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  • Heavens by Mouawad, Wajdi
    Wajdi Mouawad

    Heavens

    In Heavens, the fourth and final instalment of his critically lauded Blood Promises cycle, Wajdi Mouawad crafts a fierce and poignant play that penetrates the intersection where violence, terror, beauty, and art converge. Isolated in a secret location, an international team of intelligence personnel...
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  • Separate Beds by Cruise, M. J.
    M. J. Cruise

    Separate Beds

    Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives. In celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary, the couple's children send them on a Caribbean cruise. Free of chores and children, Ernie and Twink are wined, dined, and introduced to exciting people. When they...
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  • The Unplugging by Nolan, Yvette
    Yvette Nolan

    The Unplugging

    Winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script. In an instant, electricity all over the world stops flowing, and humanity is left in the dark. Bern and Elena, exiled from their village for being too old to bear children, trudge across...
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  • Paper Series by Yee, David
    David Yee

    Paper Series

    A series of monologues that imaginatively explore six lives and their curious connections to something as inconsequential as a piece of paper. An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his...
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  • Kilt Pins by Hernandez, Catherine
    Catherine Hernandez

    Kilt Pins

    In a Catholic high school in Scarborough, Ontario, amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a young woman struggles to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school kids pitting the voice of God and thousands of years of scripture against...
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  • Influence: A Play by Munsil, Janet a.
    Janet a. Munsil

    Influence: A Play

    " The Gods of Greece must be pleased. A delicious trip into history . . . I can't wait for the day that Janet Munsil's Influence will extend across the seas to be presented where it's set, in London." - Vancouver Sun "Expansive, witty,...
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  • Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast by Davies, Robertson
    Robertson Davies

    Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

    Two plays from the 1940s by the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period.Author: Robertson DaviesISBN-10: 0889242410ISBN-13: 9780889242418Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1993Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
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  • The (Post) Mistress by Highway, Tomson
    Tomson Highway

    The (Post) Mistress eBook

    Canada's most famous Indigenous playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only...
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  • Modern Canadian Plays, (Volume 1, 5th Edition) by Wasserman, Jerry
    Jerry Wasserman

    Modern Canadian Plays, (Volume 1, 5th Edition)

    This fifth edition of the classic Modern Canadian Plays sets out an even broader range of plays than previous editions. The plays in the first volume date from 1967 to 1991, and outline an indigenous Canadian drama emerging from its colonial roots to celebrate...
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  • The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story by Clements, Marie
    Marie Clements

    The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story

    Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of "the vanishing race of the North American Indian." His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives....
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  • Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Highway, Tomson
    Tomson Highway

    Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout

    Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native...
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  • Alternatives by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    Alternatives

    A very liberal contemporary couple--Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a "non-practising" Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature--hosts a dinner party. The guests at this little "sitcom" soir馥 are couples that represent what by now have become the clich馘 extremes of...
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  • The Baby Blues by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    The Baby Blues

    The Baby Blues is Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of "fancy dancers" of every stripe on the powwow trail. In juxtaposing three generations of careless wandering hedonists, progenitors of a string of offspring from...
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  • The East End Plays: Part 2 by Walker, George F.
    George F. Walker

    The East End Plays: Part 2

    Where is the East End? It's where the sun comes up and where you bury the dead. It's where George Walker set six of his plays. It's the East End of Toronto; the Lower East Side of New York; down by the East River;...
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  • Les Belles Soeurs by Tremblay, Michel
    Michel Tremblay

    Les Belles Soeurs

    Germaine Lauzon has won a million trading stamps from a department store. Her head swimming with dreams of refurbishing and redecorating her working-class home from top to bottom with catalogue selections ranging from new kitchen appliances to "real Chinese paintings on velvet," she invites...
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  • The Real World? by Tremblay, Michel
    Michel Tremblay

    The Real World?

