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Tamara
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Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc's internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d'Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience.
John Krizanc's masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, Tamara is an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.
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Copyright © 1981 John Krizanc
Introduction copyright © Alberto Manguel c/o Schavelzon Graham Agencia Literaria
www.schavelzongraham.com
Published in Canada in 2021 and the USA in 2021 by House of Anansi Press Inc.
www.houseofanansi.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
House of Anansi Press is a Global Certified Accessibleâ„¢ (GCA by Benetech) publisher. The ebook version of this book meets stringent accessibility standards and is available to students and readers with print disabilities.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Tamara : a play / by John Krizanc ; conceived by Richard Rose and John Krizanc.
Names: Krizanc, John, 1956– author.
Description: Originally published: Don Mills, Ont. : Stoddart,1988.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200190237 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200190245 |
ISBN 9781487008482 (softcover) | ISBN 9781487008499 (EPUB)
ISBN 9781487008482 (softcover) | ISBN 9781487008499 (EPUB)
Classification: LCC PS8571.R755 T34 2021 | DDC C812/.54—dc23
Series design: Brian Morgan
Cover artwork: © Tamara de Lempicka Estate, TamaraDeLempickaEstate.com
Text design and typesetting: Lucia Kim
House of Anansi Press respectfully acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the Traditional Territory of many Nations, including the Anishinabeg, the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. It is also the Treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada.
Introduction to the A List edition
The curious thing about [Browning’s] The Ring and the Book . . . is that although each character recounts the same events, and although there is no difference in what they tell, there is a fundamental difference, which belongs to the realm of human psychology, the fact that each of us believes we are justified
— Jorge luis borges,
a course on english literature
a course on english literature
In the summer of 1980, two schoolmates with vague theatrical interests were discussing the characters in a Chekhov play. John Krizanc, who dabbled in playwriting himself, argued that what interested him most were the servants, the sullen Russian maids and butlers who drop a line here and there and then disappear into the kitchen. They, Krizanc felt, were the only ones to know the underbelly of the social fabric; they were the ones Krizanc wanted to follow. Richard Rose suggested then that perhaps a play could be written, staged in such a way that the audience would be in fact allowed to exit with the servants. Krizanc said he might try.
Krizanc was less interested in pursuing a clever dramatic device than in exploring a theme that had always puzzled him. During his life, the theme had come up in many different guises: as a battle between private citizens and the public thing (politics were a common subject at the Krizanc dinner table, his father being an ardent Slovene national), as a struggle between the a...
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