Drama - Canadian

Loving music was never a bad thing, until the love and obsession John had possessed not only him but his instrument. Will he find love, or Madness...Author: John Anthony DavisISBN-10: 1548116009ISBN-13: 9781548116002Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2017Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

The last of the Canadian Indian Agents travels north to the tiny Native Village of Fort Norman located on the Mackenzie River in the North West Territory of Canada, now called Tulita. He brings with him his wife and four small children. The year...

W.O. Mitchell's "Jake & The Kid" captivated radio audiences in the days before television and enjoyed ratings that rivalled those for the radio broadcasts of the CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada." These homespun tales about the hired hand, Jake Trumper and his sidekick, The...

At the beginning of the 20th century in China, copies of Ibsen's A Doll House began circulating secretly amongst women in tea-houses. In China Doll, Marjorie Chan's first play, Ibsen is a catalyst for a young woman who comes to see her future in...

In language that is at once poetic and vernacular, Don Hannah creates characters and stories that long remain with the reader and audience. The three plays in Shoreline explore that most basic and complicated of emotional territories: the family.Author: Don HannahISBN-10: 0889242909ISBN-13: 9780889242906Publisher: Dundurn...

Of all the subjects taught in the school system, dramatic arts probably has the greatest potential to help students prepare for life. The study of acting helps students develop personal and social skills: increased poise and confidence, better awareness of their physical and vocal...

The editor of this lively, updated assortment of reviews, interviews and other critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama has gathered material from books, theatre and scholarly journals; from major daily newspapers in Canada and abroad; from critics, academics, journalists and playwrights. This new expanded...

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families after the war, Ralph...

For more than three decades, Robert Lepage's dynamic multimedia performance works have been produced on stages worldwide. Celebrated for his bold, visionary aesthetic, Lepage has received several high-profile commissions in recent years, including two Peter Gabriel world tours, Cirque du Soleil's Kﾁ in Las...

A historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn. The play examines Sitting Bull's relationship with superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and is the study of the disillusionment of a man who believes...

Lila, a Black cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black man. She's moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her...

Inspired by the true story of a New Brunswick teenager who committed suicide in prison when corrections officers failed to intervene. From the two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, this play is a bold, captivating portrait of three women who remain helpless...

Jake is a widower whose life is devoted to his son, a severely disabled seventeen-year-old boy. However, when Jake suddenly develops a serious medical condition, he becomes the one to rely on the people around him. As Jake's condition worsens, an ethical dilemma troubles...

David, a successful novelist with writer's block, has received some devastating news. Lucy, his housekeeper of twenty-eight years, has her own secret. As Lucy is getting ready to end her shift, David invites her to stay and have a drink. But as the night...

Winner, 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Three of Jordan Tannahill's fresh and riveting works are featured in this collection, including Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, and rihannaboi95. Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows...

Two brothers have their plans weekend plans thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition. A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on...

Kate possesses the makings of a gifted mathematician with an enthusiasm for exploring the mysteries of space and time. But this is the 1950s and women are routinely laughed out of scientific circles. Besides, every family has its star, and Kate's brother already holds...

This is a pressed bruise. This is Greta Garbo's smile. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations is an imperfect chronicle of a life lived; a body pulled through time, encountering meteorological phenomenon, mythology, political calamity, pop culture, and everyday happenstance along the way....

Winner of the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.After learning of the death of her former husband, Margaret begins to unearth the blissful and painful memories of their marriage, all through the lens of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a...

This re-issue incorporates a number of small revisions, and includes a new introduction by the author. Author: Eugene SticklandISBN-10: 1551114992ISBN-13: 9781551114996Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2002Pages: 78Format: Paperback

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking them along to the cafeteria, change rooms, and playground, to the...

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what we're capable of when pushed to our breaking point.Set in the aftermath of the disaster that nearly destroyed Fort McMurray in 2016, After the...

Winner of the Contra Guys Award for New Performance Text 2018 In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a heartbeat through...

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It's just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has been losing residents for years, but the almost-forgotten stories...

