The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty of surprises along the way in this comedy of manners. "...just enough sex, just enough smart talk, just enough...
Canadian drama
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Author:Foster, NormSummary: - Author:Badian, Marie BeathSummary:
Inspired by the 2004 death of seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Reodica by a plain-clothes police officer in Toronto, The Making of St. Jerome is a poignant look at the aftermath of a teenager's untimely death, the media's role on...
- Author:Foster, NormSummary:
A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. Unfortunately, so is confronting eldest brother Lee's terminal illness. But weekend plans are suddenly thrown for a loop when the...
- Author:Irani, AnoshSummary:
FINALIST, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR DRAMA In the latest play from Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Anosh Irani, we meet eighteen-year-old Hasan Siddiqui, who lives in a bustling Muslim quarter of Bombay. He escapes...
- Author:Cloran, Daryl, MacFadzean, Matthew, MacFadzean, Matthew, Moscovitch, Hannah, Beagan, Tara, Atkins, DamienSummary:
It's 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to unearth its secret. In The Huron...
- Author:Gray, CarolynSummary:
Set in modern day Winnipeg, Gray’s inspired version of Moliere’s classic satire is part sex farce and part screwball comedy. Exploring family, love and money, The Miser of Middlegate sharply critiques our culture obsessed with...
- Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:
Poetic and heartfelt, The Mommiad chronicles the relationship between a mother and her son, the ups and downs they shared, and the toll that alcohol and dementia would eventually take on Patricia Tucker Gilbert's life. Intimate and...
- Author:Vaughan, R. M.Summary:
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...
- Author:Wagner, ColleenSummary:
A searing exploration of the nature of forgiveness and a profound classic that examines the paradox of the soldier today, and the ambiguities of morality and justice.
- Author:Lillford, DanielSummary:
As a young man in the midst of World War II, Jacob fell in love with an older woman and began a rapturous affair, until she seemingly vanished. As strange things start to happen around him, a familiar young woman appears at Jacob's...
- Author:Maghanoy, JasonSummary:
Ally and Josh spend every summer with their father as he goes from small town to small town, working for a construction company in America. But this summer is different. This is the summer they grow up. The Nails is a play about family...
- Author:Crawford, MarkSummary:
A Chinese medical student, a Jamaican Tim Horton's manager, an Indian father of three, and a 17-year-old Syrian refugee walk into a curling club. It's Monday night at a small-town rink and it's the first-ever Learn to Curl class for new...
- Author:Healey, MichaelSummary:
Living in relative seclusion, Ev and Ec rely on the kindness of strangers as they struggle with their own internal and external problems. Ev not only suffers from agoraphobia, she believes she is dying from a fatal degenerative disease...
- Author:Brebner, MorwynSummary:
It is the night before the chapel wedding and the promise of "happily ever after." Old friends confront their regrets, lies, betrayals and disappointments. Will hope be the elusive wild card? Childhood friends Doug and Chick,...
- Author:Parmar, SarenaSummary:
Sarena Parmar's The Orchard (After Chekhov) is an adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, told through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh family in the Okanagan Valley. With The Okanagan Valley, Canada, 1967. A Punjabi-Sikh family...
- Author:Kanagawa, HiroSummary:
Siblings Josh and Jennifer are coping with the loss of their father, who disappeared in a floatplane accident last Christmas Eve. Their mother wants to pretend everything is normal, while Jennifer is angry and isolated and Josh scours...
- Author:Hines, KarenSummary:
Beckett meets Betty Boop in this trilogy of monologues by Canadian cult heroine Pochsy, a nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen. In Pochsy's Lips, she's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because she's got a squid where her heart...
- Author:Hunter, MaureenSummary:
Bertha Rand, Winnipeg's Cat Lady, was a familiar figure in the news; many knew her as the mad woman who lived in squalour with over fifty felines. In her tiny house on Queen Street, Bertha took in sick and abandoned cats, battling...
- Author:Moodie, AndrewSummary:
Elijah McCoy, born in Canada to runaway American slaves, showed so much promise in school that he won a scholarship to study mechanical engineering at Edinburgh University. McCoy moved to the US, where no one believed a black man could...
- Author:Karasik, DanielSummary:
Convinced she is not like the rest of her boring family, nine-year-old Marnie McPhee decides it's time to leave Earth and take her place among the stars. But as she builds her spaceship, she realizes that maybe Earth isn't so bad after...
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