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The Edible Woman

Based on the Novel by Margaret Atwood

by (author) Dave Carley

Publisher
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 2002
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896239842
    Publish Date
    Jan 2002
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Margaret Atwood’s internationally–renowned first novel has been brilliantly adapted for stage by playwright Dave Carley. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, The Edible Woman traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society. Marian has a good job, a handsome lawyer–fiancé, and a conventionally bright future. But slowly Marian’s consumer world starts slipping out of focus, as she begins instead to identify with the things consumed. Compounding Marian’s confusion is her newly–pregnant roommate, her incensed landlady, and that strange young man she just kissed at the laundromat…

About the author

Dave Carley is a Toronto-based playwright whose plays have had close to 500 productions across Canada, the United States and in many countries around the world. They include Midnight Madness, Writing with Our Feet (nominated for the Governor General's Award), After You, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel The Edible Woman, Taking Liberties, and Orchidelirium. Dave is the former editor at the Playwrights Union of Canada (now Playwrights Guild) and, for many years, was both script editor at CBC Radio Drama and play editor for Scirocco Drama. Dave's most recent full-length works have been Twelve Hours; an adaptation of Al Purdy's novel A Splinter in the Heart, and Canadian Rajah. He is currently completing a new work for stage: Hope is a Bird.

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