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Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left his family and their history behind him. As a teenager, Rudi...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2009-05-15
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The Drowning Girls
Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2009-05-01
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Charla is the new girl at school, nervous about her shabby clothes and mourning her parents' break-up. Paige, Charla's new friend, is only concerned with fashion, gossip, and her good-looking boyfriend, but the emptiness of her life soon comes to light. Josh, a shy and...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2009-03-12
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Two men, each serving time for the same crime, are forced to question the nature of their desires when their pasts become their present.
Venturing into dark and explosive territory, My Fellow Creatures is a raw, honest, and thoughtful portrayal of these men and their...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2009-01-01
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Two men, each serving time for the same crime, are forced to question the nature of their desires when their pasts become their present.
Venturing into dark and explosive territory, My Fellow Creatures is a raw, honest, and thoughtful portrayal of these men and their...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2009-01-01
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Four disparate people confront each other--their memory and their responsibility--at the emergency room of a hospital when brought together by the crisis of a teenager suffering a psychiatric episode.
Tortoise Boy is a “chamber play,” four monologues, or mon-dialogues,...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2008-12-13
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Santa Claus tries to fulfill a child's special Christmas wish while his staff attempts to overcome a supply shortage at the North Pole. This is a laugh-filled holiday play innocent enough for the youngest boy or girl, and entertaining enough for adults.
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2008-10-01
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Harry Sullivan hasn't seen his son Drew in thirteen years, and now Drew is coming to Harry's Saskatchewan ranch for a visit. This poignant comedy tells the story of two men who are too stubborn to give in to feelings of the heart.
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2008-08-01
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Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamie's desire to...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2008-06-26
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My Narrator
Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head—the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make—suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results.
The Death of Me
When...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2008-03-01
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The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett. When Alan visits the home of Keaton to discuss the project, titled simply Film, he discovers the former star engaged...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2007-11-14
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A searing triptych of three monologues all exposing the ugly truth behind the headlines of the Iraq War.
Based around the lives of three distinct characters—a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-11-01
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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 shadow of his professor as they argue the merits of a female student's...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-07-01
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1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university and begin exploring, for the first time, her own future and...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-07-01
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A fantastic Western comedy from Norm Foster. If you liked Jenny's House of Joy, you'll love Outlaw!
A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871. With only his wits to defend himself, he turns the...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-07-01
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An exploration of one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.
The play sheds light on unexplored aspects of Hathaway's life by looking through the eyes and heart of the woman who spent a lifetime with—and without—the...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-06-01
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In the aftermath of the 1989 Montreal Massacre, Benoît and Kathleen do everything they can to help their beloved son cope with his guilt and rage… but Jean's young life becomes unglued.
Using humour and the humdrum of everyday life, Murphy intuitively moves backwards...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-05-01
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Jenny runs the best little house of ill-repute in her corner of the old Wild West. When a tireless young runaway comes begging for a job, the girls at Jenny's house might just have to leave their lingerie behind. A delightful new comedy about the oldest profession.
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-03-01
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A radio shock jock pays a couple to make love on the air.A woman visits a dying man she feels she hurt years ago. Two men rob a house and discover a shocking secret. An aging rock star is confronted by a groupie. An accident-prone stripper meets with her no-nonsense...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-02-01
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David McMillan is a former actor, current waiter on the verge of turning thirty. Together with his book-reviewing roommate, Candy, and his best friend, Bernie,David encounters a number of seductive strangers in their search for love and sex.
But the games turn ugly...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2006-11-01
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