Seattle Rep's THE CHILDREN: Beyond the Theatre
Seattle Rep presents THE CHILDREN by Lucy Kirkwood from February 7 to March 15, 2020. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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The Children
The script of THE CHILDREN, for your reading pleasure.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
THE CHILDREN’s Rose, Hazel and Robin’s tension-laden interactions are similar to (but not quite as shocking as) those featured in Albee’s infamous play.
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Oryx and Crake
Set in the near future, this post-apocalyptic novel explores an Earth ravaged by ecological and scientific disaster. First in a trilogy.
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Manual for Survival
Brown's research led to the exposé of a chilling cover-up of Chernobyl's true effects on both humans and the environment.
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Silent Spring
"First published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water." – Publisher’s copy.
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Fukushima
Reporter Mark Willacy visits the contaminated zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was destroyed in the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011. The power plant catastrophe in THE CHILDREN is modeled after the real-life Fukushima disaster.
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Midnight in Chernobyl
"While Chernobyl often gets portrayed as a small piece within the larger collapse of the USSR, this work aims to reset that notion by pointing out that the disaster solidified mistrust toward the Communist Party and Soviet system and that the recovery costs bankrupted the Soviet economy."--Library Journal
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Fukushima
Leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists team up with a journalist to determine exactly what led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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March Was Made of Yarn
Published a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, this anthology contains 18 essays and stories by Japanese authors reflecting on this devastating event and its aftermath.
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A Tale for the Time Being
An author in the Pacific Northwest discovers the diary of a Japanese teen named Nao in ocean debris, possibly from the 2011 tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster, which has washed ashore near her British Columbia home.
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