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Games: Who Wants to Play?

By Linda Griffiths

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9781770914186 | Playwrights Canada Pr, June 14, 2016, cover price $17.95

We the Family: Three Plays, Including Parents' Night, We the Family, and the Bigger Issue

By George F. Walker

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9780889229822 | Talonbooks Ltd, May 24, 2016, cover price $17.95

Inside the Seed

Product Description: Winner of the 2015 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, Inside the Seed is a contemporary version of Oedipus Rex reimagined as a darkly comic political thriller.Mirroring controversial real-life scientific and corporate controversies, Inside the Seed concerns a once-brilliant scientist who made a startling discovery: a bio-engineered form of rice that could save an overpopulated world on the brink of catastrophic famine...read more

By Jason Patrick Rothery

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9780889229860 | Talonbooks Ltd, May 24, 2016, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2015 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, Inside the Seed is a contemporary version of Oedipus Rex reimagined as a darkly comic political thriller.

6 Essential Questions

By Priscila Uppal

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9781770914308 | Playwrights Canada Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $17.95

Sankofa: Blood.claat, Benu, and Word! Sound! Powah!

Product Description: A young dub poet is swept up in the violence of the 1980 national election in Jamaica. Arrested and interrogated, she finds the strength in her maternal ancestors to stand up for her country’s future. Featuring the plays blood.claat, benu, and word! sound! powah!, these extraordinary stories of three generations of strong women form a lyrical trilogy that resonates...read more

By D'bi Young Anitafrika

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9781770914582 | Playwrights Canada Pr, June 14, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A young dub poet is swept up in the violence of the 1980 national election in Jamaica.

Her2

Product Description: A group of women aged nineteen to fifty with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial. In the chemo room, medical statistics are just background noise as the women gradually form a collective bond through humour and compassion, raising the question, does community positively influence immunity...read more

By Maja Ardal

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9781770914544 | Playwrights Canada Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A group of women aged nineteen to fifty with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial.

A Man a Fish

Product Description: Prosper is a fisherman just trying to get by. When Eddy, a slippery eel salesman, arrives in town peddling progress to the rural African community, Prosperâs woes only increase. Faced with an invasive new species in his lake, his fortunes decline along with the fish population, and Prosper gets a lesson in gift horses and generosity...read more

By Donna-michelle St. Bernard

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9781770914346 | Playwrights Canada Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Prosper is a fisherman just trying to get by.

The Gathered Leaves

Product Description: A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997. All three generations of the Pennington family have gathered on William's 75th birthday, hoping to put the past behind them...read more

By Andrew Keatley

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9781848424906 | Nick Hern Books, May 24, 2016, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.

Performing Back: Post-colonial Theatre

By Dalbir Singh (editor)

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9781770912199 | Playwrights Canada Pr, February 10, 2015, cover price $19.95

Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays

By Dalbir Singh (editor)

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9781770913509 | Playwrights Canada Pr, December 22, 2015, cover price $19.95

The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

Product Description: Iris is trying to hold it together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesnât hang on to the kitchen counter. At least thatâs how she feels after her mother, Bernice, a lively, recently widowed 55-year-old breaks the news that she has early onset Alzheimerâs...read more

By Beth Graham

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9781770913301 | Playwrights Canada Pr, December 15, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Iris is trying to hold it together.

Cerulean Blue: A Comedy in Two Acts

By Drew Hayden Taylor

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9780889229525 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 15, 2015, cover price $18.95

I, Animal

By Daniel MacIvor

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9781770913424 | Playwrights Canada Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $16.95

Little One & Other Plays: Little One / Other People's Children / In This World

Product Description: Three one-act plays from acclaimed Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch. A chilling psychological thriller, Little One follows adopted siblings and their neighbors, a man and his mail-order bride. In Other People's Children, a wealthy couple's live-in nanny exposes the fragility of their marriage...read more

By Hannah Moscovitch

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9781770913363 | Playwrights Canada Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Three one-act plays from acclaimed Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch.

