num_pages: 160
description: In this moving exploration of parenthood an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India the parents must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength their marriage and their hearts.The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music dance puppetry ritual and laughterSarah Ruhl at her imaginative best. A meditation on attachment and unconditional love the play asks us to believe in a world in which sometimes the youngest children are also the oldest and wisest teachers.
language: None
title: The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux