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...

Editeur : 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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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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An eminent psychiatrist has vanished from his office. The last person to have seen him is Michael, a troubled patient. Dr. Greenberg, the hospital director, is determined to question Michael, ignoring the head nurse's cryptic warnings. Michael speaks of elephants and...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2006-04-01

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It's a Friday afternoon in the big city and, in six different offices, six different stories are unfolding at the same time. However, they are all connected somehow, from the figure skater on the ledge, to the novelist in the closet. A madcap race towards quitting time.

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2005-12-01

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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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Butler's Marsh Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest ofButler's Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what had happened. Having never been offered a suitable explanation, and...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2004-03-01

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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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