Mahmoud

By Tom Arthur Davis

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9781770913240 | Playwrights Canada Pr, December 15, 2015, cover price $16.95

Sila

By Chantal Bilodeau

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9780889229563 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 22, 2015, cover price $17.95

9780534523800, titled "The Research Paper: Process, Form, and Content" | Wadsworth Pub Co, December 1, 1998, cover price $35.95 | also contains The Research Paper: Process, Form, and Content

State of Denial

Product Description: Odette, a young filmmaker, travels to Turkey to investigate stories of genocide for an upcoming film. When she interviews Sahana, an elderly Muslim woman who has spent her life assisting survivors of the Armenian genocide, she learns a devastating secret that she resolves to share with the world at any cost, even if it means revealing her own shocking secret...read more

By Rahul Varma

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9781770913394 | Playwrights Canada Pr, December 15, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Odette, a young filmmaker, travels to Turkey to investigate stories of genocide for an upcoming film.

Love, Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays

Product Description: Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays is a collection of six plays from acclaimed and award-winning South Asian Canadian playwrights that explore themes of family, love, trauma, race, and more. Featuring introductions by directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights, each play is contextualized to explain its relevance and importance in the community...read more

By Dalbir Singh (editor)

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9781770913486 | Playwrights Canada Pr, November 17, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays is a collection of six plays from acclaimed and award-winning South Asian Canadian playwrights that explore themes of family, love, trauma, race, and more.

Moss Park and Tough!: The Bobby and Tina Plays

Product Description: George F. Walker has been one of Canadaâs most prolific and popular playwrights since his career in theatre began in the early 1970s. Since that time, he has written more than twenty plays and has created screenplays for several award-winning Canadian television series, including Due South, The Newsroom, This Is Wonderland, and The Line, as well as for the film Niagara Motel (based on three plays from his Suburban Motel series)...read more

By George F. Walker

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9780889229549 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 15, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: George F.

Fish Eyes

Product Description: Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school and process their real-life dilemmas through dance, while exploring the heartaches of youth and the meaning of heritage. Includes: Fish Eyes, Boys With Cars, and Let Me Borrow That Top...read more

By Anita Majumdar

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9781770913271 | Playwrights Canada Pr, June 14, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school and process their real-life dilemmas through dance, while exploring the heartaches of youth and the meaning of heritage.

Jabber

Product Description: Like many outgoing young women, Fatima feels rebellious against parents she sees as strict. It just so happens that she is Egyptian-born and wears a hijab. When anti-Muslim graffiti appears on the walls of her school, Fatima transfers to a new school...read more

By Dennis Foon (foreword by)

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9780889229501 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 15, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Like many outgoing young women, Fatima feels rebellious against parents she sees as strict.

The Xenotext: Book 1

By Christian Bok

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9781552453216 | Coach House Books, October 20, 2015, cover price $18.95

The Divine: A Play for Sarah Bernhardt

Product Description: Quebec City, 1908. Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter to a controversial visitor to their city: the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.']As part of her long career, Bernhardt â known to her loyal fans as âThe Divineâ â visited Canada several times between 1880 and 1917, most often visiting Montreal, but once â just once â alighting in Quebec City...read more

By Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau (trans)

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9780889229587 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 13, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Quebec City, 1908.

Lion in the Streets

Product Description: An enduring classic that looks at the inner emotional turmoil in ordinary people and the ways in which they cope. Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible...read more

By Judith Thompson

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9781770912748 | 2 edition (Playwrights Canada Pr, August 11, 2015), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An enduring classic that looks at the inner emotional turmoil in ordinary people and the ways in which they cope.

9780887545153 | Playwrights Canada Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The ghost of a young murdered girl flits through every scene linking the pain and anguish of all the characters struggling to cope with urban life.

9780889104440 | Coach House Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The ghost of a young murdered girl flits through every scene linking the pain and anguish of all the characters struggling to cope with urban life.

Butcher

Product Description: An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police stationâhe won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who they seem and the Balkan wars' traumas continue to play out...read more

By Nicolas Billon

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9781552453001 | Coach House Books, November 25, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police stationâhe won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket.

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