Controversial Swedish Playwright Offers New, Free Satisfactionism Play for Seekers of Love and Happiness
Stressed-out seekers of love and happiness may discover a new kind of personal freedom and satisfaction in the playful adventures of Katherine and Christianus.
Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 2008 --(PR.com)-- What happens when Katherine, a neurotic and very unhappy American lawyer, travels from Miami to London to get some happiness-help from Christianus, a well-known satisfactionist?
The answer is: a lot. For Swedish author Bo C. Klintberg's new play "Katherine's Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness" is not just an engaging story about a meeting between a man and a woman. It's also a many-leveled piece of philosophy, comedy, historical fiction, psychology, and social criticism that is certain to offer the reader a very exciting and rewarding literary experience.
In the course of the play, Christianus and Katherine dive into many topics on the road to real satisfaction. In Scene X ("Are Foetuses Potential Persons?") they discuss abortion, foetuses, cryonics, and World Health Organisation statistics; in Scene VIII ("Important and Unimportant Knowledge") the issue is our freedom to decide what is important; in Scene VII ("Not In the Hands of the Scientists") Christianus presents some controversial ideas about scientists and science; and in Scene XIII ("Radha's Microscope") Christianus offers a spiritual alternative to Katherine's unsatisfactory nothingness scenario.
Klintberg's new play is published in the January 2008 issue of Philosophical Plays -- an open-access publication for philosophy plays & philosophical dialogues that is freely available at the Philosophical Plays website. No fees, subscriptions, or registrations are necessary for viewing the free online edition (ISSN 1654-6318) or for downloading the free PDF of the print edition (ISSN 1654-6296).
Says Klintberg, "First priority was to make this issue freely available to everyone on the internet. And I wanted to offer not just a free online edition on the website, but also a very nicely typeset print edition for free, as a PDF. We all need to get real satisfaction, and aesthetics is a very important part of that."
For more information about the play and the Philosophical Plays website, contact Bo C. Klintberg at philosophicalplays@gmail.com.
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The answer is: a lot. For Swedish author Bo C. Klintberg's new play "Katherine's Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness" is not just an engaging story about a meeting between a man and a woman. It's also a many-leveled piece of philosophy, comedy, historical fiction, psychology, and social criticism that is certain to offer the reader a very exciting and rewarding literary experience.
In the course of the play, Christianus and Katherine dive into many topics on the road to real satisfaction. In Scene X ("Are Foetuses Potential Persons?") they discuss abortion, foetuses, cryonics, and World Health Organisation statistics; in Scene VIII ("Important and Unimportant Knowledge") the issue is our freedom to decide what is important; in Scene VII ("Not In the Hands of the Scientists") Christianus presents some controversial ideas about scientists and science; and in Scene XIII ("Radha's Microscope") Christianus offers a spiritual alternative to Katherine's unsatisfactory nothingness scenario.
Klintberg's new play is published in the January 2008 issue of Philosophical Plays -- an open-access publication for philosophy plays & philosophical dialogues that is freely available at the Philosophical Plays website. No fees, subscriptions, or registrations are necessary for viewing the free online edition (ISSN 1654-6318) or for downloading the free PDF of the print edition (ISSN 1654-6296).
Says Klintberg, "First priority was to make this issue freely available to everyone on the internet. And I wanted to offer not just a free online edition on the website, but also a very nicely typeset print edition for free, as a PDF. We all need to get real satisfaction, and aesthetics is a very important part of that."
For more information about the play and the Philosophical Plays website, contact Bo C. Klintberg at philosophicalplays@gmail.com.
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