Synopsis

Walker & Ghost Dance

Walker & Ghost Dance $17

Derek Walcott

Published by Faraux Straus Giroux

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate

On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react

In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion - Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents - into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history.

In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist

In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet

"The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by fine excess" ~ Seamus Heaney

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