Description du livre
Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a magazine rack on fire, for instance—freshly unemployed Beth regroups at her mom’s suburban home. Just when Beth starts to think she’s to blame for systemic limits, the gift of a bird feeder sparks a relationship with a talking Crow who reconnects her with her true power.
This sly chamber piece from new voice Caleigh Crow turns post-capitalism ennui on its head with a righteous fury. It unearths the subtle (and not so subtle) ways we gaslight the marginalized, especially Indigenous women, people living with mental-health afflictions, and anyone struggling to make ends meet in low-income service jobs. There Is Violence captures the vivacity and humour of one truly remarkable woman not meant for this earth, and brings her to her own glorious transcendence.Caleigh Crow is an entrepreneurial emerging artist, self-producing via her company, Thumbs Up Good Work.Queer Metis theatre artist.Wry, metaphysical, mystical perspective empowering young female Indigenous characters.Similar tone and humour as Frances Koncan.This play was first produced by Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre at the Motel Theatre in Calgary in 2019, followed by a tour to Refinery Theatre in Saskatoon, presented by Live Five Theatre Festival. It was subsequently co-produced by Gwandaak Theatre and Thumbs Up Good Work
Theatre in 2020 at the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse, Yukon.