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The third play in Taylor's hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during World War II.

Selected poems relating to the author's activist politics, as well as early poems and contemporary work.

Explores the possibilities of meaning when language is pushed to its limits. Includes a homolinguistic "trans'elation" of the Sefer Yetzirah.

An evocative account of romantic adventure stamped with Tremblay's signature wit and ironic humour.

A reading of seminal texts--from "Ulysses" to "Hamlet" and from the Torah to the Gospels--that shape Western perspectives.

Explores a radicalized feminist agenda in the latter part of the 20th century. Cast of 16 women and 3 men.

Through narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.

A schoolteacher "from away" struggles with attachment to a community slated for resettlement. Cast of 4 men and 3 women.

A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.

One woman triumphs despite the harsh social climate of the Klondike gold rush. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

This collection includes "Hungry Hills," "Ballad of a Stonepicker" and "Night Desk."

From one of Canada's best-known playwrights, George Ryga, comes this anthology of plays that often criticize issues of Canadian culture.

The language of poetics emerges into the light of the purely formalist and luminous "definitions" of things.

Presents us with cues and clues to the poet's compositional strategies.

The "centre" in this sequence of 10 long poems shifts from rural singularity to a relentless multiplicity of the urban.

In the black community, racism accelerates the destructive effects of drug abuse. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

Sexy, provocative, and challenging, Espresso is a rich, dark, bitter hit of comedy and sensuality. A single actress alternately narrates and enacts her own and her familys history along with an uninvited narrator/actor, Amante (lover in Italian). We are never sure whether Rosa has created Amante or he has created her. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

The perfect balance of fast-paced comedy and poignant drama: Angelo, at the prompting of his equally repressed sister Anna, tells his very traditionally Italian immigrant parents, Maria and Gino, that he is gay. Nino, Angelos lover, is betrayed and mortified by Angelos coming out but is not unprepared for his own mothers melodramatic reaction. Cast: 4 women, 3 men.

Albertine, Tremblay's most unforgettable heroine, sets out to re-conquer her lost beau. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

A group of seniors struggles to remember historical records destroyed by torrential rains. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

"Crisp, thoughtful, and entertaining, and every bit deserving of a standing ovation."

A musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992. Cast of 10 women and 7 men.

Portrayal of the life of Elizabeth Smart, which pivoted on a turbulent affair. Cast of 4 women and 1 man.

Pool shark Charlie has two days to pay, threatens a psychotic debt collector. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

Two men abandoned by their mates come to terms with their fragile natures. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

Fred A. Reeds fifth book on the Middle East and the wars of the Ottoman succession traces the roots of Islamic fundamentalism, as currently enacted by Hezbollah and other Islamic fundamentalist organizations, to the iconoclasts of sixth- and seventh-century Damascus.