The Inheritor: A Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810147829)

The first English-language translation of the 1968 activist play about inequality and access to education

In The Inheritor, surrealist imagery and experimental forms convey the radically different experience of two students, the Inheritor and the Non-Inheritor, as they prepare for a high-stakes exam. Revealing a world of privilege where "there is no such thing as luck," the play features a beheaded knight, a talking record player, and a boisterous chorus of professors depicted as a flock of squawking birds.

Based on sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron's The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture, the play was collectively created by Th??tre de l'Aquarium, a company then composed entirely of students. It proved a powerful success when it premiered in May 1968 amid student and worker protests in Paris, and it continues to speak forcefully to education inequity on campuses across anglophone countries today.

Author: Kate Bredeson, Th??tre de l'Aquarium
ISBN-10: 0810147823
ISBN-13: 9780810147829
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2024
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs