Carried Away on the Crest of A Wave

By David Yee

A series of vignettes illustrate the ripple effect of one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history and ponders what happens when the events that bind us together are the same events that tear us apart. The play provides brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, a grieving father, a conflicted priest, brothers of legend, a felonious housewife, an accountant of time, an orphaned boy, a radio shock jock and a man who finds things; each primarily connected by the cataclysmic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of over a quarter million people..

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Cast Information

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Minimum number of actors

Female roles

Male roles

Transgender roles

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Non-Binary Gender Non-Conforming roles

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Gender unespecified roles

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Actor-Friendly Parts

Monologue level

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contains monologues

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Scene details

Scene between man and woman

Production and Publication

First produced

2013, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto

Publication year

2014

Published by

Playwrights Canada

ISBN

9781770912571

Winner, Carol Bolt Award 2013Winner, Governor General`s Literary Award for Drama 2015

Winner, Carol Bolt Award 2013Winner, Governor General`s Literary Award for Drama 2015

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