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The Party & The Candidate
Price:
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780369104434
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then months later at a debate the night before the election.
Eraser
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104120
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking them along to the cafeteria, change rooms, and playground, to the places where they feel safest and the most brave, vulnerable, and afraid.
This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105271
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and strangers to read together out loud. It tells the story of the rise and fall of an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. It’s okay if you feel nervous. David is nervous too. With so much to be fearful of these days, it’s best to brave this thing together. An ingenious exercise in interactive storytelling, This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear is a poetic and participatory fable about how to live with the slowly unfolding emergencies of our time.
The Wrong Bashir
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105301
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
When Bashir Ladha is chosen for a distinguished religious position, his parents are overjoyed. Bashir, however, is a bohemian philosopher with little interest in the role. As a series of unexpected visitors turn up at the door, The Wrong Bashir unfolds into a delightful comedy-of-errors. An outrageously funny debut, The Wrong Bashir explores the ties of community, intergenerational sacrifice, and the enduring influence of those who love us most.
Actor Needs Restraint!
Monologues, Recitations, Clown Turns, and Comedy Sketches
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781550819793
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Three plays from the repertoire of iconic Newfoundland and Labrador playwright, actor, and member of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, Andy Jones. Based on Jones' well-known epistolary...
Feast
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781772016406
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Guillermo Verdecchia’s new play Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with breakfast, family life, and the end of things as we know them. The family deals with the coming...
Withrow Park
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781772016208
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Three people gaze out their living room window as the days pass. Across the street in Withrow Park life goes on – or is it a dream? Then a knock at the door. Time has found them, hiding in plain sight....
Happy Anniversary
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105240
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
It’s Carlos and Marta’s twelfth wedding anniversary. But as their love story unfolds through a mosaic of memories, we see a blissful courtship descend into a perilous pas de deux of possession, control, and resentment orchestrated by Carlos. Happy Anniversary is an unflinching portrayal of domestic abuse, shedding light on the silent battles waged at home.
Niizh
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105219
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
It’s summertime on the rez and Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, prepares to leave for college, with little enthusiasm or help from her stubborn father and reckless brother. As she navigates the crossroads of youth and adulthood, a charming encounter with Sam Thomas, returning to the reserve after years away, sparks a potential romance. Niizh is a heartwarming Indigenous rom-com filled with small-town humour and dream-world interludes, capturing the bittersweet moments of rural upbringing and the journey into love and independence.
Peace Country
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105189
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
A new political party in BC has swept into office, promising big changes to curb the climate crisis, which could mean the end for a northern carbon-economy town. When an elected representative who grew up in the town comes to visit, urban idealism clashes with the hard-hitting realities faced by her family and childhood friends. Peace Country is a poignant plea for dialogue in a time marked by profound division.
1939
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738623
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
In 1939, a group of students at a fictional residential school in Ontario are faced with the daunting task of putting on a play by William Shakespeare for the King and Queen of England on their first...
Get That Hope
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738616
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Daddy wants to win the lottery, Mommy is still bitter about getting knocked up at twenty, Simeon has war-related PTSD, and Rachel just wants to get out of her parents' Oakwood/Eglinton place and have...
Diviners
A play based on the novel by Margaret Laurence
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738593
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Considered a masterpiece of Canadian literature, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners is the compelling story of Morag Gunn, a woman who perseveres through challenge after challenge as she attempts to carve...
Gay for Pay
The Blake & Clay Plays
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738609
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
In Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, two out-of-work gay actors teach straight men how to play the gay roles that lead to awards season glory. Blake and Clay may not be leading men, but they are leading...
Ministry of Grace
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738630
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
It's 1950 in the deserts of Southern California. Evangelist Brother Cain has a booming trade; his tent revival show moves from town to town, fleecing crowds desperate for something to believe in. When...
ALTAR and Urn
Two Plays by Santiago Guzman
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738647
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
In ALTAR, Eugenio, a young Mexican immigrant living in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, experiences heartbreak when Benjamin, his new boyfriend, inexplicably "ghosts" him. Looking to the traditional...
The Party & The Candidate
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780369104434
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then months later at a debate the night before the election.
Eraser
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104120
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking them along to the cafeteria, change rooms, and playground, to the places where they feel safest and the most brave, vulnerable, and afraid.
This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105271
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and strangers to read together out loud. It tells the story of the rise and fall of an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. It’s okay if you feel nervous. David is nervous too. With so much to be fearful of these days, it’s best to brave this thing together. An ingenious exercise in interactive storytelling, This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear is a poetic and participatory fable about how to live with the slowly unfolding emergencies of our time.
The Wrong Bashir
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105301
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
When Bashir Ladha is chosen for a distinguished religious position, his parents are overjoyed. Bashir, however, is a bohemian philosopher with little interest in the role. As a series of unexpected visitors turn up at the door, The Wrong Bashir unfolds into a delightful comedy-of-errors. An outrageously funny debut, The Wrong Bashir explores the ties of community, intergenerational sacrifice, and the enduring influence of those who love us most.
Actor Needs Restraint!
Monologues, Recitations, Clown Turns, and Comedy Sketches
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781550819793
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Feast
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781772016406
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Withrow Park
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781772016208
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Happy Anniversary
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105240
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
It’s Carlos and Marta’s twelfth wedding anniversary. But as their love story unfolds through a mosaic of memories, we see a blissful courtship descend into a perilous pas de deux of possession, control, and resentment orchestrated by Carlos. Happy Anniversary is an unflinching portrayal of domestic abuse, shedding light on the silent battles waged at home.
Niizh
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105219
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
It’s summertime on the rez and Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, prepares to leave for college, with little enthusiasm or help from her stubborn father and reckless brother. As she navigates the crossroads of youth and adulthood, a charming encounter with Sam Thomas, returning to the reserve after years away, sparks a potential romance. Niizh is a heartwarming Indigenous rom-com filled with small-town humour and dream-world interludes, capturing the bittersweet moments of rural upbringing and the journey into love and independence.
Peace Country
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369105189
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
A new political party in BC has swept into office, promising big changes to curb the climate crisis, which could mean the end for a northern carbon-economy town. When an elected representative who grew up in the town comes to visit, urban idealism clashes with the hard-hitting realities faced by her family and childhood friends. Peace Country is a poignant plea for dialogue in a time marked by profound division.
1939
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738623
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Get That Hope
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738616
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Diviners
A play based on the novel by Margaret Laurence
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738593
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Gay for Pay
The Blake & Clay Plays
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738609
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Ministry of Grace
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738630
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
ALTAR and Urn
Two Plays by Santiago Guzman
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781990738647
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing