Les six textes de La Robe de mariée de Gisèle Schmidt sont des nouvelles en forme de théâtre inventées pour défier le temps et se laisser rêver. En guise de présentation, Julie Vincent écrit : « Il y a quelques années on jouait chez...
Canadian drama
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Author:Vincent, JulieSummary: - Author:Gareau, LaurierSummary:
La trahison est un entretien passionné entre Gabriel Dumont et le vieux curé de Batoche, le père Julien Moulin. Nous sommes en 1905 et le vieux Métis veut être enterré avec les siens dans le cimetière de Batoche, mais il n'a...
- Author:Falkenstein, LenSummary:
Stories are carried like cargo on trains from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast in this cautionary tale of what happens when we're haunted by the hunger for the ever-greater development and exploitation of natural resources. A...
- Author:Yee, DavidSummary:
Max, a lawyer for the Canadian Department of Justice, is losing his mind. In one nightmarish week, he has been shot, punched, stabbed, led on a wild goose chase, and has even seen a ghost.
- Author:Chan, MarjorieSummary:
From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city's Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces...
- Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary:
One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their son’s bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main course as everyone takes a turn in...
- Author:Côté Legault, AntoineSummary:
Dans son quotidien régulé par les sonneries des radios-réveils et les bulletins météo animés par son ex, le gars tente tant bien que mal de ne pas s’affaisser. Seul, sans le sou, happé par un tourbillon dont il ne parvient pas à s’...
- Author:Pierre-Michel TremblaySummary:
Pénélope Bouchard, de Chicoutimi nord, sociologue aussi ironique qu'attentionnée, apprend un jour qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer. Se sachant condamnée mais refusant la fatalité, cette femme d'une grande...
- Author:French, DavidSummary:
David French's first play is a classic in Canadian drama. The first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series, in Leaving Home we are introduced to the Mercer family, immigrants from Newfoundland to Toronto, struggling to...
- Author:Schultz, Albert, French, DavidSummary:
David French's award-winning plays Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon are available for the first time in a special one-volume edition, with an introduction by Albert Schultz. Set in the 1950s, Leaving Home tells...
- Author:Meisner, Natalie, Allen, Kevin, Maillie, Tereasa, Mehmel, JasonSummary:
Aspiring historian Maxine is researching Canadian social policy when she discovers the story of Everett Klippert—the last Canadian man jailed simply for being gay. Maxine becomes fascinated with Everett's case and with discovering the...
- Author:Thiessen, VernSummary:
When Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobiev, two Jewish biochemists, are recruited by Josef Stalin to embalm Lenin after his death, both men are pushed to their limits in preserving the former Soviet leader so that he may physically live...
- Author:Laborde, RosaSummary:
Political passions and sexual identity are delicately intertwined in this bittersweet tale of stolen youth. Set in Salvador Allende's Chile, Léo follows the path of three friends who journey from innocence to understanding as they learn...
- Author:Tremblay, MichelSummary:
Quinze femmes ordinaires de l'Est de Montréal se réunissent pour un marathon de collage d'un million de timbres-primes. C'est dans la cuisine de la gagnante que se rencontrent et se confrontent sa famille et ses voisines, et bien vite...
- Author:Payette, CoreySummary:
Les Filles du Roi (The King's Daughters), a gorgeous new trilingual musical written in English, French, and Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), is the powerful story of Kateri, a young Kanien'kehá:ka girl, and her brother Jean-...
- Author:Déraspe, RébeccaSummary:
Quand Noémie apprend que son fils, son Théo, est accusé d'agression sexuelle, elle est aspirée par la vague et forcée de replonger dans ses traumas. Parce que si la tête peut faire croire à l'exil de la souffrance, le corps,...
- Author:Cenerini, RhéalSummary:
Après une longue absence, James Coutu rentre chez lui, une petite communauté de pêcheurs métis sur les bords du Grand lac. Il revient, dit-il, pour rdonni la vie à lis ceuses ki nont pas. En ce faisant, il se met à dos des puissances...
- Author:Van Belle, DavidSummary:
It’s May 1945, liberated Holland. The War is over, but because of a shortage of troop ships the Canadian Army remains in the Netherlands. Emma, an independent Dutch woman, meets Alex, a young Canadian private from rural Alberta. Emma...
- Author:Laborde, RosaSummary:
To celebrate their anniversary, Sam surprises his wife Vera by bringing her back to the spot of their rural honeymoon fifty years ago. Now surrounded by parking lots and software buildings, Vera is shocked to discover that the once...
- Author:Thompson, JudithSummary:
One of Judith Thompson's most popular and enduring plays, Lion in the Streets looks at ordinary people suffering inner emotional turmoil and the ways in which they cope.
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