    A play within a play. A young playwright draws on his family as the raw material for his first work. Cast of four women and three men.Author: Michel TremblayISBN-10: 0889222606ISBN-13: 9780889222601Publisher: TalonbooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/1988Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.65w x 0.27d
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  • The Ecstasy of Rita Joe by Ryga, George
    George Ryga

    The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

    Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men's violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama...
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  • Leaving Home by French, David
    David French

    Leaving Home

    David French's first play is a classic in Canadian drama. The first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series, Leaving Home tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in...
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  • True Love Lies by Fraser, Brad
    Brad Fraser

    True Love Lies

    A new play by Governor Gerneral Literary Award winner Brad Fraser.Author: Brad FraserISBN-10: 0887549152ISBN-13: 9780887549151Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2010Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
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  • Annie Mae's Movement by Nolan, Yvette
    Yvette Nolan

    Annie Mae's Movement

    Annie Mae's Movement explores what is must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man's movement, a Canadian in America, an American Indian in a white-dominant culture. This play looks for the truth by examining the life and...
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  • Design and Scenography: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Vol. 15 by Rewa, Natalie
    Natalie Rewa

    Design and Scenography: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Vol. 15

    Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.Author: Natalie RewaISBN-10: 0887548334ISBN-13: 9780887548338Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
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  • Robert Chafe: Two Plays by Chafe, Robert
    Robert Chafe

    Robert Chafe: Two Plays

    Two plays with a deep sense of Newfoundland's history. Butler's Marsh explores 30-year-old family secrets hidden in the dark, dense woods. In Tempting Providence, Myra Grimsley boards a steam ship from London in 1921, charged to serve as the sole health provider for the...
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  • The Canadian Settlers' Guide (1860) by Traill, Catherine Parr
    Catherine Parr Traill

    The Canadian Settlers' Guide (1860)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Six Years In The Canadian Northwest (1882) by D'Artigue, Jean
    Jean D'Artigue

    Six Years In The Canadian Northwest (1882)

    Six Years in the Canadian Northwest is a memoir written by Jean D'Artigue, originally published in 1882. The book recounts the author's experiences living and working in the Canadian Northwest during the late 19th century. D'Artigue was a French-Canadian trader who spent six years...
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  • Mother's Daughter by Hennig, Kate
    Kate Hennig

    Mother's Daughter

    Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty-eight-year-old princess Mary--daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon--wrests the throne from Edward's deemed heir. But Mary's mother appears from the vaults of memory, and adamantly questions the motives of Mary's cousin Jane and her...
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  • Winter of 88 by Yahhoubi, Mohammad
    Mohammad Yahhoubi

    Winter of 88

    A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn't be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them. Already eight years into the Iran-Iraq war, Nasrin...
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  • Answer Me Home by Walsh, Agnes
    Agnes Walsh

    Answer Me Home

    Tramore Theatre was formed in 1999 by Agnes Walsh and Arlene Morrissey. It is a community-based arts organization dedicated to the promotion of the oral history and the cultural traditions of the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, including the rich Irish heritage of the...
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  • Haven by LaVigne, Mishka
    Mishka LaVigne

    Haven

    Winner of the 2019 Governor-General's Award for French-language Drama Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother's tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain childhood memories from...
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  • Westray by O'Neill, Chris
    Chris O'Neill

    Westray

    When the Westray mine exploded, the human tragedy and suffering that resulted were chilling proof that the age-old price paid for coal is human blood. After the dead were laid to rest, the bureaucratic back-stabbing and corporate refusal of responsibility were all too familiar...
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  • Flight Risk by Braem, Meg
    Meg Braem

    Flight Risk

    World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand centenarian celebration. There's...
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  • Caroline's Kitchen by Betts, Torben
    Torben Betts

    Caroline's Kitchen

    Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million? Caroline Mortimer, the nation's favourite TV cook, has it all - a sparkling career, a big house in Highgate, a (golf) loving husband, smart kids and...
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  • Matara: The Elephant Play by Massing, Conni
    Conni Massing

    Matara: The Elephant Play

    At a crumbling zoo, an elephant keeper, a security guard, and a newly hired media consultant have differing views over what should be done about the zoo's main attraction, the aging Sri Lankan elephant Matara. Matara is deteriorating by the day following the loss...
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  • Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France by Wasserman, Jerry
    Jerry Wasserman

    Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France

    2006 marked the 400th anniversary of a major theatrical event in the history of North American drama. The Theatre of Neptune in New France by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members...
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  • Leaving Home by French, David
    David French

    Leaving Home

    DramaCharacters: 4 male, 3 femaleInterior Set An exceptional drama by an award winning Canadian playwright.The Mercer family's cohesiveness is being torn asunder. The subtle threads of mutual understanding, confidence and trust have come unraveled. The key character is the patriarch, Jacob, a man obsessed...
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  • Two Ships Passing by Carley, Dave
    Dave Carley

