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Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for DramaFinalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New PlayAt the beginning of the 20th century in China, copies of Ibsen's A Doll's House began circulating secretly amongst women in tea-houses. In China...
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Scirocco Drama
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2024-07-16
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Finalist for the Governor General's Award for DramaMother Tongue is a unique and innovative play that weaves together Cantonese, English and American Sign Language. It is about family loyalties, youthful dreams, and generational and cultural differences.Set in...
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Scirocco Drama
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2024-07-16
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A hard-boiled 1940s Manhattan newspaperman, sent to photograph a crime scene, goes on the lam with the suspect in Morwyn Brebner's new hit play–the first-ever film noir/social drama/musical comedy! Little Mercy Callaghan has led a sheltered life. But her fugitive night...
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Scirocco Drama
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2024-07-16
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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
? F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel...
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Universal Publishers
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2024-07-07
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From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic. • Nominated as one of America’s...
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Universal Publishers
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2024-07-06
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A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover their past.In the present day, Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2024-05-21
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Adam was ??commissioned by the Deaf Culture Centre to create a story for a Deaf musical.The play explores grief, love, oppression, redemption, and strength, with influences ranging from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Alice Through the Looking-Glass.Adam has several...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2024-04-30
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Michaela and Carrie worked together previously on the TYA play Water Under the BridgeAll three authors share the desire to challenge audiences to think about big issues in meaningful ways for young people, wanting to offer something for the next seven generations, as...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2024-03-19
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Revived from a coma after a traumatic event, Megan’s injuries leave her capable of great violence, forcing her desperate physician Cassandra to recruit Alison, an Indigenous clinician, as her consultant. Alison uses an innovative form of technologically enhanced...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2024-02-20
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Miskozi is searching for something...There's something missing.And she's not sure what it is.She goes on a search for herself and her culture, accompanied by her inner white girl, Waabishkizi, and guided by Ziibi, a manifestation of an ancestral river, both provoking...
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Scirocco Drama
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2024-02-08
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Canadian Rajah is the incredible -- and true -- story of Esca Brooke Daykin. He was the first-born son of the legendary "White Rajah of Sarawak" but was exiled from that country (a British colony, now part of Malaysia) to the backwoods of Eastern Ontario. Esca's very...
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Scirocco Drama
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2024-01-24
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite...
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Universal Publishers
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2023-12-28
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Comedy! Not just in laughs but in structure!About marriage and an almost irreverent look at the Immigrant experience.Honours previous generations of immigrants as young, fun, sexy, and complicated.Strong appeal to 60-70something generation but also to their kids and...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-12-19
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The War Being Waged is a poetic and unflinchingly truthful examination of what happens when patriotism and sovereignty collide. An Indigenous mother becomes an activist while her brother becomes a soldier. A grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from prison. A...
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Scirocco Drama
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2023-11-17
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Mishka wrote this after a series of conversations with high-school students about climate change. It’s a deep, distressing concern of theirs, and this urgency wasn’t felt in previous young generations. These conversations Inspired both the play and writing from...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-09-26
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Multiple academic tie-ins: feminist, revisionist prequel of classic literature.Erin is renowned and uniquely skilled for this approach to storytelling.Education: Rose Bruford College London, UK (1996–1999) – Hons, BA / University of Toronto, English Department...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-09-12
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In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city of the future. Waterfront Toronto jumped at the opportunity to...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-09-05
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Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It's just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has been losing residents for years, but the almost-forgotten stories have...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-07-11
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A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future."The seven of us, a diverse group of elders, have endured, loved, lost and celebrated life in our own ways. Now, we decided, we would write a production for...
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Freehand Books
Parution :
2023-07-07
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Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective of the Finch family’s Black maid, Calpurnia. But within the safe...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-05-30
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