Drama - Canadian

Drama on courage, heroism, and despair exploring the long public shadow that private family violence casts.Author: Colleen MurphyISBN-10: 0887545955ISBN-13: 9780887545955Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2007Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.42h x 5.52w x 0.19dAward: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner

Claudia is "an official pre-teen" still reeling from her parents' divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Alcudia...

Darrel is a middle-aged mentally challenged man who lives with his mother. When she dies in her sleep, Darrel does not realize she is gone, and, for ten days, he lives alone. Tandem to Darrel's day to day routine are the adventures of his...

Mapleview Lanes--address of "The Canadian Dream." The newest resident_a group home for troubled teens. There goes the neighborhood. Disturbing and touching, funny and heartbreaking, this is classic Judith Thompson.Author: Judith ThompsonISBN-10: 0887546153ISBN-13: 9780887546150Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.38h x 6.34w...

Welcome to Wal-Mart. On their break, a cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines. 'See you Later, Celine, ' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life, her adoring fans? And...

"Mighton's most accessible play...beautifully told."--Stage and PageTwo nursing home residents rekindle what might have been a wartime romance. The award-winning author of Possible Worlds brings us this poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory. What shines through when memory...

A revival of a romantic drama, Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien.Author: Michael Marc BouchardISBN-10: 0887545459ISBN-13: 9780887545450Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1998Pages: 69Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.35w x...

Since its inception in 1974, Canadian Theatre Review has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama.This volume brings together fifteen of the...

Author: Nicolas BillonISBN-10: 0887548466ISBN-13: 9780887548468Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.20d

Gale has fashioned a spare but powerful tale that thrusts the indignities of slavery and the stupidity of racism out of the murky 18th century and into the here and now.--Martin Morrow, Calgary HeraldAuthor: Lorena GaleISBN-10: 0887545858ISBN-13: 9780887545856Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2000Pages: 96Format:...

Three touching and funny plays by Norm Foster. Maggie's Getting Married is "quite possibly Foster's best play to date" (The Guelph Mercury). In Here on the Flight Path "Foster cleverly weaves double meanings into his brilliant conversations. . . . It is] clever and...

The first anthology of First Nations drama to be published in Canada, this volume includes seminal work by Spiderwoman Theatre, Daniel David Moses, Monique Mojica, Drew Hayden Taylor, Yvette Nolan, and Marie Humber Clements, and features previously unpublished plays by Tomson Highway, Maria Campbell,...

A collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for women, intended for auditions, study or general interest and addressing themes of Adolescence, Body, Childhood Memories, Identity, Mothers, and Passion."A monologue must give voice to those who have been silenced. The speaker must urgently need to speak,...

By the author of Scorched, which won the Governor General's Award in 2002.Author: Wajdi MouawadISBN-10: 0887547931ISBN-13: 9780887547935Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.56h x 5.12w x 0.55dAward: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner

Nine months pregnant, Carolyn has invited her highly critical, very urban parents over for dinner for the first time in three years. She is determined that nothing will go wrong. Of course, everything does. This acclaimed multi-generation comedy has been a hit wherever it's...

East of Berlin premiered at SummerWorks in the fall of 2007.Author: Hannah MoscovitchISBN-10: 0887548490ISBN-13: 9780887548499Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2010Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.20dAward: Governor General's Literary Awards - FinalistReview Citation(s): Quill & Quire 07/01/2009 pg. 39

Author: Linda Griffiths, Maria CampbellISBN-10: 0887545351ISBN-13: 9780887545351Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 175Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.34h x 5.36w x 0.50d

"Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humility, his Tales are worth telling--and watching."-- NOW MagazineIncludes Tales of an Urban Indian and The Trickster of Third Avenue East, both of which depict...

In a society where the Black male body is both vilified and sexualized, Black Boys uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black male experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black men who seek a deeper...

The historical accounts from King Henry VIII and Queen Anne's time are steeped in controvery, contradiction, and irony. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was put to death on trumped up charges of adultery and incest. In fact, her husband, frustrated...

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is the emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral....

It is 2150 in M-City, a society without gender where everyone uses the pronoun ish. When two historians discover an abandoned millennium-era house, they hatch a plan to turn the building into a museum that re-enacts life in the year 2000. The historians gather...

In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy. My Sister's Keeper was first produced at the 1976 Lennoxville Festival in Quebec. (an earlier version, entitled...

In Anishnaabemowin, Okinum means dam. In deciphering a recurring dream about beavers, Émilie Monnet discovers how to break down interior barriers, to trust in the power of intuition, and to deconstruct cultural walls. A circular and immersive experience that interweaves three languages — English,...

Inspired by the classic play by Sophocles, Antigone in Spring takes us to a fictional Québec where dead birds fall from the sky, covering highways, rooftops, and parks. The citizens demand an explanation, but the answer never comes; the government, led by the autocratic...

