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Canadian Plays by Playwright: W Blitzkrieg Brian Wade These five early plays by Brian Wade are not conventional works in any sense of the word. But for the reader who is prepared to enter Wade's challenging "world of the mind", they offer a truly theatrical experience. Includes: Alias, Lifeguard, Underground, Electric Gunfighters and Blitzkrieg. 161 pp. $5.95. The Monument Colleen Wagner At the conclusion of war, and after following the orders of his superiors, Stetko becomes the scapegoat for crimes that "everyone was doing." The Monument examines the paradox of a soldier today, and the ambiguities of morality and justice. M-1, F-1. 88 pp. $15.95. My Tongue, My Teeth, Your Voice Death Waits Best known as a playwright and theatre director, Death Waits is also a writer of songs, stories, and screenplays. My Tongue, My Teeth, Your Voice is a collection of his poetry. $14.95. Somewhere Else George F. Walker George F. Walker's own selection of his earlier plays which matter; which for him have stood the test of time; which represent, as he once said, his "classical veneer." In them he honed his considerable and unique dramatic talent along "that fine line between the serious and the comic," in settings outside of the North American locales of his most recent work. Included are: Beyond Mozambique, Zastrozzi, Theatre of the Film Noir, and Nothing Sacred. 256 pp. $19.95. East End Plays Part 1 George F Walker Criminals in Love, Better Living, and Escape From Happiness. $19.95. East End Plays Part 2 George F. Walker Beautiful City, Love and Anger, and Tough!. $19.95. The Power Plays George F Walker Completely revised and updated for this edition, these three plays -- Gossip, Filthy Rich, The Art of War -- showcase both the development and the culmination of Walker's engagement with the film noir style. 208 pp. $19.95.   Suburban Motel George F. Walker Six plays, united only by the fact that they each take place in one and the same suburban motel room. Transients, lovers, the haunted and the hunted, the desperate and the dumb, each "strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are heard of no more. These plays -- Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta, and The End of Civilization -- are real, funny, and heartbreaking. $24.95. Heaven George F. Walker $17.95.     Something Red & The Jones Boy Tom Walmsley As shocking and powerful today as they were when they first rocked the theatre scene in the 1970s, these two classic plays by Tom Walmsley expose the heart of a world located somewhere near the intersection of love and destruction. Softcover, 136 pp. $18.95. The Last Journey of Captain Harte Dianne Warren When Marguerite Walker receives a faraway phone call from the nomadic Captain Harte, an old friend of her husband, her imagination is awakened. As Captain Harte makes his circuitous way home, Marguerite follows his journey and prepares for a different life. M-4, F-3. 95 pp. $12.95. Goodbye Marianne Irene Kirstein Watts Goodbye Marianne is documentary fiction, based on the author's own personal experiences as a child in Nazi Germany and of other Holocaust survivors. M-1, F-2. 48 pp. $9.95. The River Lady and Other Plays David Widdicombe The lost, the lonely, the isolated. These are the people that exist on the edges of society. These are the people of David Widdicombe's plays. Included in this collection are: The River Lady, Swamp Baby and Other Tales, and Dinosaur Dreams. 121 pp. $20.95. Banana Boys Leon Aureus & Terry Woo Banana Boys is a smart, contemporary and wickedly funny play about five young Asian-Canadian men wrestling with issues of race, identity and the death of a friend. It is one story, fragmented into five and reconstructed throughout the course of their lives. Softcover, 93 pp. $17.95. Claptrap Tom Wood "Claptrap fondly satirizes the demi-monde of theatre festivals such as Stratford and Shaw. Authentic and comedically accurate, it's as much a look at what goes on backstage as what we get to see onstage -- and here, what goes on behind the curtains is undeniably the more entertaining of the two." -- Ottawa X Press M-9, F-5. 125 pp. $15.99. Brindley Town Lance Woolaver When Bobby Langford arrives in Digby, NS, looking for work as a cook on a fishing boat, he finds himself renting a room from Walter Letteney, a nervous eccentric and ne'er-do-well who occupies an old warehouse on the waterfront. What follows is a comic, compelling portrait of two men attempting to reconcile the contradictions of community life. M-2 92 pp. $12.95. Dear Boss: A Fortean Chronicle of Jack the Ripper Eric Woolfe A murder mystery and a romantic horror story for three actors and thirty puppets, Dear Boss is an imagined investigation of the Ripper Murders. Charles Fort - a famous researcher of such phenomena as spontaneous combustion, raining fish and frogs, ghosts and flying saucers - picks his way through the madness and mayhem of Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888 to find answers to one of history's most notorious riddles. Softcover, 107 pp. $15.95. The Eldritch Plays Eric Woolfe Mad scientists, werewolves, would-be necromancers, a succubus, and an evil immortal mouse are but a few of the bizarre creatures that you'll encounter in the world of Eric Woolfe. This eccentric playwright uses live actors combined with puppets, simple stylized special effects, humour and horror in his gothic, witty, and theatrical plays. Sideshow of the Damned, The Strange and Eerie Memories of Billy Wuthergloom, and Grendelmaus all bear marks of Woolfe's singular imagination. Softcover, 172 pp. $18.95. Beside Myself Jennifer Wynne Webber Hally, a recent widow, leaves her home is Saskatchewan to live on a sailboat off the coast of British Columbia. With the help of the ancient myth of Halycon, particle physics, and the ghost of her husband Wade, Hally finds strength she never knew she possessed. M-1, F-1. 71 pp. $12.95. Back to top

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