Theatre in British Columbia

By Ginny Ratsoy
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Noniction / Essays, Western Playwrights, British Columbia
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 1

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

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 ...

Mirror Game

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, By Age — 15–18, Family
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

When abusive behaviour surfaces in the lives of four friends, the teenagers are forced to examine how learned behaviour can be mirrored by victims and home situations reflected in the school until, finally, ...

Mesa

By Doug Curtis
Subjects: Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 m + 2 actors
Duration: 80 minutes

Paul is asked to drive his wife's 93-year-old Grandpa "Bud" all the way from Calgary to his retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul hopes to find strange, roadside diners and sleep out under the stars. ...

Angélique

By Lorena Gale
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Biography
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

"And in seventeen thirty-four a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged..."

With this bald statement of history as a basis, Lorena Gale constructs a vivid portrait of a time when captive ...