Drama
Summer of My Amazing Luck: The Play
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. >>
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. >>
The Last Journey of Captain Harte
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. >>
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. >>
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. >>
Things That Go Bump, Volume 1: Plays for Young Adults
This volume contains five recent Canadian plays for young adult audiences. >>
Things That Go Bump, Volume 2: Plays for Young Audiences
These six recent Canadian plays for elementary school age audiences is a companion volume to 2009's Things That Go Bump, Volume 1. >>
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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