Overview

Seven Dreams of Falling, is a re-thinking of the Icarus myth. It's late in the post-modern day and Icarus has grown weary of falling out of the sky over and over: in painting, poetry, and myth. Having decided it's time for a career change, he plots his escape from a cycle of doomed repetition even as family and friends, who are part of his story, find themselves struggling with the idea of letting go. Can Icarus simply fly out of his own life? And if he can, what does that mean for those he leaves behind: Deadalus, a father for whom rules, rituals and quantum mechanics are sacred; Theseus, a fading hero who loves the monster he must kill; Ariadne, the hero's former flame, the monster's half-sister, Lesbian cultural-critic; and the monster himself, The Minotaur, who holds a secret that could destroy them all...or set them free. It's a comedy of mythic proportions. a review of Seven Dreams of Falling, The dialogue is snappy, off-the-wall, and literate, wielded to great comic effect, like early Woody Allen pieces in The New Yorker. There are references to Brueghel, who painted the iconic image of a falling Icarus; to William Carlos Williams who wrote a poem called Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus ; to Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; to feminist theory; and to the violation of culture-defining mythic master narratives. They're all there, parceled and presented in ways you've never seen before. --The Huffington Post This is Icarus in modern times. [Wilkerson's] revamping of an old tale is a fine example that there is much to be done with what has already been done. --examiner.com

Full Product Details

9780615942964

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Carey Scott Wilkerson is a dramatist, poet, and performing-theorist. His play Seven Dreams of Falling was produced, to great audience and critical acclaim, at the Elephant Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. A new play, Two Men, Three Hats is in-development at the Halawaukee Research Space. He is also co-author, with C. Stephen Foster, of Divanalysis: The Mechanics of Camp, which was produced at the Showcase Theatre in Los Angeles and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. The Zero Lectures, his solo performance-experiment has appeared at Null Set in Atlanta and The Halawaukee Research Space in Columbus, Georgia. New Plains Press has published two books of his poetry, Threading Stone, and Ars Minotaurica. His Primer for the Minotauric Arts was published by The Chapbook journal, and his e-chapbook Polylogue was published by E-ratio. He is winner of a Lillian E. Smith Writers Fellowship, has been Visiting Writer at Clayton State University, the University of South Alabama, and Guest Artist at the University of Mississippi. He holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and teaches at Columbus State University.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available