{"product_id":"placeholder-parallel-text-catherine-bisset-9781068696282","title":"Placeholder (Parallel Text)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA parallel text version of Catherine Bisset's play \u003cstrong\u003ePlaceholder\u003c\/strong\u003e - in English and French.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in motion by academic research by the Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre and Opera Network, a cross-institutional endeavour chaired at St Andrews, \u003cstrong\u003ePlaceholder\u003c\/strong\u003e by Catherine Bisset addresses the stories that are missing from the archives and the holes in the narrative that are themselves acts of suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSynopsis: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is 1790 in Saint-Domingue, a year and a day before the start of the Haitian Revolution. Minette, a 'free woman of colour', waits in a sweltering theatre. She remembers her mother, a courageous and intelligent enslaved woman, and considers her own previous career as an Opera singer. An emotional exchange between mother and daughter reveals the insidious power of divide and rule, the pointlessness of freedom without equality and the importance of resistance. Will Minette find the courage to go back to the Opera or will she remain a 'Placeholder'?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis version of \u003cstrong\u003ePlaceholder\u003c\/strong\u003e provides the original English version with matching pages in Haitian French, translated by Elisa Finielz. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Kavya Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Bisset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1068696281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068696282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Salamander Street Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.19d","brand":"Catherine Bisset","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906698498303,"sku":"9781068696282","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a61e659-73c5-4cd8-a650-011b7f04dfe1.jpg?v=1748771166","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/placeholder-parallel-text-catherine-bisset-9781068696282","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}