The Redthroats

By David Cale

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679739610
• ISBN13: 9780679739616
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An intelligent & articulate performer examines families & love

I first read "Redthroats" before I had seen performance artist David Cale in person. As much as I know about so-called dysfunctional families (like so many others, I seem to have had one), Cale's insight was impressive & enlightening. After I saw him in "Redthroats" & "Smooch Music," I was even more impressed with the depth of both plays & with Cale's skills as a performer. What had seemed a sometimes frightening portrait of an abusive & exploitative family was given a reading that miraculously made the dark humor of the family situations & the ironies of love quite clear. Cale's work has, as they say, multiple levels. If you are an intuitive or even just a dogged reader of theatrical work, this book will reward you if you choose to take its sometimes apparent simplicity seriously.

Emotions Freed from Captivity by Delicious Prose and Poetry

This book, a collection of prose and poetry by David Cale, changed the way I look at life and love. Cale's way of putting human emotion into words liberates and invigorates. His meanings are sometimes obscure, so I do not recommend this book to the linear thinker. It's out of print, but find it and read it any which way you can.