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Haiku
Haiku
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Author: Katherine Snodgrass Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 36 Pub. Date: 1999 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573632545 ISBN-13: 9780573632549 Cast Size: 3 female
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About
the Play:
Haiku is a one-act drama by Katherine Snodgrass.
This sublimely beautiful play deals with the subject of Autism up
front and personal and not as a mere case number. Haiku is
about a mother's love, one sister's struggle with doing what is right
and another sister who may have a brilliant artist trapped inside her
damaged mind.
Haiku is about family, faith and miracles. Louise is a
young woman with Autism who is at brief intervals miraculously
"normal" and sometimes so super normal that she speaks in
beautiful haiku poetry. Her mother, Nell, has published the poems
under her own name. When an older daughter, Billie, visits, she
refuses to believe that her Louise composed the extraordinary poems.
The issues of compassion and understanding are evident in this
heartwarming one-act.
Haiku premiered in 1989 at Temple University Center City
(TUCC) Stage III in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of The
Philadelphia Theatre Company's Celebration of New Plays. The play won
the prestigious Heidemann Award at the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville and
has been performed around the world in regional repertory, high school, college, and
community theatre productions and translated into German,
Portuguese, and Gaelic. Cast: 3 female
About the Playwright:
Kate Snodgrass is the Artistic Director of Boston
Playwrights' Theatre and of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston
Theater Marathon (which she co-founded). She is a Professor of the
Practice of Playwriting in the renowned English Department of Boston
University. A Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company,
she is the author of the much-anthologized play Haiku.
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