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Five kinds of silence / by Shelagh Stephenson.

Title
Five kinds of silence / by Shelagh Stephenson.
Author
Stephenson, Shelagh.
Publication
New York, NY : Dramatists Play Service, c2004.

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Additional Authors
Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y.)
Description
31 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
Five Kinds of Silence begins with a murder, but this is no whodunit, for we see the killers and the killing. Nor is it a "why did they do it?" for we know from the first speech that the victim, Billy, is a wife-beater and it is soon revealed that he physically and sexually abused his two daughters, Janet and Susan, for a period of decades, not just years. What the play does is to look at the effects on the abused and, through a series of set piece speeches (one immediately before and the others after death), the motivation of the abuser.
Subject
Family violence > Drama
Genre/Form
  • Acting editions
  • Drama
  • Théâtre.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0822219190 (pbk.)
OCLC
55154805
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library