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- May 2012
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Wednesday May 23, 2012
The eh List Author Series: Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman -
Wednesday May 23, 2012
Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Audreys Books -
Wednesday May 23, 2012
Opera Factory's Double Bill - New Zealand -
Thursday May 24, 2012
Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Pages -
Saturday May 26, 2012
Ghosts of Violence - Sharon Pollock - Bluma Appel Theatre - June 2012
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Tuesday June 5, 2012
B.Someday Presents Suburban Motel in June - Walking Fish Theatre -
Thursday June 14, 2012
Vigil - Morris Panych - Actors Theatre Playhouse -
Wednesday June 20, 2012
Wanderlust - Morris Panych - Stratford Shakespeare Festival -
Tuesday June 26, 2012
The Best Brothers - Daniel MacIvor - Stratford Shakespeare Festival -
Thursday June 28, 2012
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award - Presented to Daphne Marlatt - July 2012
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Thursday July 5, 2012
Twisted Poets Literary Salon - bill bissett - Prophouse Cafe -
Thursday July 19, 2012
Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival - 2012 -
Thursday July 26, 2012
Schoolhouse - Leanna Brodie - Stone Fence Theatre - August 2012
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Monday August 20, 2012
KlezKanada Poetry Retreat: Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion - Adeena Karasick - September 2012
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Tuesday September 18, 2012
Chickens - Lucia Frangione - Chemainus Theatre - October 2012
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring - Sagebrush Theatre - November 2012
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Saturday November 3, 2012
Tom and the Coyote - Michel Marc Bouchard - Factory Theatre - January 2013
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Tuesday January 15, 2013
Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box - Great Canadian Theatre Company -
Friday January 25, 2013
Leave of Absence - Lucia Frangione - Pacific Theatre - February 2013
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Tuesday February 26, 2013
The Glace Bay Miners' Museum - Wendy Lill - Neptune Theatre - March 2013
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Thursday March 14, 2013
Dead Metaphor - George F. Walker - Factory Theatre - April 2013
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Thursday April 4, 2013
My Turquoise Years - M.A.C. Farrant - Arts Club Theatre -
Tuesday April 30, 2013
Le Chant de Sainte Carmen de la Main - Théatre du Nouveau Monde
15 Seconds
A young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother with cerebral palsy. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.
1949
By David French
Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family. Cast of 6 women, 6 men and 2 male children.
2000
By Joan MacLeod
The relationships of the young, the aging and the middle-aged, and between urban life and nature at the end of the millennium. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
400 Kilometres
The third play in Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, an urban professional who has discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung, is pregnant and must come to grips with the question of her true identity. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
7 Stories
In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man’s contemplation of suicide leads to a charming and surprising ending. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
A Covenant of Salt
Drawing from the history of Quebec and Irish legend, this exquisitely exotic novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.
A Few Words Will Do
When one person writes “this is what happened, this is what I know,” any reader stands in for the absent “I” or “eye” of that text. This inescapable process of language, preoccupies Kearns in these brief but concentrated pieces.
A Guide to BC Indian Myth and Legend
By Ralph Maud
Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated in this comprehensive survey of myth-collecting in B.C.
A Line in the Sand
By Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef
A young Palestinian is befriended, then tortured and murdered by Canadian soldiers during Operation Desert Storm. Cast of 3 to 5 men.
A Record of Writing
By Roy Miki
Traces the development of Poet laureate Bowering’s many writings through four decades.
A Slight Case of Fatigue
At forty-one, Eddy is in existential crisis. While once he had an enviable life, now he’s separated from his wife, estranged from his son, and his garden’s grown wild—like the rest of his life. Written in multiple voices, with keen psychological insight, Bourguignon’s examination of relationships, past wounds and present possibilities is filled with raucous warmth and humanity—and dark humour.
A Thing of Beauty
A coda to his great Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal cycle of novels. Tremblay creates, with grace and tenderness, a fictionalized account of the death of his own mother.
ABC of Reading TRG
By Peter Jaeger
Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, with a special focus on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).
Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre
Mark Killman—a feared but much admired director—hires two actors to play Laurel and Hardy in a re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, while he himself plays the iconic role of the target as a wax figure. Absurd, hilarious and haunting.
Adrift
In this play inspired by the novel Adrift on the Nile, by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, a group of urban Egyptian hipsters engages in debates about secularism and “fundamentalism” with tragic consequences.” Cast of 4 women and 6 men.
After Jack
Not merely an homage to Jack Spicer, but also a tribute to his Orphic conception of the serial poem, After Jack is a palimpsestuous attempt to achieve the dark art of nekuia, to encourage the means of poetic transmission and to divine the polyphony of both Federico García Lorca and Jack Spicer as their voices interweave, transform and become inexorably entangled with a fresh and undeniably peculiar, disturbingly profane authorial voice.
Albertine in Five Times.
The powerful story of one woman, Albertine, at five times in her life. Cast of 6 women.
All Fall Down
By Wendy Lill
A play about modern day witch-hunting. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
All That Glitters
Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue their desires.
All the Verdis of Venice
Cast of 1 woman and 4 men.
alterNatives
Native activists and environmentally concerned vegetarians are invited to a dinner party, where irreconcilable cultural differences clash over moose roast and vegetarian lasagna. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
American Notebooks
An album of finely drawn literary portraits of writers, musicians, artists and social activists who influenced the life and work of Blais in the 1960s.
Amigo’s Blue Guitar
By Joan MacLeod
A college student’s life changes when he chooses to sponsor a Salvadoran refugee as a class project. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
Amuse Bouche
Mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros and desire, Karasick’s sixth book is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous.
An Error In Judgement
By Dara Culhane
An analysis of the controversy surrounding the death of a Native child in Alert Bay, B.C.
Anarcho-Modernism
By Ian Angus
Essays exploring key issues of politics and aesthetics in honour of the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Anatolia Junction
By Fred A. Reed
As Fred A. Reed travels through the Middle East, the Balkans and Asia Minor, he concludes that Turkey’s Islamists are reappropriating the culture and beliefs that 70 years of secular fundamentalism have been unable to eradicate.
And Other Stories
Taking the theme of postmodernity one step further with 23 short stories edited by Canada’s first poet laureate: Alexis, Arnason, Atwood, Blaise, Bowering, Burnham, Cohen, Dorsey, Elliot, Farrant, Fawcett, Findley, Goto, Fraser, King, Laferrière, Mayr, Rooke, Schoemperlen, Thomas, Verdecchia and Watson.
And So It Goes
Gwen and Ned lose their former middle-class lifestyle as they attempt to comprehend the murder of their schizophrenic daughter Karen, even seeking solace in the wry musings of the ghost of Kurt Vonnegut.
Annihilated Time
By Jeff Derksen
Essays that explore the ways in which poetry, visual art and critical practices encounter “the long present neoliberal moment” of the imperialist agenda of globalization.
Another Country / bloom
Two plays, on Argentina’s Dirty War of 1976–83, and on hope flowering in the midst of destruction, constitute an unsparing interrogation of a world perpetually at war.
Another Home Invasion
By Joan MacLeod
This perceptively poignant Governor General’s Award-nominated play by Siminovitch Prize Winner MacLeod involves the hapless, substance-abusing, middle-aged petty criminal we expect to encounter, but is he the real threat to the elderly couple: who is it that’s robbing them of their possessions, their security, their relationship, their family—their home?
Asian Skies
By Ken Norris
Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, Asian Skies is the unsettling story of the deficiencies of love that have produced our commodified and globalized world—a perhaps not-so-divine comedy of those who don’t love enough—steeped in a clash of cultures wherein the third world seems willingly, even perversely, to offer itself up as a simulacrum of the first, while its otherness remains hidden, inaccessible.
