Vicuña : a play / Jon Robin Baitz.Vicuña : a play / Jon Robin Baitz.
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Auteur
Titre
Vicuña : a play / Jon Robin Baitz.
Description
98 pages ; 21 cm.
Sommaire
In his Upper East Side atelier, a bespoke tailor, Anselm Kassar, is persuaded by the vulgar real estate mogul turned presidential candidate Kurt Seaman to make him the perfect suit. A suit to stun them at the final debate before the election, a suit for him to wear while he takes on his unnamed female opponent. Kassar agrees to make Seaman a suit with magical powers of persuasion, to allow him to "close the deal with the American voter."
Over the course of three fittings for this exorbitantly expensive and totemic vicuña suit, Seaman cajoles and spars with the tailor and his young Muslim apprentice, Amir. Amir's challenges to Seaman and to Seaman's daughter Sri-Lanka over the dangerously xenophobic and inflammatory rhetoric employed by the campaign make the fittings increasingly volatile in the genteel atelier. Coming out of an election season that laid bare the rage in the American people, Jon Robin Baitz's VICUNA is an astute satire of what - or whom - it takes to bring that anger to the fore.
Production
Produced by Center Theatre Group / Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Prologue ; 2 acts ; epilogue ; 3m, 2w.
First public performance : in 2016, Los Angeles, California.
Director : Robert Egan.
ISBN
9780374283599
Sujets
Caractéristiques
Men
Cote
D B164vi 2018
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