Playwrights Canada Press
These titles from the leading Canadian performing rights publisher are distributed outside of North America by Nick Hern Books.
Possible Worlds
Two lovers experience a baffling series of relationships together, each one just slightly and tantalizingly different.
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Quiet in the Land
Set in and around an Amish Community in the Autumn of 1917.
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The Monument
A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.
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The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God
Rainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.
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The Drawer Boy
A multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.
- Paperback£15.99
Perfect Pie
A potent drama set over the course of a single afternoon. A reunion between two long-estranged women brings to light a buried memory and two teenagers' wild secret.
- Paperback£15.99
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.
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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.
- Paperback£17.99
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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Mom, Dad, I'm Living With A White Girl
A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called 'Wrath of the Yellow Claw'.
- Paperback£16.99
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.
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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£15.99
Cold Meat Party
A play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.
- Paperback£17.99
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£22.99
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£22.99
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