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Earshot
Earshot
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Author: Morris Panych Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 64 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 0889224447 ISBN-13: 9780889224445 Cast Size: 1 male
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About the Play:
Earshot has become
a favourite of acting teachers for Male
Monologues.
Earshot is a full-length drama by Morris Panych.
Doyle lives as a twitchy, paranoid
recluse in his apartment, but his extraordinary, hyper-sensitive
powers of hearing allow him to keep tabs on the secret lives of the
other residents. Eventually he reaches out, in longing, beyond the
walls, to Valerie, one apartment away. Earshot is
a darkly brilliant work.
Earshot is the very funny story of one man's affliction
with unrequited love and super sensitive hearing. Doyle has a very
funny problem: he hears too much. He can hear the most intimate
details of the lives of everyone living in his apartment building. He
can tell the temperature of a young neighbour's bath water by the
resonance of her pipes; he knows where the old lady's lost teeth are
by the way they rattle in their glass when her appliances turn on; he
can hear letters of rejection slip from slackened fingers and settle
to the ground like the crashing leaves of autumn. Doyle blames his
hyper-sensitive condition on a physical abnormality, on a birth
defect in his ears. But we are not so sure. He'd do himself in if it
weren't for the beloved gurgle of his next-door neighbour stepping
into her bath. All Doyle asks of life is to eavesdrop as she unfolds
his love-letter – but sometimes life just isn't listening.
Paralysing Doyle with a cacophony of detail and minutiae, Earshot
offers us the gift of a comic Hamlet – a perfectly dark comedy for
the information age.
Earshot premiered in 2001 at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
The American premiere was later that year at Sacramento's B Street
Theatre. The play has
become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and was remounted in a joint production by
Vancouver Playhouse and Alberta Theatre Projects in 2002.
Cast: 1 male
What people say:
"Morris Panych
keeps his darkly drawn characters spinning like tops on the way to
total frustration, in [his] one-man comedy/drama Earshot."
— Backstage
"A superbly mounted Panych
attack." — National Post
"Shout it from the rooftops –
Morris Panych's Earshot is
not to be missed… shocking and engaging theatre." —
Vancouver Sun
About the Playwright:
Morris Panych is one of Canada's most significant
contemporary playwrights. He has written more than 25 works for the
stage and directed nearly 100. He is the winner of two Governor
General's Literary Awards for Drama, the country's most prestigious
literary honour. He has won 14 Jessie Richardson Awards for acting
and directing, three Sidney Riske Writing Awards and five Dora Mavor
Moore Awards.
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