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The Vic Paperback - 2002

by Leanna Brodie


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A young woman has disappeared at the edge of the city. Four women are drawn into the race to find her. As we watch them grid-search the fields for traces of her passing, we move through the shattering events of their recent lives that have left them as lost as she is. Mentor and protg, lovers and sisters, they explore one burning question: who's got the power, and what is he or she going to do with it? Redolent with ambiguity, playing on the multiple meanings of victim, victory, and theatricality while undermining and interrogating these conventions, The Vic creates an ensemble of sharply drawn characters: eight ethnically diverse women, ranging in age from their teens to their fifties, each of them eager to claim the entitlement they feel their status as victim has "naturally" conferred upon them. Drawing on the cult of Rock Thriault (aka "Moses") near Burnt River, Ontario, in the early 1980s, and the Bernardo case, The Vic starts out where the popular media coverage of these events leaves off: with the media's inability to penetrate the humanity of its subjects beyond the constructed veils of saints and sinners; evil perpetrators and innocent, "helpless" victims. It is an unsparing, often shocking, sometimes incredibly humourous dramatization of how the status of victim has become the most powerful and effective manipulative tool for social advancement in an age where all public discourse begins and ends with the populist media motto, "if it bleeds it leads." Cast of 8 women.

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  • Title The Vic
  • Author Leanna Brodie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Talonbooks, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Date 2002-05
  • ISBN 9780889224599 / 0889224595
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.6 x 0.34 in (21.64 x 14.22 x 0.86 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002437287
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812

About the author

Leanna Brodie is an actor, translator, and playwright: The Vic, For Home and Country, The Book of Esther, and Schoolhouse, published by Talonbooks, are regularly performed across Canada. Ulla's Odyssey, her award-winning opera with Anthony Young, has toured the UK. Her numerous translations include works by Thtre Motus' Hlne Ducharme (whose acclaimed Baobab has toured North America and China with over six hundred performances) and Christian Bgin (whose After Meearned five Jessie nominations for Ruby Slippers Theatre) as well as Catherine Lger's Opium 37, Rbecca Draspe's You Are Happy, and Louise Bombardier's My Mother Dog (published by Playwrights Canada Press) She has been playwright-in-residence at the Blyth Festival, 4th Line Theatre, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, and Gateway Theatre, and is currently an Associate of Playwrights Theatre Centre. Ruby Slippers premiered her translation of Catherine Lger's I Lost My Husband! at the Gateway in March 2018, and sold out the entire run. www.leannabrodie.com

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