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Spring
Planting Kit Brennan Winner of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Literary Award, Spring Planting tells the story of two widowed neighbours, one an illiterate elder, the other a suddenly single mother. Their new circumstances are made yet more difficult by younger family members who push them beyond tolerable limits. |
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Summer
of My Amazing Luck Chris Craddock With all the humour, compassion, and intelligence of Miriam Toews' novel, this inventive stage adaptation takes audiences on a hilarious and heartbreaking journey as Lucy discovers that this may be the summmer when everything changes. |
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The
Hats of Mr. Zenobe Robert Astle Based on the life of Vahan Poladian, a displaced Armenian who lost his family during the Turkish invasion, The Hats of Mr. Zenobe is a poignant indictment of war. In this one-man show, Astle recreates Poladian's twice-daily street performances. |
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The Last Journey of Captain Harte Dianne Warren A phone call from the nomadic Captain Harte, an old friend of her husband's, awakens a middle-aged widow's imagination. As the Captain makes his circuitous way home, she follows his journey and prepares for her own escape from her small prairie world. |
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The
Piano Tuner Robert Astle When Bob, a blind piano tuner, is summoned out to a house on the prairie to tune a derelict piano, he discovers that the piano has been "prepared" with sounds, objects and stories from his own past which he must confront in order to bring the instrument back into tune. |
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The Queen of Queen Street Maureen Hunter Based on the life of Bertha Rand, Winnipeg's notorious Cat Lady, who battled her neighbours and city hall to save her cats, this play looks behind the headlines, giving a sensitive portrayal of the circumstances that led Bertha to retreat into squalid isolation with dozens of animals. |
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Three
on the Boards Kit Brennan Three on the Boards features full-length and one-act scripts for three actors written by Canadian playwrights from across the country. The plays in the volume represent various production options; they have appeared on the main stage, in alternative theatres or non-traditional theatre spaces, at the fringe, and in professional workshops. |
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Triple Play Colleen Curran El Clavadista is a black comedy about two vacationing teachers in Mexico, A Sort of Holiday a romantic comedy about two strangers who clash in a small college library, and Amelia Earhart Was Not a Spy a romantic comedy which pits a young woman's fiancé against her room-mate. |
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Two
Hands Clapping Kit Brennan A goldmine for actors seeking two-person plays, Two Hands Clapping features full-length, one act, and short scripts for two actors. The playwrights are Canadian and include established writers, as well as voices that are just beginning to make their mark in Canadian theatre. This volume also includes in-depth interviews with playwrights. Two Hands Clapping is a valuable resource for anyone who loves theatre. |
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Urban Myths: Anton & No Cycle Harry Standjofski In Anton, a Russian emigré finds himself drawn into the lives of three wealthy sisters who live together because they can't agree on selling their inherited Westmount mansion. No Cycle is a series of five vignettes that echo off each other in surprising and moving ways. |
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Venus of Dublin Marianne Ackerman While on tour in Dublin, the once-great, untamable stage performer Edmund Kean hires a local renegade to paint his portrait. As Kean relives his encounters with the Huron of Quebec, the spirits of the wilderness inhabit him and unleash a mystical and surprising portrait of desire. |
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Walking on Water Dave Carley Walking on Water is an engaging and theatrical murder mystery. It's also a hilarious return to a place and time of moral clarity, good guys and bad guys, tough broads and daring dames. |
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Woman
by a Window & Céleste Marianne Ackerman Woman by a Window externalizes one woman's struggle with her desire, her will and her soul as she attempts to renounce a man and food simultaneously. Céleste examines the relationship between a modern philosopher, his physician friend and the housekeeper who eventually becomes his wife. |
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Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom Anne Szumigalski When the concentration camps were opened at the end of World War II, Anne Szumigalski worked with the survivors as a translator for the British Red Cross. In Z, she translates that profound and disturbing experience into an amazing theatrical event‹a blend of drama, poetry and dance. |