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Author:

Druick, Don, 1945- author.

Title:

Tulip and other plays / Don Druick ; preceded by an essay from Brian Quirt.

Publisher:

Livres DC Books,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

347 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Canadian drama--20th century.

Other Authors:

Quirt, Brian, writer of introduction.
Container of (work): Druick, Don, 1945- Tulip.
Container of (work) Druick, Don, 1945- Wildest dreams.
Container of (work): Druick, Don, 1945- All things at once.

Other Titles:

Plays. Selections

Contents:

Tulip -- Wildest dreams -- All things at once.

Summary:

"These plays clustered about the themes of the fragility of love and the ephemerality of life. TULIP (2006). Commissioned and developed by Nightswimming Theatre. Set in the madness of 17th Century Holland during the spectacular and frighteningly strange Dutch obsession with tulip bulbs, TULIP is a wild play about greed, beauty, deceit and botany. The bubble bursts; within days, many are ruined. Starvation and poverty ensue. Adrift in a sea of menacing shadows, the characters of TULIP must now desperately try to reconstruct their shattered lives with only the broken mirror of their hopes and dreams to guide them. WILDEST DREAMS (2013). Developed by Nightswimming Theatre & Playwrights Workshop Montréal. Poor old Jack. It just keeps going bad. Is that any way to have a life, thinks he? Would it rain?, he wondered, gazing fearfully into the dark grey sky. It smelt like rain. A conspiracy of nature? Its no good - Audrey's screwing around. And nobody cares. And nothing makes any sense. WILDEST DREAMS is the story of middle-aged love, or love past middle-age, or the failure of this love. ALL THINGS AT ONCE (2019). Developed by Playwrights Workshop Montréal. A contemporary lamination, an elegy for the authenticity of experience, and for re-claiming one's own life. Which, after all, is the same as love. ALL THINGS AT ONCE features a giant Gulliver, dancing cows, ferocious boundaries, counterfactual history, and shocking deaths. The protagonist, the poet Byron - his delusion (not always charming but somehow courageously engaging) - drives him to seek out a frighteningly desperate truth to the raw reality of his life. A life where love and loss predominate the landscape."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1927599547
9781927599549

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1237368659

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)