Caribou / Michael Melski.

A play.

Set on a mountain, near an anonymous village along the Trans-Canada highway, Caribou is a stark, unrelenting character study of two hunters in a savage October of the heart. Duncan has been mentally disordered since birth, and entirely dependent on his brother-in-law Louis, a construction worker, and his sister - Louis' wife - Anne. One day Louis and Duncan embark on a hunting trip. It is a last chance for both men, driven to the limit by love, each willing to kill for their right to exist. Loosely based on the myth of Isaac and Abraham, this is a play about yearning and sacrifice, rites of passage, and the covenant between the animal and the civilised that governs human life.

8 scenes ; 2 m.

0887546900

D M5282ca 1995