The Noam Chomsky Lectures
Brooks, Daniel and Guillermo Verdecchia
Language: English
Published by Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001, 1997
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Paper bound, second edition, few illustrations, 93pp includes select bibliography. Very good. 135 grams - ships lettermail at much reduced postage! Scan available on request. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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- Title
- The Noam Chomsky Lectures
- Author
- Brooks, Daniel and Guillermo Verdecchia
- Publisher
- Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001
- Publication year
- 1997
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0889224056
- ISBN 13
- 9780889224056
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Theatre, Drama & Plays
’Ordinarily, theatre relies on illusion in order to reveal truths; The Noam Chomsky Lectures relies on truths in order to reveal illusions. Following the impetus of Chomsky himself, Brooks and Verdecchia have recognized that mass media, mass spectacle, have trivialized and severed consciousness and conscience, separating both from a communal base. We collectively know little about what is done in our name by our elected governments and the business interests they serve. The Noam Chomsky Lectures assumes not only that we do want to know, that our ‘knowing together’ may change things, but also that it is less painful to know than to not know.’ - Joyce Nelson in her introduction to The Noam Chomsky Lectures
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About the Author
Daniel Brooks was one of Canada’s most accomplished theatre makers. As a writer, director and performer he collaborated with some of the country’s finest talents in producing a body of daring and original work. He created shows with Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Daniel MacIvor, Guillermo Verdecchia, Leah Cherniak, John Mighton, Rick Miller, Diego Matamoros, and Michael Ondaatje, among others.
His many achievements include a series of monologues created with Daniel MacIvor, direction of work by John Mighton, Beckett, Chekhov, Ibsen, Sophocles, Borges, and Goethe, the musical Drowsy Chaperone, and many creations including Insomnia, The Eco Show, The Good Life, The Noam Chomsky Lectures, Bigger Than Jesus, Pokey Jones, and a series of plays created with Don McKellar and Tracy Wright (The Augusta Company). He was co-artistic director of The Augusta Company, Artistic Director of Necessary Angel from 2003 to 2012, and an associate artist at Soulpepper Theatre. He was also a playwright in residence at the Tarragon Theatre for seven years. His many theatre awards include the Siminovitch Prize. His work has toured across Canada and around the world.
During his career he won the Siminovitch Prize, the Chalmers Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award (3 times), the Pauline McGibbon Award, the Edinburgh Fringe First Award, and the Capital Critics Circle Award. He was Nominated in 1992 for a Governor Generals Literary Award and named as a finalist in 2005.
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama and fiction as well as a director, dramaturge, translator, and actor. He received the Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and is a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work includes the critically acclaimed Feast, The Art of Building a Bunker (with Adam Lazarus), the Governor-General shortlisted Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Daniel Brooks), the Seattle Times' Footlight Award-winning Adventures of Ali & Ali (with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai), A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), bloom, and Another Country. His work has been recorded, anthologized, translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America.
He lives in Toronto with Tamsin Kelsey, his partner of many years, and their two children.
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