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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. MacDonald is a good playwright and I expected this play to be good, but it's more than that, it's excellent. The stagecraft, the submerged and emerging settings and fused storylines, the symbolic unity and framing of the play, all expertly rendered. There is so much that you don't see coming that the play maintains an intensifying freshness as it unfolds. I really hope I can see this play acted live in the near future. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The Mystery Play is a detective story, a ghost story, and a memory play: a theatrical blending of Wit and The Woman In Black. Though fully self-contained, The Mystery Play is also the second in a trilogy about crime-solving Sister Vivian Salter, a flinty, fifty-ish Catholic nun forced into the role of amateur sleuth. Each story in her trilogy was penned by a different playwright and commissioned by Ship's Company Theatre in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. In The Mystery Play, Salter recounts her late-stage struggles with her own beliefs while also detailing her father George's descent into Alzheimer's. In his seventies, George is becoming prone to semi-violent outbursts, to speaking with phantoms in the middle of the night, and to eerie sleepwalking - all of which leave Salter exhausted and questioning the existence of God's love. Then, into the adjoining suite next door moves a young schoolteacher, Jennifer Craig, and her husband, Peter. This newlywed couple seems perfect, and very much in love ... until they don't. By creeping attrition, Salter begins to suspect that terrible spousal abuse is taking place next door, and, despite herself, she gets drawn into mystery once more. But this time it's a fearsome mystery that sneaks increasingly closer and closer to home. The Mystery Play, a supernatural chiller of rattling cupboards, overnight séances, and spectral possessions, reveals a new definition of "mystery" - one derived from the Mystery Plays of sister Salter's dwindling faith - in which the word can also mean a miracle beyond all logic. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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