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Gum and The Mother of Modern Censorship
Karen Hartman
Gum
by Karen Hartman
Highlights
What readers are saying
Readers have mixed feelings about this play, appreciating its exploration of heavy themes like sexuality in a repressive society. However, some find it uniquely intriguing despite its sadness and intensity. Overall, it has gained recognition for its distinctiveness and quality.
Intriguing exploration of themesUnique storytellingStrong character developmentSad and heavy tone
Synopsis
In Karen Hartman’s "juicyfruit tragedy," two young sisters discover new appetites within the walls of their father’s garden.
Gum explores the need to tame nature in a fictional fundamental country where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price.
"A brief, intense, beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem"—
San Francisco Examiner.
Also includes The Mother of Modern Censorship
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Karen Hartman is the author of Girl Under Grain, Troy Women and Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl.
She is a native of San Diego who lives in Brooklyn and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Princeton University.
Publication
PublisherTheatre Communications
Year2002
BindingPaperback
Edition1st
Pages120
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139781559362139
ISBN-101559362138
eISBN-139781559368261
LCCN2002007440
LCCPS3608.A7874 G86 2003
DCC812/.6
Gum is a American play written by Karen Hartman and published by Theatre Communications in New York (2002).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781559368261).
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