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Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage
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Author: W. Somerset Maugham Adapted by: Vern Thiessen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 160 Pub. Date: 2018 ISBN-10: 1770919589 ISBN-13: 9781770919587 Cast Size: 4 women, 7 men
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About the Play:
Winner of the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding
New Play
Of Human Bondage is a full-length drama adapted for the
stage by Vern Thiessen, based on the classic W. Somerset
Maugham coming-of-age novel. An epic tale of lustful obsession
and the pursuit of art, set in Victorian era London. A young doctor's passion for a beautiful young waitress drives him to be consumed by his own intense emotions in the first-ever stage adaptation of the classic novel.
Of Human Bondage is adapted for the stage by Governor
General's Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen, based on 1915 novel
by W. Somerset Maugham, a book generally accepted as being
partly autobiographical. Philip, like his author, is a young man of
modest means. When he meets Mildred, a disarming tea-shop waitress,
he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by his intense
attraction to her. Mildred, for all her teasing, isn't all that
interested in Philip, but rather in flattery, possessions, and
security. Yet Philip, in a powerful haze of passion and pride,
obsessively pursues Mildred despite the anguish and emotional carnage
that repels and binds them at all costs. Of
Human Bondage is a grand story of lust, unrequited love,
and the pursuit of beauty that belongs on the stage.
Of Human Bondage premiered in 2014 at Soulpepper Theatre
Company, was named "Best
of Theatre" in 2014 in
The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Now Magazine,
and won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including one for Outstanding
New Play, and another for Outstanding Production. It was remounted by
Soulpepper in 2015, and in 2017, and then performed in Off Broadway
in New York at Pershing Square Signature Theatre Center in 2017.
Cast: 4 women, 7 men
What people say:
"There
is the shimmer of sheer greatness over much of Vern
Thiessen's adaptation of Of Human Bondage."
— Toronto Star
"A
rich and beautifully rendered story."
— Post City (Toronto)
"You
may not look like anyone onstage in Of Human
Bondage, particularly if
you don't dress in late-19th-century garb. But you have felt like
them if you've once had your heart trampled, or clung to someone
unworthy of your devotion, or made a damn fool of yourself for love.
Such jolting emotional recognition is the hallmark of this beautiful
and bittersweet play."
— New York Times
About the Playwright:
Vern Thiessen is one of Canada's most produced playwrights.
He has written for stage, radio and television. His stage plays –
including Of Human Bondage – have been seen off-Broadway and
in regional theatres across Canada, the United States, Asia, the
United Kingdom, the Middle East and Europe. He is the winner of many
awards including the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's
highest honour for playwriting. He splits his time between Canada and
New York City.
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