Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning are as renowned for their passionate relationship as they are their poetry. How Do I Love Thee? revisits the life of the 19th-century poets from their courtship, carried out...
Canadian drama
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Author:Gibson MacDonald, FlorenceSummary: - Author:MacIvor, DanielSummary:
Introduces us to four unforgettable people: Al, his ex-wife Donna, his new partner Christine and his troubled daughter Brooke, whose world has fallen apart after her parents' divorce. Brilliantly weaving past and present, the play...
- Author:Cardinal, CliffSummary:
In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by...
- Author:Ouchi, MiekoSummary:
Fighting words . . . Lainie and Mariam have it out for each other, so it’s no surprise when they finally come to violent blows in the middle of their high school’s drama room. That’s when Caddell Morris, an ex-professional actor and...
- Author:Kemick, Richard KellySummary:
Losing religion one false beard at a time.On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist...
- Author:Jones, ScottSummary:
In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott Jones's story garnered...
- Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:
Following Prodon through the five stages of acceptance—Denial, Partying, Loss of Control, Religious Conversion, and Acceptance—the play pops in and out of monologues with Prodon and into scenes with Lady Booty, an outrageous drag queen...
- Author:MacIovr, DanielSummary:
"Man in Scrubs" follows the story of a queer black nurse who is getting awfully tired of being put in a box. He's queer, not gay, and he'll tell you the difference. He's always been an outcast, and constantly finds himself at the bottom...
- Author:Cooper, BeverleySummary:
It's 1977, and successful writer Peg Dunlop has returned to her small Ontario hometown to look after her ailing mother. When an eager young English teacher decides to teach one of Dunlop's books to the town's Grade 13...
- Author:Shields, ErinSummary:
When King Pandion marries his daughter Procne off to war hero King Tereus, she must leave her beloved sister Philomela behind. After years of isolation in a foreign land, Procne begs Tereus to collect her sister for a visit. When...
- Author:Williams, Kenneth T.Summary:
In Care is about a mother's quest to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, was addicted to cocaine, and had her first daughter taken from her when she was...
- Author:Beagan, TaraSummary:
In an intimate, loving approach to the tragic subject of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, the acclaimed author of Dreary and Izzy shines a light on the haunting tale of a preteen's last moments. Twelve-year-old...
- Author:Kanagawa, HiroSummary:
Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising novelist—now struggling with his...
- Author:Plamondon, EricSummary:
Cette pièce explore le début d'une nouvelle amitié entre deux jeunes hommes durant une période de prise de conscience de soi et de l'autre. Cinq jeunes du quartier se rencontrent à un vernissage au moment de leurs vies...
- Author:Moscovitch, Hannah, Kong Kie, NjoSummary:
Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships...
- Author:Mouawad, WajdiSummary:
Wahid, metteur en scène de théâtre, entreprend de monter la tragédie de Sophocle Philoctète. Alors que le décès du poète Robert Davreu, qui était chargé d'en assurer une nouvelle traduction, complique son travail, il décide de partir...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
These four plays — White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad and Over — written by Darren O'Donnell for his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, will challenge your politics, your ontology and everything...
- Author:Barlow, John GarfieldSummary:
Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration Point speaks about life on a small...
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Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts culture.The book features four...
- Author:Lapierre-Desnoyers, GuillaumeSummary:
Chloé, une ado de 15 ans, étouffe dans sa vie terne de banlieue. Pour avoir la vie intense et sans limite à laquelle elle aspire, elle décide de tout quitter en effaçant ses traces. À la merci de la bonne volonté et des exigences des...
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