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Bag Babies
by Allan Stratton
“A brilliant, funny satire
about urban hunger and homelessness, about the parvenu rich, about the
wretched pomposity of the news media and ‘greed without guilt.’
Bag Babies blackly transforms the international foster parents’
plan into a scheme — tax deductible — by which the wealthy adopt
street people to improve the public image of the rich. Stratton has
reached back to earlier models of English drama to put poetry — in
the form of rhymed couplets — into the mouths of the rich and powerful,
while the poor speak in prose. [This] is theatre very much at the centre
of life.” — Michael Valpy, The Globe and Mail
“Bag Babies
takes no prisoners — but it’s done in such a splendidly creative
and humorous way that the victims will chortle all the way to the figurative
guillotine ... A hugely imaginative onslaught on comfortable assumptions.”
— Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star
“Very clever, satiric couplets
worthy of Alexander Pope ... A Brechtian theatre ... [Stratton is] a
consummate craftsman.” — Mark Czarnecki, CBC Radio
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