The Angelina project
Subtitle: a play in two acts
By: Frank Canino.
Series: Drama series ;; 19; Drama series (Montréal, Québec) ;; no. 19.
Publisher: Guernica
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Married women -- Drama.; Family violence -- Drama.; Murder -- Drama.; Toronto (Ont.) -- Drama.; Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: "On Easter Sunday afternoon, 1911, Angelina Napolitano, a twenty-eight-year-old Italian mother of four, killed her husband with an axe as he lay asleep in their bedroom in Sault Ste. Marie. The Angelina Project is an extension of that event, in which four generations of women come to terms with the violence which has shaped them. The script moves between Toronto of today, the Sault of 1911, and the mythical world of Clytemnestra whose murder of her husband broke all taboos.

The focal character is Amelia Covello, whose marriage and academic career are in danger. As she researches her past, she discovers the secrets and lies that have shaped her. This two-act play is based on actual trial records." "Frank Canino creates an imaginative conjecture about what happened to Angelina and the next three generations of her family. Along the way, he explores issues of abuse, violence, prejudice and media hype."--BOOK JACKET.