Instructions for breathing and other plays / Caridad Svich.

xvi, 420 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Instructions for breathing ; 6 characters (3m, 3w). -- Wreckage ; 5 characters (4m, 1w). -- Fugitive Pieces: a play with songs ; 9 characters. -- Thrush: a play with slaughter songs ; 10 characters (7m, 3w). -- Rift ; Large cast. -- Steal back light from the virtual ; 6 characters (3m, 3w). -- Luna Park ; 7 personnages.

Populated by characters struggling to survivee in post-colonial landscapes and suspended emotionally in mythic structures and dreams, these plays are joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection, grave wit, and heroic survival. The centerpiece of this collection, "Instructions for Breathing", is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation on responsibility and parenthood that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a child, but also to laugh at the couple's flaws and at the hilarity of the suburban life they lead. This commingling of emotion happens in each of these dramatic portraits of homeless castaways ("Fugitive Pieces"), women in war ("Thrush"), and sex traffickers ("Rift").

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