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list price: $8.95
edition:Paperback
category: Drama
published: Apr 2001
ISBN:9781895636383
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design
Red Mango is a one-man play about a "single celibate sensualist" who constantly thinks about women - though not for sex, but for sweaty joy and sensual contact on the booming dance floors of Victoria's blues clubs. Charlie is a mid-40's, divorced blues fanatic: he is "between relationships" and addicted to the rapture of losing one's self in a crowded room of sweating, gyrating, heaving bodies, grinding to the rhythms of powerhouse blues. Humorous, poetic, Red Mango played to sold-out houses at Victoria's Belfry Theatre.
Praise for Red Mango:
"Tidler's darkly comic monologue about a lonely guy's sub-Kerouacian, picaresque adventures literally roars to life." (Times Colonist)
"Some of the most energetic, engaging and entertaining theatre seen in Victoria for quite some time." (Monday Magazine)
"Red Mango is Charlie's blues song, a diary of his struggles through his woes and his ecstasies ... The result is more theatre poem than traditional well-made play." (Director John Cooper, in his Director's Notes from the book)
Contributor Notes
Charles Tidler was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana. He studied literature with William Gass and completed a degree in English and philosophy at Purdue University. Charles is the father of two sons and makes his home in Victoria. His jazz-inspired plays 'Straight Ahead' and 'Blind Dancers' were hits in Toronto, the Edinburgh Festival, and London's West End, and were awarded the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Tidler's play 'Red Mango' and his novel 'Going to New Orleans' are published by Anvil Press.
