By Elaine Ávila
Acclaimed Portuguese Canadian playwright Elaine Ávila’s new play, Fado: The Saddest Music in the World, is a tale of love and ghosts set in the back alleys and brothels of old Lisbon. Part concert, part theatre, the story of a young woman confronting her country’s fascist past and her own…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .3 D inches
Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012897
| Rights: WORLD
By Louis Patrick Leroux
Translated by Alexander St-Laurent & Katia Grubisic
Introduction by Jenn Stephenson & Nicole Nolette
False Starts presents a series of determining moments between two people stuck reliving the same scene over and over, but in unexpected ways and in different genres (from diary to dramatic dialogue, film script to sound installation).
Cast of 1 man and 1 woman.
$18.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
5.5 W × 8 H × .315 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772010275
| Rights: WORLD
By Tom Hendry
A look at post-World War II Canada from a recent high-school graduate’s viewpoint. Cast of 2 women and 9 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1975
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889220966
| Rights: WORLD
By Leanna Brodie
The rise of an urban and radicalized feminist agenda in the latter part of the 20th century leads to a head-on collision with its much more conservative, rural roots in the Women’s Institute, founded in 1897. Cast of 16 women and 3 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2004
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225084
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Winner 2000 Dora Mavor Moore Award General Theatre: Outstanding New Play
Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223899
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
Tremblay’s penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
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Edition # 2
| 2nd edition
5.25 W × 8.25 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223493
| Rights: WORLD
By Chantal Bilodeau
Foreword by Una Chaudhuri
Introduction by Tael Naess
Forward was partly inspired by a ten-day sailing expedition around the Svalbard Archipelago, located halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Spanning a hundred years and thousands of kilometres from the sixtieth parallel North to the top of the world, Forward presents a poetic history of energy development in Norway…
$18.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772011838
| Rights: WORLD
By Normand Chaurette
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
A dramatized inquiry in which five geologists are interrogated on the death of one of their colleagues in the Mekong Delta. Cast of 1 woman and 6 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224001
| Rights: WORLD
By Guillermo Verdecchia
Winner 1994 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama
One man’s struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man.
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
| New edition
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223837
| Rights: WORLD
By Guillermo Verdecchia
Winner 1994 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama
One man’s struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man.
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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Edition # 2
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889227057
| Rights: WORLD
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