Name: Heavens
SKU: 25409868
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Author: Wajdi Mouawad
ISBN: 9781770911536

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wajdi Mouawad

Publisher

Playwrights Canada Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3x12.7x1 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

1770911537

ISBN13

9781770911536

Synopsis "Heavens"

In Heavens, the fourth and final instalment of his critically lauded Blood Promises cycle, Wajdi Mouawad crafts a fierce and poignant play that penetrates the intersection where violence, terror, beauty, and art converge. Isolated in a secret location, an international team of intelligence personnel are given the task of intercepting and decoding cryptic messages from terrorists. The sudden and unexplained suicide of one of the case's key agents forces the team to probe into their colleague's life in hopes of discovering what he knew, and stopping the attack before it's too late. Wajdi Mouawad was born in Lebanon in 1968. Mouawad fled the war-torn country with his family; they lived in Paris for a few years, then settled in Montreal. In 1991, shortly after graduating from the National Theatre School, he embarked on a career as an actor, writer, director, and producer. In all his work, from his own plays--a dozen so far, including Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons (Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons'), Littoral (Tideline), and Incendies (Scorched- which served as the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Incendies)--Wajdi Mouawad is guided by the central notion that "all art bears witness to human existence through the prism of beauty." From 2000-2004 he was the artistic director of Montreal's Théâtre de Quat'Sous; in 2005 he founded two companies specializing in the development of new work: Abé carré cé carré in Canada (with Emmanuel Schwartz), and Au carré de l'hypoténuse in France. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours for his writing and directing, including the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama (Littoral), the 2002 Chevalier de l'Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres (France) and the 2004 Prix de la Francophonie. He is currently Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre French Theatre.

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The author, director, and actor Wajdi Mouawad is one of the most relevant French-speaking playwrights and writers in the current scene. He has been translated into more than twenty languages and performed on all five continents. Born in 1968 in Lebanon, where the civil war forced his family to seek refuge in Beirut, and later in France and Quebec. A graduate of the National School of Dramatic Art of Canada, he currently directs the National Theater of the Colline in Paris. At the Avignon festival, he developed his famous tetralogy The Blood of Promises, consisting of the plays Litoral, Fires, Forests, and Heavens. His body of work, committed to denouncing major contemporary atrocities, has earned him the Grand Prize for Theater from the French Academy. Many of his works have been presented on the Catalan stage by the company La Perla 29. The most recent is Tots ocells (All Birds) (2024), a tragedy directed by Oriol Broggi, about the weight of family legacies on the painful border between love and hate of prejudices. His novel Ánima (Destino, 2014; Edicions del Periscopi, 2014) was awarded various prizes, including the Llibreter prize.

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