By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek
Plays by Quebec’s best-known playwright: La Duchesse de Langeais; Berthe; Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs; Surprise, Surprise; Gloria Star.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1976
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221048
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek
A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 male child.
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222953
| Rights: WORLD
By Morris Panych
Lawrence and Holloman, a hapless nerd and a loquacious salesman, meet by chance. From this fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter comes a viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot. Cast of 2 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223929
| Rights: WORLD
By Lucia Frangione
A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church’s response to the same-sex marriage rulings in Canada. Cast of 2 men and 3 women.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
6 W × 9 H × .5 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA008000
ISBN 13: 9780889227538
| Rights: WORLD
By Jacob Richmond
When Mom and Dad are busted for growing pot, Penny and Ezra Lamb embark on the wild road trip that comprises this vaudeville-inspired one-act play. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$16.95 | 72 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226104
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
A housewife wins a million trading-stamps and invites her friends over to paste them into books. Cast of 15 women.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1992
| Revised edition
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223028
| Rights: WORLD
By Rick Salutin
Preface by Ken Dryden
A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor. Cast of 7 men.
$18.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 1977
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221222
| Rights: WORLD
By Sally Clark
A woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Cast of 3 women and 5 men.
$16.95 | 168 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223479
| Rights: WORLD
By James Reaney
Two stories intertwine and illuminate the relationship of life to its creative dream. Cast of 4 women, 4 men, 1 female child and 1 male child.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1972
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889220027
| Rights: WORLD
By Kevin Loring
A satirical farce play about land claims, in the spirit of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Indigenous theatre.
$16.95 | 120 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .5 D inches
Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012545
| Rights: WORLD
By John MacLachlan Gray
Three musicals by John MacLachlan Gray: 18 Wheels, Rock and Roll and Don Messer’s Jubilee.
$24.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 1987
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222489
| Rights: WORLD
By Sally Clark
A comic, biting, surreal investigation of the question of self and identity in the North American middle-class. Cast of 9 women and 11 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223974
| Rights: WORLD
By Louis Patrick Leroux
Translated by Shelley Tepperman & Ellen Warkentin
Three plays about the co-dependent relationship between a chronically unemployed engineer and actress who has never been out of work.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.57000000000000006 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226234
| Rights: WORLD
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