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Full Title Information |
| Title: |
BATTLE HYMN
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| Author: |
STEPHEN WALKER
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| Adapted: |
N/A |
| Based On: |
N/A |
| No. Acts |
1 ACT FEMALE |
| Music By: |
N/A |
| Publisher: |
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Category: |
PLAYS ONE ACT FEMALE |
Genre: |
RADIO & TV PLAYS |
| Item: |
VOLUME |
ISBN: |
0 86473 0990 X |
| Female: |
4 |
Male: |
0 |
| Extras: |
0 |
Total: |
4 |
| Synopsis: |
This play, explores a young person's reaction to the prospect of nuclear war. Susan is anxious and depressed about the future of the world, so much so that she's become anorexic. There is difficult and sometimes painful subject matter here, but Walker takes a quietly humorous approach that allows depth of feeling without enervation. Susan escapes from her parents' overdose diet of television into a novel about Ruby Bannerfield, a New Zealand 'pioneer'. In her imagination she meets Ruby, who like her is refusing food, though for a different reason. In an instant we move in time and space as well as eavesdrop on the thoughts of a character. Susan cannot grasp that to hope, and to live and act on that hope despite life's setbacks and disillusionment's, is not weakness but strength. Ruby on the other hand cannot grasp Susan's giving in to despair, but neither can she grasp the notion of a global nuclear holocaust. BATTLE HYMN ends inconclusively but provokes us to question or search for the meaning a source of our own hope.
In volume entitled THREE RADIO PLAYS. |
| Price: |
NZ $15.95
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