Assorted Candies for the Theatre
An exquisite remembrance of childhood past in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, adapted and re-crafted to the stage. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
Aurora
Sharon Thesen’s poems express the pleasure and magic of a language fully engaging the world, rewarding the reader with daily moments transformed into visions of grace.
b leev abul char ak trs
By bill bissett
““Get thee to a nouneree.”“ Ophelia had been experiencing noun slippage, (and haven’t we all?) And where is the nouneree? Do you know the way? With heightened and more sophisticated noun awareness, do we come closer to happiness, starring ourselves? Ophelia unfortunately didn’t find the nouneree and perhaps thought it was the name of the river. Can you walk into the same nouneree twice? She jumped in. Lost lovesickness, now called co-dependency.
Baby Blues
A highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of “fancy dancers” of every stripe on the pow wow trail. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
Back to the War
By Frank Davey
A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during World War II.
Balconville
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
Bambi and Me
Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.
Banana Boots
A one-man-show/memoir in which Fennario recounts, with astonishing insight and wit, the phenomenon of taking his famous bilingual play, Balconville, to Belfast on a British / Canadian cultural mission. Cast of 1 man.
Bardy Google
By Frank Davey
These texts are part of Davey’s ongoing work on the use of the sentence as the basic structural unit of poetry—to create poetic texts, as they have always been created, out of the materials of prose. They also constitute another of his forays into cultural commentary—in this case, disclosing how our engagement with globalized culture creates meaning as it “speaks through itself.”
Baseball Love
Bowering’s life in love and the game unfolds in a picaresque memoir of a road trip taken through the storied ballparks of the poet’s youthful dreams.
BASH'd
By Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow
While the goal of BASH’d is first and foremost to tell an engaging gay love story, it also flips the music industry’s gangsta stereotype of rap music on its head and returns it to its political roots—in this case to explore the dangers of the kind of attitudes that continue to condone and even encourage sexual discrimination of all kinds in our society. Not since Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner has a narrative poem inspired such empathy in the hearts and minds of its audience.
Beating the Bushes
By Steven Bush
Steven Bush is a man on a mission—to confront the skeletons in his family closet. Did his very own cousins occupy the White House of a country that, even today, after electing its first African American president, still seems bent on world domination? What can he, a distant relation of the “Bushes” (so the story goes) do to end the madness and redeem the family name? Steven Bush’s one-man stand-up comedy, rant, political protest, and call for the war-crimes trials of both George H. W. and George W. Bush is a brash theatrical tour de force that dares his audiences to accompany him on a personal quest for evidence of honesty, decency, and complicity in a world of damning facts and murky conspiracy theories.
Benevolence
Full of excruciating twists of fate and malice, this dark comedy of “trading places” resonates with uncomfortable truths about how we see (or don’t see) the people we live with every day. Cast of 2 women and three men.
Bethune
By Rod Langley
A study of how one man’s vision may shape the world. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
Beyond Recall
By Mary Meigs
A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.
Billy Bishop Goes to War
By John Gray
A musical about Canada’s famous World War I flying ace. Cast of 2 men.
Birth of a Bookworm
A tour of books that inspired Tremblay’s imagination.
Blonds on Bikes
A composition of daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy; an album of verbal portraits by a husband and wife who see differently; and a series of tributes to other writers on special occasions.
Boiler Room Suite
By Rex Deverell
The broken lives and the heroic struggle for joy of two “tramps” in a hotel boiler room. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.
Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies
This delightful collection of eight autobiographical narratives inspired by Michel Tremblay’s childhood and youth offers the reader poignant and joyful childhood memories as varied as the assorted candies his mother hoarded under her bed, to be shared only on the most festive or dramatic of family occasions. Through the eyes of young Michel we see the lively, bustling household of Fabre Street and the events which profoundly shaped his view of the world in this exquisite remembrance of childhood past.
Bonjour, Là, Bonjour
A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.
Bordertown Café
By Kelly Rebar
Young Jimmy faces a dilemma: embrace the hero of American popular myth as embodied by his father, or engage the task of building a different identity, embodied by his mother “on the Canadian side of nowhere.” Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
bpNichol
Scobie illuminates Nichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, positing a cogent argument for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.
bpNichol Comics
By bp Nichol
Nichol’s comics (1960–1980) informed his work in other genres as well as the work of other writers.
Bread and Salt
By Renee Rodin
Bread and _Salt_—what you bring for luck to a new house—is a joyous affirmation of vision and courage in hard times.
Breathin' My Name With a Sigh
By Fred Wah
An important and enduring long poem from the most poetical of the TISH poets.
Bridges of Light
This illustrated biography of one of the last great black-and-white photographers of the Pacific Northwest is also an extraordinary photo art book. Printed on wood-free paper.
Building the West
This award-winning second edition tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and accomplishments of the early architects of British Columbia.
Burning Vision
Dene miners, radium painters and people of Hiroshima labour under the false sun of uranium which poisons their relationships to the earth and to each other. Cast of 5 women and 12 men.
Cambodia
Investigative fictions that examine the intentions of the information revolution.
Can You See Me Yet?
A search for sanctuary in an Ontario insane asylum in 1938. Cast of 7 women and 4 men.
Canadian Drama and the Critics
By L.W. Conolly
This lively, updated assortment of critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays Volumes I and _II._
Capital Tales
A collection of stories that form tough, uncompromising portraits of people discovering the illusions they live by.
Cariboo Magi
Hilarious drama ensues when a bedraggled troupe of players heads into the wilds of the Cariboo to perform a Christmas pageant. Set in the gold rush era, Cariboo Magi is an unabashed celebration of the power of theatre to renew our lives and banish our cares. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
Carmela’s Table
The second play in Rossi’s A Carpenter’s Trilogy finds Italian war veteran Silvio in Montreal with his new family and his mother. Deeply traumatized by his wartime experiences, Silvio’s gradual unravelling ultimately threatens to destroy his family. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
Cartouches
The recent deaths of her father and several friends at the time of a trip to Egypt have led the author to write about the essential relation between language and death.
Chameleon & Other Stories
A collection of short stories from the point of view of a young man growing up in Kenya during the time of Mau Mau.
Change Room
The body is here fetishized by the creative power of desire to the point where the love of perfection crosses the boundaries of gender and polity.
Charles Olson at the Harbor
By Ralph Maud
A repudiation of Tom Clark’s carelessly biased Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life, this diligently researched biography by longtime Olson scholar, friend and correspondent Ralph Maud redeems the reputation of one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century.
Chimera
By Wendy Lill
This compelling drama by a former parliamentary critic for persons with disabilities explores the ethical controversy and public policy surrounding reproductive technologies, particularly cross-species chimeras. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.
Circumstances Alter Photographs
On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world’s first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek in the Canadian Northwest Territory of Saskatchewan. Neglected for over 120 years, these images literally shine new light on the War of 1885—particularly the second part of the campaign against the Indians under Big Bear, Poundmaker and Miserable Man. They are frankly astonishing in both their eerily haunting visual impact and as much by the mere fact that they even still exist.
Citizen Suárez
Short stories about people travelling, wandering, or lost between countries and languages—people caught between the impulse to flee and the desire to belong.
Coast Salish Essays
A careful selection from the work of the greatest living ethnographer of the Pacific Northwest.
Cold Comfort.
By Jim Garrard
Set in Saskatchewan, the geographic centre of Canada, Cold Comfort depicts the complex relationship among three characters. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.
