Shot through with wry humour and unapologetic in its politics, Bitter Medicine is the story of the Martini family, a polemical and poetic portrait of illness, and a vital and timely call for action. Stage T-Rex and friends to star in ‘Extinction Therapist’ premiere Theatre Aquarius is kicking off 2023 with a world premiere of Canadian playwright Clem Martini’s ‘Extinction Therapist.’ It. The result is a layered family memoir that faces head-on the stigma attached to mental illness. In Bitter Medicine, Olivier's poignant graphic narrative runs alongside and communicates with a written account of the past three decades by his younger brother, award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini. His sketches, comic strips, and portraits document his experience with, and capture the essence of, this all too frequently misunderstood disease. Throughout it all, Olivier, an accomplished visual artist, drew. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy, the imperfect science of medication, and the strain of mental illness on familial relationships. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. And he is hell-bent on revenge.In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A messianic opponent, risen from the dead, is gathering The Collection. It isn't long before Kyp picks up a ragtag band of companions - plague survivors, outcasts, orphans - united by their desire to follow him, even into the human colonies, even into fire.
He will keep flying east because he feels he must.
Humans have taken Kym - he doesn't know where, but he will keep searching because he made a promise. His Family is scattered: the flock decimated by plague, the Chooser dead - murdered by one of their own. Professor Clem Martini is an award winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays, and ten books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, including the Calgary Book Award-winning Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness and his most recent anthology, Martini With A Twist. It isn't long before Kyp picks up a ragtag band of companions - plague survivors, outcasts, orphans - united by their desire to follow him, even into the human colonies, even into fire. /rebates/2f97897289985542fREVOLTA-Portuguese-Edition-Clem-Martini-97289985542fplp&. Humans have taken Kym - he doesn't know where, but he will keep searching because he made a promise. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. His Family is scattered: the flock decimated by plague, the Chooser dead - murdered by one of their own.
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