Three in the Back, Two in the Head

Fiction & Literature, Drama
Cover of the book Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman, Playwrights Canada Press
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Author: Jason Sherman ISBN: 9781770912304
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Publication: January 1, 1997
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press Language: English
Author: Jason Sherman
ISBN: 9781770912304
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Publication: January 1, 1997
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Language: English

The issue of loyalty and betrayal is dramatized through dialogue in the Governor-General's-Award-winning Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which appears to have been based on the assassination of Gerald Bull, the brilliant Canadian scientist who designed the first Star Wars system twenty years before Reagan announced his version. Bull ran afoul of the Pentagon and the CIA by his dealings with China, Chile, Yugoslavia, and Iraq. But Sherman's play is not a docudrama in any sense, for it merely uses some of the circumstances of the murdered scientist's career in order to concentrate on questions of personal and state morality as these circumscribe issues of loyalty and betrayal.

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The issue of loyalty and betrayal is dramatized through dialogue in the Governor-General's-Award-winning Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which appears to have been based on the assassination of Gerald Bull, the brilliant Canadian scientist who designed the first Star Wars system twenty years before Reagan announced his version. Bull ran afoul of the Pentagon and the CIA by his dealings with China, Chile, Yugoslavia, and Iraq. But Sherman's play is not a docudrama in any sense, for it merely uses some of the circumstances of the murdered scientist's career in order to concentrate on questions of personal and state morality as these circumscribe issues of loyalty and betrayal.

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