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12 Opening Acts: Two Plays
Michel Tremblay
Includes Bambi & Me and 12 Opening Acts. Softcover, $18.95.
Blood Relations & Other Plays
Sharon Pollock
Pollock's groundbreaking play, Blood Relations - the story of Lizzie Borden
and whether she actually killed her parents, has been a favourite of classrooms,
community theatres, and the professional stage for two decades. This new edition
includes 3 more of Pollock's best-loved pieces, One Tiger To A Hill, Generations,
and Whiskey 6 Cadenza.. Softcover, $19.95.
Mesa
Doug Curtis
Paul is asked to drive his wife's 93-year old Grandpa Bud all the way from Clagary
to his retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul hopes to find strange, roadskide
diners and sleep out under the stars. Bud wants Denny's and Motel 6. Their 6 day
journey exceeds all their expectations, and leads each to discover startling new
truths about themselves. Softcover, $14.95.
The Shooting Stage
Michael Lewis MacLennan
20 years ago, Len took a photograph. Now, that nude portrait has re-surfaced in an
obscenity trial, and Len's childhood friend Malcolm re-enters his life to confront
him. A brilliant new play from the author of Grace, and Beat The Sunset.
Softcover, $14.95.
The Shape of a Girl
Joan MacLeod
In an imaginary letter to an absent older brother, Braidie struggles to
understand the torture and killing of a teenage girl by a group of her school-mates.
MacLeod's young protagonist enters all the bright open avenues of peer-group play
and the dark blind alleys of individual and collective terror, as she discovers within
herself both the capacity for and the conflict between impulses of good and evil.
In thinking back on the history of her own tight-knit group of friends, she begins
to see how in the excitement of belonging to a ritualized, secret collective, the
self is created by the increasing dehumanization of the otherìof both the
bully and the victim. The Shape of a Girl goes far beyond a simple dramatization
of the seemingly inexplicable code of silence and tacit complicity which surrounded
the sensationalized Reena Virk murder in 1997 on which the play is based. It speaks
eloquently and compassionately to a world increasingly dominated by all forms of
collectivised and ritualized tribalist hatred, and offers the embrace of trust as
the only way out of this circle of violence. $16.95
Backlist
Insomnia
Daniel Brooks & Guillermo Verdecchia
Unfolding in a series of ever more surreal
vignettes, Insomnia employs a powerful brand of non-linear, disorienting storytelling
that skillfully focuses an audience's attention. $12.95.
Elizabeth Rex
A play by Timothy Findley
On July 20, 2000, TheatreBooks was proud to present a playscript launch with Timothy
Findley of his long-awaited, much-anticipated play, Elizabeth Rex. Timothy
was joined by leading Toronto actress Allegra Fulton.
In this daring and original play, Timothy Findley brings together none other than
William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen Elizabeth I. What makes a man
a man and a woman a woman? Late at night on the eve of her former lover's execution,
this is the very question Queen Elizabeth wrestles with as she descends to the stable
lodgings of Shakespeare's players. Softcover, $14.95. Limited quantities of the original
hardcover edition are available for $17.95.
Pictures from the playscript
launch.
The Wolf Plays
Brad Fraser
"Brash, arrogant, cynical, funny, cruel, Fraser's characters, like their controversial
author, take no prisoners -- but they leave a vivid memory of highly-charged theatricality
and fierce innocence." Paul Thompson. $14.95
Poor Super Man
Brad Fraser
Subtitled "a play with captions," Poor Super Man is Fraser at his
genre-stretching best. Part comic, part romance, part coming-out story, part tragedy,
wholly engaging and believable, Poor Super Man is a theatrical feast. "
Softcover, $13.95.
Poor Super Man explodes on to the stage like a bold comic strip, complete
with snappy captions and hard, bright, witty dialogue ... and a pervasive sense of
half-light moral and sexual ambiguity." -- The Edmonton Journal
Love & Human Remains /
Unidentified Human Remains
& The True Nature Of Love
Brad Fraser
In 1986, Brad Fraser sat down to write a play about a guy who finds out that his
best friend is a serial killer. By turns funny, gory, frightening and tender, Unidentified
Human Remains became a smash hit, and was later turned into a movie with an all-Canadian
cast. This book contains both the screenplay from the movie (Love & Human
Remains) and the stage play from the Winnipeg Fringe Festival (Unidentified
Human Remains & The True Nature of Love), and stills from productions of
the play mounted in Toronto, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Edmonton, and Rio de Janeiro. Softcover,
$18.95
Martin Yesterday
Brad Fraser
"At thirty-something, Matt suddenly finds himself looking for more than reckless
flings with younger partners. He wants maturity and commitment -- someone to know
through and through. Martin Yesterday, a middle-aged city councillor, appears to
be the end to Matt's pursuit. Martin, however, is not always forthcoming about his
private affairs, and holds some very dark secrets." Softcover, $13.95
Snake In The Fridge
Fraser's latest play! A city saga about a shared house, and a boa constrictor who
happens to get loose. Softcover, $14.95.
That Summer
David French
The newest play from perhaps English Canada's most celebrated playwright is cinematic
in its feel and pacing. The narrator Margaret has returned to the Ontario summer
cottage country where she and her sister spent many summers. She looks back to the
heartbreak that transpired in a single day "That Summer." $16.95.
Alien Creature:
A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen
Linda Griffiths
Alien Creature delves into the tortured soul of Gwendolyn MacEwen, one of Canada's
leading poets. She died suddenly in 1987 at the age of forty six. In Griffith's play,
MacEwen returns to the modern world one night, bringing images and a prophetic warning
abbout the death of poetry and imagination.$12.95.
Also available on audio cassette, read by the author: $15.95
Sheer Nerve
Linda Griffiths
The complete collection of Griffith's works, including: Maggie & Pierre, O.D.
on Paradise, The Darling Family, Brother Andre's Heart, Jessica, A Game of Inches,
The Duchess. $29.95.
Vinci
Maureen Hunter
Ms. Hunter's plays have been produced in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. This new play
is set in 15th C. Italy and focuses on the struggle for the custody of a gifted child,
" a golden boy," Leonardo da Vinci. From a review of the premiere production,
it was said "... an engrossing. rich drama...(Hunter) proves again in Vinci
that she has a talent for taking historical subjects and creating compelling natural
theatrical worlds." Ottawa Citizen $14.95.
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Ann-Marie MacDonald
"Clever, pointed and entertaining...
this play is one of the wildest and woolliest feminist reappraisals that the theater
has seen, and one of the most intellectually ambitious." The Globe and Mail.
$16.95.
The Attic, the Pearls & Three Fine
Girls
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Jayne is a bisexual corporate shark, Jojo
is a university professor obsessed with Brecht, and Jelly is an eccentric artist
who loves boxes. A romp through the attic in the home of their recently deceased
father reminds the Fine sisters of their childhood and forces them to redefine their
future together. $12.95.
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