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Divinity Bash / Nine Lives
Divinity Bash / Nine Lives
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Author: Bryden MacDonald Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 128 Pub. Date: 1999 ISBN-10: 0889224080 ISBN-13: 9780889224087 Cast Size: 3 female, 6 male
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About
the Play:
Divinity
Bash / nine lives is a
full-length dark comedy by Bryden MacDonald.
Anyone who has ever had a Really Bad Day will understand Albert. He
has lost his high-flying corporate job, landed on the street, been
robbed and generally, in one fell swoop, been introduced to the down
side of modern urban life. With the help of some unconventional new
acquaintances, Albert adapts to his new lifestyle and plots his
revenge.
The
Divinity Bash, subtitled
nine lives, takes a
look at the lives of nine very different urbanites who all feel that
life has dealt them a bad hand. Albert is a high powered corporate
shark who is definitely having a bad day. Marty, the ambitious man he
hired as an assistant, has succeeded in getting him fired, and in one
swift corporate coup Albert's been tossed from the executive suite to
man-on-the-street. Before he can even access his email, a man knocks
him flat and steals his briefcase, laptop, and cell phone. As
Albert adapts
to his new condition, he touches and is touched by the lives of urban
society's marginal characters – lost
people who say they are happier sitting on the pavement, their hands
outstretched and looking towards the sky, than at the top of an
office tower, watching the world move upside down. Among these
characters with whom he ultimately plots revenge on Marty: Snake and
his hallucinating buddy Liam, Snake's alienated partner Myrna,
drug-addled pain-queen Anastasia and her gay courtier Lamb,
embittered drag queen Glorious, and mad Evangeline, veteran prophet
of the streets. Divinity Bash
is
informed by Eugene Ionesco's
arid visions, Salvador Dali's
baroque excesses and Jim Morrison's
amateur nihilisms. But the play is also a critique of a downsized
world that has left cracks wide enough to swallow all the characters.
Divinity
Bash premiered in 1998 at
Neptune Theatre in Halifax and moved to the National Arts Centre in
Ottawa. Subsequently performed in 2002 at The Monument-National in
Montreal and the Pantheon Theater off-Broadway in New York City.
Cast:
3 female, 6 male
What
people say:
"A
carnivalesque expression of contemporary zeitgeist." — CBC
"MacDonald
has become a colourful voice in Canadian theatre." — Globe
& Mail
"...beautifully
written, structurally powerful play, marked by MacDonald's signatures
of passionate intensity, crackerjack definition, a well-timed
chiseling at poetry with comic undercuts and a view of the world that
can embrace Sable Island ponies as a metaphor for survival, Kraft
Dinner, loveable quirks and the rough language of the streets."
— The Halifax Herald
About
the Playwright:
Bryden
MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, director, dramaturge, and
teacher. He has directed more than 40 professional theatre
productions. He has taught and coached students at The National
Theatre School of Canada, McGill University and Dalhousie University.
He has conducted workshops or been artist-in-residence or guest
artist at a number of theatres and festivals across the country,
including The National Theatre School, Playwrights Workshop Montreal,
Mulgrave Road Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,
and The Stratford Festival.
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