"ROOTS IN WATER is a series of twelve short plays, ranging from five to fifteen minutes in length. Some have already been staged at a small theater in Woodstock, but the new radio production is the first time they have been performed as a whole. Richard calls the plays 'a fragmented portrait of a generation' --his generation, the 'baby boom' children of the 1950s who came to adulthood in post-Vietnam America. All the characters are American, though not all the plays take place in the U S A. The drama spans the years 1976 to 1988 and the plays were written over the past eight years. Stylistically different--some are funny, some satirical, some moving--they focus on a disparate set of characters including a Vietnam pilot, former anti-war campaigners, teachers, politicians, and lawyers. Nelson sees the series as being 'like a volume of collected stories.'" Radio Times
"A tapestry of American society." Sheridan Morley, The Sunday Telegraph
"Something of the spareness and the ability to set up slow-burning trains for thought which mark out Raymond Carver's short stories." Robert Hanks, The Independent
"ROOTS IN WATER is a series of twelve short plays, ranging from five to fifteen minutes in length. Some have already been staged at a small theater in Woodstock, but the new radio production is the first time they have been performed as a whole. Richard calls the plays 'a fragmented portrait of a generation' --his generation, the 'baby boom' children of the 1950s who came to adulthood in post-Vietnam America. All the characters are American, though not all the plays take place in the U S A. The drama spans the years 1976 to 1988 and the plays were written over the past eight years. Stylistically different--some are funny, some satirical, some moving--they focus on a disparate set of characters including a Vietnam pilot, former anti-war campaigners, teachers, politicians, and lawyers. Nelson sees the series as being 'like a volume of collected stories.'" Radio Times
"A tapestry of American society." Sheridan Morley, The Sunday Telegraph
"Something of the spareness and the ability to set up slow-burning trains for thought which mark out Raymond Carver's short stories." Robert Hanks, The Independent
Roots In Water
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Roots In Water
86Paperback(2nd ed.)
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780881450934 |
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| Publisher: | Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 11/15/1991 |
| Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
| Pages: | 86 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.20(d) |