Colours in the Dark
By James Reaney
A mosaic of experiences that form a childhood. Cast of 2 women, 2 men, 1 female child and 1 male child.
Consecrated Ground
By George Boyd
In Consecrated Ground, Nova Scotian playwright George Boyd retells the struggle of Africville’s residents to save their homes and their dignity. With tremendous wit and gravity, George Boyd takes us back to Africville on the verge of extinction, making us a gift of characters believable in their vulnerabilities, their courage and their outrage.
Conversations in Tehran
Filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond and author Fred A. Reed document the fall of Mohammed Khatami’s reform movement through candid conversations with Iranian artists, journalists and political activists.
Copper Thunderbird
A multi-layered and visionary drama of a life wracked by both triumph and ordeal, based on the persona of famed Ojibwa artist Norval Morrisseau. Cast of 5 women and 4 men.
Corker
By Wendy Lill
Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous 19th-century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
Crabdance
A woman manipulates the men in her life into assuming the stereotypical privatized roles of husband, lover, father and son. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.
Crimes and Mercies
By James Bacque
More than 9 million Germans died from deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after WWII. At the same time, a food-aid program saved an estimated 80 million.
Cruel Tears
By Ken Mitchell
An innovative “country opera” set in Saskatoon, with a captivating parallel to Shakespeare’s Othello. Cast of 5 women, 10 men and a band.
Cul-de-sac
Written by one of Canada’s most influential postmodern playwrights, this dazzling one-man show is storytelling of the highest order.
Cultural Mischief
By Frank Davey
A collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action.
Cyrano De Bergerac
An epic and heroic tale that has enchanted generations, in an English prose translation that is immanently readable and stageable. Cast of 5 women and 12 men, plus many minor characters.
Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra
Two interweaving monologues on the sacred and the profane. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Dancock's Dance
The influenza epidemic of 1918, and the ruin and chaos of the First World War resonate through the locked doors and barred windows of an insane asylum and into the lives of the patients confined within. Cast of 1 woman and 5 men.
Darwin Alone in the Universe
A brilliant collection of satirical short stories.
Dead White Writer on the Floor
Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions—theatre of the absurd and mystery novels—to create one of the funniest and thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics.
Death of the Spider
A solitary woman’s interior journey of self-discovery.
Decompositions
By Ken Belford
If language is an index of belonging, then Decompositions is the writing of an exile, a tribe of one. For Belford, poetry is a social process that explores linguistic and political particulars from a gaze that is opposite to the shelters of convention, the academy, the city, or the south. It is a writing that rules out the anticipation and doubt of traditional narrative. These are not safe poems, they resist more than they assure.
Democracy
By John Murrell
In the midst of the American Civil War, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson discuss the past, the future, life, love and what it means to be human. Cast of 4 men.
Desert of the Heart
By Jane Rule
Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. Set in the late fifties, this classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule’s first novel.
Discovery Passages
With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen, and scattered world of his ancestral people, retracing Captain Vancouver’s original “voyage of discovery.” and linking Kwakwaka’wakw traditions of the past with a modern poetic tradition in North America that encompasses the entire scope of relations between oral and vocal tradition, ancient ritual, historical contextuality, and our continuing rites.
Divinity Bash / nine lives
Bryden MacDonald’s most extreme venture into the world of the theatre to date: a play in which everything, and therefore nothing, is sacred. Cast of 3 women, 5 men and 1 transgendered person.
Doctor Thomas Neill Cream
In 1876, Jack the Ripper, a.k.a. Canadian Dr. Cream, graduated from McGill’s faculty of medicine. Cast of 4 women and 6 men.
Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon
Stylish and slightly off-beat stories that involve the lives of a wide variety of people.
Dominican Moon
By Ken Norris
Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, the second book in Norris’s travel trilogy is an unsettling story of the deficiencies of love steeped in a clash of cultures between the third world and the first.
Down Dangerous Passes Road
15 years after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened: an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road. Cast of 3 men.
Down Time
By Jeff Derksen
Proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.
Dream Pool Essays
By Gil McElroy
An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy; theoretical cosmology and quantum physics; and the literary and visual arts.
Dürer's Angel
A novel of Pauline Archange’s desire to translate the events of her life into words.
Dwell
By Jeff Derksen
This long poem blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms. Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encase us.
Dyssemia Sleaze
Cf. SEMA, unit of meaning: i.e. Dyssemia: (flawed information reception) Sleaze / sli:z/ v. Rough with projecting fibres.
Earshot
Doyle has a very funny problem: he hears too much. He can hear the most intimate details of the lives of everyone living in his apartment building. He blames his hyper-sensitive condition on a physical abnormality; but we’re not so certain. Cast of 1 man.
Empire of Desire
This second volume in Hentsch’s epic survey of the formative texts of the Western narrative tradition traces western civilization’s quest for immortality across a further four centuries through an examination of specific works by Moliére, Voltaire, Diderot, de Sade, Rousseau, Hegel, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust and others.
En Pièces Détachées
The life of a lower-class family in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
Based on the signing of the Laurier Memorial, this play is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their land, rights and language—in one of the most tragic cases of cultural genocide to emerge from the history of colonialism. Cast of 4 women.
Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk
A classic tragedy about Inuit life and how it is affected by white settlers, priests and government officials. Cast of 6 women and 9 men.
Espresso
Sexy, provocative and challenging, Espresso inverts the Catholic stereotypes of feminine sexuality to boldly examine their corresponding masculine sexual emblems of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Essays on George F. Walker
The first book-length examination of the work of Canada’s most-produced and internationally recognized playwright, George F. Walker, who has not only created a substantial body of work, but also impressed it all with his unique “Walkeresque” stamp.
EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage
By Patrick Caux & Bernard Gilbert
In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word “theatre” was not to be part of the name of the new company.
Fairy Ring
A compulsively readable, beautiful and dark novel of stormy relationships and all-consuming desires.
Fearless Warriors
By degrees dramatic, shocking, tender, affirmative and tragic, each of these stories takes on a different cliché of inter-racial and inter-cultural relations, all of them suffused with the incomparable wit, generous humour, critical edge and profound emotional empathy of a master story-teller.
Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass
By Tom Hendry
A look at post-World War II Canada from a recent high-school graduate’s viewpoint. Cast of 2 women and 9 men.
Fifty
By Ken Norris
Among its widely diverse poetic forms, the book constructs odes, elegies, sonnets and long poem sequences, as Norris travels from Maine to Santo Domingo, from Phnom Penh to Montreal, and from the shorelines of the Caribbean to the banks of the Mekong River.
Five Star Planet
This third volume in McFadden’s Terrafina Trilogy —which began with Gypsy Guitar and There’ll be Another —is shaped by a wealth of poetic forms.
Floating Up to Zero
By Ken Norris
In Floating Up to Zero, Ken Norris introduces us to “a traveller from an antique land,” though in this case that traveller’s story is not Shelley’s meditation on the vanity of ancient kings, but rather the poet’s meditation on the here and now, on the present moment, precariously balanced between a certain frozen past and an uncertain fluid future. Meditative, incisive and light in their touch, these poems tell us: “The old star charts were perhaps a little out of date. That is, new stars had since been found, though sometimes they were only streetlights, mistaken.”
For Home and Country
The rise of an urban and radicalized feminist agenda in the latter part of the 20th century leads to a head-on collision with its much more conservative, rural roots in the Women’s Institute, founded in 1897. Cast of 16 women and 3 men.
For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Forever Yours, Marie-Lou
Tremblay’s penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
fractal economies
beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language itself.
Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists
A dramatized inquiry in which five geologists are interrogated on the death of one of their colleagues in the Mekong Delta. Cast of 1 woman and 6 men.
Fronteras Americanas
One man’s struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man.
Gabriel Dumont Speaks, Revised Edition
In 1903, eighteen years after leading the Métis Army against the Northwest Expeditionary Force and the Northwest Mounted Police at Fish Creek, Duck Lake and Batoch, Louis Riel’s Adjuntant General, Gabrial Dumont, dictated his memoirs. The manuscript remained unpublished in the Manitoba Provincial Archives until its discovery there by Michael Barnholden in 1971. Translated here into English, it preserves a unique experience, offering us a rare opportunity to view one of the central events in the history of the Métis through the eyes of one of their key heros.
Genrecide
Explores through play and pun the intersection of multiple cultures, codes, idioms and constructs that have an impact on female identity.
George Bowering
This first book-length study of Bowering explores the relationship between his work and the arts.
George Ryga: The Other Plays
By George Ryga
Hoffman provides an effective and multifaceted description for the student seeking a quick understanding of Ryga’s stature as a playwright
— Canadian Literature
George Ryga: The Prairie Novels
By George Ryga
This collection includes Hungry Hills, Ballad of a Stonepicker and Night Desk.
Get on Top
By David Homel
In this startlingly original and penetrating novel, the Messiah appears as a woman who shows up in rural America instead of Jerusalem, preaching moral license, not repentance.
Gideon's Blues
By George Boyd
The profound humanity of Boyd’s characters reminds us that while neither drug abuse nor the breakdown of the traditional family is exclusive to the black community, racism accelerates their destructive effects in ghastly measures. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
It’s into the goldfish bowl of a dysfunctional family that the audience peers with acute recognition, hysterical laughter and an overwhelming sense of the creative healing power of the imagination. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
Glengarry
By rob mclennan
Composed in three sections, Glengarry is a return in writing to the landscape of rob mclennan’s youth and a headlong rush into the fractures, slippages and buried surfaces of what the text leaves undisclosed to him.
Go Figure
A hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twins.
Going Home
By Ken Norris
The whole manufactured unreality of our world falls away in these poems, leading us both toward and away from being “at home” in the present.
Goodnight Disgrace
From his wheelchair in a nursing home, Conrad Aiken recalls his long, stormy relations with Malcolm Lowry. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
Gordon
Gordon was always an odd little child, given his penchant for setting the neighbours’ sheds on fire with their pets locked inside, and his fascination with the funeral rituals at the church across the way. Home-schooled in the evenings within the bounds of a somewhat limited curriculum of drunken impromptu kitchen renovations and wife beatings in the resultant ruins by his father Gord, a man of troglodyte imagination and boundless determination for self-replication, his namesake son dedicates himself to these subjects with a kind of limitless and inarticulate awe. Something sinister and permanent involving the stairs to the basement seems to have happened to Gordon’s mother at a formative stage of his development, narrowing the scope of his education even further and leaving him at somewhat Oedipal loose ends.
Great Lakes Suite
Specially revised and edited, and for the first time in one complete volume, Great Lakes Suite includes A Trip Around Lake Ontario, A Trip Around Lake Erie and A Trip Around Lake Huron.
griddle talk
By Carol Malyon & bill bissett
A series of literary conversations between Malyon, who writes within the objective bounds of standard English usage, and bissett, one of contemporary writing’s most exotic practitioners, working with the visual forms of language in his own non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography.
Ground Water
By Colin Browne
Investigates the elements of the spiritual topography of the twentieth century and closely examines the conventional symbology passed on to the poet / map-maker by his ancestors.
Gypsy Guitar
One hundred poems of love and betrayal—all in the unmistakable McFadden style.
Halo
When an image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Hortons restaurant, the town inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
Hanging Fire
By Phyllis Webb
Astonishingly beautiful entrances into the personae of lost companions who reappear, animated by a voice in love with the music of their speaking.
Harry's Fragments
In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity.
harvest
By rob mclennan
What is harvested here are the signifiers for journeys: tickets, postcards, letters—recording unseemly haste, enforced idleness, losing one’s way, and sometimes finding it again.
Heaven
Instantly recognizable multicultural characters play out their coincidental relationships in a park on the outskirts of a city. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
Hell & Other Novels
In these haunting, often chilling short stories, Daurio maps the sub-atomic space of contemporary alienation.
Hellfire Pass
Silvio Rosato shows up at the house of his estranged father and meets the family he raised in Chicago after leaving Silvio in Italy 36 years ago. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
Heroine
By Gail Scott
A woman tries to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec’s politically turbulent ’70s to the threatening bleakness of the ’80s.
Homechild
By Joan MacLeod
Between 1860 and 1930, over 80,000 unaccompanied British children were “exported” to Canadian factories and farms, often exploited there as indentured child labourers. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.
Hosanna
A play about illusions. Cast of 2 men.
Hotel Montreal
By Ken Norris
Selections from 19 groundbreaking books of poetry that draw together the very best of Norris’s lyric poetry from a 25-year period, while offering the reader an indispensible panoramic view of the work of a poet at the height of his creative powers.
How to Write
How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short fiction takes inspiration from Lautréamont’s decree that “plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author’s sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea.”
hypoderm: notes to myself
By Weyman Chan
The idea for this book, says Weyman Chan, is simple—approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. Subtitled “notes to myself,” Hypoderm is a manifesto of observations, intimations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet’s skin—that remind the reader that poetry is documentation and speculation, not a sentimental fabrication of the rapture (rupture) of our “end times.”
I. Another. The Space Between
By Jamie Reid
This selection draws from brilliantly impressionist early poems, a middle period of poetry relating to the author’s activist politics, and contemporary work suspended between the poles of the political and the lyrical, between the confrontation of the world of human affairs and the undeniable beauty of the earth and nature—the simple delight taken in life itself—with a clear understanding that the use of the word “natural” is almost always ideologically determined.
Impromptu on Nuns' Island
In an impromptu get-together in an opera diva’s Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Paris, her celebrity mother and her idealistic daughter lie in wait for her. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
In a World Created by a Drunken God
A Canadian half-Native man is thrust into an absurd dilemma when he is asked to be tested for a possible kidney donation to his dying non-Native father, who abandoned him when he was two months old. Cast of 2 men.
In Piazza San Domenico
A comedy of errors, this two-act play recounts the story of how one broken engagement ripples throughout friends and family, affecting all of their respective love lives in different ways. And there’s gossip. And an earthquake.
In Plain Sight
A remarkable collection of seven life stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms.
In the Company of Strangers
By Mary Meigs
Based on the NFB production of The Company of Strangers, Meigs’s account of the film unfolds in an intricate meditation on time, old age and bonding.
In the Eyes of God
A vicious and unsparing look at the talent agencies that remake the Hollywood stars out of the willing clay of their own flesh. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
In the Eyes of Stone Dogs
By Daniel Danis
Before fleeing her eccentric island community, Djouke is determined to discover the mystery of her paternity. Cast of 4 women and 5 men.
In the Midst
Warren Tallman was catalyst, shelter and anchor to a whole generation of writers and poets, from the beat generation poets to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school writers. In these pieces, Tallman introduces the reader to a world of literary companionship that shaped the language and thought of late 20th century North America.
In the Shadow of the Vulture
By George Ryga
Set in the desert at the Mexico-U.S.A. border, this novel deals with the hope and despair of immigrant labourers.
Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
By Franz Boas
This volume of First Nations myths and legends is an indispensable document in the history of North American anthropology.
inkorrect thots
By bill bissett
When bill bissett thinks “inkorrect thots” anything can happen.
Jacob's Wake
By Michael Cook
A Maritime family’s tragedy, set in a raging storm. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.
Je me souviens
By Lorena Gale
In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale reconstructs for the audience her childhood and the experience of coming of age as an African Canadian in Montreal. Cast of 1 woman.
Jitters
By David French
A sophisticated backstage comedy. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
Joe Beef
Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal’s legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of 5 women and 5 men.
Judith's Sister
In this coming-of-age novel, Lise Tremblay paints a picture of rural Quebec in the years following the Quiet Revolution in her signature style so refreshingly free of artifice and literary hyperbole.
Justice In Our Time
By Roy Miki & Cassandra Kobayashi
How a community brought the issue of redress for the injustices of the 1940s to the forefront of public debate.
Kerrisdale Elegies
Bowering responds to Rilke’s Duino Elegies. In the intertextuality of these two great works can be found post-modern writing that is self-aware, where the other is discovered in the process of the writer writing.
La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays
A collection of five short plays by Quebec’s best known playwright: La Duchesse de Langeais; Berthe; Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs; Surprise, Surprise; and Gloria Star.
La Maison Suspendue
A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 male child.
Lasagna
By Ronald Cross & Hélène Sèvigny
A biography of the most notorious of the 1990 Oka warriors.
Last Scattering Surfaces
By Gil McElroy
These poems map out zones of interaction which took place in the “surface of last scattering”—the first formation of matter in the universe.
Latakia
A brilliant and intense journey through a relationship, and through language and myth—as well as a literary journey spanning three continents.
Lawrence & Holloman
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.
Les Belles Soeurs
Michel Tremblay’s classic Joual play. A housewife wins a million trading stamps in a lottery and invites her friends over to help her paste them into books. Cast of 15 women.
Les Canadiens
By Rick Salutin
A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor. Cast of 7 men.
Life Without Instruction
By Sally Clark
A woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Cast of 3 women and 5 men.
Like a Child of the Earth
The first volume of Jovette Marchessault’s autobiographical trilogy.
Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack
By Dorothy Kennedy & Randy Bouchard
Early in their ethnographic work, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy were privileged to meet Charlie Mack, a fascinating character and a font of wisdom, exemplifying by his way of life, his skills in trapping and canoe-making, and his knowledge of the history of his people, the living world of the Lil’wat, which the young ethnologists were able to record on tape and in their notes and photographs. Most important among what Charlie Mack gave them was a wide corpus of stories; he was a master storyteller, holding his listeners spellbound with his animated and dramatic delivery in both Lil’wat and English. This book is a tribute to a long friendship; the result of the authors reflecting on a lifetime of listening to a man who had something to say.
Lily Briscoe
By Mary Meigs
A compelling autobiography about the exercise of will, friendships and dreaming.
Limbo Road
By Ken Norris
Limbo _Road_—as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem—chronicles the search for the new beloved.
Lions Gate
Like all great historic landmarks, the Lions Gate Bridge remains a source of powerful, sometimes illuminating, sometimes mysterious stories of the people and times which gave birth to it.
Listen to the Wind
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.
Living by Stories
This third collection documents how the arrival of whites forever altered the Salish cultural landscape.
Local Boy Makes Good
By John Gray
Three musicals by John Gray: 18 Wheels, Rock and Roll and Don Messer’s Jubilee.
Lost in North America
By John Gray
A personal, idiosyncratic tour of the collective work of art we call Canada.
Lost Souls & Missing Persons
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.
loving without being vulnrabul
By bill bissett
Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.
Ludwig & Mae
Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn’t been able to find work since graduating. The fact that he is sardonic, philosophically inclined, and suicidal hasn’t helped in this regard. Mae, on the other hand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a relationship of co-dependency, she plays into Ludwig’s constant mind games until one day she decides she’s had enough. This three-play volume includes: Embedded, which establishes Ludwig and Mae’s Strindbergian relationship; Apocalypse, a monodrama in which Ludwig stages his own suicidal ceremonial; and Redemption, Mae’s testimonial, where she confronts and reconciles herself with Ludwig’s death, and finally comes into her own.
Main Brides
By Gail Scott
The portrait of a woman who is facing the end of the century and creating a history of the present that lifts her out of fear.
Making Theatre
The story of Pollock’s life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright to the present as she continues to make theatre.
Mambo Italiano
Outrageous pathos and hilarity is unleashed when Nino informs his very traditionally Italian parents that he is gay. A perfect balance of fast-paced comedy and poignant drama that explores family dynamics and the vast spaces between the old world and the new. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.
Marcel Pursued by the Hounds
How our “innocent” childhood games and fantasies come back to haunt us in adult life. Cast of 4 women and 1 adolescent male.
Margaret Atwood
By Frank Davey
Davey reveals Atwood’s extraordinary facility with language as well as her mistrust of it, and offers a “glossary” of recurrent Atwood images and symbols that unveil the hidden level in her writing.
Marion Bridge
Includes screenplay and stage play. Cast of 3 women.
Meanwhile
By bp Nichol
A thoughtful and provocative 30-year record of Nichol’s approaches to textual production.
Mêmewars
Mêmewars is a book writing against itself.
Memories of You
By Wendy Lill
The life of Elizabeth Smart pivoted on a turbulent affair that produced four children and her one book. This is a portrayal of the book as a record of one great life lived. Cast of 4 women and 1 man.
Mile End
Mile End is a chilling and masterful look at the interior landscapes of psychosis which mirror so perfectly the emptiness of the exterior surfaces they reflect.
Mimosa
An authentic re-creation of an extraordinary life set against the turbulent backdrop of colonial Africa.
Miss Julie
By August Strindberg & adaptation by David French
A riveting adaptation of a theatre classic about an affair between the daughter of a count and the count’s man-servant. Cast of 2 women and 1 man.
Miss Take
To escape the boredom that history seems to have decreed shall be re-enacted endlessly by all grown-ups, teenagers Miles and Chateaugué enter into a suicide pact to preserve their childhood freedom and purity from the debasement of the adult roles pre-ordained for them. But will their “plans” work out?
Modern Canadian Plays, Vol. I
This fourth edition contains The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, Les Belles-Soeurs, Leaving Home, 1837: The Farmer’s Revolt, The St Nicholas Hotel, Zastrozzi, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Balconville, Doc, Drag Queens on Trial and The Occupation of Heather Rose.
Modern Canadian Plays, Vol. II
This fourth edition contains Bordertown Café, Polygraph, Moo, The Orphan Muses, 7 Stories, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Amigo’s Blue Guitar, Lion in the Streets, Never Swim Alone, Fronteras Americanas, Harlem Duet and Problem Child.
Mom's the Word
By Linda A. Carson & Jill Daum & Alison Kelly
Humorous stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes about motherhood.
Moo
By Sally Clark
When the feisty and rebellious Moragh (Moo) MacDowell meets the intriguing Harry Parker, she decides nothing will ever separate them … and Harry has been running ever since. Moo is an unconventionally comedy of love and obsession. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.
Mother of the Grass
The second volume of Marchessault’s turbulent autobiographical trilogy.
Motortherapy
A frank and intensely personal book about human relationships.
Mrs. Blood
Audrey Thomas’ first novel—a woman from the inside. Of the writing of this novel Thomas has said, “Women are at last beginning to talk about their bodies, not only among themselves, but also in print. When I began writing Mrs. Blood… this was not the case.
