Description
Book SynopsisAvailable for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc's internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d'Annunzio waits in his opulent villa a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience.
John Krizanc's masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome
Trade Review
Tamara is a shot of adrenaline.
* New York Times *
Tamara is a mind-blowing theatrical experience. Not since the Royal Shakespeare Company staged Nicholas Nickelby has New York experienced a more unique presentation than this.
* WCTO Radio *
Tamara carries the voyeurism that is at the heart of all theatre to its ultimate extreme . . . John Krizanc is canny enough to offer more than novelty. The play becomes a multi-levelled examination of the effect of repression on art — filled with decadence, fear, sterility, and impotence.
* Vancouver Province *
