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Modern Canadian Plays Volume Two, Fifth Edition
Edited by Jerry Wasserman
Modern Canadian Plays is the core text for university-level Canadian drama courses around the world. Now in its fifth
edition, with the previous edition published in 2002, the two-volume Modern Canadian Plays drama series anthologizes
major Canadian plays written and performed since 1967. Volume Two includes:
Polygraph (1988) by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard 7 Stories (1989) by Morris Panych
Never Swim Alone (1991) by Daniel MacIvor
The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (1995) by Wendy Lill
Counter Offence (1996) by Rahul Varma
Problem Child (1997) by George F. Walker
Harlem Duet (1997) by Djanet Sears
Street of Blood (1998) by Ronnie Burkett
The Shape of a Girl (2001) by Joan MacLeod
Tempting Providence (2002) by Robert Chafe
Scorched (2003) by Wajdi Mouawad The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil (2005)
Age of Arousal (2007) by Linda Griffiths
by Youssef, Verdecchia, and Chai
BIOBOXES: (2007) by Theatre Replacement
The Edward Curtis Project (2010) by Marie Clements
Kim’s Convenience (2011) by Ins Choi –
$49.95 / 560 pp / Drama (anthology) / 978-0-88922-679-1
Blue Box
Carmen Aguirre
Interweaving recollections of her impassioned
revolutionary life in Chile with her fleeting
attempts to realize a “vision” of love in
Los Angeles, Carmen Aguirre’s one-woman
show Blue Box explores the tensions between
love for the political cause and love for another.
As ever, Aguirre is assertive, sexy, and wryly
political, sharing the sacrifices of her life with
humour and courage. Cast of 1 woman.
$16.95 / 64 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-757-6
King of Thieves
George F. Walker
New York City, 1928. Master-thief Mac is
coerced into joining an FBI sting operation
against a cadre of corrupt financiers. Music,
murder, and mayhem ensue, both at the
speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall
Street where bankers conspire. This trenchantly
satirical play exposes the world of corporate
crime and examines criminal behaviour at all
levels of society. Cast of 11 women and 4 men.
$17.95 / 128 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-755-2
Leave of Absence
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 3 women and 2 men.
$17.95 / 128 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-753-8
Tom at the Farm
Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
As an unexpected guest at his recently deceased
lover’s funeral, Tom is blindsided by the man’s
legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a
chain-smoking girlfriend, and the older brother
hell-bent on preserving the façade, Tom must
participate in the dishonesty before he confronts
the torment that drove his lover to live in the
shadows of deceit. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$16.95 / 96 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-759-0
Seeds
Annabel Soutar
Part courtroom drama, part political satire,
Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming
and scientific communities in conflict and at the
same time penetrates the complex science of
genetically modified crops. The play documents
the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown
between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser
and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc., a
David-and-Goliath struggle. Cast of 4 women
and 3 men.
$18.95 / 144 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-701-9
Tombs of the Vanishing Indian
Marie Clements
Three sisters and their mother are forced by the
American government to relocate from
Oklahoma to Los Angeles. As these four women
try to re-establish connections to a new land,
they each find themselves lost. Inspired by true
events, Tombs of the Vanishing Indian is a
poetic excavation of the lost stories of displaced
Aboriginal people. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.
$16.95 / 96 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-686-9
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