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" ... audacious avant-garde spectacles of sexual and cruel impulses."
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La Litière (1994), Rappel (1995) and Ressusciter (1996), published together here in English translation asEmbedded, Apocalypse, and Resurrection respectively, make up a trilogy of plays featuring Gen-XersLudwig and Mae. Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn’t been able to find work since graduating some time ago. The fact that he is sardonic, philosophically inclined and suicidal hasn’t helped in this regard. Mae, on the other hand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a perverse relationship, she plays into Ludwig’s constant mind games until one day she decides she’s had enough.Embedded establishes their twisted Strindbergian relationship, while introducing the Philosopher-cum-Chinese Delivery Guythe absurdist character who acts as a catalyst for the simmering emotional crisis about to explode.Apocalypse is a monodrama in which Ludwig stages his own suicidal ceremonial (along with unlikely allegorical characters such as a Pope, Giacometti's Cow and a Leather-Clad Muse).Resurrection is Mae’s testimonial, where she confronts and reconciles herself with Ludwig’s death, breaks the cycle of their co-dependency, and finally comes into her own.
Together, these plays literally stage” the internalized and therefore repressed failure of the search for an authentic life in art: the decorative nihilism of the post-modern ethos. Taking us on a cathartic journey from despair to exhilarationat times perilous, comic, edgy and passionateLudwig & Mae releases its audiences from the artificial dark of the theatre into the liberating light of day, radiant with a new understanding: life does not imitate art, life makes art.
This trilogy established Louis Patrick Leroux as a leading figure of the Franco-Ontarian artistic renaissance of the 1990s. Rappel Apocalypse, in particular, was quickly identified as a turning point from what had become a stultifying, identity-driven literary tradition, to a burgeoning of artistic freedom and formal exploration.
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- Año de publicación2009
- ISBN 10 0889226237
- ISBN 13 9780889226234
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- Número de páginas224
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Ludwig & Mae: Three Plays Embedded, Apocalypse, Resurrection
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Talonbooks Ltd, 2009
ISBN 10: 0889226237
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