Sorcerer

Atkins, Ed; Zultanski, Steven

ISBN 10: 1913513491 / ISBN 13: 9781913513498

Published by Prototype Publishing Ltd., 2023

About this Item

Three friends hang out and share a long and unremarkable conversation about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery, and personal aspirations, among other things. When two of the friends go home for the night, the remaining one watches TV, dances, and takes apart his face in front of a giant mirror. Originally a play, Sorcerer is a book about the pleasures of being together and being alone. The characters find contentment in each other s company, conversing in the placid, eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises. Unease is exported to furniture, gadgets, and bodily movements. The result is a counterintuitive kind of realism, lying somewhere between the procedural and the miraculous. There s levitation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sorcerer
• Publisher: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913513491
• ISBN 13: 9781913513498
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Three friends hang out and share a long and unremarkable conversation about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery, and personal aspirations, among other things. When two of the friends go home for the night, the remaining one watches TV, dances, and takes apart his face in front of a giant mirror.

Originally a play, Sorcerer is a book about the pleasures of being together and being alone. The characters find contentment in each other’s company, conversing in the placid, eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises. Unease is exported to furniture, gadgets, and bodily movements. The result is a counterintuitive kind of realism, lying somewhere between the procedural and the miraculous. There’s levitation.

‘Atkins and Zultanksi’s play redesigns the contemporary home as a machine for comedy, sadness and anxiety. Sorcerer is a unique work of theatre and literature, beautiful and unsettling.’ Dan Fox

About the Author

Ed Atkins has exhibited internationally, including solo presentations at New Museum, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; TANK Shanghai; and MMK Frankfurt. He is the author of Old Food (2019) and A Primer for Cadavers (2016), both published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.