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Democracy: one whole day beside a pond
Democracy: one whole day beside a pond
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Author: John Murrell Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 64 Pub. Date: 1991 ISBN-10: 0921368283 ISBN-13: 9780921368281
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About the Play:
Winner of the Alberta Writer's Guild Prize for Drama
Democracy is a full-length drama by John Murrell . The play chronicles a meeting between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson during the American Civil War
Democracy is a challenging and eloquent examination of human nature and the nature of war. July, 1863. The American Civil War rages as two old friends meet in the stillness beside a pond in the woods outside Washington, D.C. Because these men are Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson they discuss their doubts with a particular passion.
Democracy premiered in 1991 by Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska.. The Canadian premiere was later that same year at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.
Cast: 4 men.
What people say:
"Even the simplest lines have a quiet eloquence…soft explosions of the heart.." — Quill & Quire
About the Playwright:
John Murrell (1945-2019) is one of Canada's best known international
playwrights. His dramas focus on real people and cultural icons. He
has also written operas, and translated works by anyone from
Sophocles to Chekhov. He has headed the Banff Playwright's Colony and
the Theatre Section of the Canada Council, been Associate Director of
the Stratford Festival and Artistic Director of the Banff Centre for
the Arts, and is a multiple Chalmers Award winner. For his enormous
contributions to the arts in his adopted province and country, the
Texas-born Murrell received the Alberta Order of Excellence and was
appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His plays have been
translated into 15 languages and produced in more than 35 countries
around the world. He is also nationally and internationally prominent as a translator of classic theatre texts into English, including Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. All these translations, and a number of others, have gone on to become the "standard versions" for English-language theatres around the world. |
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