“Sharon Pollock is Canada’s best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre.”—from th
A darkly comic story of four teenagers struggling with death, depression, and the shadow of a black dog.Two is fraught. While dealing with the impossible expectations of her parents, she is trying to
In 1942, a ship carrying over a hundred soldiers ran aground off the Burin Peninsula, killing most of its men. Lanier Phillips, the sole African-American survivor of the wreck, is rescued and cared fo
A groundbreaking anthology of plays about the Israel-Palestine conflict penned by diaspora playwrights of Jewish and Palestinian decent. This volume of seven plays varies in genre between drama and co
A collection of twenty-five short, powerful plays that pack a punch through a variety of genres and styles. Ideal for a range of readers from drama students to aspiring theatre practitioners, and for
Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time waiting?for news of their baby daughter’s post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumor is gone, for forty-five-second updates fr
Thirty-something Kate has been tasked with mounting a museum exhibit about the history of romance and love despite her own romantically unsuccessful relationships. Intent on curating the show, Kate in
The Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie?caught in the middle of an intens
A new drama teacher teaches two aggressive girls the art of stage combat, hoping to get them to understand the costs of violence. The girls battle out their issues in rehearsals, and as the their inte
Inspired by the true story of a New Brunswick teenager who committed suicide in prison when corrections officers failed to intervene. From the two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award,
Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. His new stepmom is a chain-smoking, ex-Jehovah’s Witness. Tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up?he
Love and RelASIANships includes works that represent cultures from all over Asia and the place those cultures have in Canada. It includes Yellow Fever by Rick Shiomi, Bachelor-Man by Winston Christoph
