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Silverwing

Kenneth Oppel

Shade is the runt of his Silverwing bat colony, determined to prove himself on the perilous migration to Hibernaculum. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his short life. This is a fantastic adventure with a plot that soars from the first page.
The Edible Woman: Based on the Novel by Margaret Atwood

Dave Carley

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
The Rez Sisters

Tomson Highway

Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play
Nominated 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.
Barney's Version

Mordecai Richler
Cyrano De Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century theatre. He wrote his 'heroic comedy', unfashionably, in verse, and set it in the reign of Louis XIII and the Three Musketeers. 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. Audiences immediately took him to their hearts, and since the triumphant opening night in December 1897 - at the height of the Dreyfus Affair - the play has never lost its appeal. 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.
Miss Julie

August Strindberg

August Strindberg's masterpiece portrayal of the conflict between sexual passion and social position. Contains the full text, commentary, notes for students, a chronology of the author's life, and context of the play.
Waiting for the Parade (Plays in print 1980)

John Murrell
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Ann-Marie MacDonald

In this exuberant comedy and original revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet -- Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and Desdemona, has a hand in saving them, and finds out what these women are about. In true Shakespearean spirit, Constance plunders the plays and creates something new, all the while engaging in a personal voyage of self-discovery. With an abundance of twists, fights, dances, seductions, and wild surprises, the play is an absolute joy of theatricality.
Stanley Park

Timothy L. Taylor
Bonjour, La, Bonjour

Michel Tremblay
Les Belles Soeurs: (Revised)

Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay's classic joual play. Cast of 15 women. "A tart but human satire on Canadian life and aspirations". -- Vancouver Sun
Faaggot! Steel Kiss and Gulag

Robin Fulford
East End Plays Part Two

George F. Walker
Stardust and Shadows

Charles Foster

“You’ll like Louis Mayer,” Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. “He is from Canada, too.” As Foster would soon discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian.
Stardust and Shadows brings together the stories of eighteen Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywood’s formative years. Most of those profiled were known to Foster and stories they told him about Hollywood’s early days, enhance by many years of research and interviews with other living performers and directors from the silent movie era, reveal a never-before-seen look at what the movie industry was really like in those early days.
Elizabeth Rex (The CBC Stratford Festival Reading Series)

Timothy Findley, Brent Carver', u"Diane D'Aquila"

Based on the original stage production at the Stratford Festival of Canada, directed by Martha Henry.
In this daring and original production of Timothy Findley's Governor-General Award winning play, William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, are brought together in a remarkable encounter on the night of April 22, 1616. The night the Queen's Lover will be executed, by the Queen's decree.
Suburban Motel

George F. Walker
Three Sisters

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations; and notes on indiviual words and phrases in the text
The Hope Slide / Little Sister

Joan Macleod
Harlem Duet

Djanet Sears

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy. Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare’s Othello, and recounts the tale of Othello and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie’s story.
The East End Plays: Part 1

George F. Walker