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By Clarence Coo,John Guare

ISBN-10: 030019546X

ISBN-13: 9780300195460

A fifteen-year-old boy comes to a decision to accompany his critically depressed highschool French instructor on a highway journey to the Canadian province of Quebec, the place the mum tongue of Voltaire and Balzac remains to be spoken and loved. Clarence Coo’s enthralling new play is a scrumptious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very darkish corners. Wildly creative and heartbreakingly unhappy, the unusual odyssey of Jimmy and the unpredictable Mr. eco-friendly takes many unbelievable turns, crossing the border from truth into unreality and again back whereas encountering displaced characters from heritage, literature, and the mundane, usually risky world.

Selected via Tony Award–winning playwright John Guare (House of Blue Leaves, Six levels of Separation, and others) from over 1,000 submissions from 29 international locations, Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province is the 6th winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama sequence Prize. In his foreword, Guare calls Coo’s paintings “elusive and haunting . . . humorous, determined, insane,” praising it for “its exciting tale [and] its tone, sustained to the very end.” Lyrical and adventurous, Beautiful Province is a great new theatrical paintings, good deserving of those accolades and more.

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