Overview
You can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He's a catnip-smoking city slicker living in the dark corners behind the toilet. After diving into the diaper of a Chinese baby, Cockroach watches the boy grow up to lose his sense of identity. Understanding what it means to live in a world not built for outsiders, he attempts to help the boy reclaim his culture. But when the Bard himself makes a surprise appearance in hopes of influencing the boy with the "superior" English language, Cockroach finds himself caught in a collision of linguistics, longing, and lobsters (who sometimes burp).
A unique exploration of xenophobia and the dangers of language erosion, cockroach (曱甴) is a coming-of-age play about the stories we tell ourselves to comfort, to survive, to resist, to overcome, and to be.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780369104953
- ISBN-10: 0369104951
- Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
- Publish Date: September 2024
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
- Page Count: 112
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