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Debut play collection from one of Canada's most promising young playwrights
Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:14:00 AM
by C.E. Gatchalian
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| C.E. Gatchalian's first book, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays, will be published by The New Hogarth Press and The Writers' Collective in March 2003. |
Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays
By C.E. Gatchalian
Available March 2003
The New Hogarth Press/The Writers' Collective
ISBN: 1-932133-49-6
The New Hogarth Press is pleased to announce the publication of Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays, a debut collection of one-act plays by Canadian playwright C.E. Gatchalian.
The plays in this collection reveal a writer with a provocative and uncompromising vision. Motifs & Repetitions is a comical but ultimately heartbreaking commentary on young love; Hands spotlights the disintegration of a tormented family; Claire is an absurd, Sartrean expose of the brutal power structures in relationships; and Star is a brief but bracing mantra on the nature of obsession. With his simple settings and spare, rhythmical dialogue, C.E. Gatchalian creates a dark, claustrophobic world where sex, love and obsession mix to form terrifying realities.
Though Gatchalian has been compared to British playwright Sarah Kane and his work bears the imprint of masters such as Beckett, Albee and Mamet, the final impression left by these plays is that of a writer whose voice is entirely his own.
If you are a theatre director looking for a new one-act play to stage, please check out this collection. But this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to keep up to date on the innovative goings-on in contemporary North American drama.
"Gatchalian is well on his way to making his mark in contemporary drama."
--Charlie Cho, CBC Radio
"At the tender age of 24, Vancouver playwright C.E. Gatchalian creates a one-act play so sexual, so violent and so sexually violent that it could encompass the decades-long traumas of an octogenarian. If a writer expunges demons by putting them down on paper, Gatchalian's young soul must now be clean as a whistle....Claire is evidence of greater, and no doubt even more disturbing, things to come from the writer."
--Vancouver Sun Theatre Critic Peter Birnie on Claire
For more information, please contact:
Chris MacDonald
Marketing and Publicity Director, The New Hogarth Press
zerosummer2002.yahoo.ca
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