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Series: Inside the Seed Paperback Jason Rothery 9780889229860 $18.95 DRAMA Mar 29, 2016

Winner of the 2015 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original ScriptInside the Seed is a contemporary version of Oedipus Rex reimagined as a darkly comic political thriller.Mirroring controversial real-life scientific and corporate controversies, Inside the Seed concerns a once-brilliant scientist who made a startling discovery: a bio-engineered form of rice that could save an overpopulated world on the brink of catastrophic famine. The play examines how good, smart, well-intentioned individuals are drawn into, and corrupted by, complex i... + Read More
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Series: Sextet Electronic book text, EPUB Morris Panych 9780889229853 $18.95 DRAMA Apr 14, 2016

Music has long been considered beneficial in enhancing cognitive skills and some have even suggested that music constitutes its own category of brain function; that it is, in fact, a separate and distinct type of thought. As is sex, which can produce, aside from children, complete dysfunction, confused brain activity, and even, quite possibly, a compromised immune system, and certainly, in many cases, complete and utter memory loss – both before and after. It seems only natural, then, for playwright Morris Panych to put these two types of human... + Read More
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Series: The Watershed Paperback Annabel Soutar 9780889229884 $18.95 DRAMA May 23, 2016

How much do we value clean water? Enough to stop our industrialized way of life from degrading it? The documentary play The Watershed follows an artist and her family in the struggle to chart a sustainable course between economic prosperity and environmental stewardship.Largely constructed from original interviews conducted by the playwright, The Watershed brings to the stage a multiplicity of ideological perspectives and conflicting visions for Canada’s natural resources, and its characters speak the words of real Canadians from all across the... + Read More
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Series: We the Family A Play Paperback George F Walker 9780889229822 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2016

Canada’s master playwright applies his trademark black humour and incredibly crisp dialogue to the family and multiculturalism. We the Family follows the ripple effects within two culturally and racially divergent families when their children wed. The list of characters in We the Family reads like an ethnic joke, which, indeed, it is, at least in part: the son of the main characters, David and Lizzie Kaplan, a Jewish–Irish-Catholic mixed marriage, marries the daughter of Jenny Lee, a Chinese-Canadian widow. The supporting cast includes a Russia... + Read More
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Series: Hosanna 1st edition Paperback Michel Tremblay 9780889222960 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1991

A transvestite’s illusion of herself is shattered when she goes to a costume party dressed up as Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Cast of two men.
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Series: Piercing Paperback Larry Tremblay 9780889226456 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2010

In ?The Axe” a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night. On his way he has stumbled (with a flask of whiskey) through the pouring rain, stopping in a city park to vandalize the statue of an angel, tormented by the image of his life’s work, ninety-seven poems he has left behind in flames in his apartment. The student has turned in an assignment (which the professor has brought along in his briefcase): a carefully wrapped hatchet.In ?Piercing” a teenage runaway, Marie-He´lene, seeks to escape the ... + Read More
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Series: Unity (1918) Paperback Kevin Kerr 9780889224612 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 2002

In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague—the “spanish Flu.” The illness struck not only the young and the elderly, but also people in the prime of their lives, advancing rapidly toward mortality in its victims. This phenomenon in effect brought the terror, the panic, the horror and the sense of helplessness of the Great War home with the returning soldiers—more people died of this epidemic than had been killed in battle throughout the armed conflict.As fear of the dreaded flu b... + Read More
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Series: Bethune Paperback Rod Langley 9780889220881 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1975

Set in landscapes which move from Detroit to China, Bethune is a study of how one man’s vision may shape the world. In this play, Rod Langley attempts to chronicle the journey of Dr. Norman Bethune toward his final destiny. Bethune premiered at the Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1974.
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Series: The Fighting Days Paperback Wendy Lill 9780889222267 $15.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1985

The Fighting Days is set in Winnipeg during 1910-1917. The play focuses on the life and work of Francis Marion Beynon, a Manitoba journalist and political activist. When the play opens, Francis is on her way to Winnipeg, leaving behind a sheltered and religious rural childhood. Soon after she arrives she meets Nellie McClung and becomes involved in the Votes-for-Women movement. She also begins work as the women’s page editor for The Rural Review, airing her controversial political views on the editorial page. Suddenly, Canada is involved in Wor... + Read More
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Series: The Glace Bay Miners' Museum Paperback Wendy Lill 9780889223691 $16.95 DRAMA Sep 15, 1996

A story of the ill-fated romance between a wandering musician-social-idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter, whose dreams are reawakened by their passion. The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum is a play in which the all-consuming brightness of dreams and memory are overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness and exploitation. It is a tragedy that is hard as nails and completely unsentimental, yet nonetheless full of love and humour.Cast of two women and three men.
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Series: Vigil 1st edition Paperback Morris Panych 9780889223653 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1996

Morris Panych’s brilliant new black comedy is structured around what happens when an extremely self-centred and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life-and-death situation with profound and far-reaching consequences. A play of twisted circumstance, mistaken identity and surprising turns, it is deliciously absurd, incredibly funny and poignantly tender.
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Series: Fronteras Americanas Paperback Guillermo Verdecchia 9780889223837 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1997

Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; ?La Bamba’ and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American made-for-TV drug-wars movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and ... + Read More
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Series: King of Thieves ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified George F. Walker 9780889227569 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 15, 2012

New York City, 1928. Master thief Mac must join an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt bankers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue, both at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Street where financiers conspire. This satirical play with songs exposes the world of corporate crime and, like The Beggar's Opera of 1728 that inspired it, challenges the conservatism that is increasingly apparent today.
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Series: Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Larry Tremblay 9780889228153 $16.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2010

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Inside that theatre today, Ranger Powell of the U.S. Parks Service takes crowds of tourists, the curious and the ghoulish through a step-by-step description of the assassination. Underneath the box where Lincoln was shot, he describes the plot of the comedy Lincoln watched that night, Our American Cousin, as being ?kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies.”Scratch the surface of any story and underneath you will find layer upon layer of fiction masquerading as fact... + Read More
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Series: My TWP Plays ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Jack Winter 9780889227859 $24.95 DRAMA Nov 15, 2013

My TWP Plays presents five important plays written by Jack Winter while he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions, one of the first great troupes of the experimental and alternative theatre movement. The carnivalesque style of the selected works in this anthology reflects the turbulence, contradictions, and subversion of the social revolution during which they were written and first produced, as well as the cultural politics at a time when Canadian artists were investigating new, non-colonial, and distinctly Canadian forms of e... + Read More
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Series: Billy Bishop Goes to War Paperback John Gray 9780889221963 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1982

Billy Bishop Goes to War ranks as one of Canada’s most successful and endearing musical dramas in history. The Governor General’s Award-winning musical documents the glorious World War I exploits of Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop.
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Series: Studies in Motion 1st edition Paperback Kevin Kerr 9780889225923 $18.95 DRAMA Jan 12, 2008

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 obsession with stopping time and freezing motion, become the ghosts that haunt Muybridge in the fictional world of Governor General’s Award winning dramatist Kevin Kerr’s new play, Studies in Motion. Attempting to absolve himself of the tragic con... + Read More
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Series: Marion Bridge Paperback Daniel MacIvor 9780889224070 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1999

This fascinating version of Daniel MacIvor’s most successful play to date lets the reader in on a secret: it was never primarily written as a work for live theatrical performance, but as a vehicle for his development of a screenplay, also included in this new edition. In his surprisingly revealing introduction, MacIvor talks about the genesis of both the play and the movie; the lessons he learned about the differences between the two media; and their radically different stylistic, technical and practical demands on both their authors and their ... + Read More
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Series: In Piazza San Domenico Electronic book text, Unspecified Steve Galluccio 9780889227330 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 13, 2011

