Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants. Contributor(s): York, Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0881450758 ISBN-13: 9780881450750 Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1989 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Drama | Women Authors |
Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.26 lbs) 92 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the future, after the global ecological disaster, so much that makes life worth living has been outlawed. One family refuses to submit. Will their small act of rebellion lead to a future where science no longer dominates humanity but serves it? "In Y York's futuristic comedy RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS., genetic engineering has produced a submissive nation of clones and drones. Everything is gene coded so all individuality can be obliterated, except for one stubbornly old-fashioned family trying to thaw the perpetual nuclear winter. That winter is actually an endless floodlike rainy season. The play...begins as a kind of science-fiction variation on YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU with a wildly eccentric family resolutely staying out of the mainstream. In this case, the father is a crank who has quit his scientific post in a dehumanizing laboratory to go fishing. He neglects his suicidal wife and their two very odd daughters. The catalyst for renewal is a black man, cloned to be a member of a faceless servant class. Removed from his diet of 'stoppers', pills that deny incentive, he becomes a rebel. As conceived by York...he is an engaging figure, awakening to his personality as well as to his racial identity... Y York] has created a thought provoking comic parable about mankind's indomitability. As much as anything, the play is concerned with the survival of history itself ..." |