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Bern, Switzerland

1994

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Diamond Head Theatre Honolulu HI

1994

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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The "Monologue of the Old Lady" is a play about the war in Bosnia, its causes and its consequences. It was written in the winter of 1993 - when the war was at its peak. The author intends to shock with this play because the war itself was shocking. Playwright and novelist (Apprenticeship of a Refugee, Woman of Light) Jutka T. Emoke Barabas does not to wish to entertain because war is not entertainment. Her intent, rather, is to illustrate how devastating war can be. But good literature also appeals to the aesthetic sense of the reader, and the "Monologue of the Old Lady" succeeds in this sense as well. This play is not just a timely contemporary work, but also an historical document. The author learned from Bosnian writers in first hand about the horrors of this war and also she experienced war herself as a young child in the Hungarian Uprising against the Russian invaders in 1956