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Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

By (author) Jordan Tannahill
Foreword by Kirsten Bowen
Categories: Plays, playscripts, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Interest qualifiers
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Paperback : 9781770919174, 224 pages, September 2018
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Description

Award-winning playwright Jordan Tannahill is back with modern-day queer and feminist retellings of two momentous events—one historic, one mythic. Botticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter Sandro Botticelli as an irrepressible seeker of love and pleasure, caught in sexual and political brinkmanship. In Sunday in Sodom, Lot’s wife, Edith, tells of the Biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but set in present day.

Awards

  • Winner, Governor General's Literary Award 2018
  • Winner, Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play 2016

Reviews

“The best new Canadian play of the year.”

- Robert Cushman, National Post

“Jordan Tannahill’s bracingly fresh double bill takes fragments of stories from the historical record and turns them into plays for today, damning more than a few torpedoes as he goes.”

- Karen Fricker, Toronto Star

“Tannahill’s work is witty, sexy, and audacious, with a strong emotional core.”

- Martin Morrow, Torontoist