Winner of the 2017 Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui's People's Choice Dramatic Author of the Year Winner of the 2019 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards Outstanding Original Script With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who...

Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it? Grieving siblings Natalie and Bart have differing...

Winner of the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.The title of William Shakespeare's As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard's classic, Indigenous...

Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother's footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices that their strict maestra is not holding everyone...

ﾉtaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their...

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other's very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to...

The one thing everyone knows is that we're all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different if we have to make the decision...

Young people cannot avoid the consequences of climate change. In this urgent and lyrical play, they reckon with the generations who have come before them. They hold the audience to account for the broken world they have inherited, questioning the choices that have been...

Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whisky aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape... Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre present Ablutions: a...

'Everyone falls at the same rate. Isn't that amazing? Everyone. Everything. A fat man. A little baby. A brick, a piece of paper, a penny. Amazing. Once acceleration gets a hold of you velocity just goes all fuckin' nuts.' Dot doesn't hate her father,...

In this second book in the Journey's of Courage series, Brock Matheson sets out to define a life on his own after 'coming out' to his family.. With the support of his friends, Brock leaves his family to deal with these new experiences within...

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents...

Discover how Canada got the eight-hour workday! Visit the first town to vote on Big Oil! The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin recreates the events surrounding the mysterious death of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, who led a strike at a Canadian zinc smelter in Trail, BC,...

Consumed by fantasies of opulent fabrics and women's high fashion, a young man desperately tries to restore his mother's tarnished reputation. Channeling Yves Saint Laurent, his idol and muse, Hugo sets out to right the widespread rumours about his mother, B饌trice, by designing the...

Winner of 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for DramaThe Piano Teacher, by acclaimed playwright and musical director Dorothy Dittrich, is a play about loss, love, friendship, and the healing power of music. When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she...

I, Animal is a trio of riveting monologues from celebrated playwright Daniel MacIvor, each of which explores identity with tremendous insight and dark humor. In "Man in Scrubs," a queer black nurse is getting awfully tired of being put in a box. "Boy in...

Lowell Garrish has lost everything--his parents, his grandma, the music the waves make on the shore in Nova Scotia. Desperate to hold on to real sound, Lowell sets off on a road trip across Canada with a tape recorder, capturing something from every person...

Growing up on the Six Nations native reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in, as a ﾒwhiteﾓ looking ﾒIndianﾓﾑfair skin and curly hair made her more of a Shirley Temple type than a Pocahontas type. Salt Baby navigates the native reserve and the city...

The three outstanding plays in this collection include Footprints on the Moon (finalist for the Governor General's Award and winner of the Labatt Award for Best Canadian Play) which tells the story of a woman's attempt to prevent her teenage daughter from leaving home...

Two of the Best in the Neighbourhood is a backstage account of the creation and continued life of the smash hit play 2 Pianos 4 Hands. (This volume also includes the full script of the play.) With contributions from the principal players of this...

This highly theatrical adaptation of Timothy Findley's classic novel traces the brutal coming of age of Robert Ross-a sensitive idealist who goes off to the Great War in 1915. Ross, who has a fondness for animals and shares a strong bond with his wheelchair-bound...

The third play in the award-winning Arctic Cycle on the impact of climate changeHarveys suck. Whether hurricanes or Hollywood producers, Harveys are overpowered forces primed to prey on vulnerable people and ecosystems. Harveys especially prey on women, including the woman in No More Harveys,...

A gripping play by an award-winning playwright, Liar examines the power and influence of human interaction and the perils of assumption. Mark is a young man who is anything you want him to be-a chameleon. He can be a friend, lover, thief, or confidante-but...

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She's an English teacher; he's a high-school librarian. At the heart of the occasion, though, is a terrible sorrow. You see, Steph and Stewart arrived home from their blissful honeymoon to find that something terrible had...

Hunting Stuart, about an Ottawa civil servant's royal connection, and The Voice of the People, a one-act play about a letter to the editor, are among Robertson Davies' best plays.Author: Robertson DaviesISBN-10: 0889242593ISBN-13: 9780889242593Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1994Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w...

Lambda Literary Award, Drama: Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Winner)Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet...