Duo For Obstinate Voices [1990]
(Éditions Guernica, Montréal, 1990)
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Résumé This psychological drama explores the relationship between a man in his thirties and a woman some ten years younger who are unable to love without hurting each other. This difficult relationship lasts five years, during which Catherine becomes increasingly self-reliant and Philippe flounders in increasing self-contradictions.
The first in a trilogy of more personal plays, Duo examines contemporary love relationships in the West. It is more experimental in structure and style than the playwright's previous plays. Extrait « PHILIP : [...] America is everything and anything you want it to be. One day however it will blow up like a fat toad that little boys are forcing to smoke a cigarette. Yet it remains the only place in the world where you have the right to have kids because it is the only place in the world where they still have a chance not to be scalded at birth, or tortured or starved or crushed to death. » |