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Ã2018., University of Regina Press Call No: QWF 882.01 A311a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Regina collection.Summary Note: "Antigone Undone offers an urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive power of great art. In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne Carson's translation of Sophokles' 5th-century BCE tragedy Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by theatrical sensation Ivo van Hove. In repeatedly watching the play, he became awestruck with the plight of the young woman at the centre of the action. "Look at what these men are doing to me," Antigone cries, expressing the predicament of the dispossessed throughout time. Transfixed by the strange and uncanny power of the play, he finds himself haunted by its protagonist, finally resulting in his own suicidal breakdown. With a backstage view of the action, Aitken illuminates the creative process of Carson, Binoche, and Van Hove and offers a rare glimpse into collaborative genius in action. He also investigates the response to the play by Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Judith Butler, and others who, like him, were moved by its timeless protest against injustice."--
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By Aitken, Willc2011., Arsenal Pulp Press Call No: QWF 791.43 A311d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Queer film classic.
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By Aitken, Willc2000., Vintage Canada Call No: Fic Ait Edition: Vintage Canada edition, 2001. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Louise Painchaud, a lanky lusty Albertan is hired as an English language coach by the School of Heartful Purity in Japan, an institution dedicated to staging kitschy Western musicals with all-girl casts. This is the Japan of the eighties, flush with money, wild with possibility, and afflicted with a severe case of self-worship-expressed most vividly in the country's adoration of a slim golden pop star named Oro. The gaijin giantess ends up playing Eurydice to the tiny Oro's Orpheus in a love affair that scandalizes the nation. A sexy, funny, irreverent work of fiction, Realia, explores how pop culture becomes contemporary myth, and how ancient myth still feeds the heart of pop culture.
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By Aitken, Will2022., Adult, Anansi Call No: Fic Ait Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship. A boatload of white privilege, The Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship's crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins. The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catastrophe, the great ship always sails on. Briony, a globetrotting luxury travel writer, emulates the rich--though homeless and penniless herself--as she hops from gig to all-expenses-paid gig. On her own personal voyage, she encounters Mrs. Moore, an enigmatic woman of advanced age clandestinely fomenting a mutiny on this bountiful ship. With the captain overthrown, roles quickly reverse: the crew become the ship's new leisure class and the aged passengers learn how to mop floors and scrub toilets. Confused and terrified by the resultant chaos, Briony must decide which lot to cast her fate with in this savage satire of the way we live now.
