Colleen Murphy

The Breathing Hole

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Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him and names him Angu'ruaq. In 1845, Angu'ruaq and his mate Ukuannuaq wander into a chance meeting between explorers from the Franklin Expedition and Inuit hunters. Later, when the explorers are starving, the bears meet them again. By 2035, entrepreneurs are assessing degrees of melting ice for future opportunities. Angu'ruaq encounters… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tamalik McGrath, Janet (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-369-10112-9
EAN: 9780369101129
Produktnummer: 36029283
Verlag: Playwrights Canada Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 250 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'932 KB

Über den Autor

Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, and raised in Northern Ontario, Colleen Murphy won the 2016 and 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for English Language Drama for her plays Pig Girl and The December Man / L'homme de décembre respectively. Both plays were also awarded a Carol Bolt Award. Other plays included The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius, Armstrong's War, The Goodnight Bird, The Piper, and Beating Heart Cadaver, which was short-listed for a Governor General's Literary Award. She is also a librettist-Fantasma for composer Ian Cusson, My Mouth On Your Heart for composer August Murphy-King, and Oksana G. for composer Aaron Gervais-and an award-winning filmmaker. She has been Writer-in-Residence at six universities and Playwright-in-Residence at two Canadian theatres as well as at Finborough Theatre in the UK.