This book is a call to action to address the transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It presents an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma, exploring the development, performance, and reception of...
Canadian drama
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Author:Belliveau, George, Lea, Graham W.Summary: - Author:Scott, AndreaSummary:
Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be...
- Author:Mishka LavigneSummary:
ELLE je suis devenue l'ombre de moi l'ombre qui s'efface ses contours qui disparaissent dans la noirceur qui monte.
- Author:Healey, MichaelSummary:
A play in two acts, Healey introduces two sets of characters. In the first, a lawyer and his partner seek a civil ceremony, but are stopped when the officiant won’t perform a homosexual marriage because tenets of his religious beliefs...
- Author:Sinha, PamelaSummary:
After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma. CRASH is the fractured unraveling of memory; a tour de force narrative about family, faith and love. “Can’t remember isn’t the same as forget....
- Author:Power, PaulSummary:
Paul Power’s play, Crippled, has garnered awards and glowing reviews for his portrayal of his experiences as a person living with a disability. Now in a published form, his story of challenge, loss, and redemption presents universal...
- Author:Hélène PedneaultSummary:
La vie est un suspense. Le plus grand thriller qui soit. Hitchcock peut aller se rhabiller. Cent fois par jour, nous sommes tenus en haleine par la vie, par le hasard. Vivre sans réponses la plupart du temps. Vivre quand même....
- Author:Wagner, ColleenSummary:
A virus has plagued the city and residents are quarantined. Curfews have been imposed and rumours of government corruption abound. Bureaucratic red tape is creating a food crisis. Laurel and her parents are imprisoned in the basement of...
- Author:Rae, LaraSummary:
In this original and poetic new work, Lara Rae tells the raw and heartfelt story of her half-century long (and counting) gender odyssey. Dragonfly presents us with two actors, one male, one female, who illuminate the inner life of a...
- Author:Hines, KarenSummary:
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Drama Penelope Douglas is an ex-forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her...
- Author:Minogue, LeeannSummary:
Hot. Burning hot. In the dry, hot summer of 1988, Kate, a young woman from the city moves with her boyfriend to his family’s Saskatchewan farm. A world-travelled vegetarian who listens to punk rock, she is not exactly the kind of girl...
- Author:Carson, Linda A.Summary:
Dying to be Thin is a witty and inspirational look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eating disorder Bulimia. Written from the author’s own personal experience, the play unfolds to tell the...
- Author:Moscovitch, HannahSummary:
Standing outside his father's study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left his family and their history behind...
- Author:Filewod, Alan, Ryan, Oscar, Cecil-Smith, Edward, Love, Frank, Goldberg, MildredSummary:
This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and...
- Author:Thiessen, VernSummary:
This updated edition of Vern Thiessen's compelling play about the collision of power and one man's journey to discovery still resonates with verve and vigour.
- Author:Prescott, MarcSummary:
A symbolically nameless couple chart their 50-year relationship by recreating their first encounter on every anniversary. Madame has carefully written the script of their original encounter and they believe they can recreate the...
- Author:L'Heureux, LisaSummary:
Un immeuble de béton gris, sur une rue grise, où se croisent quatre solitudes qui ont soif de vivre. Dans Et si un soir, le temps avance sans avancer, il est fluide et double, et l'inaction est la source même de la tension. Écrite comme...
- Author:Piatigorsky, AntonSummary:
Nominated for several Dora Awards. When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international...
- Author:Chafe, RobertSummary:
After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can't shake the burning question of whether he's Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of a terrifying undiagnosed condition, or...
- Author:MacArthur, GregSummary:
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...
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