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chris wind
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Actors looking for fresh,
new audition pieces - Check out
The
Lady Doth Indeed Protest
(Shakespeareanish sololiquies with a twist, Thus
Saith Eve
(monologues), and maybe Deare
Sister
and
Snow
White Gets Her Say.
Also, “Amelia’s Nocturne” (see
http://www.chriswind.com/for_
All material is offered free of charge, but if you're willing and able pay (especially if you're a teacher with access to a departmental budget!) or if you use the material for commercial purposes, payment would be appreciated (and, in the case of commercial purposes, notification would also be appreciated). Contact chris for a PayPal account address and other payment options.
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The Lady Doth Indeed Protest |
Lady MacBeth kill herself? Please. And Portia – you don’t think someone that intelligent would be a little pissed at being bait, and trophy? And Juliet, well, Juliet just wants to have – sex.
“…not only dynamic, imaginative verse writing, but extremely intelligent and intuitive insight… I know many actresses who would love to get their hands on this material! … [read more]” – Joanne Zipay, Judith Shakespeare Company, NYC
“‘Ophelia’ is something of an oddity…I found it curiously attractive.” Dinosaur
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Thus Saith Eve
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WARNING: chris wind is listed in "Who's Who in Hell."
A collection of monologues, each written from the point of view of one of the women in The Bible as if she had a contemporary feminist consciousness
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Snow White Gets Her Say |
Fairy tales retold with strong and critical girls and women
“The voices you catch out of the old fairy tales are very impressive. I got quite attached to them.” Fiddlehead
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Deare Sister |
A collection of letters ‘written’ from one woman to another - the women are real but the letters are fiction, though heavily based on researched fact
"You are clearly a writer of considerable talent, and your special ability to give expression to so many different characters, each in a uniquely appropriate style, makes your work fascinating and attractive…. The pieces are often funny, sometimes sensitive, always creative. But they contain an enormous load of anger, and that is where I have problems…. I know at least one feminist who would read your manuscript with delight (unfortunately she is not a publisher), who would roar with laughter in her sharing of your anger….” rejection letter from Black Moss Press
Click HERE to read this book.
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UnMythed
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A feminist exposé of Greek and Roman mythology: what might Pandora, Penelope, Persephone, Galatea, Daphne, Artemis, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy?
“I really like what you’re doing with the biblical women and with the fables. There is so much rich material there and you have a good sense of what can be and what needs to be addressed.” Other Voices
“The modest appearance of this slim volume of poetry could be misleading. Myths contains a fascinating collection of upbeat male/female commentaries based on incidents in the lives of mythological characters. With considerable skill and much care, chris wind has extrapolated truths from mythical scenarios and reordered them in modern terms. An Appendix provides the necessary biographical information pertinent to each poem…. Wind handles these myths with and intellect. Her voice suggests that the relationship between the consciousness of the myth-makers and modern consciousness is closer than we would think.” Linda Manning, Quarry
Click HERE to read this book.
An earlier edition (perfect-bound softcover, typewritten) is available for purchase ($10.00 + $3.00 shipping) directly from the author.
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Particivision
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A collection of short stories re-visioning significant attitudes and activities of contemporary society (1990)
“…your writing is very accomplished …Particivision and other stories is authentic, well-written, and certainly publishable…” rejection letter from Turnstone Press
“engaging and clever” rejection letter from Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers
“As the title indicates, this collection of stories is about getting into the thick of things, taking sides, taking action, and speaking out loud and clear, however unpopular your opinion may be. Some of the causes Wind espouses will get no argument from any thinking person. … Wind’s view on the ethics of suicide, poignantly expressed in “Coda: Canon,” his story about changes in human sexuality that will all but do away with sexual intercourse in “The Sexual Evolution,” and his face-off between the forces of faith and those of secular humanism in “The Great Jump-Off” will probably annoy at least half of the people half of the time. His is an iconoclastic perspective, and this collection’s 13 stories although of uneven quality, are refreshingly out of the ordinary.” Joan McGrath
Click HERE to read selections from this book.
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Paintings and Sculptures |
Each poem describes a painting or a sculpture: some, a re-vision of a classic; others, an original work not yet realized
published by Ginninderra Press (1991)
If the Ginninderra edition is out-of-print, an earlier edition (perfectbound softcover, typewritten) can be purchased ($10.00 + $3.00 shipping) directly from the author.
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dreaming of kaleidoscopes
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A non-thematic 'best of' collection of poems, about a third of which have been published in literary magazines, spanning about twenty years of writing (1994)
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this is the person
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A graphic poem published as a broadsheet by Ouroboros Press (1986)
Click HERE to see this poem.
Broadsheet for sale directly from the author ($2.00 + $1.00 shipping). |
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