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cockroach (曱甴)
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104953
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
You can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He’s a catnip-smoking city slicker living in the dark corners of our homes. A bard (yes, that one) longs for rest as he contends with his legacy. In their crosshairs lies a boy, caught in their collision of linguistics, longing, and lobsters (who sometimes burp). A unique exploration of survival and the dynamics of language erosion, Cockroach is a coming-of-age play about the stories we tell ourselves to comfort, to persevere, to resist, to overcome, and to be.
PLAY
Dramaturgies of Participation
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780369105042
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Horton’s “Roll Up the Rim to Win” to DIY everything, participatory performance is ingrained in the very fabric of our contemporary society. Written in a series of alphabetical, standalone mini essays that activate the reader as a participant who chooses their own path, PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation collects, describes, and analyzes live performances in which the audience become participants in the piece itself.
Espejos: Clean
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9780369104588
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adriana, a fastidious and vivacious hotel floor manager, finds solace in establishing order. When a storm breaks over the hotel, everything they’ve kept hidden comes into sharp focus. A bilingual play performed in Spanish and English, each woman speaks in her own language and shares her unique experiences directly with the audience, creating an attentive microscope on female strength and solidarity to stunning effect.
The Green Line | خطّ التماس
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9780369104922
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together the story of Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese Canadian, who has returned to the Lebanese mountains to bury his father, and the story of Naseeb, who, amid the Lebanese Civil War, is attempting to get himself and his sister Mona out of Beirut and into the safety of the mountains. Together, these stories intertwine to reveal one family’s journey to discover their past.
The Black Drum
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104861
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Since her wife’s passing, Joan has been unable to share her music with the world, anguish snatching her desire to perform, and pulling her into a bizarre, black-and-white world where her two beautiful tattoos come to life as guides and together they confront a monster called the Minister.
I Forgive You
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104984
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
An exploration of the complexities of forgiveness, privilege, recovery, and self-love, I Forgive You uses Scott Jones’s own words combined with a live children’s choir performing the music of Sigur Rós to tell his incredible story.
Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780369104748
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is a collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures inspired by current conversations in contemporary theatre creation. Co-editors Monique Mojica and Lindsay Lachance identify the invaluable and understudied ways that many Indigenous theatre artists are creating culturally specific dramaturgical processes and shifting the paradigm for what is considered “text”. By presenting models for relational theatre-making and land-based explorations outside the traditional “well-made-play” structure, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is more than just a collection of plays—it bears witness to a vast array of anti-colonial performing arts processes and builds Indigenous performance literacies for all theatre creators on Turtle Island.
Fall On Your Knees
Price:
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780369104229
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family as they experience forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while harbouring secrets that threaten to shatter the family entirely.
Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104892
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Grandmother Moon tells the story of Eilidh and Wâpam, born under the same blood moon but in different parts of the world. But when a sacred promise between them is broken, the relationship among cultures becomes jeopardized for generations to come. Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) explores reconciliation and connection, showing hope for our future generations’ openness to learn and heal.
Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)
Price:
CA$13.99
ISBN: 9780369104915
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Grandmother Moon tells the story of Eilidh and Wâpam, born under the same blood moon but in different parts of the world. But when a sacred promise between them is broken, the relationship among cultures becomes jeopardized for generations to come. Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) explores reconciliation and connection, showing hope for our future generations’ openness to learn and heal.
Everything I Couldn't Tell You
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104830
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
After a traumatic event, Megan begins rehabilitating with Alison, an Indigenous clinician. Alison attempts to connect with Megan through Lenape, their shared language, but is unable to break through. With Megan’s safety in jeopardy, Alison must internalize a life-changing lesson to save her: pain is often unjust, but it also reminds us that we’re alive.
Everything I Couldn't Tell You
Price:
CA$13.99
ISBN: 9780369104854
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
After a traumatic event, Megan begins rehabilitating with Alison, an Indigenous clinician. Alison attempts to connect with Megan through Lenape, their shared language, but is unable to break through. With Megan’s safety in jeopardy, Alison must internalize a life-changing lesson to save her: pain is often unjust, but it also reminds us that we’re alive.
Retreating to Re-Treat
A Performative Encounter at the 'Edge of the Woods'
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9780369104649
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In 2019, the Collective Encounter—a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter—presented Encounters at the 'Edge of the Woods' as part of Hart House Theatre’s 100th anniversary season.
The piece acted as survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land to restor(y) treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their collective creation and process, offered in the spirit of creative knowledge-sharing and enriching scholarship around collaborative practices. By revealing their unique and still-developing method for addressing a fraught and tangled (hi)story, the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal—sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin.
Retreating to Re-Treat
A Performative Encounter at the 'Edge of the Woods'
Price:
CA$16.99
ISBN: 9780369104663
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In 2019, the Collective Encounter—a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter—presented Encounters at the 'Edge of the Woods' as part of Hart House Theatre’s 100th anniversary season.
The piece acted as survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land to restor(y) treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their collective creation and process, offered in the spirit of creative knowledge-sharing and enriching scholarship around collaborative practices. By revealing their unique and still-developing method for addressing a fraught and tangled (hi)story, the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal—sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin.
Black Boys
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369100474
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In a society where the Black body is both vilified and sexualized, Black Boys uncovers the complex dynamics of the Black experience.
Ravage of Life
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780369102720
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Evelyne de la Chenelière challenges constraining and reductive practices of theatre by playing with elements of reality in this experimental text about the search for meaning and salvation.
cockroach (曱甴)
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104953
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
You can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He’s a catnip-smoking city slicker living in the dark corners of our homes. A bard (yes, that one) longs for rest as he contends with his legacy. In their crosshairs lies a boy, caught in their collision of linguistics, longing, and lobsters (who sometimes burp). A unique exploration of survival and the dynamics of language erosion, Cockroach is a coming-of-age play about the stories we tell ourselves to comfort, to persevere, to resist, to overcome, and to be.
PLAY
Dramaturgies of Participation
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780369105042
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Horton’s “Roll Up the Rim to Win” to DIY everything, participatory performance is ingrained in the very fabric of our contemporary society. Written in a series of alphabetical, standalone mini essays that activate the reader as a participant who chooses their own path, PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation collects, describes, and analyzes live performances in which the audience become participants in the piece itself.
Espejos: Clean
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9780369104588
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adriana, a fastidious and vivacious hotel floor manager, finds solace in establishing order. When a storm breaks over the hotel, everything they’ve kept hidden comes into sharp focus. A bilingual play performed in Spanish and English, each woman speaks in her own language and shares her unique experiences directly with the audience, creating an attentive microscope on female strength and solidarity to stunning effect.
The Green Line | خطّ التماس
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9780369104922
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together the story of Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese Canadian, who has returned to the Lebanese mountains to bury his father, and the story of Naseeb, who, amid the Lebanese Civil War, is attempting to get himself and his sister Mona out of Beirut and into the safety of the mountains. Together, these stories intertwine to reveal one family’s journey to discover their past.
The Black Drum
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104861
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Since her wife’s passing, Joan has been unable to share her music with the world, anguish snatching her desire to perform, and pulling her into a bizarre, black-and-white world where her two beautiful tattoos come to life as guides and together they confront a monster called the Minister.
I Forgive You
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104984
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
An exploration of the complexities of forgiveness, privilege, recovery, and self-love, I Forgive You uses Scott Jones’s own words combined with a live children’s choir performing the music of Sigur Rós to tell his incredible story.
Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780369104748
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is a collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures inspired by current conversations in contemporary theatre creation. Co-editors Monique Mojica and Lindsay Lachance identify the invaluable and understudied ways that many Indigenous theatre artists are creating culturally specific dramaturgical processes and shifting the paradigm for what is considered “text”. By presenting models for relational theatre-making and land-based explorations outside the traditional “well-made-play” structure, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is more than just a collection of plays—it bears witness to a vast array of anti-colonial performing arts processes and builds Indigenous performance literacies for all theatre creators on Turtle Island.
Fall On Your Knees
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9780369104229
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family as they experience forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while harbouring secrets that threaten to shatter the family entirely.
Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104892
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Grandmother Moon tells the story of Eilidh and Wâpam, born under the same blood moon but in different parts of the world. But when a sacred promise between them is broken, the relationship among cultures becomes jeopardized for generations to come. Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) explores reconciliation and connection, showing hope for our future generations’ openness to learn and heal.
Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)
CA$13.99
ISBN: 9780369104915
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Grandmother Moon tells the story of Eilidh and Wâpam, born under the same blood moon but in different parts of the world. But when a sacred promise between them is broken, the relationship among cultures becomes jeopardized for generations to come. Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) explores reconciliation and connection, showing hope for our future generations’ openness to learn and heal.
Everything I Couldn't Tell You
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369104830
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
After a traumatic event, Megan begins rehabilitating with Alison, an Indigenous clinician. Alison attempts to connect with Megan through Lenape, their shared language, but is unable to break through. With Megan’s safety in jeopardy, Alison must internalize a life-changing lesson to save her: pain is often unjust, but it also reminds us that we’re alive.
Everything I Couldn't Tell You
CA$13.99
ISBN: 9780369104854
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
After a traumatic event, Megan begins rehabilitating with Alison, an Indigenous clinician. Alison attempts to connect with Megan through Lenape, their shared language, but is unable to break through. With Megan’s safety in jeopardy, Alison must internalize a life-changing lesson to save her: pain is often unjust, but it also reminds us that we’re alive.
Retreating to Re-Treat
A Performative Encounter at the 'Edge of the Woods'
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9780369104649
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In 2019, the Collective Encounter—a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter—presented Encounters at the 'Edge of the Woods' as part of Hart House Theatre’s 100th anniversary season.
The piece acted as survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land to restor(y) treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their collective creation and process, offered in the spirit of creative knowledge-sharing and enriching scholarship around collaborative practices. By revealing their unique and still-developing method for addressing a fraught and tangled (hi)story, the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal—sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin.
Retreating to Re-Treat
A Performative Encounter at the 'Edge of the Woods'
CA$16.99
ISBN: 9780369104663
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In 2019, the Collective Encounter—a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter—presented Encounters at the 'Edge of the Woods' as part of Hart House Theatre’s 100th anniversary season.
The piece acted as survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land to restor(y) treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their collective creation and process, offered in the spirit of creative knowledge-sharing and enriching scholarship around collaborative practices. By revealing their unique and still-developing method for addressing a fraught and tangled (hi)story, the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal—sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin.
Black Boys
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780369100474
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
In a society where the Black body is both vilified and sexualized, Black Boys uncovers the complex dynamics of the Black experience.
Ravage of Life
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780369102720
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Evelyne de la Chenelière challenges constraining and reductive practices of theatre by playing with elements of reality in this experimental text about the search for meaning and salvation.