ISBN: 9780889229280 | paperback / softback
$19.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
6 W × 9 H × 1.5 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889229280
| Rights: WORLD
Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor, examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan. In The Ravine, a mayoral candidate learns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. The Burden of Self-Awareness has money at the centre of a dramatic conflict of values. Each of the three plays is populated by characters trying to navigate the increasingly blurred lines of what’s right and wrong – trying to always stay informed, alert, and ready to act for the common good. Or just to get even.
PRAISE FOR DEAD METAPHOR
“funny, disturbing and highly reflective of our drastically divided post-Sept. 11 political climate. The playwright, a master of the theatrical twist, turns conventional wisdom on its head”
– Finger Lakes Times
PRAISE FOR THE RAVINE:
“a gritty, dark comedy … Brimming with timely political commentary”
– Today Magazine
PRAISE FOR THE RAVINE:
“a dark, dirty good time … gloriously unhinged”
– Niagara Falls Review
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