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The Vic
The Vic
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Author: Leanna Brodie Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 126 Pub. Date: 2002 ISBN-10: 0889224595 ISBN-13: 9780889224599 Cast Size: 8 female
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About
the Play:
The Vic has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Female Scenes.
The Vic is a full-length drama by Leanna Brodie.
Sex, fate, race, power, and the nature of cruelty. The Vic concerns
eight women who are viewed through four intersecting storylines.
Their lives are united by a tragic event, as they become involved in
the search for the title character, an abducted teenage girl who has
become a victim. Warning: black humour abounds.
The Vic explores the impact of violence and power while
challenging the concept of victim. A young woman has disappeared at
the edge of the city. Four women are drawn into the race to find her.
As we watch them grid-search the fields for traces of her passing, we
move through the shattering events of their recent lives that have
left them as lost as she is. Mentor and protégé, lovers and
sisters, they explore one burning question: who's got the power, and
what is s/he going to do with it? Redolent with ambiguity, playing on
the multiple meanings of victim, victory, and theatricality while
undermining and interrogating these conventions, The Vic
creates an ensemble of sharply drawn characters: eight
ethnically-diverse women ranging in age from their teens to their
fifties, each of them eager to claim the entitlement they feel their
status as victim has "naturally" conferred upon them. A
contemporary work torn from today's headlines, The Vic starts
out where the popular media coverage leaves off: with the media's
inability to penetrate the humanity of its subjects beyond the
constructed veils of saints and sinners; evil perpetrators and
innocent, "helpless" victims. It is an unsparing, often
shocking, sometimes incredibly humorous dramatization of how the
status of victim has become the most powerful and effective
manipulative tool for social advancement in an age where all public
discourse begins and ends with the populist media motto, "if it
bleeds it leads."
The Vic premiered in 2000 at Theatre Passe Muraille in
Toronto. Since then it
opened in
2004 at Theatre Erindale on the University of Toronto campus, in 2005
at the George Luscombe Theatre on the University of Guelph campus, in
2011 at Jericho Arts Centre in Vancouver, and in 2015 at the Women's
Council House in Halifax. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops.
Cast: 8 female
What people say:
"This first play by Leanna
Brodie… features the kind of dramatic electricity that
announces the presence of a true playwright…. Leanna
Brodie has made a promising debut, and her best work
here shows real talent." — Toronto Star
"The drama follows four
different yet related storylines involving eight women and explores
the concepts of the victim, victimization and power dynamics... While
the messages are somber, there are moments of humour and the overall
tone is uplifting." — Halifax Chronicle-Herald
"A good play crawls under
your skin and leaves you uncomfortably alive with possibility. The
Vic does all this and adds an itch you don't want to stop
scratching." — Review Vancouver
About the Playwright:
Leanna Brodie is a Canadian playwright, translator, and
actor whose work has been performed across Canada, the USA, the UK,
and New Zealand. She was the first Canadian invited to the
ACT/Hedgebrook Women Playwrights' Festival in Seattle, and has twice
been Playwright-in-Residence at the 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook,
Ontario.
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Leanna Brodie, Introduction by Dr. Linda Ambrose
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