carried away on the crest of a wave

by David Yee

Overview

From the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave gives us brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, a grieving father, a conflicted priest, brothers of legend, a felonious housewife, an accountant of time, an orphaned boy, a radio shock jock and a man who finds things. Each are connected, primarily, by the cataclysmic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of over a quarter million people. In a series of vignettes, carried away on the crest of a wave illustrates the ripple effect of one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history and ponders what happens when the events that bind us together are the same events that tear us apart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770912595
Publisher:	Playwrights Union of Canada
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	904,965
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David Yee is an actor and playwright and artistic director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company. His other plays include lady in the red dress, which was nominated for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, and paper SERIES. David is the winner of the 2013 Carol Bolt Award for carried away on the crest of a wave. He lives in Toronto.
David Yee is an actor and playwright and the artistic director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company. His other plays include lady in the red dress, which was nominated for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, and paper SERIES. He lives in Toronto.