Steve Galluccio's newest stage triumph is a comedy set in 1952 Naples. It recounts how one broken engagement ripples throughout friends and family, affecting all of their respective lives in different ways. In a world conflicted by traditional values and postwar-era thinking, theatrical archetypes evolve into stereotypes that became hallmarks of the Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni films in the early 1960s.A favourite of the Montreal Fringe Festival, Steve Galluccio is a playwright with a delightful flair for comedy. His fast-paced plays a... + Read More
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Series: The Unnatural and Accidental Women Electronic book text, Unspecified Marie Clements 9780889227675 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 2005

The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a surrealist dramatization of a thirty-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the “Skid Row” area of Vancouver. All the victims were found dead with a blood-alcohol reading far beyond safe levels, and all were last seen in the company of Gilbert Paul Jordan, who frequented the city’s bars preying on primarily middle-aged Native women. The coroner’s reports listed the cause of death of many of these women as “unnatural and accidental.”Marie Clements reconstructs the lives of these women as shap... + Read More
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Series: Where the Blood Mixes Electronic book text, Unspecified Kevin Loring 9780889227682 $16.95 DRAMA Aug 21, 2012

Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author’s First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold beneath Floyd’s alcoholism, under the pain and isolation of the play’s main character?Loring’s title was inspi... + Read More
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Series: Tombs of the Vanishing Indian Electronic book text, Unspecified Marie Clements 9780889227132 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 15, 2012

As part of the federal government’s assimilationist termination and relocation policies of the 1950s, three Native sisters and their mother are moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles. As these four women try to re-establish connections to a new land, each finds herself lost. The narrative interweaves with another historical injustice—the forced sterilization of thousands of Native women in the 1970s. Inspired by true events, the play is a poetic excavation of the lost stories of displaced Aboriginal people. Cast of four women and three men.
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Series: Fronteras Americanas [Second Edition] 2nd edition Electronic book text, Unspecified Guillermo Verdecchia 9780889227279 $16.95 DRAMA Sep 15, 2012

Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; ‘La Bamba’ and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American made-for-TV drug-wars movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and ... + Read More
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Series: Chimera Electronic book text, Unspecified Wendy Lill 9780889227712 $15.95 DRAMA Sep 15, 2007

What makes Chimera so compelling is that Wendy Lill has lived almost all the roles the play dramatizes: NDP critic for both culture and persons with disabilities, she came to politics after a career in community health care and as a reporter for the CBC.This play arose from her experience as one of the parliamentarians who passed a Canadian law in 2004 concerning human reproductive technologies. She recalls being at a conference where a spokesman for a pharmaceutical company boasted about the array of new pre-diagnostic tests being developed to... + Read More
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Series: Seeds ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Annabel Soutar 9780889227255 $18.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2012

Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc. In question is the legitimacy of patenting genetically modified food crops. The play takes us back to the seminal moment when a single farmer stood up to international agribusiness and almost won. Large ensemble cast.
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Series: In Absentia ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Morris Panych 9780889227262 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2012

Four seasons after her husband’s disappearance, Colette remains emotionally motionless, isolated in a country cottage, waiting for word, or perhaps even more significantly, a connection. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake—a sign? She emerges to give him her husband’s parka—strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. A moving story of vanished love enlivened by Panych’s trademark humour. Cast of two women and three men.
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Series: Piercing ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Larry Tremblay 9780889228016 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2010

In ?The Axe” a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night. On his way he has stumbled (with a flask of whiskey) through the pouring rain, stopping in a city park to vandalize the statue of an angel, tormented by the image of his life’s work, ninety-seven poems he has left behind in flames in his apartment. The student has turned in an assignment (which the professor has brought along in his briefcase): a carefully wrapped hatchet.In ?Piercing” a teenage runaway, Marie-He´lene, seeks to escape the ... + Read More
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Series: Heaven ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified George F. Walker 9780889228061 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2000

