Four short plays by one of Canada's exciting, new theatre voices.
In The Russian Play, the flower-shop girl tells the story of her love for the gravedigger. Essay casts a teaching assistant in the ...
The Blue Light: Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her ...
John and Beatrice
High above the city, Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. But if he wins, what then? ...
Covering a diverse range of subject matter, many of these plays are published in English for the first time.
Includes:
Evidence to the Contrary (La déposition) by Hélène Pedneault, translated by Linda ...
Covering a diverse range of subject matter, many of these plays are published in English for the first time.
Includes:
The Savage Season (Le Temps sauvage) by Anne Hébert, translated by Pamela Grant ...
A collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for men, intended for auditions, study, or general interest.
"Sometimes [the author] will talk about horror, sometimes about love. Sometimes the love they ...
"Daniel MacIvor's plays have been labelled everything from postmodern to metatheatrical, but these are cold terms that do nothing to capture the warm, accessible soul of a writer whose honesty and compassion ...
Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage ...
Looking for a Canadian play to produce, read, study? Canada On Stage: Scenes and Monologues provides an overview of contemporary Canadian theatre for just about any occasion. Just as in the ideal library/bookstore ...
Six plays. Six playwrights. Six takes on Israel. From those who've been there, those who live there, and those that don't.
"Jews are modern people. On every subject we are rational, we are children of ...