news | Wednesday November 4, 2015

New arrival! Moss Park & Tough! by George F. Walker

Canada’s top playwright takes on teen pregnancy in two comic dramas for young people. Moss Park and Tough! collects two plays by George F. Walker – the iconic Tough!, which first premiered more than twenty years ago, and its sequel, Moss Park, which picks up two years after the first left off.

Bobby and Tina are the young, on-again-off-again couple dealing with their first pregnancy. Jill is Tina’s stalwart and fearsome friend. The three meet in a city park one evening to go over their options. (In fact, Moss Park is one of Toronto’s toughest inner-city neighbourhoods – historically working-class – and it’s where Walker himself grew up.) Both plays are funny and charming, but bitingly realistic and disarming. Both plays are about young people but for everyone. And both plays seethe with righteous anger about the gap between the wealthy and the poor.

Now, both plays are available in one volume for 19.95.