Heaven is George F. Walker’s ?millennium play.’ Well, sort of, if we can free ourselves from the expectation of the usual science-fiction-based projection and imposition of our current personal, cultural and spiritual values on the future of the coming millennium, considered almost mandatory for authors working in this particular genre. As usual, Walker sees things a bit differently: he intimates the future by having a very hard look at some unanswered questions from the Judeo-Christian-Muslim past which has pretty much determined the evolution... + Read More
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Series: Cul-de-sac ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Daniel MacIvor 9780889228078 $16.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2005

Co-founder of Toronto’s groundbreaking theatre company da da kamera, Daniel MacIvor is Canada’s most influential post-modern playwright.In his latest collaboration with director Daniel Brooks, MacIvor plays the role of Leonard, who narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself. Through the course of the play, we peer behind the curtains of his neighbourhood as MacIvor transforms into the multiple characters who bear witness to Leonard’s life and death. Yet each of their stories, while internally consistent... + Read More
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Series: Burning Vision ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Marie Clements 9780889228085 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2003

Marie Clements’s latest play sears a dramatic swath through the reactionary identity politics of race, gender and class, using the penetrating yellow-white light, the false sun of uranium and radium, derived from a coal black rock known as pitchblende, as a metaphor for the invisible, malignant evils everywhere poisoning our relationship to the earth and to each other.Burning Vision unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build th... + Read More
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Series: Les Belles Soeurs ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Michel Tremblay 9780889228092 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1992

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 fourteen of her friends and relatives in the neighbourhood over to help her paste the stamps into booklets.Raucous, reckless and rude, the women shamelessly share their most secret hopes and fears, complain stridently about their friends and relatives, fanta... + Read More
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Series: Skydive ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Kevin Kerr 9780889228139 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 15, 2010

Skydive explores the world of dreams and imagination: the universal human desire to push beyond our physical limitations and to fly.Having grown apart after a traumatic and de?ning moment in their youth, two brothers reconnect to fulfill a life-long ambition to go skydiving. Morgan (a feckless schemer who has recently reinvented himself as a counsellor) arrives on the doorstep of Daniel (a housebound agoraphobe), offering to help ?liberate” his brother by administering his newly invented technique of ?Paratherapy.” Convincing Daniel to face his... + Read More
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Series: Unity (1918) Electronic book text, Unspecified Kevin Kerr 9780889228146 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 21, 2013

In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague—the “spanish Flu.” The illness struck not only the young and the elderly, but also people in the prime of their lives, advancing rapidly toward mortality in its victims. This phenomenon in effect brought the terror, the panic, the horror and the sense of helplessness of the Great War home with the returning soldiers—more people died of this epidemic than had been killed in battle throughout the armed conflict.As fear of the dreaded flu b... + Read More
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Series: With Bated Breath Electronic book text, Unspecified Bryden MacDonald 9780889228160 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2013

With Bated Breath asks questions about memory—how and why it plays such a prominent role in our lives: how time affects it, how it fractures, how we often reinvent it depending on the situation—and why it is that certain things stay with us with a blistering clarity, while the shadows of other people and events simply slip away, only to reveal themselves again later in our lives when we least expect them.This is the provocative tale of Willy, a troubled but charismatic gay kid who flees Cape Breton Island for Montreal with hopes of forgetting a... + Read More
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Series: Gordon ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Morris Panych 9780889228177 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2011

Gordon was always an odd little child, given his penchant for setting the neighbours’ sheds on fire with their pets locked inside and his fascination with the funeral rituals at the church across the way. Home-schooled in the evenings within the bounds of a somewhat limited curriculum of drunken impromptu kitchen renovations and wife beatings in the resultant ruins by his father Gord, a man of troglodyte imagination and boundless determination for self-replication, his namesake son dedicates himself to these subjects with a kind of limitless an... + Read More
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Series: Vigil (2nd Edition) ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Morris Panych 9780889227170 $16.95 DRAMA May 15, 2012

