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The Late Wedding (Paperback)
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The Late Wedding (Paperback)
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Loot Price R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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Inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities and If
on a Winter's Night a Traveler), The Late Wedding is a fractured
portrait of a fractured marriage, as told through a series of
interconnected fables, including an anthropological tour of
fantastical tribes and their marital customs. Christopher Chen's
winking second-person narrative, delivered by a six-person
shape-shifting cast, deftly guides you on a wild and delightful
examination of love and longing. At once an anthropological tour
through marriage customs, a spy thriller, and a sci-fi love story,
the mind-bending The Late Wedding is an inventive and surprising
theatrical experience. "Wild, witty... contemplative and
poignant... you gotta see this funny, brilliant play." - San
Francisco Examiner "A seductive play... a fascinating little gem...
a script about the mystery and challenges of love, in all its
permutations. The play is a provocative one-act composed with a
unique theatrical structure... a swirling nebula of magical notions
put down in a contemporary world." - DC Metro Theatre Arts "A
comic, dramatic inquiry into human relationships - between lovers
or spouses; between playwright and audience - [The Late Wedding] is
another of Chen's slyly metatheatrical, blissfully funny,
whiplash-smart creations... What begins as a look at
anthropological research into the marital arrangements and lore of
a few odd tribes segues without warning into a political drama cum
action thriller." - SF Gate "Bold and brainy... As The Late Wedding
dips in and out of such genres as the spy caper and science
fiction... it blurs the boundaries between its two strands of
Calvino homage, so that the genre-sampling meta-theater begins to
reflect on the bittersweet realities of marriage." - The Washington
Post "[The Late Wedding] is about the vagaries of love and
marriage, both homo- and heterosexual, and the way that we both
cherish and distort the past, and about the creative process
itself... you gotta see this funny, brilliant play." - San
Francisco Examiner
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