Includes the plays Judith; (Uncle) Vanya; A House of Correction; Let Me and Lot and His GodBarkerrsquo;s radical rewriting of Chekhovrsquo;s classic (Uncle) Vanya brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhovrsquo;s text as the use to which society has put it; Barker turns Vanyarsquo;s defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire. A House of Correction is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on the eve of a war which may destroy a society; the seemingly arbitrary arrival of a messenger with a vital communication sets off an agonizing train of events in the lives of three desperate women.Few works of drama can have plumbed the depths of solitude and rage that characterize Let Me; a nightmare set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire during the barbarian invasions. Biblical narratives serve as the origin of two shorter works; of which Judith is a contemporary classic of cultural conflict; a reinterpretation of the status of the heroine in Israelrsquo;s war of survival against the Assyrians. In Lot and His God; the imminent destruction of Sodom simultaneously licenses the moral decay of an angel and the erotic epiphany of an adored wife.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is a remarkable text on the experience of the ...By JGHThis is a remarkable text on the experience of the cinema and the acts of memory and place of history. Victor Burginrsquo;s reflections on the remembered fragment of films. from classical narrative to the internet. gives us a new space to receive our personal archive of film experiences. I will return to this book.
