The Execution
by Marie-claire Blais
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Readers have mixed feelings about the play. While one praises its exceptional writing and emotional depth, another believes it hasn't aged well and is hindered by a stilted translation.
Exceptional writingEmotional depthCompelling charactersHasn't aged wellStilted translation
Synopsis
The Execution is Marie-Claire Blais’s only play for the stage.
Set in a boarding school, it tells the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one of their classmates and enact the crime.
As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil and complicity, themes well-known to readers of Blais’s fiction.
Publication
PublisherTalon Books
Year1976
BindingPaperback
EditionFirst Edition
Pages104
PlaceVancouver
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780889221031
ISBN-100889221030
LCCN77361738
LCCPQ3919.B6 E913
The Execution is a Canadian play written by Marie-claire Blais and published by Talon Books in Vancouver (1976).
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Talon Books · 1976 · 104 pp
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