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EVA BUCHWALD
Nationality: USA
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Eva Buchwald's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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13 Sunken Years Purge13 Sunken Years
Synopsis:
Three women, three generations, tied together not only by blood but also by the magic of the river that runs through their remote Finnish town. One day the mother disappears. It happened the day of her school graduation, her mother disappears and her grandmother is diagnosed with dementia. As Eva tries to make sense of her life now that pieces of her world are missing, past memories seem to rise out of the mist on the river. An atmospheric play that examines family, destiny and the journey that becomes life. www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com. Supported by the Finnish National Theatre.
Notes:
Original Playwright: Paula Salminen
1st Produced:
The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival Aug 2014
Organisations:
Stellar Quines and Lung Ha's Theatre Companies
1st Published:
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Music:
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translation, 1 hour 15 minutes
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Synopsis:
With Purge - first a play, then a novel - Sofi Oksanen has established herself as one of the most important voices of her generation. Declared estonia's 'Person of the Year' in 2009, she is the first author to win both of Finland's most prestigious literary prizes (the Finlandia award and the Runeberg), and the novel (published in the U.S. in April 2010) received rave reviews. the play premiered at the Finnish National theater in 2007 before coming to New York for its American premiere. Through the stories of two women dogged by their own shameful past, Purge deals with a chapter in estonia's history which is on the verge of being forgotten or denied: the Soviet annexation of the country after World War II, and its accompanying effects of rape, torture, deportation and murder. the play is set in 1992, only three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and one year following estonia's independence. When aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the estonian countryside, opens her door to Zara, a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, she sets the stage for the re-opening of old wounds from the worst years of estonia's Soviet occupation. a photo Zara carries soon makes it clear that her arrival at aliide's home is no coincidence. Both survivors, the women engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other's motives. What emerges is a powerful and suspenseful family Drama of rivalry, lust, betrayal and loss.
- nytheatre.com
- nytheatre.com
Notes:
Original Playwright - Sofi Oksanen
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Translation
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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