{"product_id":"bliss-9781559363358","title":"Bliss","description":"Welcome to Wal-Mart. On their break, a cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'See you Later, Celine, ' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life, her adoring fans? And how is her story connected to the story of an unknown woman on the facing page? It's not. Until the Oracle intervenes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis wild and slippery fantasy from French-Canadian writer Olivier Choinière explores our insatiable appetite for private lives made public. In a new translation by Caryl Churchill, \u003ci\u003e Bliss \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a clever, disturbing piece about the damage done by vicarious living\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver Choinière\u003c\/b\u003e founded the L'ACTIVITÉ Theatre Company in 2000 for which he has written and directed extensively. His French-language translations of English plays include \u003ci\u003eLes Points Tournants (Passing Places\u003c\/i\u003e) by Stephen Greenhorn and \u003ci\u003eRoad\u003c\/i\u003e by Jim Cartwright. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryl Churchill\u003c\/b\u003e has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include\u003ci\u003e Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Number\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559363358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Olivier Choini\u0026#195;\u0026#169;re","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44207240413365,"sku":"9781559363358","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_32b36b43-c664-43dc-9f1e-9073308a7849.jpg?v=1716908382","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bliss-9781559363358","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}