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Description

1. 94 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Inspired by a quote from the I Ching about how we respond to tragedy - "Some weep, some blow upon flutes" - Mary Vingoe's play is the story of Costas, an elderly Greek shoe repairman whose wife Elena suffers from dementia and whose marriage has been eroded by a family secret. Costas is in denial of his wife's illness, but Lia, their teenage granddaughter who cares for her grandmother, is not. Costas' life is altered when Sandra, a professional organizer who cannot begin to organize her own life, enters his shop. An unlikely, at times humorous friendship develops between the two - until we discover that Sandra's estranged daughter Marijke is fourteen and pregnant. A chance meeting between Elena and Marijke leads to an unravelling of past lives and buried grievances which play out with unexpected results. Some Blow Flutes brings the issue of dementia into the open and explores the possibility of compassion and redemption in the face of overwhelming odds."--

Subject

1. Drama
2. Secrecy > Drama
3. Marriage > Drama
4. Dementia > Drama
5. Older people > Drama

Genre/Form

1. Drama.

Call number

1. JFD 21-1838

Note

1. A play.

Author

1. Vingoe, Mary, 1955- author.

Title

1. Some blow flutes / Mary Vingoe.

Publisher

1. Winnipeg, MB, Canada : Scirocco Drama, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc., 2020.

Copyright date

1. ©2020

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2020445621

ISBN

1. 9781927922613 paperback
2. 1927922615 paperback

Research call number

1. JFD 21-1838