ROY, Camille
Cold Heaven

Cold Heaven joins two plays, Sometimes Dead is Better and Bye Bye Brunhilde, that have the dissonant, radical beauty of poetry. As Roy writes in her Introduction to the book: “Plays are porous, written to be entered… Plays provide a frame for studying collisions… Language can be an (uncontrollable) character, moving in on the others, creating a stir… [I]n a play… the private self disappears. Writing can move out into the dead zone between any two people and test what is there.”

“Bye Bye Brunhilde is a gorgeously perverse valentine about dykes, Fear and Technique.”
“Sometimes Dead is Better is a subversive family drama.”
—Robert Glück

Published by Litmus Press, 1993
Theatre / Poetry