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Can You See Me Yet?
4 Male, 7 Female
A search for sanctuary in an Ontario insane asylum in 1938 "Seems to me to be an astonishing work, richly textured, sombre, and yet possessing a relieving wit" ~ Margaret Laurence
Jitters
6 Male, 3 Female
A sophisticated backstage comedy "Jitters is witty, affectionate, bitchy, bitterly touching. French handles a complicated idea with great sophistication" ~ Toronto Star
The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis
The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis reveals that even the most learned of men can fall prey to the desires for love and superficial beauty Author Steve Cirrone reveals his passion for Renaissance drama in his…
The East End Plays - Part Two
Where is the East End? It’s where the sun comes up, and where you bury the dead It’s where George Walker set six of his plays. It’s the Lower East Side of New York; down by the East River…
Marion Bridge
Three women in their thirties come “home” to the East Coast to be with their dying mother Each in her own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness the lives they have chosen for themselves…
Somewhere Else
Somewhere Else contains George F. Walker’s own selection of his early plays which matter; which for him have stood the test of time; which represent, as he once said, his “classical veneer”…
Willful Acts - The Apple in the Eye & Everloving & Diving & Islands & War Babies & Commonwealth Games
Willful Acts is an expanded and updated collection of Margaret Hollingsworth’s best known and most popular plays, including The Apple in the Eye; Everloving; Diving; Islands; and War Babies…
Other Schools of Thought - Life Science & 2B WUT UR & Cost of Living
Three provoking dramatic pieces that encourage adults to reflect on their past and young people to reflect on their future - they address the issues of AIDS, sexuality, drug and alcohol abuse, and teenage…
Six Plays - The Apology & The Store & The Pile & Getting In & The Argument & Come Away Come Away
The emphasis is on the performer’s resources as an actor, rather than the externals of scene changes and stage contexts Theatre pieces stripped to the essentials of character sketches in quick subtle…
Local Boy Makes Good - Three Musicals - 18 Wheels & Rock and Roll & Don Messer’s Jubilee
“18 Wheels is a high-speed delight - rollicking country music of great charm, characterisations of great wit - a totally successful musical entertainment on a wholly Canadian theme” ~ Vancouver…
bpNichol - What History Teaches
Scobie illuminates Nichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction…
Two Plays - The Island of Demons & Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted
Two Canadian unique stories of exile drawn from legend ... “Voices from the past that haunt us still” ~ Essays in Canadian Writing
The Execution
9 Male, 2 Female
Set in a boarding school, two school boys plot and enact the murder of a classmate “A brilliant play about the maturation of evil” ~ CHQM
Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass
9 Male, 2 Female
“There I was just out of high school, all eager for the future, and there was the road to the future stretching out in front of me like fifteen miles of broken glass” Set in Winnipeg in August,…
Esker Mike and His Wife Agiluk
9 Male, 6 Female
A classic tragedy about Inuit life and how it is affected by white settlers, priests and government officials “A fascinating, moving, and ultimately a very beautiful play” ~ CBC
Coronation Voyage
8 Male, 4 Female
It’s May 1953 and the Empress of France sets sail from Montreal On the pretext of attending the celebrations marking the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an important mafioso leaves for England…
1949
8 Male, 6 Female
Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family As recent immigrants to Toronto they see this event both as a new future and as a loss of Newfoundland’s culture and independence…
On the Job
8 Male, 0 Female
Christmas Eve 1970. The workers at a Montreal dress factory, frustrated by lack of job opportunities and emboldened by smuggled liquor, go on strike The gesture proves futile and they wind up at home,…
Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists
6 Male, 1 Female
A dramatized inquiry in which five geologists are interrogated about the death of one of their colleagues in the Mekong Delta, Cambodia Nominated for a Governor General’s Award and winner of the…
Doctor Thomas Neill Cream (Mystery at McGill)
6 Male, 4 Female
Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened - an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road Each is…
The Dunsmuirs - A Promise kept
6 Male, 3 Female
A dark family secret emerges in this second play about the wealthy and ill-fated Dunsmuir family
Balconville
6 Male, 3 Female
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal Winner of the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play, 1979 “Balconville is a work of genius. It’s angry bitter,…
Les Canadiens
6 Male, 1 Female
A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor Winner of the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play, 1977 “An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well” ~ Montreal…
