Playwrights Canada Press
These titles from the leading Canadian performing rights publisher are distributed outside of North America by Nick Hern Books.
You're Making A Scene: Scenes from Canadian Plays
Fifty compelling scenes from Canadian plays; two-handers and three-person scenes; comedic and dramatic; from the largest mainstage hits to the smallest fringe shows.
- Paperback£32.99
Yaga
A genre-bending comedy thriller that explores the legend of the wicked witch Baba Yaga through the lens of a modern-day whodunit.
- Paperback£23.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
WROL (Without Rule of Law)
A darkly comic coming-of-age drama from an exciting Canadian playwright.
- Paperback£23.99
The Virgin Trial
The second part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.
- Paperback£22.99
Unholy
A play about the intersetion of faith and misogyny, asking if you can be a feminist as well as a believer.
- Paperback£22.99
Two for the Show
Scenes for student actors
A fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.
- Paperback£19.99
Truth in Play
Drama Strategies for Building Meaningful Performances
A collection of short dramatic scenes, with learning activities and teaching strategies to accompany each one - everything a teacher needs to help students connect with the material and give a truthful performance.
- Paperback£24.99
True Love Lies
From the Canadian author of Cold Meat Party and Love and Human Remains, in sharp, non-stop dialogue, True Love Lives tears open the nuclear family and finds the heart that is often lost and forgotten.
- Paperback£16.99
Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
Four plays from leading Iranian dramatists, translated into English for the first time: Aurash, The Death of the King, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death and Interrogation.
- Paperback£29.99
Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English
Staging Coyote's Dream brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States.
- Paperback£29.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Skin & Liars: Two Plays
Two plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.
- Paperback£14.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
She Speaks: Monologues for Women
A collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for women, compiled and edited by Judith Thompson, offering many fresh and exciting speeches for auditions.
- Paperback£28.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Shakespeare's Will
Vern Thiessen, winner of the Governor General's Award for his play Einstein's Gift, gives a voice to one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.
- Paperback£21.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking play by an acclaimed Canadian playwright.
- Paperback£24.99
Selfie
A smart and intense play from an award-winning Canadian playwright, about the complexities of relationships and community, and the nature of consent.
- Paperback£22.99
Secret Life of a Mother
An uplifting and empowering play that reveals the raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering.
- Paperback£23.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Scorched
A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties.
- Paperback£23.99
Refractions: Scenes
A collection of scenes from a wide range of contemporary works by Canadian playwrights, reflecting Canada's artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, cultures, regions, and creative practices.
- Paperback£28.99
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