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 ...

Bhopal

By Rahul Varma
Foreword by Guillermo Verdecchia
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Political Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues, Quebec Playwrights, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 8 actors
Duration: 90 minutes

Bhopal, 1984. With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living ...

Counter Offence

By Rahul Varma
Subjects: South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 5 m
Duration: 80 minutes

In this play, Rahul Varma has skilfully counterpointed the issues of racism and spousal abuse to show how the intersection of the two can be used to confound and mislead the public, while the Establishment ...

Lilies

By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Canadian Classics, History, Death, Grief & Loss, Quebec Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Translations
Casting: 7 m, doubling

In 1912, two young boys in a Catholic college fall in love while working on a play about St. Sebastian. Their passion ends in tragedy with one boy sent to prison, the other dead. Years later, as the aged ...