Vigil is about a man returning—after thirty years—to sit with a female relative on her deathbed. The self-centred and shallow protagonist Kemp uses acid wit and seemingly callous indifference to cover up the profound discomfort he experiences upon finding himself part of a death watch. Kemp’s problem is: she’s not dying fast enough. Through Kemp’s own errors and inattentiveness, the visit that he thinks will take a day or two stretches into a year, and he finds himself caring for his long-forgotten aunt Grace against his will. Gallows humour an... + Read More
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Series: The Trespassers Electronic book text, Unspecified Morris Panych 9780889228191 $16.95 DRAMA Feb 22, 2010

The Trespassers unfolds over the course of a few weeks in a town in the middle of nowhere?not small enough to be a quaint place or large enough to be in any way an interesting one. They once had a sawmill here, which was a going concern before it was shut down in a labour dispute, and it now crowns a sort of half-town, gutted of its reason for being.Fifteen-year-old Lowell is no average teenager?and his grandfather, Hardy, is no conventional role model. Whether urging the boy to pilfer peaches from an abandoned orchard, arranging for his sexual... + Read More
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Series: Billy Bishop Goes to War 2nd Edition ebook 2nd edition Electronic book text, Unspecified John MacLachlan Gray 9780889227163 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 15, 2012

This revised, updated edition of one of Canada’s most successful and enduring dramas, Billy Bishop Goes to War, includes the original Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and Governor General’s Award–winning 1982 musical play, plus the 2010 re-working of the script. In this new edition, the World War I flying ace—credited with seventy-two victories and billed as the top ace in the British Empire—appears in his later years, reflecting on his wartime exploits. Cast of two men.
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Series: Blue Box ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Carmen Aguirre 9780889227583 $16.95 DRAMA May 15, 2012

Interweaving recollections of her revolutionary life in Chile under Pinochet’s regime with her fleeting attempts to realize a "vision" of love in Los Angeles, Carmen Aguirre's one-woman show Blue Box is a fiery proclamation of carnal yearning and social conviction. Assertive, sexy, and wryly political, Aguirre shares the sacrifices of her life with humour and courage.
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Series: Bolsheviki ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified David Fennario 9780889227149 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 15, 2012

Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry ?Rosie? Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs and planning a revolt against their officers. The character of Rosie Rollins is based on World War I veteran Harry ?Rosie? Rowbottom, who was wounded at Vimy Ridge. Fennario taped an interview with Rowbottom in 1979 in the old ?King Eddy? Hotel in Toronto over a bottle of Bushmills whiskey.Rosie’s meandering monol... + Read More
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Series: Cyrano de Bergerac ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Edmond Rostand 9780889228344 $10.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2013

classic, Cyrano de Bergerac, is an epic and heroic tale that has fascinated and enchanted generations. Not since 1938 has there been a more readable or stageable prose translation of this classic favourite. With a rich tapestry of gallant soldiers, starving poets, musketeers, marquises and bluestockings, Cyrano de Bergerac moves along with a fast-paced plot and a cast of delightful major and minor characters. At its heart is the chivalrous and intelligent Cyrano, masterful soldier, accomplished poet, ferocious orator, chivalrous lover ? and the... + Read More
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Series: The (Post) Mistress Electronic book text, Unspecified Tomson Highway 9780889227811 $16.95 DRAMA Sep 15, 2013

Canada’s most famous Aboriginal 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 connection to faraway places longed-for or imagined. Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron, Marie-Louise Painchaud has never had occasion to venture much farther than the nearest community – Comple... + Read More
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Series: Ali and Ali The Deportation Hearings Electronic book text, Unspecified Camyar Chai 9780889227835 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2013

In this sequel to the hilarious and hard-hitting The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, the agitprop collaborative team of Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef turns its idiosyncratic brand of political satire to new global realities.Following the election of U.S. president Barack Obama in 2008, collective optimism for a more tolerant, peaceful, and co-operative post-Bush world spreads to Canada – and to the backroom of Salim’s Falafel Shoppe in Toronto. There, Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugee entertainers from the ... + Read More
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Series: And Slowly Beauty ebook 1st edition Electronic book text, Unspecified Michel Nadeau 9780889227873 $18.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2013