Muthologos
Olson once defined “Muthologos” as “what is said about what is said,” which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would define the near and far range of where the poet’s mind went in a lifetime’s intent to go places. In this new compilation of Charles Olson’s transcribed lectures and interviews, we finally get all of what is preserved of a life of talk, allowing Muthologos to stand, along with The Maximus Poems, Collected Poems, Collected Prose and Selected Letters as one of the “standard texts” of this great poet’s oeuvre.
My Career with the Leafs & Other Stories
Fawcett’s first book of stories examines growing up, and living, under the rules.
My Darling Nellie Grey
Initially lacking a “subject,” the book’s metanarrative almost inevitably took the shape of an exquisite poetic autobiography that is at once both intensely personal and profoundly public. In it, among many other astonishments, we discover the deeply ambiguous roots of his father’s favourite folksong; we catch a fleeting childhood glimpse of Bowering’s young mother; a complete history of Cuba in the context of US foreign policy in Latin America that gives an entirely new, but older, meaning to the date September 11; and the roots of tragedy that led to the “Balkanization” of Yugoslavia.
My Father Took a Cake to France
This collection reaffirms Flood as one of the guiding lights in feminist literature today.
My Name Is Bosnia
A young woman embarks upon an emotionally resonant journey in search of a peaceful new life.
narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane
By bill bissett
Through narrative, non-narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.
Nature Power
Features tales of the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers.”
News
In this collection of short humorous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about aboriginal peoples around the world.
News & Smoke
A compact and beautifully designed collection, nicely fleshed out with a broad selection of poems previously published only in journals and periodicals, not to mention its tantalizing sampling of new fare. Many will discover plenty to admire in News and Smoke.
— Toronto Star
News from Édouard
This fourth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal follows Édouard, the fat woman’s brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.
No Plaster Saint
A crusading socialist and an absolute pacifist, Mildred Osterhout Fahrni walked with J. S. Woodsworth, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The extraordinary story of one of Canada’s pioneer peacemakers.
Noise from the Laundry
By Weyman Chan
Weyman Chan’s poems elaborate his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form.
NonZero Definitions
By Gil McElroy
The language of poetics emerges into the light of the purely formalist and luminous “definitions” of things and their movements as they engage in the ceaseless metamorphosis of replication in all of their endlessly unfolding possibilities.
northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing
By bill bissett
His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language has allowed bissett to foreground the appearance of any linguistic event as a living performance.
Nothing to Lose
Working-class survivors of the ’60s stage a workers’ sit-down strike. Cast of 9 men.
novel
By bill bissett
Famous and celebrated since the 1960s for pushing the boundaries of language and representation in the creation of image as a site of both content and context, the world’s leading sound, visual, concrete and performance poet, bill bissett, describes this book as “a novel with connekting pomes n essays.”
Nuri Does Not Exist
By Sadru Jetha
In this collection of beautifully crafted, spare, concise and refreshingly understated stories, we accompany Nuri on his quest to understand how servitude transcends slavery; fealty transcends servitude; and community transcends fealty. Amid a sea of dystopian world literatures haunted by the fractious claims of identity politics, Nuri Does Not Exist is an astonishingly charming collection of linked short stories that engages us with the utterly believable innocence of its Utopian vision.
Omniscience
By Tim Carlson
The play begs the question of how many of our freedoms have been lost to the institutions engaged in surveillance “for our own protection.”Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
On the Job
On Christmas Eve the workers in a Montreal shipping room get drunk and go on strike. Cast of 8 men.
On the Material
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socio-economics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single book. The final section is a sequence of poems in memory of Stephen Collis’s departed sister, Gail Tulloch, becoming a way for the poet to read back into the elemental heart of absence and loss—the “material” of the books displacing, and in some way recovering, how language holds the materiality of the physical world.
One Crack Out
By David French
Charlie Evans, a pool shark, has two days to pay off a debt, or have his legs broken by a psychotic debt collector who is also having an affair with his wife. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
The emotional struggle of a Native woman who was adopted by a white family to acknowledge her birth family. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
Ordinary Time
By Gil McElroy
Gil McElroy’s new book of poems sets out to give shape to time from four different referents: the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line of the High Arctic where McElroy’s father worked, the Julian calendar of classical antiquity, the structure of the Anglican lectionary and its cycle of daily and weekly scriptures (called “propers”), and Stephen Hawking’s description of imaginary time.
Other Losses
By James Bacque
Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation and exposure from 1944 to 1949, as a direct result of the policies of the Western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.
This updated third edition of Other Losses exists not to accuse, but to remind us that no country can claim an inherent innocence of or exemption from the cruelties of war.
Other Schools of Thought
Dramas that encourage adults to reflect on their past and young people to reflect on their future: Life Science, 2B WUT UR and Cost of Living.
Outsider Notes
Tough-minded reappraisals of canonicity, modernism, postmodernism, marginality and post-coloniality in Canadian writing.
Pacific Windows
The most important poetic works of Roy Kiyooka.
Paradise by the River
After Canada officially declares war with Italy, Romano, a recent immigrant, is arrested without charge in his own home. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.
Paradise Garden
After generations of living in the paradise of their west coast family estate, the McKinnons have fallen on hard times—half of it has just been bought by a Turkish immigrant family. The heirs of both families, Day McKinnon and Leyla Zeki, fancy themselves to be sophisticated citizens of the world, alienated by their ancestors’ “outdated” traditions. Yet Leyla recognizes something fundamental and mysterious in the vestiges of the old estate garden, and Day has uncovered an ancient family secret there. Abandoning their families for their careers, Day and Leyla are reunited years later, having discovered that love is not just something that happens to us, but a paradise that we must build and tend by hand: like a garden in the wilderness of our lives.
Past Perfect
Unleashing the dark secret of her being, Albertine, one of Tremblay’s most unforgettable heroines, sets out to re-conquer the beau she has lost to her younger sister. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
Paul Martin & Companies
A piercing look at what it means when a Canadian prime minister puts his own private interests first.
Pell Mell
By Robin Blaser
Pell Mell, the middle voice, the syntax meeting its astonishments in its forward stride looking backwards, imagining an image nation where the heart is always torn, to pieces possessed by the other(s).
Peregrinations
Informed and considered interviews with the most influential artists of our time. Enright takes us into the environments, both imaginative and actual, that have shaped their personal and artistic histories.
Performing National Identities
A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan.
Persian Postcards
By Fred A. Reed
Persian Postcards, the fruit of Fred Reed’s travels to the Islamic Republic as both journalist and impassioned observer, is an attempt to suggest the depth and complexity, the tragedy and raw beauty of this ancient culture. Reed examines the Iranian reasons for The Iran-Iraq war, sheds new light on the Iran-Contra scandal, and looks at Iranian history, in its meeting with the peculiar traditions of Shi’ite Islam. Persian Postcards is more than a journalistic report, an academic treatise, or a travel book, although it enfolds elements of all three.
peter among th towring boxes / text bites
By bill bissett
bissett’s deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes we need constantly to imagine our way out of, is counterpoised in this collection by a recurring dream of a future locked in a global war.
Phyllis Webb and the Common Good
Phyllis Webb is a poet around whom archetypes tend to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic woman poet. While on the surface she seems someone supremely disinterested in the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis in this brilliant and revealing new celebration of her work, her work sweeps into the wilds of politics, philosophy, economics and her slim books speak volumes. Webb’s work points steadily towards the idea that the poem is not a commodity to be hoarded, but a response-ability to be shared, an aspect of the commons and our “common good.”
Piercing
Three tales spin a web of suspense, impending violence, and tragedy that haunt the sleek façade of a city. In “The Axe” a teacher of literature in drunken despair awakens and confronts one of his students with the term assignment he has submitted—an axe. In “Piercing” a teenage runaway seeks to escape the mediocrity of her small-town family life, only to end up in a very different kind of urban “family,” a cult of dominance and body piercing presided over by the maimed and orphaned son of a millionaire. In “Anna on the letter C” a lonely, virginal typist transcribing the “c” words for a dictionary project, takes pity on a middle-aged stalker and invites him to her apartment for tea and nasty surprises.
Playing Bare
A mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
Poet to Publisher
Documents Olson’s influence on The New American Poetry, Allen’s visionary and revolutionary anthology.
Popular Narratives
By Frank Davey
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s “popular narratives.” A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.
Post-Prairie
25 individual talents come together in this groundbreaking collection for a rare literary event: the transition of a cultural identity primarily rooted in place to one that is rooted in a rapidly fragmenting, technology-based globalization.
Rational Geomancy
By Steve McCaffery & bpNichol
Reports on translation, the-book-as-machine and the search for non-narrative prose.
Re: Producing Women’s History
Hadfield traces the process of creating a theatrical “success” and investigates how the politics involved influences what we perceive as “good” playwriting.
Real Mothers
Short stories about mothers and the politics of the family.
Rebuild
Murakami approaches the urban centre through its inhabitants’ greatest passion: real estate, where the drive to own is coupled with the practice of tearing down and rebuilding. Rebuild engraves itself on the absence at the city’s centre, with its vacant civic square and its bulldozed public spaces. The poems crumble in the time it takes to turn the page, words flaking from the line like the rain-damaged stucco of a leaky condominium.
Remember Me
Two ex-lovers meet and compare and confess their fears and disillusionments. Cast of 2 men.
Rose
A musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992. The battle for the future of the community builds to a shattering climax. Cast of 10 women and 7 men.
Saga of the Wet Hens
Four Quebec women writers meet at the centre of a fabulous vortex. Cast of 4 women.
Saint Frances of Hollywood
By Sally Clark
The tragic life of Frances Farmer, the raucous, idealistic, non-conforming movie star of the ’30s and ’40s. Cast of 4 women and 4 men.
Sainte-Carmen of the Main
A play about cultural identity and cultural awakening based on a country and western singer of Montreal’s “The Main.”
Test
Cast of 4 women, 13 men and a chorus.
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons
A play about the conscience of a priest during the disastrous mission the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the 17th century. Cast of 11 men.
Salonica Terminus
By Fred A. Reed
In his extensive travels in the Balkans, Reed encounters a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony of ethno-racialist aspirations.
Salt-Water Moon
By David French
The third book of the Mercer family saga. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Saucy Jack
In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, Queen Victoria’s nephew and heir to the throne, dance around the truth of the identity of London’s most notorious killer, Jack the Ripper, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unravelling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed.
scars on th seehors
By bill bissett
bissett’s metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself. As bissett puts it, “eye dont have 2 invent th world iumalredee in it.”
Scattered in a Rising Wind
The rush of events in a small town apocalypse is recorded barely at the edge of syntax, with a participatory narrator scrambling to keep up with the unfolding perceptions within the others.
Schoolhouse
Full of warmth and poignant humour this drama set in a one-room schoolhouse evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural North Americans, exploring timeless themes of rejection, of compassion, of damage, of hope. Cast of 5 women and 7 men.
Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends
By bill bissett
A definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s work.
Selected Poems: Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek
By Fred Wah
Poems of landscape, language and memory from Wah’s earlier books.
Selected Poems: The Arches
By Frank Davey
Selections from seven of this important poet and editor’s long poems.
Selected Poems: The Vision Tree
By Phyllis Webb
Poetry distinguished by its attention to form and thought.
Selected Writing
Poetry and prose with an instantaneous recognition of perceptions and thought.
Selected Writing
By bp Nichol
Selections from visual poetry to translations by one of the most important poets in the 20th century writing in English.
Sentenced to Light
By Fred Wah
An astonishing series of unique collaborative image-text projects, Sentenced to Light privileges its poetic and formal textual space outside most of the images that are its original twins and offers the reader a glimpse of the dialectic of larger conversations, the unpredictable, improvisatory bavardage that whispers between words and pictures in an intrinsically poetic space.
Shattered Images
By Fred A. Reed
Discusses all of the major Islamic faiths in its search for the origins of contemporary fundamentalist movements.
Shinny's Girls and Other Stories
By Mary Burns
These stories all re-examine the myths of mother-daughter relationships, both in the classical sense of “myth” and in the modern sense of “myth” (lies about relationships).
Signs of Literature
The history of language as a made thing—a linguistic and structuralist primer.
Silver Dagger
By David French
French delivers a thriller guaranteed to have audiences perched on the edge of their seats. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
Sisters
By Wendy Lill
A tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. The soul-destroying devastation caused by these institutions from the point of view of the nuns running the school. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
Six Plays by Mavor Moore
By Mavor Moore
In these theatre pieces stripped to the essentials of character sketches in quick, subtle lines, the emphasis is on the performer’s resources as an actor, rather than the externals of scene changes and stage contexts.
Skydive
By Kevin Kerr
Having grown apart after a traumatic and defining moment in their youth, two brothers reconnect to fulfill a life-long ambition to go skydiving. Morgan (a feckless schemer who has recently reinvented himself as a counsellor) arrives on the doorstep of Daniel (a housebound agoraphobe), offering to help “liberate” his brother by administering his newly invented technique of “Paratherapy.” Convincing Daniel to face his fears by pursuing their long abandoned childhood dream of jumping from an airplane, the brothers begin a series of misguided training exercises to prepare for their adventure.
Soldier's Heart
By David French
Esau Mercer, a veteran of the First World War, tries to persuade his alienated 16-year-old son, Jacob, not to leave. Slowly Esau’s devastating and unsparing account of what secrets lie in his soldier’s heart brings father and son together. Cast of 3 men.
Some Night My Prince Will Come
This urban epic of love and desire brings us a burlesque world of transgression and madness, where pleasures are far from simple, and love is somewhat less than pure. An evocative account of romantic adventure stamped with Tremblay’s signature wit and ironic humour.
Somewhere Else
Contains Walker’s own selection of his early plays which matter; which for him have stood the test of time: Beyond Mozambique (1974), Zastrozzi (1977), Theatre of the Film Noir (1981) and Nothing Sacred (1988).
Song of the Say-Sayer
By Daniel Danis
Three brothers strive to unite and care for their ailing sister after the death of their adoptive parents. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Republished with a new introduction, this is Audrey Thomas’s classic coming-of-age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape.
Spectacle of Empire
Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script, two English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness and an extensive historical and critical introduction.
Sticks & Stones
George Bowering’s first book of poetry finally in print. With a preface by Robert Creeley and original line drawings by Gordon Payne.
Still Laughing
Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector
Georges Feydeau & Maurice Desvallières’ Hotel Peccadillo
Arthur Schnitzler’s The Amorous Adventures of Anatol
Introduction by Jerry Wasserman
The universal mark of good satire is still to make audiences laugh at the worst traits in human nature. Here, in his own words, is how Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago.
Strange Comfort
Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace’s many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work. Lowry was an intensely autobiographical writer, a quality not appreciated during his lifetime. Today, critical perspectives have changed considerably, and Lowry’s anxiety about writing elements of his own life into fiction invites critical reassessment. Many of these essays offer a fresh look at Lowry’s attempts to apprehend and portray the writer, writing.
