THE FANTASTICAL REALITY IN PINKOLANDIA

Both Gaby's escape on the back of a polar bear and Beny's double-crossing, happen in Pinkolandia, Andrea Thome's new play that is receiving a rolling premiere as a part of the Lark Play Development Center's Launching New Plays into the Repertoire Initiative. The coup's scar,...

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Published in:TheatreForum (La Jolla, San Diego, Calif.) San Diego, Calif.), 2014-01 (45), p.3
Main Author: Willenbrink, Hank
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coups d'etat
Dictators
Dramatists
Imagination
Language history
Parents & parenting
Person
Politics
Teachers
Theater
Thome, Andrea
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Summary:Both Gaby's escape on the back of a polar bear and Beny's double-crossing, happen in Pinkolandia, Andrea Thome's new play that is receiving a rolling premiere as a part of the Lark Play Development Center's Launching New Plays into the Repertoire Initiative. The coup's scar, Alice Nelson writes, manifests in an overturning of political process and the relationship of a generation to history and identity: "The coup meant a crisis of language and of history, for the previous ways of conceiving of historical continuity and change had failed to eclipse the possibility of violent authoritarianism that became embodied in the Pinochet regime. [...]she pulls a box of eggs out and hurls them at a montage of "tyrants," including Regan, Hitler, Pinochet, and Rambo, to the horror of her teacher Mr. Pittman. Authors, witnesses, and transcribers involved in the project sought to fight injustice through first-person narrative accounts (sometimes orally given and written by another) where the subject claimed to be an "everyman" or "everywoman" speaking from personal experience inciting readers to join in the project of social justice.
ISSN:1060-5320
2169-1169