Canada Split: A Flush of Tories & Rexy! AUTHOR: Allan Stratton ISBN: 0921833318 168 PAGES $14.95 CDN $12.95 US ABOUT THE BOOK: Read together, A Flush of Tories and Rexy! form comic bookends, the first viewing our current dilemmas in the context of Conservative leadership in the last century; the second, in the context of more recent Liberal leadership. A Flush of Tories was widely produced in Canada and adapted for a drama special on CBC; Rexy! won the Chalmers Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and the Canadian Authors' Association Award.   REVIEWS: "A Flush of Tories gets a laugh out of a Canadian political crisis... the play is commendable for its proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Canadian history is not (as rumored) dull." —The Winnipeg Sun "A Flush of Tories focuses on the Manitoba schools question of 1890, the poisoned relationship between anglophone and francophone Canadians, and the sinister Realpolitik of governments run by deceptively foolish connivers. The play runs achingly parallel to the current Canadian quandry." —Winnipeg Free Press "Rexy! is not only as topical as the debate on the constitution but it is a great deal wittier. Here is Canadian history rendered with tongue tucked firmly in cheek without, however, demeaning [Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie] King himself. King is a cunning, indeed superb, politician as well as a rare and fascinating eccentric. The grandson of the rebel William Lyon Mackenzie, he was in thrall to history. He was also a spiritualist who conducted seances in his Ottawa home and a lifelong bachelor who bought sex from prostitutes. And as Stratton makes clear, he was also as vain as a turkeycock, a little man fretting to strut on the world stage denied him by his Québec constituency." —The Toronto Star