The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother, leaving them to care for her as she fights to regain her memory. Touching and powerful, Good Mother examines the ties that hold a family together and the...
Canadian drama
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Author:Atkins, DamienSummary: - Author:Redhill, MichaelSummary:
This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder...
- Author:Williams, Kenneth T.Summary:
Gordon Winter is an RCMP hero, a life-long champion of First Nations rights, and a bigot. He’s challenging the next generation of chiefs to stand up to the federal government when he spews a Nazi-inspired racist and homophobic rant....
- Author:Gareau, LaurierSummary:
Eric Lechasseur est professeur de littérature française, Sa femme, Amanda, d'origine ukrainienne, l'a quitté après 25 ans de mariage, Leur fille, Mona, prépare une maîtrise en « English Littérature» pour contrarier son père, Cette ièce...
- Author:Gosselin, MathieuSummary:
Gros gars est l’alter-ego de l’auteur et comédien Mathieu Gosselin, une facette de sa personnalité qui apparaît fréquemment pour l’empêcher d’avancer. Né « deep and delicious, double crème, triple chocolat », Gros gars remet tout au...
- Author:Maxwell, Brooke, Palmer, Judd, Bátiz-Benét, MercedesSummary:
The grass really is greener on the other side. But a hideous troll has taken up residence under the bridge, and the promised land is forever unattainable ? if you're a goat born on the wrong side of the craggy chasm. The troll is soon...
- Author:Foster, NormSummary:
There's no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody's business. But when Sean...
- Author:Sinha, PamelaSummary:
Happy Place explores the lives of seven women aged 23 to 60 who are residents of an in-patient care facility: a microcosm for the world outside its walls. What is it to live inside the suffering of these women...addressing the idea that...
- Author:Sears, DjanetSummary:
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy. Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare's Othello, and recounts the tale of Othello and his first wife Billie (yes,...
- Author:Patterson, DebbieSummary:
The historical accounts from King Henry VIII and Queen Anne's time are steeped in controvery, contradiction, and irony. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was put to death on trumped up charges of adultery and incest...
- Author:Thompson, Judith, Ashperger, CynthiaSummary:
In Hedda Gabler, a moving exploration of female oppression, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society. She prefers pistols to cooking and does not care for raising a...
- Author:Hines, KarenSummary:
In the vast, unnamed metropolis of Hello … Hello, art and commerce have finally and completely conjoined; stylish cafés serve up zebra mussels and the air is thick with a gentle rain of sparrows plummeting down from the mirrored office...
- Author:Hines, KarenSummary:
In the vast, unnamed metropolis of Hello... Hello, art and commerce have finally and completely conjoined; stylish cafEs serve up zebra mussels and the air is thick with a gentle rain of sparrows plummeting down from the mirrored office...
- Author:Ardal, MajaSummary:
In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to sixty-three with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial. For some of them the...
- Author:Gladstone, AmielSummary:
Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by Amiel Gladstone, introducing a wide range of fascinating characters and a formidable new voice in Canadian drama. In The Wedding Pool, three single friends in unsatisfactory...
- Author:Wagner, ColleenSummary:
Two families, four languages, one house. "Home" puts its characters into a unique and challenging conflict across language and history and asks difficult questions about the illusion of ownership and the definition of "...
- Author:Beagan, TaraSummary:
Two grown sisters face off over their mother's death-bed. Together they confront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their mom leaves this world. A contemporary look at the significance of faith and family...
- Author:Manuel, VeraSummary:
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the...
- Author:Garfinkel, JonathanSummary:
During the Six Day War, an Israeli general found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful solitude. When a Palestinian writer shows up...
- Author:Anthony, TreySummary:
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...
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