Where is the East End? It’s where the sun comes up and where you bury the dead. It’s where George Walker set six of his plays. It’s the East End of Toronto; the Lower East Side of New York; down by th
Something completely different from George Walker! Six plays, united only by the fact that they each take place in one and the same suburban motel room. Transients, lovers, the haunted and the hunted,
Newly unemployed baby boomers Gwen and Ned appear to be -completely different people: Gwen, a practical, down-to-earth Latin teacher; Ned, an impractical investment advisor constantly dreaming up new
New York City, 1928. Master-thief Mac must join an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt bankers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue ? at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Stre
By the time he was writing Gossip in 1977, George Walker had already begun to shift his settings from, on the one hand, North America’s colonial roots in Europe, and on the other, its fascination with
Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play,Dead Metaphor, examines th
We the Family brings us three plays on family and education: Parents' Nightdocuments a teacher's response to an overbearing father; The Bigger Issue examines teacher-student violence; We the Family fo
Heaven is George F. Walker’s millennium play.’ Well, sort of, if we can free ourselves from the expectation of the usual science-fiction-based projection and imposition of our current personal, cultur
George F. Walker has been one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights since his career in theatre began in the early 1970s. Since that time, he has written more than twenty plays and has cre
Somewhere Else contains George F. Walker’s own selection of his early plays which matter; which for him have stood the test of time; which represent, as he once said, his classical veneer.” In them he
These two plays take a hyper-critical view of the public education system. Parents Night is a scathing, bold look at the inside of an elementary school classroom. The Bigger Issue turns its eye toward
