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New & Recommended Canadian Plays
 Kindness
Dennis Foon
Tessa, Damon, and Keegan share the same band class and the same passoin...their pets. When Tessa loses her beloved dog Joey, the even challenges and transforms not only the three children, but the adults in their lives as well. Softcover, $14.95.
 The Russian Play & Other Short Works
Hannah Moscovitch
Four short plays by one of Canada's exciting new theatre voices. In the Russian Play, the flower-shop girl tells the story of her love for the gravedigger. Essay casts a teaching assistant in the shadow of his professor as they argue the merits of a female student's paper. In USSR, a young woman relates her journey to Canada from Russia, and Mexico City follows Henry and Alice on their vacation in 1960. These four plays bring each character to life in full colour, jumping off the page before you and onto the stage. Softcover, 100 pp. $18.95.
 Chapel Arm
Step Taylor
The characters in Chapel Arm navigate their way through a minefield of love, obsession, sex, loyalty, and betrayal as they seek to reconcile the past with their present reality. The raw emotion of Chapel Arm is balanced with a full measure of Newfoundland humour and a powerful sense of language. Softcover, 92 pp. $14.95.
 Where the Blood Mixes
Kevin Loring
Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still lives deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations -- in his case, resulting in pain, isolation, and alcoholism. Brutally honest yet irreverently funny, Where the Blood Mixes is a story about loss and redemption. Softcover, 96 pp. $16.95.
 The Black Monk & The Dog Problem
David Rabe
The Black Monk is adapted from a Chekhov novella and The Dog Problem is an original creation for the stage. Vastly different in their aesthetic, these two highly praised plays embody all of the celebrated hallmarks of David Rabe's writing and art: unflinchingly honest and perceptive themes, starkly luminous dialogue, and the unsettling humor which have made him an icon of the American theatre for more than forty years. Softcover, 308 pp. $19.99.
 And Up They Flew
Martha Ross
At an English country house in 1936, a group of eccentric characters spend a weekend together. As the weekend progesses, events spiral out of control. Lyrical, luminous, funny and wonderfully theatrical, And Up They Flew is a serious comedy about the tensions of the 20th century.
M-3, F-4. Softcover, 84 pp. $14.95.
 Tonight at 8:30
Noel Coward
This collection brings together ten short plays which Noel Coward wrote in 1935 and which he intended to be played in trios on successive evenings. They marked his desire to revive the dying art of the one-act play and to display in multiple roles the highly popular acting talents of Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Softcover, 270 pp. $37.99.
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