{"product_id":"9781897535257","title":"Tortoise Boy: A Chamber Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour disparate people confront each other--their memory and their responsibility--at the emergency room of a hospital when brought together by the crisis of a teenager suffering a psychiatric episode.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTortoise Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a “chamber play,” four monologues, or mon-dialogues, if you will. Through these four voices, four instruments--a quartet--these characters confront numerous existential quandaries: Can we have a future without a past? Is there meaning to a past that has no future? When do our memories open doors, and when do they close them? What’s best forgotten? What’s indelible? The ancient Greeks believed that memory is the mother of the muses, and the words memory, muse, and music all share a common root.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTortoise Boy\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... gritty and profane, unabashedly poetic.\" (Adrian Chamberlain, \u003ci\u003eTimes Colonist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Like reassembling a window from pieces of shattered glass … Tidler allows the audience to piece it all together.\" (\u003ci\u003eMonday Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anvil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154140250352,"sku":"9781897535257","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897535257_p0.jpg?v=1763612585","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897535257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}