Governor General's Literary Award, Tranlsation: Michel Nadeau, And Slowly Beauty, translated by Maureen Labonté (Finalist) Everything changes on what begins as a typical day in the life of the aptly named Mr. Mann, a forty-eight-year-old, buttoned-down, middle-management type in a pinstriped grey suit, who feels himself losing touch with his job, his wife, his children, and the rest of his urban life. He wins tickets to a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and realizes that the mid-life cocoon he has spun around himself is beginning to unwi... + Read More
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Series: God and the Indian ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Drew Hayden Taylor 9780889228450 $16.95 DRAMA May 15, 2014

While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a First Nations residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children at the school, Johnny follows Anglican bishop George King to his office to confront him. Inside King’s office, Johnny’s memories are fluid, shifting, and her voice cracks with raw emotion. Is the bishop actually guilty of what she claims, or has her ability to... + Read More
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Series: Motherhouse ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified David Fennario 9780889228498 $16.95 DRAMA May 15, 2014

From the renowned author of Balconville, this powerful drama gives a voice to the disillusioned working-class women employed at the British Munitions Factory in Verdun, Quebec, during the First World War. Following in the trudging footsteps of Fennario’s anti-war protest play Bolsheviki (Talonbooks, 2012), Motherhouse similarly debunks the sentimental notions of duty, heroism, and nationhood that figured so prominently in Canadian war effort campaigns and that persist in Canadian history textbooks today. In 1915, with tensions running high acro... + Read More
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Series: The Madonna Painter Electronic book text, Unspecified Michel Marc Bouchard 9780889228184 $16.95 DRAMA Mar 05, 2010

At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the spanish ?u epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four local women all named Mary, a model for his work. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local virgin to serve as a model and the frighteningly strange nature of his work will upset the live... + Read More
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Series: The Driving Force Electronic book text, Unspecified Michel Tremblay 9780889228207 $15.95 DRAMA Nov 01, 2005

In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologues?to settle old scores and misunderstandings between them.In an astonishing and eerie reversal of roles, in Act 2 it is Alex who visits his son Claude in the same Alzheimer’s ward and it is Alex’s turn to rant and rail at what he perceives to be his mute son’s contempt for his own working class life.With a cruel and disconsolate irony, ... + Read More
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Series: Paradise Garden ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Lucia FrangioneC 9780889228214 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2011

In the gold-rush era of the 1850s, the McKinnons settled on an island off the west coast of Canada, where the first thing they did was to turn this ?wilderness” into an English country garden complete with vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and an elegant gazebo. After six generations, times and circumstances have changed, the family estate has been subdivided, the flowers have gone wild, the pear-tree has rotted and the heritage house has been carved up into a duplex, the property now divided in two by an ugly hedge.The McKinnons now live in one... + Read More
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Series: Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Drew Hayden Taylor 9780889228030 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 1998

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. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present.
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Series: Dead Metaphor Three Plays 1st edition Book George F. Walker 9780889229280 $19.95 DRAMA Jun 09, 2015

Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor, examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan. In The Ravine, a mayoral candidate learns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. The Burden of Self-Awareness has money at the centre of a dramatic conflict of values. Each of the three plays is popula... + Read More
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Series: Christina, The Girl King ebook 1st edition Electronic book text, Unspecified Michel Marc Bouchard 9780889228993 $16.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2014

Governor General's Literary Award, Translation: Michel Marc Bouchard, Christina, The Girl King, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Finalist) Enigmatic, flamboyant, and unpredictable, with a passion for philosophy and the arts, Sweden’s Queen Christina seeks to make her country the most sophisticated in Europe. But her personal aspirations – and her unconventional sexuality – put her profoundly at odds with her culture’s expectations of her, both as a monarch and as a woman. She was Sweden's Elizabeth Rex.
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Series: The Valley Electronic book text, Unspecified Joan Macleod 9780889228474 $17.95 DRAMA Jun 13, 2014

