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  1. Mar 15, 2003 · Marie Clements’s latest play sears a dramatic swath through the reactionary identity politics of race, gender and class, using the penetrating yellow-white light, the false sun of uranium and radium, derived from a coal black rock known as pitchblende, as a metaphor for the invisible, malignant evils everywhere poisoning our relationship to ...

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  2. May 24, 2018 · In this literary analysis, we will examine one of the ways that Clements plays with theatrical conventions to stage these connections across characters and histories.

    • Theatrical Elements of Burning Vision
    • Questions to Keep in Mind While Reading
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    Clements is one of the most innovative theatre artists in Canada. She highlights the language of performance, theatre, and film in her multimedia productions, which often include music, video, new media, radio, and television. Her staging, which juxtaposes different time frames and locations, is often unusual and surprising. The theatrical elements...

    Timeline. Examine the timeline that precedes the play. Are there any historical facts or details that are new to you? Are you already familiar with any of these events? What idea of history does th...
    Title. What is the significance of the title Burning Vision? Brainstorm some associations you may have with this image. Do these associations match the ways in which the image is explored in the play?
    Form. Each of the sections of the play has two different subtitles. The first section, for example, is titled “The Frequency of Discovery” and “Movement One.” How do these subtitles simultaneously...
    Characters.The casting notes suggest that sometimes, the same actor plays more than one role. For example, the same actor plays the Japanese Grandmother and the Dene Widow. How does this casting di...
    Burning Vision.By Marie Clements. Rumble Productions. Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver. 23 Apr. 2002 – 11 May 2002. Performance.
    Clements, Marie. Burning Vision. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2002. Print.
  3. In Burning Vision, Métis performer and playwright Marie Clements’ latest play, she traces the journey of uranium, using it as a metaphor for the poisonous effects on humans resulting from constructing lives on foundations so terribly out of synch with nature.

  4. Oct 14, 2021 · Burning vision. by. Clements, Marie Humber, 1962-. Publication date. 2003. Publisher. Vancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.

  5. Marie Clements' Burning Vision may be the best example of this I know of in Canadian theatre. It takes us on a imaginative journey that invents its own rules about time, space, character. It challenges us to imagine the intimate interconnectedness of actions that span continents and centuries.

  6. Mar 15, 2003 · Marie Clements’s acclaimed play sears a dramatic swath through the reactionary identity politics of race, gender and class, using the penetrating yellow-white light, the false sun of uranium and radium, derived from a coal black rock known as pitchblende, as a metaphor for the invisible, malignant evils everywhere poisoning our relationship ...

    • Marie Clements
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