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list price: $10.95
edition:Paperback
category: Drama
published: Jan 1991
ISBN:9780921368281
publisher:
Talonbooks
Description
In the midst of the American Civil War, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson discuss the past, the future, life, love and what it means to be human. Cast of 4 men.
Contributor Notes
John Murrell John Murrell has been playwright-in-residence with Alberta Theatre Projects from 1975 to 1976, associate director of the Stratford Festival from 1977 to 1978, and head of the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts Playwrights Colony in 1986. In 1988 he was appointed Head of the Canada Council's Theatre Section. Murell's 1980 play Waiting for the Parade has become a classic repertoire piece intheatres in the English-speaking world.
Awards
- Winner, Alberta Writer's Guild Prize for Drama
Editorial Review
"Even the simplest lines have a quiet eloquence...soft explosions of the heart."
— Quill & Quire
Out of print
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