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Trout Stanley
Trout Stanley
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Author: Claudia Dey, Illustrated by Jason Logan Publisher: Coach House Books Format: Softcover # of Pages: 128 Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN-10: 1552451623 ISBN-13: 9781552451625
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About the Play:
Described by Variety as Yukon Gothic, Claudia Dey's acclaimed Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley.
In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar, a complicated, insecure waif who still wears the tracksuit her mother died in ten years prior, and Grace, a rough-and-tumble hellcat who owns the local dump. At the play's opening, it is their thirtieth birthday, and the TV news has announced the disappearance of a local Scrabble-champ stripper. While Grace is at the dump, housebound Sugar is surprised by a mysterious drifter, one Trout Stanley, foot fetishist and fake cop, who is searching for the lake where his parents drowned — a fishy story if there ever was one. He quickly becomes mired in a surreal love triangle with the two sisters.
Trout Stanley is about three people who confuse co-dependence for co-operation and affliction for affection. An eccentric, captivating story in which the biggest catch of all is love.
Lavishly illustrated by Jason Logan.
What people say:
"Trout Stanley stands out from the crowd… Dey, whose language has always been striking and whose dramaturgy has sharpened with every play she's written, here delivers a masterwork." — The National Post
"A deliciously lyrical piece of Canadian Gothic." — The New York Times
About the Author:
Claudia Dey is a Canadian writer whose plays have been translated into French and German, and produced internationally. They include Beaver, Trout Stanley and the Governor General's Award- and Trillium Award-nominated The Gwendolyn Poems. Claudia is a graduate of McGill University and the National Theatre School. She writes the Group Therapy column for The Globe and Mail. |
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