Eighteen-year-old Connor, an aspiring author whose fantastical stories foretell his growing struggle with depression, can’t wait to be free of his adverb-wielding, solve-it-all mother, Sharon. But six weeks after leaving for university, he drops out and returns home.Dan Mulano is an infatuated new dad and well-meaning police officer whose selfishness is veiled by the outward display of “principle” and the lofty aspirations he holds for his family. His wife, Janie, a former addict and exhausted new mom, struggles to cope with the challenges of r... + Read More
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Series: Michel and Ti-Jean ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified George Rideout 9780889229037 $17.95 DRAMA Sep 16, 2014

In Michel & Ti-Jean, Rideout fashions a hypothetical 1969 meeting in a bar in St. Petersburg, Florida, between Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay and an individual whom he believes to be a truly great writer, the "beat" generation author Jack Kerouac. At the time of their meeting, Jack Kerouac is forty-seven years old; Michel Tremblay, twenty-seven. No other characters appear.
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Series: Hosanna (3rd edition) Electronic book text, Unspecified Michel Tremblay 9780889228320 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 11, 2014

In Michel Tremblay’s classic play about identity in crisis, Claude leaves the conformity of small-town Quebec to realize a new life and a new persona among the drag queens and prostitutes of Montreal’s seedy “Main” – the boulevard that marks the division of the city’s anglophone and francophone neighbourhoods. Claude’s illusions about himself are shattered when, painstakingly remade as his idol Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, he arrives at a costume party themed on “great women of history” and is mocked for his glamorous aspirations. Written dur... + Read More
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Series: 7 Stories ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Morris Panych 9780889227668 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 2013

In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building. These ?seven stories” lead to a charming and surprising ending.Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
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Series: War Cantata / Child Object ebook Electronic book text, Unspecified Larry Tremblay 9780889229075 $18.95 DRAMA Oct 03, 2014

War Cantata looks at ways the impulse for violence is transmitted from one generation to the next; for example, when a father teaches his son hatred to transform him into a soldier impervious to pity. Without focusing on a particular battle or soldier, this harsh, intense, choral text builds the rhythmic power of words to expose war's spiral toward hatred.
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Series: Odd Ducks 1st edition Book Bryden MacDonald 9780889229341 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 27, 2015

Welcome to the small town of Tartan Cross, Nova Scotia, where skeletons rattle in closets and past histories are so intertwined that the lives of four fortysomething, eccentric characters have become so complicated that something needs to change. In the comedy, Odd Ducks, award-winning playwright Bryden MacDonald positions his four characters at the brink of existential angst – and the action unfolds from there.At the centre of the drama is Ambrose, an irredeemable reprobate and the type of guy who rants philosophically at the bar while moochin... + Read More
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Series: The Shoplifters 1st edition Paperback Morris Panych 9780889229266 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 14, 2015

Edgerton Foundation New Play Award: Morris Panych, The Shoplifters (Winner)In this riotously funny new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime – it’s also her strong convictions about social justice and economic inequality.Along for the ride is Phyllis, Alma’s frazzled accomplice who lacks her mentor’s cool demeanour and snappy comebacks. It’s Alma who does the talking w... + Read More
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Series: The St. Leonard Chronicles 1st edition Paperback Steve Galluccio 9780889229310 $16.95 DRAMA May 15, 2015

From the award-winning author of stage hits Mambo Italiano and In Piazza San Domenico comes a delicious, saucy new comedy about Terry and Robert, a young couple with roots in the Italian neighbourhood of St. Leonard in Montreal. The couple’s newly renovated duplex has barely a hint of gilded rococo – not just a cultural infraction, but also an ominous sign that all is not as it should be. Eager to break free of family ties that are bound too tight, Terry and Robert announce they’re moving to the affluent anglophone suburb of Beaconsfield – tant... + Read More