Plays by Nation - Canadian Plays

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

George Ryga

Talon Books

5 Male 1 Female

A lyric documentary about a young Indian girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is perhaps the best known contemporary Canadian play - a lyric documenta...

$19.99

Jitters

David French

Talon Books

6 Male 3 Female

This sophisticated backstage comedy opens on the night of a preview of a new play, "The Care and Treatment of Roses" Within minutes, the audience is plunged into the world of the theatre, a world of instant...

$19.99

Albertine in Five Times

Michel Tremblay trans John van Burek & Bill Glassco

Talon Books

0 Male 6 Female

The story of one woman - Albertine - at five times in her life "A remarkable play" - New Statesman

$16.99

Seven Streams of the River Ota

Robert Lepage & Ex Machina

Methuen

Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later, Hiroshima's vitality is striking - the city where survival itself seem...

$15.99

Earshot

Morris Panych

Talon Books

3 Male 3 Female

$19.99

15 Seconds

Francois Archambault

Talon Books

2 Male 2 Female

Brimming with a dark and brittle humour, Fifteen Seconds is a play about a young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother handicapped by c...

$12.99

Shape of a Girl & Jewel

Joan MacLeod

Talon Books

3 Male 3 Female

In an imaginary letter to an absent older brother, Braidie struggles to understand the torture and killing of a teenage girl by a group of her school-mates MacLeod's young protagonist enters all the brig...

$19.99