How the World Began / Modern Plays (PDF)
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Sharp, thoughtful and mysterious, How the World Began is a powerful story about an outsider in a close-knit, devastated community.
Susan, a science teacher from Manhattan, starts work in a small rural Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado....
Susan, a science teacher from Manhattan, starts work in a small rural Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado....
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Sharp, thoughtful and mysterious, How the World Began is a powerful story about an outsider in a close-knit, devastated community.
Susan, a science teacher from Manhattan, starts work in a small rural Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado. When one of her pupils - the damaged, articulate Micah - takes offence at an off-the-cuff remark about how life on Earth began, Susan is thrown into an ethical firestorm about science and faith that leads to her fearing for her safety.
Casting light on the tension between religion and secular liberalism, How the World Began explores the debate between creationism and evolution, and how this is taught in schools. With hints of American classics like Inherit the Wind and The Catcher in the Rye, the play traces the inexorable, fatalistic momentum from a single casual act into an all-encompassing dispute. A dispute which then threatens the very foundations of a community still reeling from a colossal disaster. In addition to its relevant and complex themes, the play is also about human psychology and what drives people to extreme ideological positions in times of duress.
With writing which is provocative, moving and intelligent, Catherine Trieschmann asks important questions alongside in-depth character studies. This shrewd and compassionate drama is astute, perceptive and controversial.
Susan, a science teacher from Manhattan, starts work in a small rural Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado. When one of her pupils - the damaged, articulate Micah - takes offence at an off-the-cuff remark about how life on Earth began, Susan is thrown into an ethical firestorm about science and faith that leads to her fearing for her safety.
Casting light on the tension between religion and secular liberalism, How the World Began explores the debate between creationism and evolution, and how this is taught in schools. With hints of American classics like Inherit the Wind and The Catcher in the Rye, the play traces the inexorable, fatalistic momentum from a single casual act into an all-encompassing dispute. A dispute which then threatens the very foundations of a community still reeling from a colossal disaster. In addition to its relevant and complex themes, the play is also about human psychology and what drives people to extreme ideological positions in times of duress.
With writing which is provocative, moving and intelligent, Catherine Trieschmann asks important questions alongside in-depth character studies. This shrewd and compassionate drama is astute, perceptive and controversial.
Autoren-Porträt von Catherine Trieschmann
Catherine Trieschmann is a graduate of the University of Georgia where for her master's thesis she wrote the play The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock. Three other original works - the full-length play Befo re the Fire, set in 17th century London, and two short plays, Black Water Delta and Art in Heaven -have been performed at New York City's Fringe Festival, Boston's New Theatre, and the University of North Carolina, among other venues. Trieschmann is also the author of Crooked, The World of Others, Hot Georgia Sunday and Small and Selfish Creatures.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Catherine Trieschmann
- 2013, 1. Auflage, 96 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 1408177145
- ISBN-13: 9781408177143
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2013
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