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Play/Screenplay |
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The New Hogarth Press/The Writers' Collective
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ISBN-10: |
1932133496 |
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126 |
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Mar 1 2003 |
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Fiction |
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THIS BOOK WILL BE OUT IN MAY 2003.
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The New Hogarth Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays, a debut collection of one-act plays by Canadian playwright C.E. Gatchalian.
The title play 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.
This book is being published in proud partnership with The Writers' Collective.
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Professional Reviews
Claire a powerful promise of more to come (from the Vancouver Sun, April 29, 1999)
"Ouch. 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
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