ISBN: 9780889223653
Pages: 80 pp
Pub. Date: January 1 1996
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.25"
Rights: Available: WORLD
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Fiction / FIC060000

  • DRAMA / Canadian
  • FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
  • FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor

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Vigil
By Morris Panych
Morris Panych’s brilliant new black comedy is structured around what happens when an extremely self-centred and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life-and-death situation with profound and far-reaching consequences. A play of twisted circumstance, mistaken identity and surprising turns, it is deliciously absurd, incredibly funny and poignantly tender.

“A small masterpiece.” – Globe & Mail

“A devilishly funny play [that] laughs in death’s face.” – Maclean’s

“This is one of those rare, liberating plays that actually breaks a taboo. [Panych] gives voice to the silent thoughts that hover around many death-beds.” – National Post

“literate, incisive, edgy and lots of good, naughty fun.” – Syracuse New Times

By Morris Panych

Playwright, actor and director Morris Panych has been described as “a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre.” He has appeared in over fifty theatre productions and in numerous television and film roles. He has directed more than ninety productions and written over a dozen plays that have been translated and produced throughout the world. He has twice won the Governor General’s Award and has won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award fourteen times for acting and directing. He has also been nominated six times for Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Award and three times for the Chalmers Award. His classic 7 Stories ranks 9th among the ten best selling plays in Canada, outselling the Coles version of Romeo & Juliet.

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Vigil
By Morris Panych

Since Morris Panych’s classic black comedy, Vigil, premiered in 1996, it has been produced throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Europe, including a 2009 Off-Broadway production, which opened to rave reviews, a run as Auntie & Me in London and, most recently, shows at the Mark Taper Forum in…


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ISBN: 9780889226920
Pages:80
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.25"
Pub. Date: May 15 2012
Fiction / FIC060000