RED DOC

In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called G, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover Sad (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures, from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where Gs mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hu...[Read more]