Whatever Else They Say - Softcover

Harsham, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425757944 ISBN 13: 9781425757946

Publisher: Xlibris, 2007

About this title

About the Author

At the height of campus unrest forty years ago, a college playwriting course proved a stumbling block that postponed Richard Harsham's graduation. Now, the noted essayist and long-time freelance writer has sought, as he says, "to purge the ghost of Lost Opportunity" by crafting the plays in this arresting collection. An inveterate disciple of the world's greatest dramatists-Harsham invokes poet-playwright, T.S. Eliot's caveat: "To get where you are, you must go by the way in which you are not." Instead of an "incomplete" in the long-gone playwriting course, and time enough to finish his play, Harsham-shy of graduation by only three credits-received an induction notice to join the fray in Vietnam; despite his being from boyhood all but blind in one eye! It was Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter, who observed that "the Past is another country; they do things differently there." As well they do.Here, four decades later, the characters in Harsham's plays emerge, it would seem, from long detention in that other country and confirm Pinter's sentiment that "A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false." Drawing strength from this Pinteresque paradox, TWELVE PLAYS In Search of Their Characters explores this dissettling premise-that truth and falsity are often entwined and interwoven: complementing each other as their aversion is revealed. Stricken each by its opposite.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425757944
• ISBN 13: 9781425757946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352