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February 2012

Thursday February 9, 2012

Problem Child & The End of Civilization - George F. Walker - Telus Studio Theatre

George F. Walker

George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and widely produced playwrights. His work has been honoured with eight Chalmers Awards and five Dora Awards. His plays Criminals in Love and Nothing Sacred each won Governor General’s Awards for Drama. Productions of Nothing Sacred (1988) and Love and Anger (1990) have met with great success in the United States in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago. Zastrozzi has had over 100 productions in the English-speaking world. Problem Child, included in his most recent book, Suburban Motel (1998), won a Chalmers Award for Best New Play. Two packaged collections of Walker’s work were published in 1998: Somewhere Else (1998) and The East End Plays: Part Two (1998).

In 1999, Talonbooks released The East End Plays: Part One (which includes Criminals in Love, the Chalmer’s Award-winning Better Living, and Escape from Happiness) and The Power Plays (a collection containing Gossip, Filthy Rich, and The Art of War).

Many of Walker’s plays have been translated into German, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish and Czech. He has spent the past several years writing for television including CBS’s Due South and CBC’s The Newsroom.

January 2012 : Jillian Fargey In Absentia

September 2010 : Watching The Line

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 2001 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

QUOTES OF NOTE

“Walker’s questions are, as always, more philosophical than political, and the answers are hidden far from sight in the dark corners and alleyways of the urban landscape … Oh—and did I mention it’s a comedy?” — Globe & Mail

QUOTES OF NOTE

Walker has an eye for the ridiculous and an imagination that packs his plays with action.
— New York Times

QUOTES OF NOTE

One of theatre’s most important voices.
— Maclean’s

QUOTES OF NOTE

Walker writes with unprecedented directness…[His] characters think and feel out loud in a perpetual persent-tense fever because life, and often more, is on the line.
— Village Voice