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  • Exposure: Two Plays by MacArthur, Greg
    Greg MacArthur

    Exposure: Two Plays

    Expose yourself to one of the most original new voices in theatre with this collection of two uncompromising plays by Greg MacArthur.Snowman: After years of wandering, Denver and Marjorie find themselves in a remote northern community at the edge of a glacier, chopping wood,...
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  • The Monster Trilogy by Vaughan, Rm
    Rm Vaughan

    The Monster Trilogy

    Ogres, trolls, demons - monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women.In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged...
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  • Inoculations: Four Plays by O'Donnell, Darren
    Darren O'Donnell

    Inoculations: Four Plays

    These four plays - White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad and Over - written by Darren O'Donnell for his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, will challenge your politics, your ontology and everything you hold to be safe, stable and...
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  • Transversing: Stories by Today's Trans Youth by For the Love of Learning
    For the Love of Learning

    Transversing: Stories by Today's Trans Youth

    Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland's most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze Jefferies, Fionn Shea, Perin Squires, Taylor Stocks, and Dane Woodland,...
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  • Cottagers and Indians by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    Cottagers and Indians

    Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it upon himself to repopulate the nearby lakes with wild rice, known amongst the Anishnawbe...
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  • Redpatch by Harris Oliver, Sean
    Sean Harris Oliver

    Redpatch

    This is the story of a M騁is soldier fighting for Canada on the Western Front of Europe during World War I. Vancouver 1914: a young Indigenous man named Jonathon Woodrow, desperate to prove himself as a warrior, enlists to fight in the Canadian army....
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  • Thanks for Giving by Loring, Kevin
    Kevin Loring

    Thanks for Giving

    Nan's family is home for Thanksgiving, but some unsolicited truths are about to be dropped at the dinner table. Old wounds and new realities collide, and sibling rivalry is stoked, but the enduring spirit that guides this family charges on, ever fierce. Thanks for...
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  • The Cure for Death by Lightening by Cloran, Daryl
    Daryl Cloran

    The Cure for Death by Lightning

    The fifteenth summer of Beth Weeks's life is full of strange happenings: a classmate is mauled to death, children go missing on the nearby reserve, and an unseen predator pursues Beth. Not to mention Beth is becoming aware that there is darkness in her...
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  • King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties: A Collaboration Across Perceptions of Cognitive Difference by Youssef, Marcus
    Marcus Youssef

    King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties: A Collaboration Across Perceptions of Cognitive Difference

    Among the first by a writer with Down syndrome, these two plays demonstrate an ability to riff and shift perspective, with disarming, hilarious, and occasionally heart-stopping results. Based on the iconic stories of King Arthur and Peter Pan, they are modern-day mash-ups that meld...
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  • Talker's Town and the Girl Who Swam Forever: Two Plays by Clements, Marie
    Marie Clements

    Talker's Town and the Girl Who Swam Forever: Two Plays

    The two one-act plays in Talker's Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever are set in a small northern B.C. mill town in the 1960s. They portray identical characters and action from entirely different gender and cultural perspectives. In many ways, the two separate...
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  • Hilda's Yard by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    Hilda's Yard

    It's an exciting summer day in 1956 for Hilda and Sam Fluck. Newly on their own since their thirtysomething children Gary and Janey moved out, they are finally ready to relax. Hilda plans to hang her laundry while Sam goes to buy a shiny...
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  • Linda Griffiths: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 9 by Petropoulos, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Petropoulos

    Linda Griffiths: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 9

    For more than three decades, Griffiths worked tirelessly and passionately to redefine drama and performance in Canada, constantly pushing artistic boundaries in her quest to tell new and unconventional stories about Canadians and women. Weaving together new critical essays on Griffiths's plays with personal...
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  • New Canadian Kid / Invisible Kids: Second Edition by Foon, Dennis
    Dennis Foon

    New Canadian Kid / Invisible Kids: Second Edition

    In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where he is forced to grapple with his fears of a new culture and language and cope with classmates who taunt him for being different. After a series of...
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  • Mistatim / Instant by Shields, Erin
    Erin Shields

    Mistatim / Instant

    In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year-olds strike up an unlikely friendship at the fence between one's reservation and the other's ranch. On Speck's side, she's carved names of family members into the wooden...
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  • Q2q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts by Dickinson, Peter
    Peter Dickinson

