light on some of the more extraordinary and under-reported aspects of the tragedy, the play portrays an odyssey through a drowned space and a series of encounters with individuals displaced and abandoned within their own city. The plot follows from the death of Virgil, a decadent old New Orleanian, who has been killed by Hurricane Katrina. Trapped by the rising floodwater his partner Beatrice determines to take his body to safety at City Hall. During her journey she encounters a number of other survivors and hears their tales.

A Jericho House production, Katrina premiered at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, on 1 September 2009.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408125496
ISBN-10: 1408125498
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'The stories build up a staggering picture of official lies and personal heroism'
'Holmes' theatrical sensibility is undeniably powerful'
'Painful, pungent and bleakly comic'
'we picture for ourselves the bloated corpses - and the lives seeping away, drop by drop'