{"product_id":"placeholder-paperback","title":"Placeholder - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Bisset\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1790 in Saint Domingue, a year and a day before the start of the Haitian Revolution. Minette, a 'free woman of colour', waits in a sweltering theatre. She remembers her mother, a courageous and intelligent enslaved woman, and considers her own previous career as an Opera singer. An emotional exchange between mother and daughter reveals the insidious power of divide and rule, the pointlessness of freedom without equality and the importance of resistance. Will Minette find the courage to go back to the Opera or will she remain a 'Placeholder'?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in motion by academic research by the Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre and Opera Network, a cross-institutional endeavour chaired at St Andrews, Catherine Bisset's Placeholder addresses the stories that are missing from the archives and the holes in the narrative that are themselves acts of suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e \"This dialogue for solo performer takes the spectator or reader on an extraordinary journey to pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Placeholder is a creative tour de force that illuminates a little-known period of theatre history and speculates on what it was like to be a performer of colour in a Caribbean slave colony.\"\u003cbr\u003e Julia Prest, Professor of French and Caribbean Studies, \u003cbr\u003e University of St Andrews \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCASTING\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 actor\u003cbr\u003e Running time: 60 minutes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Bisset\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Edinburgh-based actor and playwright, whose Jamaican-Scottish ancestry is reflected in her love of telling and writing stories that reach across cultures and histories. Placeholder, Catherine's first play, was long-listed for the Alfred Fagon Award in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 44\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52503699194163,"sku":"9781914228919","price":27.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HDqjQzKsJU9781914228919.webp?v=1782829416","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/placeholder-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}