    Q2q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts

    This anthology includes seven different plays by queer Canadian writers that provide a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices-from play writing to drag to performance art to spoken word to digital performance. A companion title to Play wrights Canada Press's anthology Queer Canadian...
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  • Late Company: Second Edition by Tannahill, Jordan
    Jordan Tannahill

    Late Company: Second Edition

    One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their son's bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main course as everyone takes a turn in the hot...
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  • How Black Mothers Say I Love You by Anthony, Trey
    Trey Anthony

    How Black Mothers Say I Love You

    Claudette still can't forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother moved from Jamaica to Canada to start a new chapter for her family. But in that...
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  • Twisted by Pierre, Joseph Jomo
    Joseph Jomo Pierre

    Twisted

    Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it's no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the place she finds herself years later selling...
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  • Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia by Thompson, Judith
    Judith Thompson

    Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia

    A contemporary reimagining of two controversial female protagonists in literature, and the marginalized voices of women in history.Author: Judith ThompsonISBN-10: 1770917543ISBN-13: 9781770917545Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2017Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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  • 1979 by Healey, Michael
    Michael Healey

    1979

    It's December 1979 and Clark's minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything -- even pass a budget. But Clark is young and idealistic, resolute on making his mark in office. When he steals a...
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  • Indian Arm by Kanagawa, Hiro
    Hiro Kanagawa

    Indian Arm

    The Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie--caught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned father--is the pressure point that continuously gathers heat. When...
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  • Oil and Water by Chafe, Robert
    Robert Chafe

    Oil and Water

    In 1942, a ship carrying over a hundred soldiers ran aground off the Burin Peninsula, killing most of its men. Lanier Phillips, the sole African-American survivor of the wreck, is rescued and cared for by the locals, where he is not judged by the...
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  • Mary's Wedding by Massicotte, Stephen
    Stephen Massicotte

    Mary's Wedding

    The eve of Mary's wedding is a night filled with dreams: of love, of war, and of what might be. When Mary and Charlie meet in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and they must...
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  • The Foursome by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    The Foursome

    Rick, Ted, Donnie, and Cameron are home for their fifteen-year college reunion; a great time to go out for a game of golf and catch up on each other's lives. Unlike their college days, the conversation doesn't include talk of beer and final exams,...
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  • Pig Girl by Murphy, Colleen
    Colleen Murphy

    Pig Girl

    Inspired by the Robert Pickton murders, the devastating parallel stories of women who suffered at the hands of a killer. Dying Girl is being held captive in a secluded barn. Her sister files a police report, but the police let the case slide. After...
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  • Little One & Other Plays by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    Little One & Other Plays

    Three one-act plays from acclaimed Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch. A chilling psychological thriller, Little One follows adopted siblings and their neighbors, a man and his mail-order bride. In Other People's Children, a wealthy couple's live-in nanny exposes the fragility of their marriage. In This...
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  • The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble by Graham, Beth
    Beth Graham

    The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

    Iris is trying to hold it together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesn't hang on to the kitchen counter. At least that's how she feels after her mother, Bernice, a lively, recently widowed 55-year-old breaks the...
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  • The Thrill by Thompson, Judith
    Judith Thompson

    The Thrill

    A new play from revered playwright Judith Thompson, inspired by the life of disability rights activist Harriet McBryde Johnson. Julian is a bestselling author and fervent supporter of euthanasia. Elora, a lawyer and disability rights activist who has never walked a step in her...
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  • Between the Sheets by Mand, Jordi
    Jordi Mand

    Between the Sheets

    An intense power struggle between two women who may have more in common than they thought, Between the Sheets questions the definitions of right versus wrong, and what it means to be a mother, wife, and the other woman. Marion, a working mother with...
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  • This Is War by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    This Is War

    An insightful and emotional look into the embittered psyche of soldiers in the aftermath of combat. Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in...
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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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  • Rose by Highway, Tomson
    Tomson Highway

    Rose

    Rose is the eagerly awaited third installment in Tomson Highway's "rez" cycle--a large-cast musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992, reintroducing many of the characters from the first two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. The play...
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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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