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Lawrence & Holloman
Lawrence & Holloman
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Author: Morris Panych Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 127 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 0889223920 ISBN-13: 9780889223929
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About the Play:
In a dizzying series of agonizingly introspective and hilarious examinations of characters in psychic extremis, beginning with 7 Stories and continuing with the Governor General's Award-winning The Ends of the Earth and Vigil, Morris Panych keeps his characters at the edge of the brink — and his audiences at the edge of their seats.
In Lawrence & Holloman, a hapless nerd and a loquacious salesman, meet by chance. From this fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter, the viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot emerges into the full-blown twilight of what appear to be their insignificant and meaningless lives. And it is this very absence of significance and meaning in the lives of the characters which produces both the mindless evil and the greeting-card redemption that gives them their shape. This is a universe in which Camus meets Dali, where Goya meets Disney, where gunshots and bathtub drownings, disillusion and dismemberment become the Seventh Seal of the Grey Flannel set.
Although apoplectic laughter and the blackest attacks of melancholia are common audience responses to Lawrence & Holloman, no one has yet died laughing during a performance of one of Morris Panych's plays.
Cast: 2 men
What people say:
"The dramatic universe of… Morris Panych is an exquisitely well ordered place. Genuinely funny… smart… carefully crafted… and neatly delivered." — Globe & Mail
"Lawrence & Holloman is slick stuff indeed." — Toronto Sun
About the Playwright:
Morris Panych is a playwright, actor and director who has been described as "a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre." He has appeared in over fifty theatre productions and in numerous television and film roles. He has directed over thirty theatre productions and written over a dozen plays that have been produced throughout Canada, Great Britain and the U.S.A., including 7 Stories and Other Schools of Thought — which features three plays for young audiences. He has won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award fourteen times for acting and directing. He has also been nominated six times for Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award and three times for the Chalmers Award.
Morris Panych's plays are characterized by a deliciously dark humour, brimming with existential themes and theatre of the absurd style and sensibility. Dancing between hope and despair, they explore — often playfully but always revealingly — philosophical issues such as human relationships, the nature of good and evil, and the relationship between fantasy and reality. |
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