Scorched
$42.80
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2011
Summary
A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada’s leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties. It was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, Incendies (2010), under its original French title.
A mother falls into complete silence. Upon her death, her twin children Janine and Simon are asked to uproot the source of that silence. They must find the father they never knew, and the brother they never knew they had. Their journey begins i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780887549267 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0887549268 |
| Author: | Wajdi Mouawad, Linda Gaboriau |
| Publisher: | Playwrights Canada Press,Canada |
| Imprint: | Playwrights Canada Press,Canada |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 130mm x 195mm |
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Critics Review
‘This haunting work may be the best piece of theatre this country has produced this millennium’
* Globe and Mail *‘Mouawad knows when to lighten the load with broad comedy, when to scent the air with poetry that lingers long afterwards, and when to use the inevitable building blocks of good dramatic structure to create a towering edifice of pain everyone must climb’
* Toronto Star *Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as his 2003 play Scorched (French title Incendies).He was born in Lebanon in 1968, but fled the war-torn country with his family, living in Paris for a few years before settling in Montreal. In 1991, shortly after graduating from the National Theatre School, he embarked on a career as an actor, writer, director, and producer.His plays include: Birds of a Kind (Governor General’s Literary Award, 2019); Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’; Tideline; and Scorched (which was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film Incendies.From 2000–2004, he was the artistic director of Montreal’s Théâtre de Quat’Sous. In 2005 he founded two companies specializing in the development of new work: Abé carré cé carré in Canada (with Emmanuel Schwartz), and Au carré de l’hypoténuse in France.He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours for his writing and directing, including the 2000 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, the 2002 Chevalier de l’Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres (France) and the 2004 Prix de la Francophonie. He is Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre French Theatre. Linda Gaboriau is a Montreal-based dramaturge and literary translator. She has worked as a freelance journalist for the CBC as well as the Montreal Gazette, and worked in Canadian and Quebecois theatre. Gaboriau has won awards for her translations of more than 80 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English Canadian audiences. She is the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.
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