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Smila Darde, the wife of a farmer and partisan, is asked to billet enemy officer Captain Carvallo. Her husband and fellow partisan Professor Winke are ordered to kill him, but they find they like the captain too much.
Dear Daddy is a 1976 play written by English playwright Denis Cannan, first staged at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End.
At a mountain resort, a young couple make a suicide pact; the situation is complicated by the arrival of two former suitors of the woman, Cornelia.
Adapted from ethnologist Colin Turnbull's account, the play depicts the disintegration of the Ik community after government restrictions on hunting and gathering and forced resettlement. As hunger and social structures collapse, an ethnologist watches the community's struggle and the limits of outside intervention.
Peter Brook's experimental performance critiques British metropolitan attitudes toward the Vietnam War: its first half uses comic-strip anti-Americanism, then imagines the conflict arriving in London through a threatened self-immolation. It ends with the symbolic burning of a paper butterfly.
Smila Darde, the wife of a farmer and partisan, is asked to billet enemy officer Captain Carvallo. Her husband and fellow partisan Professor Winke are ordered to kill him, but they find they like the captain too much.
Dear Daddy is a 1976 play written by English playwright Denis Cannan, first staged at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End.
At a mountain resort, a young couple make a suicide pact; the situation is complicated by the arrival of two former suitors of the woman, Cornelia.
Adapted from ethnologist Colin Turnbull's account, the play depicts the disintegration of the Ik community after government restrictions on hunting and gathering and forced resettlement. As hunger and social structures collapse, an ethnologist watches the community's struggle and the limits of outside intervention.
Peter Brook's experimental performance critiques British metropolitan attitudes toward the Vietnam War: its first half uses comic-strip anti-Americanism, then imagines the conflict arriving in London through a threatened self-immolation. It ends with the symbolic burning of a paper butterfly.