Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2006-09-01

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Two nursing home residents, both in their eighties, meet and fall in love, rekindling what might have been a wartime romance. Had they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is their love so troubling for their children? Indeed, the light at...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2005-07-01

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Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, da Kink in my hair gives voice to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears—and told in words, music, and dance—the stories explore the hardship,...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2005-07-01

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Tales of an Urban Indian is a one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young First Nations man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark comedy examines the issues of race, identity, and assimilation...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2005-07-01

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A young actor from the big city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories about rural life. The farmers' lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2005-04-01

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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 near the factory? And the poison gas explosion that will leave...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2005-03-01

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The award-winning author of The Drawer Boy and Plan B takes us on a twenty-five-year-long trip to the family cottage.Three generations of women—the eldest incapable of keeping stories to herself, her two daughters on the verge of making life-altering...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2004-09-01

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The award-winning author of The Drawer Boy and Plan B takes us on a twenty-five-year-long trip to the family cottage.Three generations of women—the eldest incapable of keeping stories to herself, her two daughters on the verge of making life-altering...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2004-09-01

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A married pair of second-rate theatre actors cast themselves as nationally renowned self-help gurus. Their lives unravel in a farce as they try to conceal a body and hold on to their falsely won fame.

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2004-08-01

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A thirty-five-year-old man with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old, meets a pregnant young woman in crisis, and the two form a lasting friendship.A story about people finding the nerve to take responsibility, and about persevering against the odds. One of Norm...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2004-08-01

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In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenagers' wild secret, slams into the present. When Patsy invites her old friend Francesca, now a glamourous actress, to her home in Marmora after a thirty-year absence...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2004-07-01

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From Governor General's Literary Award–winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a two-hundred-year-old black community in Western Ontario. Rainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2003-10-01

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Set in cottage country in 1953, Jack Forrester, a damaged World War II vet, has retreated from life. Then one weekend he meets Emma Currie, an amphetamine-popping chart writer for a big band. Both lives will change forever as these two opposites collide.

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2003-09-01

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Can love survive a separation? A chance meeting in a restaurant, after four years apart, sends a couple flashing back through the highs and lows of their courtship and marriage. It is an hilarious and often heart-breaking look at the rollercoaster ride of a...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2003-08-01

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Six travellers wait in a train station in Jasper, Alberta, hoping to fulfill their dreams at the other end of the line.

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2003-07-01

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A furniture store owner is having an affair with the local minister's wife. The situation becomes complicated when the minister comes home unexpectedly. An intricate web of deceit is hilariously exposed as the police, members of the parish and the women's auxiliary all...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2003-01-01

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When Max and Wynn invite their friends Roger and Abby up for a weekend at their country home, the true nature of their relationships come to the surface. The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2002-12-01

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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, the choice to break the damaging cycles is made. In this...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2002-08-01

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During the opening night of a new play, the action is all in the audience and backstage. A funny, gentle look at human relationships. The madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. It's...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2002-07-01

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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. Bud wants Denny's and Motel 6.Paul and Bud spend five days...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2002-01-01

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