One starry night the body of a young man, still strapped into his airplane seat, falls from the sky into the yard of Harold and Elsie's chicken farm. As the night unfolds, their mysterious guest effects a profound transformation in...
Canadian drama
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Author:Kirkham, GarySummary: - Author:Gatchalian, C. E.Summary:
Raw in its emotionalism and bold in its theatricality, Falling in Time is set in Vancouver in 1994 and tells the story of four individuals, across two continents and over a span of more than forty years. The lives of these characters...
- Author:Billon, NicolasSummary:
Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. In Greenland, the discovery of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island’s discoverer and his family. In Iceland, set against the...
- Author:Billon, NicolasSummary:
In Greenland, the discovery of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island's discoverer and his family. In Iceland, set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a...
- Author:de la Chenelière, Evelyne, Spencer, NigelSummary:
Ever since her brother's untimely death, Marie has been fascinated with angels, believing her brother has become one. Now as a young woman, she has dedicated her doctoral thesis to the subject: the sudden portrayal of angels with feet...
- Author:MacFarlane, GlendaSummary:
A teenager is dead after facing sexual assault and cyberbullying. Two friends go camping, and one reveals a secret. A conflict between two band students erupts into violence. A refugee celebrates the new year in Canada. A bereaved teen...
- Author:Fraser, BradSummary:
When Olivia loses control at her fiftieth birthday party, her four best friends decide to intervene once and for all, much to the irritation of Olivia and her lover, Norma. But is she the only one battling a demon? Or do each of these...
- Author:de la Chenelière, Evelyne, Gaboriau, LindaSummary:
When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren't expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during a walk along the beach. It's not...
- Author:Braem, MegSummary:
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...
- Author:Marie-Claire MarcotteSummary:
Dans ce drame à l'humour lugubre, Corinne cogne à la porte d'un petit immeuble d'appartements délabré, où habitent Marthe, Fred et La Petite. Le poisson rouge qu'elle a apporté en cadeau vient tout juste de...
- Author:Kanagawa, HiroSummary:
Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families...
- Author:Fine, LoisSummary:
Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having multiple flings. When she meets Freda, a woman who exposes Jem’s vulnerabilities, her preconceived notions of who she is become...
- Author:Orlov, StephenSummary:
Freeze is an allegorical comedy play that dramatizes the Great Ice Storm of '98 as a metaphor presaging “cooler” more inclusive times in Quebec compared to the separatist firestorms of earlier decades. Five quirky Montrealers, trapped...
- Author:Ly, MinhSummary:
Ga Ting, which means "family" in Cantonese, is about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the suicide of their son, Kevin. When they invite Kevin's Caucasian boyfriend to dinner, the evening devolves...
- Author:Griffiths, LindaSummary:
In the aftermath of a local high-school boy’s mysterious death, Dan and Marion Metcalf are increasingly worried about their son Zach. He’s apathetic and shuts himself away in the basement to play video games and spend time with Keira,...
- Author:St. Bernard, Donna-MichelleSummary:
Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe's depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers that stop at the border....
- Author:Healey, MichaelSummary:
What happens when someone is overwhelmed by a desire to help? Does it matter if people only do good in order to feel good? One of Canada’s finest playwrights tackles tricky questions in Generous–four short interconnected plays that...
- Author:Parry, Evalyn, Chatterton, AnnaSummary:
If Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas could look back on their legacy now, they'd say they were ahead of their time, their treasured paintings were like their children, and that they were very much in love. The queer icons have...
- Author:Burrows, JoanSummary:
It's been over twenty years since Guy ditched his high-school sweetheart Gloria at the prom, and they haven't spoken since. Now he's a failed LA lawyer, divorced, and working at his brother's resort in the Muskokas....
- Author:Overton, JenniferSummary:
Nic has autism. Through the eyes of his mother Jennifer, we follow Nic's family on a ten-year journey: from early confusion to a life-altering diagnosis, then through the stages of denial, anger, depression, bargaining and finally...
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