Ferguson found escape from the parochial world of his working-class evangelical Baptist family through literature; in his twenties, that escape became literal, as he left the Maritimes and hitchhiked across the country, working odd jobs, experiences reflected in The Lost Cafeteria.
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A girl who wants to decode the world searches for the patterns and codes in everything, trying to decipher music, travel, family, love, loss. Through first waltzes, first sailing trips and first tattoos, the young woman tries to understand the universe, and herself. >>
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When insurance fraud investigator Richard Suttle goes to track down a friend’s missing son in Mexico City, he stumbles into a deadly conspiracy involving a powerful televangelist who is running a child sex trafficking ring. >>
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. >>
The Rudleys are looking forward to autumn at the Pleasant Inn, their bucolic Ontario cottage-country hotel, expecting only a little Halloween high jinks to punctuate the mellow ambiance. Alas, the hapless proprietors hope in vain, and it is more than the pumpkins in the patch that suffer violence. >>
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. >>
When his neighbour discovers a dead baby in her rain barrel, Inspector Frank Foote is drawn into an investigation that leads him unwillingly back into his own past. And it looks like the sins of the father will be visited on his children. >>
Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in a Winnipeg art gallery she happens to meet Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. It is a meeting that will change her life. >>
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