Whylah Falls: A Play - Softcover

Clarke, George Elliot

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887545653 ISBN 13: 9780887545658

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 1999

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Whylah Falls is a passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love.

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From the Author:

"[T]o be from the Maritimes is to be, in terms of the imagination, from a different country. One is a Nova Scotian, always, no matter where one is, just as a Jamaican, migrated and settled in Toronto, may still feel, must still feel, Jamaican. I may have left the Maritimes, but the Maritimes is as much a part of me as the proverbial salt — sea salt — in our blood." (2011-10-17)

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Set in a mythic village in the heart of Black Nova Scotia, Whylah Falls is a sensuous blues spiritual pulsating with earthy folk wisdom and racial injustice. When a wayward poet returns to this "snowy northern Mississippi" in the 1930s, his passion for a local girl triggers a series of events that shakes the community to its Black Loyalist roots.

With a jazz-influenced original score by Joe Seely, George Elliott Clarke's hip dramatization of his award-winning verse novel features magnetic performances by Walter Borden, Troy Adams, and Merlita Williams.

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