Masks - Couverture souple

Bishop, Conrad; Fuller, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0999728768 ISBN 13 : 9780999728765

Editeur : Wordworkers Press, 2021

Synopsis

At the behest of his patron, a medieval scribe narrates his ordeal as an inquisitive, befuddled six-year-old on tour with his family troupe of players. Performing their farces across a landscape of war, plague, religious strife and feral cats, they travel from sunny Greece into the uncharted north, playing market fairs and noblemen's banquets, while transporting a hamper of curse-bearing masks that intrude themselves into the boy's dreams and the troupe's reality, culminating in a Nordic Armageddon.

Though set in Late Antiquity, it's based on the authors' own experience as a family of traveling players with an offbeat mix of farce and tragedy: playing for gods, playing for peasants, playing for cats. It's about carrying the curses bequeathed by previous generations, dealing with catcalls and calamities, improvising making sense of the fears that provoke self-destruction and improvising the strategies of daily survival.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, in regional theatres, and in thousands of their own performances coast to coast- the inspiration for Masks, though they toured in a Dodge van, not a donkey cart. Their three public radio series have been heard nationally. Their books include four other novels, a memoir, and two anthologies of their plays, and they write a weekly blog at www.DamnedFool.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordworkers Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0999728768
• ISBN 13: 9780999728765
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible