George Walker
Beginning of paper
"Walker is a down to earth blue-collar playwright with a vibrant, vivid, deliberate style of play writing; there's no dramaturgical chicanery in his work. But there is a rough and ready quality in it that is very refreshing."
is a Canadian playwright who has achieved a sort of underdog-like succ ....
Middle of paper
.... and brutal honesty. Every one of the characters in Walkers plays speak in a stream of immediate thought and are all in their own little world of self-denial where they have perfectly valid reasons for the eccentric, oddball things that they do. In Escape From Happiness, we find a uniquely dysfunctional family with every character showing similar, but individual motivations towards something better for themselves or the people around them. This play in particular is surreal in this aspect a ....
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