books by Playwrights Canada Press     books:     Playwrights Canada...      Mary's Wedding Stephen Massicotte Playwrights Canada Press, 2002 Amazing Play I read Mary's Wedding the first time while sitting in my bathtub (where I tend to do much of my reading), and I got so engrossed, the water got cold because I couldn't put it down. This is truly one of the most amazing plays I have ever read. Beautiful imagery, ...             Perfect Pie (Playwrights Canada Press) Judith Thompson Playwrights Canada Press, 2000 Perfect piece of childhood. Perfect Pie is the story of two estranged women; childhood friends who were separated in their teens and have not seen or heard from each other in thirty years. In the space of an afternoon, the women become reaquainted as they share their lives with each other; at ...             Drawer Boy Michael Healey Playwrights Canada Press, 2008 A Modern Classic I saw a production of The Drawer Boy at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois starring John Mahoney (of Frasier fame), Frank Galati, and Johnny Galecki. The script is beautifully crafted, with a subtle and skillful coloring. The simple, truthful insights it ...             Cake Walk (Playwrights Canada Press) Colleen Curran Playwrights Canada Press, 2000 Five unlikely contestants clash in a cake-baking contest on Canada Day. Each character gets his or her just desserts.             Life After God: The Play Douglas Coupland Playwrights Canada Press, 2008 Life After God is a lively, penetrating look at the first generation raised without religion. The play centers on the eccentric, sensitive Scout and six friends who went to school together, and how their lives unravel fifteen years later as they face the challenges and disillusionment of adulthood.             Judith Thompson: Late 20th Century Plays: 1980-2000: 1980-2000 Judith Thompson Playwrights Canada Press, 2002 By the end of the century, one of Canada's leading female playwrights had written, produced and published seven important and successful plays, all of which continue to be in demand both on stages and on academic courses. Includes: Crackwalker, I Am Yours, Lion in the Street, Sled, Perfect Pie, White Biting Dog and Pink .             Scorched Wajdi Mouawad Playwrights Canada Press, 2005 Twin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story-witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike ...             Never Swim Alone and This is a Play Daniel MacIvor Playwrights Canada Press, 1997 A great work by a great playwright When I saw this play performed, I knew I wanted to direct it one day. A few years later, as we rehearsed this play, the cast and I discovered what a singular talent MacIvor is. Time after time, someone would remark, "This is such a rich script." Two threads weave ...             Jason Sherman: The Plays Jason Sherman Playwrights Canada Press, 2001 A major collection by one of Canada's most important playwrights. Includes: League of Nathans; Three in the Back, Two in the Head; The Retreat; Reading Hebron; Patience; and It's All True. Sherman won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for Three in the Back, Two in the Head, and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for The ...             Palace of the End Judith Thompson Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 Winner of the 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize With its emphasis on the human voice and power of the soul in the midst of a destructive war in Iraq, each of the three monologues in this book is a riveting and brilliantly portrayed indictment of one of the contemporary world's worst conflicts.             Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays: The Red Priest and The Blue Light Mieko Ouchi Playwrights Canada Press, 2007 Includes The Red Priest and Mieko Ouchi's new play, The Blue Light , in which Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred-years-old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. A thought-provoking contemplation on art, politics, and the seduction of fascism.             Skin and Liars Dennis Foon Playwrights Canada Press, 1997             Here Lies Henry Daniel MacIvor, Daniel Brooks Playwrights Canada Press, 1997             'da Kink in My Hair Trey Anthony Playwrights Canada Press, 2005 Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, 'da Kink in My Hair introduces us to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears-and told in words, music, and dance-the stories explore the hardship, struggles, and joys of their lives. 'da Kink has been staged in Toronto and ...             Shakespeare's Will Vern Thiessen Playwrights Canada Press, 2005 Amazing! I saw this play performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 2007. It was a brilliant performance by Canadian theatre great Seana McKenna. It was clear at the end of this thrilling night of theatre that this amazing actress had a solid script from ...          products you might be interested in search for books 1980-2000, perfect, playwrights, scorched, shakespeare, thompson      toavi.com    web we recommend Amazing! randomly chosen book: Effective Group Discussion: Theory and Practice