ROOTS IN WATER IBD

Sinopse

á á&ldquo,ROOTS IN WATER is a series of twelve short plays, ranging from five to fifteen minutes in length. Some have already been staged at a small theater in Woodstock, but the new radio production is the first time they have been performed as a whole. Richard calls the plays &lsquo,a fragmented portrait of a generation&rsquo, &mdash,his generation, the &lsquo,baby boom&rsquo, children of the 1950s who came to adulthood in post-Vietnam America. All the characters are American, though not all the plays take place in the U S A. The drama spans the years 1976 to 1988 and the plays were written over the past eight years. Stylistically different&mdash,some are funny, some satirical, some moving&mdash,they focus on a disparate set of characters including a Vietnam pilot, former anti-war campaigners, teachers, politicians, and lawyers. Nelson sees the series as being &lsquo,like a volume of collected stories.&rsquo,&rdquo, Radio Times á á&ldquo,A tapestry of American society.&rdquo, Sheridan Morley, The Sunday Telegraph á á&ldquo,Something of the spareness and the ability to set up slow-burning trains for thought which mark out Raymond Carver&rsquo,s short stories.&rdquo, Robert Hanks, The Independent