Enoch Arden in the Hope Shelter - Softcover
“Judith Thompson’s writing is fuelled by her passionate sense of justice and her strong social conscience. All of her characters struggle to communicate their deepest inner longings to be heard, to be understood, to be witnessed. Like a verbal Michelangelo, Thompson slowly carves away the excess to reveal what always existed in the depths of her imagination.”—from the introduction by Maria Lamont
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About the Author:
Judith Thompson is professor of drama at the University of Guelph.
Review:
"...This adaptation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Victorian idyll ‘Enoch Arden' is the perfect marriage between Thompson's poetic inner self and her tuned-in social and political conscience. As she transplants the original's love triangle in a seaport town into a halfway house in Toronto's west end, Thompson creates an extended poetic monologue with twists from a character appropriately named Jabber. [The play is] interspersed with singing and piano-playing (based on Richard Strauss's melodramatic adaptation)." —The Globe and Mail
"Writer Judith Thompson and Director Maria Lamont have reimagined Tennyson's sentimental, love-triangle poem ‘Enoch Arden', combined it with music that Richard Strauss later wrote for the piece and created an emotionally rich, highly theatrical work set in a Parkdale rooming house." —NOW Magazine
"It is a masterly display of theatrical craft, from Thompson. When her mind and poetic instincts are inspired by the cause of social justice, there are few to match her." —Toronto Star
"Writer Judith Thompson and Director Maria Lamont have reimagined Tennyson's sentimental, love-triangle poem ‘Enoch Arden', combined it with music that Richard Strauss later wrote for the piece and created an emotionally rich, highly theatrical work set in a Parkdale rooming house." —NOW Magazine
"It is a masterly display of theatrical craft, from Thompson. When her mind and poetic instincts are inspired by the cause of social justice, there are few to match her." —Toronto Star
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- PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0887548482
- ISBN 13 9780887548482
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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Enoch Arden in the Hope Shelter
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ISBN 13: 9780887548482
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