The Russian Play and Other Short Works

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Anthologies, Women Writers

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 ...

Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

By Mieko Ouchi
Introduction by Vanessa Porteous
Subjects: Biography, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling | 1 f, 1 m

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 ...

Carole Fréchette: Two Plays

By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Subjects: Translations, Anthologies, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

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? ...

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume Two

Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Anthologies, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Translations

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 ...

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume One

Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Translations, Anthologies, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers

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 ...

He Speaks

Edited by David Ferry
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues

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 ...

I Still Love You

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Anthologies, Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia

"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: Collected Works, Volume 2

By Sharon Pollock
Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman
Subjects: Anthologies, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Canadian Classics

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 ...

Canada On Stage

Edited by Iris Turcott & Keith Turnbull
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique

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 ...

Modern Jewish Plays

Edited by Jason Sherman
Afterword by Ross Manson
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Anthologies

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 ...