Red Mango

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By (author): Charles Tidler

‘Red Mango’ is a one-man play about a “single celibate sensualist” who constantly thinks about women-though not for sex, but for sweaty joy and sensual contact on the booming dance floors of Victoria’s blues clubs. Charlie is a mid-40’s, divorced blues fanatic: he is “between relationships” and addicted to the rapture of losing one’s self in a crowded room of sweating, gyrating, heaving bodies, grinding to the rhythms of powerhouse blues. Humorous, poetic, ‘Red Mango’ played to sold-out houses at Victoria’s Belfry Theatre.

“The writing is so tight-no time wasted, word choices concise…” –
Broken Pencil

AUTHOR

Charles Tidler

Charles Tidler was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana. He studied literature with William Gass and completed a degree in English and philosophy at Purdue University. Charles is the father of two sons and makes his home in Victoria. His jazz-inspired plays ‘Straight Ahead’ and ‘Blind Dancers’ were hits in Toronto, the Edinburgh Festival, and London’s West End, and were awarded the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Tidler’s play ‘Red Mango’ and his novel ‘Going to New Orleans’ are published by Anvil Press.