Described by Variety as 'Yukon Gothic,' Claudia Dey's acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable...
DRAMA / Canadian
- Author:Dey, ClaudiaSummary:
- Author:Vaughan, R. M.Summary:
Ogres, trolls, demons - monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila...
- Author:Johns, Ted.Summary:
'This is a record of our version of grassroots theatre. The idea was to take a group of actors out to a farming community and build a play of what we could see and learn. There is no story or "plot" as such... Nevertheless, we hope that...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
Theatre doesn't have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O'Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
pppeeeaaaccceee, is a vast, imaginative and mesmerizing glide through Life and Power. The play is set in Ephemeral; three people firmly floating chat - in O'Donnell's inimitable rapid-fire style - about the revolution. Which...
- Author:MacArthur, GregSummary:
Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada's most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising...
- 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: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: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: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:MacArthur, GregSummary:
Expose yourself to one of the most original new voices in theatre with this collection of two uncompromising plays by Greg MacArthur. Snowman: After years of wandering, Denver and Marjorie find themselves in a remote northern community...
- Author:Piatigorsky, AntonSummary:
Nominated for several Dora Awards. When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international...
- Author:Hines, KarenSummary:
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Drama Penelope Douglas is an ex-forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her...
- Author:Belliveau, George, Lea, Graham W.Summary:
This book is a call to action to address the transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It presents an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma, exploring the development, performance, and reception of...
- Author:Vaughan, R. M.Summary:
'There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.' RM Vaughan's play about Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner comes off the stage and onto the page in this handsome edition from Coach House Books....
- Author:Billon, NicolasSummary:
An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police station-he won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknowst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr....
- Author:Griffiths, LindaSummary:
It's a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It's 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the...