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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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It’s 1970s Winnipeg—a time of revolution and radical possibilities—and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim woman, Nuzha, has just married Qasim over the phone at his mother’s...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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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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Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a magazine rack on fire, for instance—freshly unemployed Beth regroups at...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-10-31
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A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned pool with what they are able to scavenge from the abandoned...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-09-26
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Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born leader. In Regan, a boundary pusher. And in Cordelia, a...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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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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The play had its worldwide premiere in 2018, but Audrey rewrote it after the murder of George Floyd before a production in April 2022.The play is a great resource for examining classics under a modern lens and a learning tool for anti-oppression, asking “how are we in...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-05-30
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Can Jack and Veronyka ever get ahead? In this all-too-relatable love story in a city suffocating under late-stage capitalism, a young couple is pitted against odd after odd in a way that isn’t about testing one’s character anymore—it’s simply reality.Jack, a...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-05-30
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1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them—Al, Milt, and the A-frame—will become famous and change the face of Canadian poetry. But for now all...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-05-30
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Venus' Daughter is inspired by the life of Sara "Saartjie" Baartman, who was known as "The Hottentot Venus". Baartman was a Khoisan woman taken from South Africa to be displayed on London stages from 1810 to 1815; she was then posthumously displayed at the Musee de...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2023-05-18
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A dramatic and often humourous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against the backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Lost Angeles police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King are...
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Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2023-05-18
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In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against their biology professor. When an agreement to end the occupation fell...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-05-16
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A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey.A road trip to the middle of the Nevada desert in a...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-05-16
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From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point and give in to the temptation of taking matters into our own hands.Set in the aftermath of the disaster that nearly destroyed Fort McMurray in 2016,...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-05-02
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Havre won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama (French).The play has also been translated into German and Spanish.First produced in French by La Troupe du Jour, Saskatoon, in 2018First produced in English by United Players of Vancouver in January 2022
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-04-04
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What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done.” Desiree has known something’s been up with Gary, but she always kept her thoughts to herself. Until...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-04-04
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