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The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek Paperback – June 15, 2000
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- Print length76 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 15, 2000
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.18 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100881451800
- ISBN-13978-0881451801
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TRESTLE is an often poignant, nonlinear-narrative coming-of-age story that's set in 1936 in a `town outside a city, somewhere in the United States.... ...TRESTLE is at once charming and haunting....you'll view it with wonder along the way. --Sam Whitehead, Time Out
The honor for the most original and memorable work of this year's 22nd Humana Festival goes to another Kentuckian, Naomi Wallace, for her brilliant THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK.... After the two-act play ended with an erotic, gender-twisted climax, there was a moment in the darkness when I thought: `This must be how it felt when people saw A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE for the very first time.' Like Tennessee Williams' daring play, Wallace's work introduces a new level of sexual honesty with a fresh mature voice. TRESTLE wraps its five characters in a metaphorical drama within a romantic and tragic mystery. It's a complicated, interwoven play that moves back and forth in time between past and present, with layers of meaning that overlap and build upon each other. Despite its depth of symbolism and clear political message, the play is neither stuffy nor strident. A bright ripple of humor funs through Wallace's play about two sexually charged young people who consider a game of chicken with an oncoming train. Wallace's keen psychological insights evoke compassion for her characters. Tears are shed and not only over the pathos of the play.... The actors stir the emotions with the tender way they expose the fragility and indomitable beauty of the human spirit, as revealed through Wallace's words.... If Wallace's plays were a visual art, ONE FLEA SPARE would be a baroque oil painting, while THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK would be a 1930s American photograph with contrasting lights and shadows and its direct, unsentimental and uncensored gaze into the lives of the working class. --Judith Egerton, Courier-Journal, Louisville
TRESTLE is an often poignant, nonlinear-narrative coming-of-age story that's set in 1936 in a `town outside a city, somewhere in the United States.... ...TRESTLE is at once charming and haunting....you'll view it with wonder along the way. --Sam Whitehead, Time Out
The honor for the most original and memorable work of this year's 22nd Humana Festival goes to another Kentuckian, Naomi Wallace, for her brilliant THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK.... After the two-act play ended with an erotic, gender-twisted climax, there was a moment in the darkness when I thought: `This must be how it felt when people saw A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE for the very first time.' Like Tennessee Williams' daring play, Wallace's work introduces a new level of sexual honesty with a fresh mature voice. TRESTLE wraps its five characters in a metaphorical drama within a romantic and tragic mystery. It's a complicated, interwoven play that moves back and forth in time between past and present, with layers of meaning that overlap and build upon each other. Despite its depth of symbolism and clear political message, the play is neither stuffy nor strident. A bright ripple of humor funs through Wallace's play about two sexually charged young people who consider a game of chicken with an oncoming train. Wallace's keen psychological insights evoke compassion for her characters. Tears are shed and not only over the pathos of the play.... The actors stir the emotions with the tender way they expose the fragility and indomitable beauty of the human spirit, as revealed through Wallace's words.... If Wallace's plays were a visual art, ONE FLEA SPARE would be a baroque oil painting, while THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK would be a 1930s American photograph with contrasting lights and shadows and its direct, unsentimental and uncensored gaze into the lives of the working class. --Judith Egerton, Courier-Journal, Louisville
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- Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated (June 15, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 76 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0881451800
- ISBN-13 : 978-0881451801
- Item Weight : 3.52 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.18 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,640,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #601 in Dramas & Plays by Women
- #2,073 in American Dramas & Plays
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Naomi Wallace's plays―which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and the Middle East―include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, Night is a Room. Awards: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Obie Award and the Horton Foote Award. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts development grant. In 2013, Wallace received the inaugural Windham Campbell prize for drama, and in 2015 an Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
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