First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial...
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Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary: - Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
Richard II is the poet's play, full of great speeches and fine writing, rather than subtle character and keen insight.
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
Presents Shakepeare's classic drama in which the murderous King Richard is tormented by the ghosts of his victims until he meets his own violent end.
- Author:Vincent, JulieSummary:
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...
- Author:Schnitzler, ArthurSummary:
- 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:Wilde, OscarSummary:
The classic satirical play of gossip gone horribly and hilariously wrong from a master dramatist. "My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." Lady Windermere has a happy marriage-or she believes she does, until...
- Author:Reddaway, ClareSummary:
When Connie's beloved husband, Jack, dies after twenty-seven years of marriage, Connie hopes that her only son, Gary, will console her. Gary, however, finds that level of commitment a bit, well, too much of a commitment. Connie is left...
- 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:Carvell, RichardSummary:
Marinetti Dines with the High Command is a work that dramatizes the turbulent life and times of F. T. Marinetti, founder of Futurism, the first global art movement. Marinetti's artistic career raises enduring questions about art and...
- Author:Ross, MartySummary:
Biddlecombe is an ordinary English seaside town--except everyone there has been turned to stone. Two police officers uncover the strange truth of what happened when hairdresser Marjorie Briggs finds an object on the beach with the power...
- Author:Prescott, MarcSummary:
Sans se déculotter complètement, l'auteur se dévoile dans Mes shorts. Ce recueil de textes brefs pour enfants, pour jeunes et moins jeunes est un heureux mélange de styles et de genres, passant du monologue, à la courte pièce et même au...
- Author:Shields, Erin, Laronde, Sandra, Colella, StephenSummary:
In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication. In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year-...
- Author:Sadava, Norah, Nostbakken, AmySummary:
Winner of the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play. Winner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Stage Award for Best Performance, 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she...
- Author:Sandler, KatSummary:
Mustard shouldn't still be here, but he is. Imaginary friends don't normally stay with their Person until that Person is a troubled teenager, exhibiting strangely violent behaviour. Imaginary friends don't suddenly become...
- Author:Pirandello, Luigi, Nichols, Nina daVinciSummary:
Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously. As characters unwittingly echo each other, we come to see them as aspects of one controlling consciousness...
- Author:Foon, Dennis, Youssef, MarcusSummary:
Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition. In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where he is forced to grapple with...
- Author:Lovejoy, FrankSummary:
It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand and I filled in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones when the switchboard buzzed me with a personal.
- Author:Marcus, LarrySummary:
Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the...
- Author:Lovejoy, FrankSummary:
Randy Stone comes upon Marty, a six-year-old boy who is running away from home with a $100 bill. This leads Randy to an attempt to prevent an execution.
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