    Two Ships Passing

    Two Ships Passing is the sequel to Dave Carley's Midnight Madness, which received its world premiere in 1988, and went on to become one of Canada's most widely produced plays.Author: Dave CarleyISBN-10: 0889242828ISBN-13: 9780889242821Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w...
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  • Vimy, Second Edition by Thiessen, Vern
    Vern Thiessen

    Vimy, Second Edition

    Winner of the 2009 Carol Bolt Award France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge.Author: Vern ThiessenISBN-10: 1770918302ISBN-13: 9781770918306Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 144Format:...
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  • Mahabharata by Fernandes, Miriam
    Miriam Fernandes

    Mahabharata

    A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture. Why Not Theatre's large-scale, once-in-a-generation retelling of Mahabharata brings together a cast of performers entirely from the South Asian diaspora, blending cultures and art forms in a spectacular production...
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  • Theatres of Affect: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Vol 4 by Hurley, Erin
    Erin Hurley

    Theatres of Affect: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Vol 4

    Contributors assess the deployments of various emotional registers in theatrical performance and explore how and where the "affective turn" in contemporary humanities scholarship affects theatre studies in Canada. What is it to think feeling, to put the affective dimensions of theatrical experience and its...
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  • Monster by MacIvor, Daniel
    Daniel MacIvor

    Monster

    Finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama. Monster, a one-man play, begins in the total darkness of a movie theatre. After a long silence, someone in the audience rudely shushes his neighbour, and the show begins. Daniel MacIvor transforms himself into a series...
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  • Outside by Dunn, Paul
    Paul Dunn

    Outside

    Daniel's ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced with acknowledging what drove them apart. At his new...
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  • Andy's Gone by Verdier, Marie-Claude
    Marie-Claude Verdier

    Andy's Gone

    What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution? In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city's perimeter comes to a head when a young princess...
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  • Robert Lepage: Connecting Flights by Lepage, Robert
    Robert Lepage

    Robert Lepage: Connecting Flights

    The first major artistic statement by the renowned Canadien theatre director and visionary artist.Author: Robert LepageISBN-10: 1559361654ISBN-13: 9781559361651Publisher: Theatre Communications GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.59d
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  • Bethune 2nd Edition by Rod Langley
    Rod Langley

    Bethune 2nd Edition

    Rod Langley's Bethune chronicles the medical and political career of Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born doctor who died a national hero in the Republic of China in 1939. He remains an esteemed figure in China today, for his selfless contributions to the Communist Party of...
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  • I Am for You by Ouchi, Mieko
    Mieko Ouchi

    I Am for You

    A new drama teacher teaches two aggressive girls the art of stage combat, hoping to get them to understand the costs of violence. The girls battle out their issues in rehearsals, and as the their interest in stage combat grows, so does their interest...
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  • Brontë the World Without by Mand, Jordi
    Jordi Mand

    Brontë the World Without

    What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive? Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it's been for their own personal enjoyment. Now that their father is sick and their brother is...
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  • You Never Can Tell by Shaw, George Bernard
    George Bernard Shaw

    You Never Can Tell

    You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's plays entitled Plays Pleasant. In June 2011, the play was revived at the Coliseum Theatre...
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  • Gilgamesh by Hines, Derrek
    Derrek Hines

    Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh is one of the most powerful men in Iraq. A king, a demi-God and a fearsome tyrant, he thrives on the shame and suffering of his subjects, robbing them of their innocence to fuel his lust. But when the Gods turn against him,...
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  • Vancouver: Hollywood North by Rawls, Lea
    Lea Rawls

    Vancouver: Hollywood North

    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area...
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  • Legislating Love: The Everett Klippert Story by Meisner, Natalie
    Natalie Meisner

    Legislating Love: The Everett Klippert Story

    Aspiring historian Maxine is researching Canadian social policy when she discovers the story of Everett Klippert--the last Canadian man jailed simply for being gay. Maxine becomes fascinated with Everett's case and with discovering the man beyond the headlines, a beloved Calgary bus driver on...
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  • Refractions: Scenes by St Bernard, Donna-Michelle
    Donna-Michelle St Bernard

    Refractions: Scenes

    Refractions: Scenes is the hotly anticipated follow-up to Refractions: Solo, a collection of monologues also edited by St. Bernard and Nolan. This collection can be used both as a source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an...
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