Creator:
Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher:
Methuen
Two plays exploring the pain of living and the difficulty of dying by a
sensational new writer Juniper's Whitening "Tell me this - is it true
that if you make someone die, and they come out the other side, it
doesn't matter? I'm sure something clung to Lazarus. Something must've
shone through him." In Aleph, Beth and Juniper's nightmare house,
kindness is entrapment, and resurrection is a weapon. Aleph love/hates
Beth, Beth love/hates Aleph, and all Juniper knows is that Beth can't
seem to stop being murdered. One thing above all: none of them must
look out of the window. Victimese "I was thinking, Eve, that you need
to touch bottom - just so you know you can do it. So you know it's not
that difficult; so you know that you don't have to tunnel far; so you
know that you're not that actually as deep as you think you are." Eve
is unable to leave her student room but unable to bear staying in it.
In harming herself she hopes to demonstrate her courage and
independence to both herself and her friends. But her sister's arrival
and need for her friendship forces her to face painful truths and to
examine whether it is possible to temper emotional courage with the
humanity to give and ask for aid.
