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Books : Literature & Fiction : World Literature : Canadian : Drama : General
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Oppel's vividly imagined bat universe takes flight as the celebrated book is dramatized for the stage.
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As all the great dramatists since the Greek tragedians have known, class and gender roles continue to remain the two fundamental determinants of the social fabric of any culture - even one, like our own, in which the boundaries of those identities have become fluid, situational, and transitory. David French's adaptation of August Strindberg's disturbing and enduring drama of the transgressive affair between the daughter of a count and the count's manservant has an eerie feel of the contemporary about it. His re-visioning of "Miss Julie" foregrounds the ruptures of identity and faith that ambition and desire eternally work in their rending of social norms, strictures, and conventions.
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Margaret Atwoods internationally–renowned first novel has been brilliantly adapted for stage by playwright Dave Carley. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, The Edible Woman traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society. Marian has a good job, a handsome lawyer–fiancé, and a conventionally bright future. But slowly Marians consumer world starts slipping out of focus, as she begins instead to identify with the things consumed. Compounding Marians confusion is her newly–pregnant roommate, her incensed landlady, and that strange young man she just kissed at the laundromat
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When ghostwriter Constance Ledbelly's mentor marries a rival, Constance embarks on a "what-if" writing spree that brings her face-to-face with literary characters Desdemona and Juliet. What follows is a riotous retelling of theatrical legend that brings Constance renewed self-confidence--and that won playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald awards and accolades.
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Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. The text is accompanied by Notes and a full Introduction which sets the play in its literary and historical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into "chiming couplets" represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another.
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Gilgamesh is one of the most powerful men in Iraq. A king, a demi-God and a fearsome tyrant, he thrives on the shame and suffering of his subjects, robbing them of their innocence to fuel his lust. But when the Gods turn against him, an almighty battle of will ensues, and a defiant Gilgamesh is forced to learn love, friendship, empathy and, in the end, mortality.
Gilgamesh is the world's first known epic. In this electrifying stage adaptation, Derrek Hines has turned his highly acclaimed version of this ancient tale into a cutting-edge, 21st-century drama.
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Glorious images of gardens and the words of the immortal Bard of Avon make an enchanting combination in Shakespeare in the Garden. Mick Hales, one of the world’s preeminent landscape photographers, captures unforgettable images of 14 gardens in England, the United States, and Canada, including Shakespeare’s own gardens as well as the three great restorations of major Elizabethan properties by the Dowager Countess of Salisbury. Hale’s accompanying text sets the scene, with notes on the provenance of each exquisite site. There is also an Illustrated Alphabet of Plants, a unique visual document of 80 flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that Shakespeare mentions in his plays, each accompanied by a corresponding quotation.
Rare is the illustrated book that can enhance the power of Shakespeare’s poetry, but this one succeeds masterfully.
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Winner of the 2000 Alberta Playwriting Competition and the 2002 Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play.
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This version by actor-writer Susan Coyne marks the beginning of a new series of classic plays produced in new translations at the Shaw Festival. Located in the small town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the Shaw Festival is the second largest classical repertory theatre in North America. The company has chosen as its mandate the plays of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries (1856-1950), plays about the beginning of the modern world. This mandate is unique in world theatre. Co-published with The Academy of the Shaw Festival.
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The play opens on 15 November 1938, six days after the launching of the government planned and sponsored anti–Semitic program called Kristallnachtthe Night of Broken Glass. It is the day that German State schools closed their doors permanently to Jewish students. Young Mariannes world crumbles; hostility surrounds her every step. Her father is in hiding from the Gestapo and her mother surrounds her with over–protectiveness. Then, Marianne meets Ernest, a boy staying in her apartment building while on holiday in Berlin. They have a lot in common, but then Ernest discovers Marianne is Jewish, and she sees him in the uniform of the Hitler Youth. Goodbye Marianne is documentary fiction, based on the authors own personal experiences as a child in Nazi Germany and of other Holocaust survivors. Winner of the Jessie Award for Best Childrens Play.
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Finalist for the Chalmers Play Award. A neo–Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him a Jewish lawyer. Over the course of developing a defense for the skinhead, the lawyer is forced to examine the limits of his own liberalism, and the demons underlying it. An unblinking examination of hatred, the explosive effect it has on our society, and the hurdles that confront us as we set about eradicating it.
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This fascinating version of Daniel MacIvor's most successful play to date lets the reader in on a secret: it was never primarily written as a work for live theatrical performance, but as a vehicle for his development of a screenplay, also included in this new edition. In his surprisingly revealing introduction, MacIvor talks about the genesis of both the play and the movie; the lessons he learned about the differences between the two media; and their radically different stylistic, technical and practical demands on both their authors and their audiences.
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Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New PlayNominated for the Governor General's Award
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life.
The Rez Sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today.
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This work provides insights for art therapists and other mental health workers on how to approach problems of cultural difference in their own work and on how cultural influences are likely to be affecting their clients. Contributions come from art therapists in the USA, Australia, Canada and Britain and include issues from an array of cultural experiences. The contributors examine their work with clients of various ages and cultures and fuse theory with practice, considering issues from personal, educational, supervisory, clinical and theoretical perspectives.
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In 1959, just one step ahead of the law, Ian Ferguson's parents left the sophisticated big-city life of Edmonton for Fort Vermilion — once a fur-trapping frontier town, now a remote aboriginal settlement in northernmost Alberta. There, Ian and his six brothers and sisters grew up without indoor plumbing, electricity, central heating, or even a radio. Beginning with the dramatic events surrounding his birth (including a paddlewheel ferry heading for destruction, a legendary rowboat trip, and a life-and-death race against time), the richly recalled events of Ferguson's life and a vivid array of characters make for a taut and appealingly idiosyncratic tale.