Caravan of Dreams Theater Collected Works, Volume 2: Billy the Kid, Metal Woman, Tin Can Man by Dolphin, Johnny (9780907791027)

Caravan of Dreams Theater Collected Works, Volume 2: Billy the Kid, Metal Woman, Tin Can Man

by Dolphin, Johnny

Paperback - English

Vol.2: In contrast with the first volume, the second is devoted to new mythologies and social forces. The included plays explore three American archetypal pursuits of happiness: the glory of the lone individual, the glamour of Hollywood and the magic lure of Space.

Billy the Kid Metal Woman Tin Can Man

The folk hero BILLY THE KID defies the controls of a stagnant order- and the system strikes back, predictably, until a modern day 'Billy' cuts up and renews the myth so the hero can live to fight another day.

The America of Hollywood and glamour, illusion and image runs head-on into the America of idealist seekers after freedom and significance in the comedy of METAL WOMAN. Can everyone get what they want? In America-maybe

The TIN CAN MAN shakes, rattles and rolls searching every dead-end alley and winds up on the threshold of the post-nihilist space age, disillusioned with every tried prescription for meaning, looking for the new frontier in which to "build a world closer to our hearts' desire".

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0907791026

EAN

9780907791027

Publisher

NACHTSCHATTEN VERLAG

Publication Date

15 Mar 1984

Pages

152

Weight (kg)

0.16

Dimensions (cm)

19.6 x 15.0 x 0.8

About Author

Dolphin was born in Oklahoma and reared in the lingering traditions of the frontier. At fourteen he left home to join the wave of okies heading to California, picked fruit in the inner valley, worked in a factory, and was later befriended by refugee European intelligentsia. Later he became a trade union organizer in Chicago, then a mining-metallurgical engineer before graduating as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School. Since then Dolphin has traveled annually around the planet, co-founded a theatre company, written several short stories, one novel, and over thirty-five plays.