A philosophical bartender, a broken-hearted hooker, an idealistic novelist, and a gal from the Sally Ann?four characters play out their desperation and dreams in a dingy New York bar circa 1951. Hrant
Four months ago Patrick Devereaux's little brother, Andrew, was struck down and killed by a car. Unable to express his grief, twelve-year-old Patrick is caught in a merry-go-round of guilt and denial.
Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, Melanie Dennis Unrau’s debut collection, is an elegantly spare, thoughtful, and fiercely tenacious meditation on the trials and tribulations of modern motherhood.
More people are now living below the poverty line in Canada that at any previous time in our history, even as our society as a whole becomes more afluent. At the same time, the middle class is reclaim
A Tale of Two Divas tells the story of two Canadian singers who began as soloists in church choirs, but eventually moved on to spectacular careers. Soprano Jean Forsyth and contralto Edith Miller knew
Grace charts the lives of six remarkable people in one day?a day when each one's life is inexorably changed. As their paths intersect, these strangers affect and transform one another in astonishing,
Finalist for the Governor General?s Award for Drama. Monster, a one–man play, begins in the total darkness of a movie theatre. After a long silence, someone in the audience rudely shushes his neighbou
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy.Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare's Othello, and recounts the tale of Othell
A dramatic and often humorous 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 Los Angeles
Finalist for the Chalmers Play Award. A neo-Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him a Jewish lawyer. Over the course of developing a defense for the skinhead, the lawyer i
Sexual encounters between Indian women and the fur traders of the North West and Hudson?s Bay Companies are generally thought to have been casual and illicit in nature. This illuminating book reveals
Late September, 1995. Cathy and her family are waiting for her youngest brother to call them on his birthday. For years it has been a family tradition that no matter where in the world David might beN
Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship. It offers startling interpretations of the fashionable sitcoms and young-adult novels which were pre
The Walnut Tree tells the story of the intense journey of S ssel, a young, privileged Jewish woman who grows up in Chernowitz, studies in Prague and Paris, endures the horrors of World War II in Easte
One of the most controversial and uncompromising Canadian plays in recent memory, C. E. Gatchalian s Falling In Time is an epic exploration of armed conflict, masculinity, sexuality, love, and forgive
Gordon Winter is an RCMP hero, a life-long champion of First Nations rights, and a bigot. He 's challenging the next generation of chiefs to stand up to the federal government when he spews a Nazi-ins
A self-described tuff grrl with two ffs there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette s first collection of poetry i won t ever learn, she will also be known as one tuff poet. Chronicling sever
110 years after its Moscow premiere, Bruce McManus weaves a praireie story from the threads of the originalNfaithful to the tragic comedy of ChekhovOs characters in an environment often hostile to dre
