SUNEETA PERES DA COSTA
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Suneeta Peres da Costa
Art Of Straying, The |
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| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
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| Genre: | 80 mins | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | some doubling | |||
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Synopsis: 1940. The occupation of Paris by the Gestapo suddenly turns German-Jewish cultural philosopher Walter Benjamin into a fugitive. With a group of refugees he is detained overnight in a hotel at the Franco-Spanish border, destined to depart for a concentration camp the next morning. Throughout the night Benjamin (suffering from angina), has hallucinatory flashbacks which collide prophetically with the present. In addition to its previously biographical theme, The Art Of Straying allegorises the fate of the international political refugee. | ||||
