the Salamander and the Impediment

by Charlotte Weinman

4 actors, (runtime: 1 hr 20 min):
The Salamander and the Impediment is a play about plagiarism and love in the lives of Zelda Fitzgerald, Tallulah Bankhead, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Told as a disjointed sequence of memories, the play follows its four figures as they struggle to claim authority over their stories, and the tension of sharing a life but never a perspective. The play engages in a...

4 actors, (runtime: 1 hr 20 min):
The Salamander and the Impediment is a play about plagiarism and love in the lives of Zelda Fitzgerald, Tallulah Bankhead, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Told as a disjointed sequence of memories, the play follows its four figures as they struggle to claim authority over their stories, and the tension of sharing a life but never a perspective. The play engages in a meaningful queering of history to investigate how close words can get to meaning, and human beings to touching.

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  • Grace Goble: the Salamander and the Impediment by Charlotte Weinman
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    This play is a gift. Charlotte Weinman has a unique talent for finding the heart and humanity in the most iconic of figures and laying those hearts on the line. This play takes a stunningly honest and heart wrenching look at the boundaries between friendship and love, and the way that history often fails to acknowledge the blurring of those boundaries.

    This play is a gift. Charlotte Weinman has a unique talent for finding the heart and humanity in the most iconic of figures and laying those hearts on the line. This play takes a stunningly honest and heart wrenching look at the boundaries between friendship and love, and the way that history often fails to acknowledge the blurring of those boundaries.

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