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Voices of the Land

The Seed Savers and Other Plays

Katherine Koller

$19.95 Paperback
Release Date: 4/1/2012
ISBN: 9781926836935

240 Pages

Distributed for Athabasca University Press

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About the Book

The sound of the wind across a Prairie field, the smell of grass on the first day of spring, the vocalization of birds in the early morning woods, the silence of the lake at night interrupted by call of the loon -- these are the shapes and sounds of the Prairie landscape. Katherine Koller invokes the Prairie setting as a central character in each of the four plays in Voices of the Land. Serving a supportive and, at other times, antagonistic role, the landscape acts upon the characters, driving and intensifying their transformation.

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In The Seed Savers, farmers face pressure to purchase genetically modified seed; a protagonist refuses to sell untilled land for development in Cowboy Boots and a Corsage; a dying woman sees a lake as her final resting place in Abby's Place; and in The Early Worm Club, Millie realizes a deep sense of belonging to the Alberta parkland and its birds while searching for her mate. Nature goes beyond mere setting and backdrop in these plays to effect transformation and resolution on the characters. Ranging from romantic comedy to drama and from one-act to full-length, the plays in Voices of the Land show western Canadians at the point of leaving, returning, and renewing against the backdrop of their native landscape.

About the Author(s)

Katherine Koller teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and continues to write for radio, stage and screen. Her one-act comedies have been produced across Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

Katherine Koller’s Prairie Synergism: Women on the Land – Anne Nothof

Cowboy Boots and a Corsage
The Early Worm Club
Abby’s Place
The Seed Savers

Plays by Katherine Koller

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