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Includes Governor General's Award-winning Criminals in Love (1984), Chalmers Award-winning Better Living (1986) and Escape from Happiness (1987).

Six plays, united only by the fact that they take place in one and the same suburban motel room: Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta, and The End of Civilization. Transients, lovers, the haunted, the hunted, the desperate, the dumb, each strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are heard of no more.

One of these plays uses natural disaster as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis; the other tackles issues of self-image.

In 1950s Quebec, battered child Maurice seeks refuge in a fantasy world. Cast of 1 man and 1 male child.

A play in which everything, and therefore nothing, is sacred. Cast of 3 women, 5 men and 1 transgendered person.

A highly wrought farce of patrimony among "fancy dancers" on the powwow trail. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

An innovative, multi-layered deconstruction of mass media and politics. Cast of 2 men.

Includes "Beautiful City," "Love and Anger" and "Tough."

The shifting passions and ambitions of six women drawn from Shakespeare's theatre. Cast of 6 women.

Contains Walker's own selection of his early plays: "Beyond Mozambique," "Zastrozzi," "Theatre of the Film Noir" and "Nothing Sacred."

"Limbo Road"--as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem--chronicles the search for the new beloved.

Five geologists are interrogated following a death in the Mekong Delta. Cast of 1 woman and 6 men.

A young woman is found exploring her sexuality by her brother, the Bishop. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

A play about our constructed tribal identities: incest, fashion, fetishism, and amateur psychobabble. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

A comic, biting investigation of self and identity in the North American middle-class. Cast of 9 women and 11 men.

A one-man-show in which Fennario recounts the phenomenon of taking his bilingual play, "Balconville," to Belfast. Cast of 1 man.

In "Corker," the family represents a microcosm of the nation state. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

Romano is arrested without charge after Canada officially declares war with Italy. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

From a fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter comes a viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot. Cast of 2 men.

Short stories about people lost between countries and languages--caught between the impulse to flee and the desire to belong.

Tremblay recounts, with grace and tenderness, his mother's death as a coda to his Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal series.

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is Tremblays homage to his mother, who nurtured his imagination, his reclusive reading habits and his love for the theatre and the arts, yet who did not live to witness the performance of Les Belles Soeursthe first successful play written in joual with which Tremblay legitimized the Quebecois vernacular in the artsand the world-wide acclaim for her sons artistic genius. In a compelling balance of humour and poignancy, Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together, culminating in his reassurance of his dying mothers concern for him immediately prior to his spectacular success.

bissett's metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself.

An expanded and updated collection of Margaret Hollingsworth's best-known and most popular plays, including "War Babies" and "Commonwealth Games."

Now in one volume, these three books (A Trip Around Lake Erie, A Trip Around Lake Huron, and A Trip Around Lake Ontario published in the 1980s) have become funnier, sadder, more inter-connected, more spiritual, more sure of themselves. They sparkle from beginning to end with a new depth and resonance.

These daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy record perspectives of a husband and wife who see differently.

Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay, who later became Canadas most important playwright. Among others, he talks about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Orphe and The Night Visitors, and about how each led to his discovery of his emerging emotional sensibilities.

The most important poetic works of visual artist, sculptor, film-maker, photographer, writer and poet Roy Kiyooka.