| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Yale Drama |
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Yale Drama
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Beautiful Province (Belle Province) -- Act One -- Scene 1 Mr. Green�s Farewell to His Class -- Scene 2 Jimmy and Nate Clean the Classroom -- Scene 3 Mr. Green Dreams of the Paris Airport -- Scene 4 Jimmy Discovers He�s Not the Last of the Mohicans -- Scene 5 Jimmy and Mr. Green Go for a Drive -- Scene 6 Jimmy Attends the Steed -- Scene 7 Mr. Green Dreams of Finding a Sidewalk Café -- Scene 8 A Hotel Room at Niagara Falls -- Scene 9 Jimmy and Nate at the Creek -- Scene 10 Driving through Canada, Part I -- Act Two |
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Scene 10 Driving through Canada, Part IIScene 11 Jimmy Takes a Glance through the Guidebook -- Scene 12 Jimmy Finds the Lost Village of the Mohicans -- Scene 13 What Really Happened in the Classroom -- Scene 14 Jimmy Imagines He�s Fluent in French -- Scene 15 The End of the Road -- Scene 16 Dawn on Hudson Bay -- Scene 17 Jimmy and Nate Discuss Jimmy�s Adventure |
| Summary |
A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing new play is a delicious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very dark corners. Wildly inventive and heartbreakingly sad, the strange odyssey of Jimmy and the unpredictable Mr. Green takes many surprising turns, crossing the border from reality into unreality and back again while encountering displaced characters from history, literature, and the mundane, often dangerous world. Selected by Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare (House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and others) from over 1,000 submissions from 29 countries, Clarence Coo's Beautiful Province is the sixth winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize. In his foreword, Guare calls Coo's work "elusive and haunting ... funny, desperate, insane," praising it for "its intriguing story [and] its tone, sustained to the very end." Lyrical and adventurous, Beautiful Province is an outstanding new theatrical work, well deserving of these accolades and more |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
DRAMA / American.
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| SUBJECT |
Québec (Province) -- Drama
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| Subject |
Québec
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299841384 |
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9781299841383 |
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