Death and the Fool is a one-act drama written by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and published in 1914. The play revolves around a conversation between Death and a Fool, who has just been sentenced to death. The Fool is initially resistant to Death's presence, but...

Bernice, Estelle, Dots, Boysie, and Henry all moved from the Caribbean to Toronto in search of a better life. Together they weather the 'storms of fortune, ' but when Henry aspires to be a poet the others ridicule him. It is the strength of...

It's a parents' nightmare: Mr. And Mrs. Ichinose disapprove of their daughter Yayoi's fiance. The problem is, he's more than a little bit unsuitable-he's Godzilla! The chaos that results from the lovers' announcement to marry is hard on the Ichinose family and their car...

A gripping historical drama set against the backdrop of the brutal expulsion of the Acadian people from their homes in Nova Scotia during the French and Indian War. Author Walter S. Kerr uses vivid language and memorable characters to bring this tragic chapter of...

Claptrap is a grand satire of the colonial mentality that governs the theatre festivals of Canada.Author: Tom WoodISBN-10: 0889242798ISBN-13: 9780889242791Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1998Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.33w x 0.31d

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montr饌l's Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against their biology professor. When an agreement to end the occupation fell through, riot police...

In the 1970s, Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she's angry enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering...

THIS COLLECTION OF plays from Newfoundland playwrights, both established and emerging, is the first in a series of three anthologies. The collection proposes to include the following selection of popular plays from around the province: Robert Chafe's "Isle of Demons," recounting an affair and...

The six plays in this anthology reflect the wide spectrum of ethnic communities in Canada.Author: Aviva RavelISBN-10: 088924264XISBN-13: 9780889242647Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

In this absurd and apocalyptic young-adult comedy filled with dazzling wit and wild imagination, two teenaged outsiders at "one of the worst schools in the country" seem to be the only ones who understand or care that the whole world is a mess. Joan...

A new and fully revised edition of the popular, long-running autobiographical play from celebrated playwright and actor Walter Borden, exploring his experiences as a Black gay man facing racism, poverty, and homophobia. Welcome to The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time -- a powerful autobiographical...

The characters who inhabit Varma's play are all seeking the common good. But they are not guided by the same priorities. To get what they want, they must negotiate with each other. Each time they do, something is lost. And these losses ultimately add...

Someday is a powerful play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor. The story in Someday, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor's distinctive wit and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many Native Canadian families. Anne Wabung's daughter was...

The Mystery Play is a detective story, a ghost story, and a memory play: a theatrical blending of Wit and The Woman In Black. Though fully self-contained, The Mystery Play is also the second in a trilogy about crime-solving Sister Vivian Salter, a flinty,...

Described by Variety as 'Yukon Gothic, ' Claudia Dey's acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are...

our place by Kanika Ambrose is a new work set in a fictional Caribbean restaurant, Jerk Pork Castle in Scarborough, where newcomers Andrea and Niesha work in exchange for cash under the table. As the two women scrape out a life in Canada, leaving...

A new play from acclaimed writer Tony Burgess, author of the wildly successful novel, Pontypool Changes Everything. In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless.Author: Tony BurgessISBN-10: 1770914420ISBN-13: 9781770914421Publisher: Playwrights...

Can a lesbian couple find Mr. Right? Helen and Paige really want a baby. Maybe even two. They've decided they want to use a sperm donor, but because of Paige's own upbringing as an adopted child they want the donor to at least be...

J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement is a book written by Francis Bickley and published in 1912. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the life and works of J. M. Synge, an Irish playwright who played a significant role in the...

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge's life was filled with the events of Victorian melodrama: adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder, and an abandoned child. Tried for the murder of his wife's lover, he was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. However, these events, which predate his subsequent...

Vancouver's New Play Centre led the way in developing and producing the work of playwrights from Western Canada for the emergent Canadian theatre in the 1970s. The New Play Centre has been a major force in Canadian cultural life for two decades; it retains...

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...

""Libretto of Mefistofele: Opera in Four Acts"" is a book written by Arrigo Boito, first published in 1908. It is a libretto for an opera based on the Faust legend, specifically the story of Faust's pact with the devil. The opera was first performed...

RashDash take on Chekhov in this reimagining of the classic play that brings the women to the forefront. "I'M GOING TO PHILOSOPHISE MY HEAD OFF." How should I make the most of being alive in this moment? How should I try to enjoy life...

A bold new work from award-winning playwrights James Long and Marcus YoussefThirty years from now, three social planners visit Vancouver's Russian Hall, long abandoned due to earthquakes and flooding, with a seemingly straightforward task: repurpose the hall for common use. But the trio soon...