Playwrights Canada Press
These titles from the leading Canadian performing rights publisher are distributed outside of North America by Nick Hern Books.
Outspoken
A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues
Touching on gender, sexuality, family, pop culture, and history, the pieces in this anthology range from the hilarious to the poignant, the sexy to the sincere, the truthful to the tongue-in-cheek.
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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
Bingo!
Just because we’re all grown up doesn’t mean we have everything figured out. As five old friends try to reclaim their high school glory days, they charge headfirst into the secrets they all tried to run so far from.
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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.
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House of Many Tongues
Somehow, two families are going to have to live together — if they don’t kill each other first. Jonathan Garfinkel's gripping socio-political drama 'attacks the Israeli-Palestinian question through laughs and magic realism' NOW Magazine.
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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
The Melville Boys
Owen and Lee Melville arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition.
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Skin & Liars: Two Plays
Two plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.
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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.
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Modern Jewish Plays
Six plays, six playwrights, six takes on Israel...
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Danny, King of the Basement
A heartwarming play about a boy who creates an imaginary world to deal with the instability and hardship of his daily life.
- Paperback£19.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Cold Meat Party
A play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.
- Paperback£22.99
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.
He Speaks: Monologues for Men
A collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for men, compiled and edited by David Ferry, offering many fresh and exciting speeches for auditions.
- Paperback£28.99
Love and Human Remains
A violent and sexually explicit study of young adults groping for meaning in a senseless world.
- Paperback£24.99
Einstein's Gift
A Canadian play based on the life and work of Nobel Laureate Dr Fritz. Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions.
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Habitat
Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes - the perfect neighbourhood with the perfect neighbours, until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents.
- Paperback£21.99
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