Ebook {Epub PDF} The Syringa Tree: The Play by Pamela Gien

Season. By Pamela Gien. Directed by C. Michael Wright. With very good reason, many of you will see The Syringa Tree simply to witness Colleen Madden playin. This video is the film of the staged one-woman play written and acted by white South African Pamela Gien. The play begins in , in a white suburb of Johannesburg, in the fenced yard of the Grace family and their black servants. Gien starts as six-year-old Lizzie Grace. Gien then fluidly shifts roles to enact twenty-eight different characters from newborn to age eighty-two, black and white, male and female- .  · Aug. 6, After its debut in Seattle, “The Syringa Tree,” a one-woman play by the South African actress Pamela Gien, opened in Manhattan in the Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.

Views and Reviews: THE SYRINGA TREE. My interview with Laurie McCants has me thinking about one-woman shows today, more specifically, a one-woman show that made up one of the best theatrical experiences of my life. South African playwright Pamela Gien scripted The Syringa Tree from the viewpoint of a young white girl growing up in South Africa. The Syringa Tree. Judylee Vivier speaks the South African names and terms from The Syringa Tree, by Pamela Gien. She was recorded by Paul Meier, J; he was dialect-coaching the play at the time and consulted Professor Vivier to ensure pronunciation accuracy. He has put this recording on permanent loan to IDEA to assist other actors. Of course, Pamela Gien probably didn't intendThe Syringa Tree as a lesson so much as a human interest piece; that's why her play is full of everyday people, not politicians or journalists, and the only historical note in the program explains that the play begins in , "the early days of apartheid". The emotional impact may be diminished.

Through both the play (and the novel) you get a glimpse of South Africa immediately underhe apartheid, seen through the eyes of Elizabeth from age 6 and up. Class, race and anti-samitism are all juxtaposed. The author grew up in South Africa. This play grows from an event in her childhood. In the drama version I saw and felt it all. The Syringa Tree is a solo performance memory play of a childhood under apartheid, written and often performed by Pamela Gien, and directed by Larry Moss. It was produced by Matt Salinger, son of writer, J. D. Salinger. It centers on the story of Elizabeth Grace, a Roman Catholic White South African of mixed English and Afrikaner descent. The play spans four generations. The Syringa Tree Pamela Gien, Random House pp. ISBN Summary In this heartrending and inspiring novel set against the gorgeous, vast landscape of South Africa under apartheid, award-winning playwright Pamela Gien tells the story of two families—one black, one white—separated by racism, connected by love.