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Judith Thompson is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for White Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada and in 2008 she became the first Canadian to be awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Palace of the End. Judith is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto.
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Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia

Judith Thompson


Playwrights Canada Press

2017-09-05

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In Hedda Gabler, a moving exploration of female oppression, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society. She prefers pistols to cooking and does not care for raising a family. As...

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Télécharger le livre :  Watching Glory Die
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Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who, in her solitary prison cell, is tormented by hallucinations. While she battles the creature in her mind, her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected to her daughter, believing that she can sense Glory’s feelings no...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2016-10-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Lion In The Streets
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Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the tender age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible for her untimely death. But this time she’s powerful, having the ability to watch over the living, observe...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2015-05-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Thrill
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Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock care. Nonetheless, she is an inexorable force when chance pits...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2015-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  White Biting Dog and Other Plays
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This book collects some of Judith Thompson’s earlier, hard-to-find plays, including White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor Street Viaduct—until he encounters a small dog who sets him on a...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2014-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crackwalker
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Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, but she continues to hold on to her limitless innocence. The...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2011-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Palace of the End
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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...

Editeur : Playwrights Canada Press
Parution : 2007-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Perfect Pie
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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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