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The Weekend Healer
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- Book Synopsis
- On a Friday morning in a "frighteningly well-groomed living room" in Scarborough, Lindalou, 31, is packing up to return to Cape Breton after visiting her mother, Betina, for the first time in five years. Mother and daughter have a turbulent relationship, exchanging refrains of put-downs as a way of avoiding speaking and listening to each other. Lindalou's 16-year-old son, Curtis, is as much a brother to her: "We grew up together," she says. When Curtis steps out for a pack of cigarettes and does not return, the young mother fears the worst.Curtis' disappearance is the catalyst for a harrowing weekend of hysteria and emotional upheaval. Lindalou's blistering, smart-mouthed anger wears down to a paralytic terror, while Betina's blinkered sense of reality, like the plastic cover on her sofa, is ripped away.The Weekend Healer asks us to question the nature of family, of that much-proffered placebo- "traditional family values", and of what mothering and fathering are all about.Cast of 2 women and 1 man
- About The Author
- Bryden MacDonald is a playwright, director, actor and teacher. His published plays are Whale Riding Weather, The Weekend Healer, Divinity Bash/nine lives, With Bated Breath, and Odd Ducks. He's created and directed theatrical interpretations of the words and music of Leonard Cohen ("Sincerely a Friend"), Carol Pope & Rough Trade ("Shaking the Foundations"), and Joni Mitchell ("When All the Slaves Are Free"). He has coached students at the National Theatre School of Canada and McGill University. He's been in residence at Factory Theatre; The National Theatre School; Playwrights' Workshop Montreal; Mulgrave Road; Neptune Theatre; The Stratford Festival and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Bryden lives in Halifax.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780889223608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Talonbooks, (30 March 1995)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 159 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 228 x 152 x 7 mm
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