Cruel tears /
Cruel Tears is one of the most original and inventive theater pieces ever staged in Canada. Shakespeare buffs may see in the play certain intriguing parallels to Shakespeare's Othello, but in Cruel Tears, the jealous hero is a Ukrainian truck driver from Saskatoon, not a Moor of Venice. Describ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver :
Talonbooks,
[1977]
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| Summary: | Cruel Tears is one of the most original and inventive theater pieces ever staged in Canada. Shakespeare buffs may see in the play certain intriguing parallels to Shakespeare's Othello, but in Cruel Tears, the jealous hero is a Ukrainian truck driver from Saskatoon, not a Moor of Venice. Described as a "country opera," the play is written in the idiom of country and western music and features music by the Saskatchewan musical group, Humphrey & the Dumptrucks. |
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| Item Description: | "Commissioned by and first perfromed at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on March 15, 1975"--page 7. |
| Physical Description: | 143 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0889221200 9780889221208 |