Freeze

by Stephen Orlov

Overview

Freeze is an allegorical comedy play that dramatizes the Great Ice Storm of '98 as a metaphor presaging “cooler” more inclusive times in Quebec compared to the separatist firestorms of earlier decades. Five quirky Montrealers, trapped in a power-outed duplex, butt heads in candlelight over love, language and politics, provoking us to ponder with laughter whether Montreal's “two solitudes” of the past has become a stereotype in this new century?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771830515
Publisher:	Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Series:	Essential Drama
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Stephen Orlov is an award-winning Montreal playwright, whose plays have been showcased in such major theatre centres as Montreal, Chicago and London. He is co-editor of Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas and has recently served on the Board Executives of Playwrights Guild of Canada and Playwrights Canada Press.

Editorial Reviews

"For those of us who lived through the Montreal Ice Storm of '98, we ... shared an unexpected rite of passage and nothing after would be as it was before. With Freeze, Stephen Orlov has captured that time and place with remarkable insight and great humour in a play that will tickle your funny bone on the way to your heart. Everything in the given circumstances of this play is accurate and insightful. And, as with all good plays, the specific speaks to the universal and therefore, to audiences everywhere." — Gordon McCall, former Artistic/Executive Director of Centaur Theatre, Montreal.

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