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Adapted from two of the three fictional autobiographies which comprise Subhash Jaireth's monograph of the same name. Part One: 'Songs of a Weaver' about the Inidan poet, Kabir and Part Two: 'Remembering Anton', about Maria Chekhova, sister of the Russian author Anton Chekhov.
Production Details
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First produced at the Street Theatre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 16 - 26 February 2012, Act one directed by Caroline Stacey; Act two by Camilla Blunden.
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'Don't be deceived by this Tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India of the dying and illiterate poet, Kabir; the Stalinist Russia of Chekhov's younger sister, Maria; and the early seventeenth-century, Inquisition-ravaged Italy of the Calabrian theologian and poet, Tommaso Campanella. The characters, at the end of their lives, are haunted by their pasts, and in prose of simple, meditative, elegiac beauty, Jaireth suggests that this nostalgia is neither a longing for a lost place or a lost time, but is, rather, a homelessness in time - his own included - an uneasiness that has driven all that they have and have not done. The book is ultimately about the mystery of creation itself, the silence from which all things come and to which they inevitably return.' (Trove record)
Works about this Work
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Fact and Fiction, Love and Death
2012
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 February 2012; (p. 9)
— Review of To Silence 2012 single work drama -
Performance Quiet a Success Story
2012
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 February 2012; (p. 10) -
Street Theatre Goes Solo in Canberra
2012
single work
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 February 2012; (p. 22)
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Fact and Fiction, Love and Death
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 February 2012; (p. 9)
— Review of To Silence 2012 single work drama -
Street Theatre Goes Solo in Canberra
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 February 2012; (p. 22) -
Performance Quiet a Success Story
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 February 2012; (p. 10)
Last amended 21 Feb 2012 10:16:27
