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Maya Arad Yasur
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Drama
Subject: |
Two window cleaners, both refugees from civil war, hang on abseil cables outside of a skyscraper. They have got a job to do and have agreed not to talk about the past. While cleaning the windows, they follow the inaccessible world of well-heeled Western business people. Through a visual metaphor, this play explores concepts as distance and proximity at different levels: Socially, economically, politically and geographically. Today, the world seems smaller but some distances seem insuperable. How long can we keep the past at a distance?
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The characters |
Female:0 Male:2 Total:2 |
Translations |
Chinese, English, German, נורבגית |
Productions |
Premierre2016 Kvutsat Avoda {work group) Ensemble Upstream Theatre, St. Louis, USA director: Linda KennedyProduction page
Germany
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Norway
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United States
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Critics |
"...persuasive enough to make an acrophobe feel queasy..." --Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Arad Yasur's tense, economical script is given sharp-edged life..." -- Paul Friswold, Riverfront Times
"...one of those uniquely poetic Upstream Theater-type resolutions..." -- Richard T. Green, Talkin' Broadway
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