6/1/2023 0 Comments The edible woman duncan![]() ![]() Not all novels make good plays, especially a novel like this one where the narrator's point of view is all-important. Unlike Nora who has her awakening while already trapped in a marriage with children, Marian has her awakening in time to fend off marriage. Atwood's tale proposes Marian as a woman who senses her own oppression without the benefit of a feminist movement much as Ibsen had viewed Nora of "A Doll's House" 90 years earlier. Meanwhile, she strikes up an acquaintance with angst-ridden graduate student Duncan and cannot reconcile her attraction to this hapless loser with her impending marriage. ![]() She begins to drop items from her diets until she virtually stops eating. Her normal life begins to crumble when her boyfriend Todd asks her to marry him. ![]() Every aspect of the show-the writing, direction, the acting-is geared to show Margaret Atwood's breakthrough novel as negligible bit of 1960s fluff.Ītwood's novel, written in 1965 but not published until 1969, tells of Marian McAlpin, a young woman with friends, a lawyer for a boyfriend and a job at a consumer survey company. "The Edible Woman", a co-production between CanStage and the Vancouver Playhouse, is like a two-and-a-half hour pilot for a sitcom that never made it. Canadian Stage Company, Bluma Appel Theatre, Toronto ![]()
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