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Lidless (Paperback)
Loot Price: R373
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Lidless (Paperback)
Series: Modern Plays
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Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful drama Lidless asks important and
difficult questions: is guilt a necessary form of moral reckoning,
or is it an obstacle to be overcome? Will the price of national
political amnesia be paid only by the next generation - the
daughters and sons who were never there? It's been fifteen years
since Guantanamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army
interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver,
an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down
Alice in Texas and demands that she donate half her liver as
restitution for the damage wrought during her interrogations. But
Alice doesn't remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated
in while in the army has left her without any memory of her time
there. It is only when her inquisitive fourteen-year-old daughter
begins her own investigation that the fragile peace of mind that
Alice's drug-induced oblivion enabled begins to falter. Although
politically engaged and topical, the play's significance is
further-reaching and taps into timeless questions. Lidless portrays
the inevitable consequences of moral crimes, in spite of the lapse
of time and the oblivion of the perpetrators. Guilt inexorably
engenders retribution with a horrible symmetry, so comeuppance is
exacted upon what is held most dear. Within a modern and
politically-charged setting, Lidless has a tight plot of cyclical,
interfamilial violence and inevitable, if blindly executed,
vengeance.
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