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Hir: A Play
Taylor Mac
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Description for Hir: A Play
Paperback. Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac's subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class - and cleaning - in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Isaac’s father, who once ruled the family with an iron fist, has had a debilitating stroke; his younger sister, Maxine, is now his brother, Max; and their mother, Paige, is committed to revolution at any cost. Determined to be free of any responsibility toward her formerly abusive husband—or the home he created—Paige fervently believes she can lead the way to a ""new world order."" Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about ... Read more
Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Isaac’s father, who once ruled the family with an iron fist, has had a debilitating stroke; his younger sister, Maxine, is now his brother, Max; and their mother, Paige, is committed to revolution at any cost. Determined to be free of any responsibility toward her formerly abusive husband—or the home he created—Paige fervently believes she can lead the way to a ""new world order."" Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810133587
SKU
V9780810133587
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About Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac’s plays include The Bourgeois Oligarch, The Fre, The Lily’s Revenge, The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, and The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac.
Reviews for Hir: A Play
[A] brave deconstruction of a family drama that slides from bizarre farce to Greek tragedy with audacious velocity."" —San Jose Mercury News ""Hir challenges expectations on every level except that of providing engrossing entertainment, which it does to a remarkable degree."" —San Francisco Chronicle