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Joy and Tyranny (Paperback)
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Joy and Tyranny (Paperback)
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
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Loot Price R390
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'My preoccupation,' says Arnold Wesker in his interview/portrait
Ambivalences (published by Oberon Books) 'with-violence-stemming
from-perceived-intimidation-by-the-bright-ones who dare to be cleve
ror simply different, began with an incident at school. While
queuing for a school meal, one of the other boys wanted me to try
his liquorice stick .I didn't want to. This other pupil insisted. I
continued to decline. I didn'tlike liquorice! That I didn't want to
share what he liked, what he thought was good, enraged the other
boy who couldn't bear my indifference to his taste, and he hit me.
I've never lost this image of violence induced by the outsider, the
one who dissents, the one who doesn't share in what others like or
believe. One day', Wesker vowed, 'I may write a play beginning with
that image - of the boy who wants another boy to share his taste in
liquorice and hits him because he doesn't. It'll be an exploration
of the nature of violence.' In late 2010 he wrote just such a play,
Joy and Tyranny, but the playwright doesn't describe it as a play,
rather as: Arias and variations on the theme of violence. In fact
it is a patchwork quilt knitting together many extracts from other
of his works, as though throughout his career he was infusing those
works, ghost-like, with a hidden play waiting the right time to
emerge.
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