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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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Details
- 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