Everyone who loves the theater should read this play.
Whether Wallace will find a big audience remains to be seen. She has a big talent, though. But there is also love.
In the Heart of America and Other Plays
Aligning issues of class and race and labor dynamics to a surrealist aesthetic as elusive as her politics are straightforward, American writer Naomi Wallace shows a willingness to embrace topics once treated by the likes of Clifford Odets and Sophie Treadwell. Hers may not be the most audience-friendly of voices, but even her opacity commands attention.
On the radical level, the play is a passionate protest against exploitation … the play has passion, poetry and a wild strangeness. In the tedious hours between sightings, they drink beer, tell fantastical and brutal stories, and test the rules of their sadistically militaristic hierarchy. These plays are an antidote to despair ' - Tony Kushner.
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If it reminds me of anyone it is the Walt Whitman who wrote of 'the audacity of freedom' and the need for America to free itself from an anti-democratic European past'. By the end, the play, like that train, has built up a full head of steam and we feel its power'.
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In the Heart of America: And Other Plays
Hers may not be the most audience-friendly of voices, but even her opacity commands attention. On the radical level, the play is a passionate protest against exploitation … the play has passion, poetry and a wild strangeness.
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In the tedious hours between sightings, they drink beer, tell fantastical and brutal stories, and test the rules of their sadistically militaristic hierarchy. So we find Dalton and Pace, who becomes his girlfriend despite his repeated insistence that she is not pretty, making plans to test themselves by trying to outrun the train on a trestle a hundred feet above a dry creek bed. Another boy from their town tried it recently and died … By the end, the play, like that train, has built up a full head of steam and we feel its power.
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Despite its depth of symbolism and clear political message, the play is neither stuffy nor strident. Naomi Wallace is a playwright from Kentucky. About Us Contact Us.