Studies in Motion
By Kevin Kerr
Adultery, jealousy, murder and an abandoned child haunt the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Cast of 5 women and 7 men.
Subject to Change
By Renee Rodin
Composed of autobiographical stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of a memoir, Subject to Change is a series of self-portraits along the road of a life well-lived. Each story is an articulate, intelligent, passionate record of how an encounter with a significant “other,” be it a parent, a lover, a neighbor, a child, a grandchild, a politician, or a friend, has changed and shaped the humanity, character, and community—the “subject”—of the writer. What makes this book such a great read is Renee Rodin’s masterful ability to show the reader that things we usually think of as too ordinary to talk about or too extraordinary to be able to communicate to others are often the most formative elements of our social lives.
sublingual
By bill bissett
sublingual is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett’s “textual visions.” Its first seven poems construct a Genesis, beginning with a poem of birth—our pre- or sub-lingual first breath, a phenomenological gesture of recognition, of both being and belonging, in and of the world. Following this short creation story, the book continues to unfold in luminous and lucid delight.
Suburban Motel
Six plays that take place in the same hotel room: Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta and The End of Civilization.
Summerland
By George Ryga
Summerland presents largely unpublished selections from essays, short stories, plays, novels and poems that George Ryga wrote in Summerland, BC, from 1963 until his untimely death in 1987.
Takeover in Tehran
By Massoumeh Ebtekar & Fred A. Reed
A revealing first-hand insider account by Iran’s first female vice president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, of the 1979 revolutionary student movement which captured the American Embassy in Tehran.
Talking Bodies
A collection of Larry Tremblay’s four memorable solo performances for the stage: A Trick of Fate, Anatomy Lesson, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi and Ogre. With an introduction by Jane M. Moss.
Tchipayuk
A sweeping historical novel about the collision of Native and colonial cultures.
th influenza uv logik
By bill bissett
Canada’s most linguistically innovative poet takes on the “linear binary traps” of conventional logic, history and politics.
th last photo uv th human soul
By bill bissett
bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for over thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit that included performances in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin, Paris, Mainz, Trier and Berlin.
That Summer
By David French
A woman returns to the cottage country of Ontario where, 32 years before, she vacationed with her family. Cast of 5 women and 2 men.
That Woman
By Daniel Danis
The story of a woman sent away from her family by her brother the Bishop after she is found exploring her sexuality at age seventeen. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.
The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil
By Marcus Youssef & Guillermo Verdecchia & Camyar Chai
A hard-hitting and hilarious satire. Cast of 4 men.
The Angel of Solitude
Eight lesbian women strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia and their own pasts and differences are abolished.
The Athabasca Ryga
By George Ryga
From his farm boy childhood to his struggles as a class-conscious wage labourer. Ryga’s early work is offered in a collection of essays, short stories, plays and novels.
The Baldwins
Set in the post-apocalyptic future, this is a novel of fragments that represents contemporary prose at its most daring and experimental.
The Berlin Blues
Concluding Taylor’s Blues Quartet, German developers here show up on the “Otter Lake Reserve” proposing “OjibwayWorld,” a Native theme park designed to attract Europeans tourists to this destination resort. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
The Bicycle Eater
Singularly obsessed with Anna, the object of his adolescent desire, photographer Christophe Langelier embarks on an extraordinary journey—which takes him from the streets of Montreal to the Island of Women off the coast of Mexico—to escape the all-consuming flames of his unrequited passion. The Bicycle Eater is a comic, surrealist novel of metamorphosis unleashed by hopeless desire, a riotous, colourful burlesque where nothing and no one remain what they seem.
The Black Notebook
A young waitress recounts her trials and surprising allies in a lifelong battle against social stigma.
The Blue Notebook
In this third installment of Tremblay’s Notebook trilogy, Fine Dumas’ notorious transvestite Boudoir is shut down and Céline must return to waitressing at the Sélect. Then a newcomer appears, the gorgeous Gilbert Forget, a musician who is not insensitive to her charms. Céline, a midget who until now has always felt unworthy, throws herself into a passionate affair, discovering the body’s thrills for the first time. As she has done twice before, Céline records the adventures of her life into a notebook, but now she steps outside of herself, using a narrator to tell her story. Will her tempestuous relationship with Gilbert endure?
The Box Closet
By Mary Meigs
A narrative woven of her parents’ diaries and letters that integrates Meigs’s discoveries as a daughter and granddaughter.
The Boy in The Treehouse / Girl Who Loved Her Horses
Two plays about the process of children becoming adults and the nature of, and necessity for, rites of passage in all cultures.
The Breakdown So Far
Farrant continues her assault on the unaccountably disaffected and disillusioned of the Western world with her eighth volume of extremely short stories.
The Burden of Office
Lucid, original and ultimately wise, this book is as much a work of literature as it is of philosophy.
The Buz'Gem Blues
The third play in Taylor’s ongoing zany, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes in what is to become what he calls his “Blues Quartet.” Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
The Centre: Poems 1970-2000
The Centre: Poems 1970–2000 begins with a long poem sequence that initiates McKinnon’s engagement of and life in the north with new and unavoidably present recognitions. The “centre” in this sequence of ten long poems thus shifts from a nostalgic, idealized and elegiac rural singularity to a new relentless multiplicity of the urban, where the centre constantly threatens not to hold. The “centre” in these books becomes a multiplicity of urban attentions reproducing itself as an articulate awareness of a fractured and fragmented self in a wasteland where beauty appears only through glimpses of externalized objects of desire.
The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors
Active ethnography through conversations, legends, articles, and a naturalist’s guide of the Chilliwack Native people and their area.
The Circus Performers' Bar
Witty and formally innovative stories that examine social, political and sexual assumptions with an ironic eye.
The Collected Books of Artie Gold
By Artie Gold
Born in 1947, Artie Gold appeared like a supernova within the constellation of Montreal Anglophone poets in the late 1960s. Intensely devoted to poetry, having already discovered the work of Frank O’Hara, John Wieners, and Jack Spicer in his teens, six books of his poems were published in each of the years 1974–79. Daunted by asthma, complicated by rapidly proliferating allergies and emphysema, he increasingly retreated from the world. At the urging of his friends, a Selected Poems was published in 1992, but only one further book appeared in print in 2003. Artie left the world on St. Valentine’s Day, 2007. His eight published books of poetry collected here shine like a beacon of Northern Lights across the literary landscape of the late twentieth century.
The Commons
Tearing down (intellectual) property’s fencing, Collis’s poems demonstrate that what we call, in less inspired moments, “allusion,” “borrowing,” or even (pretentiously) “intertextuality” is just what poetry itself proves time and again: our languages are common. Shared. Un-enclosable.
The Concise Köchel
A lifetime’s devotion to the music of Mozart conceals a gruesome secret. Cast of 4 women.
The Coronation Voyage
Will a Montreal Mafioso sacrifice his young son for safe conduct to England? Cast of 6 women and 8 men.
The Death of René Lévesque
An astonishingly profound and prophetic political drama that delivers the powerful and cathartic stillbirth of a nation, stripped of both pity and fear. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
The Decline of the Hollywood Empire
Heralds an inevitable move from 35 mm to digital distribution which will level the creative playing field between the towering Hollywood empire and marginalized independent artists and producers.
The Dishwashers
Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the steam-choked basement of an upscale restaurant, tyrannizing his co-workers with his rants of pride of craft and Marxist rhetoric. Cast of 3 men.
The Driving Force
The stormy and angst-filled relationship between Claude and his father Alex is compellingly played out with a cruel and disconsolate irony in an Alzheimer’s ward. Cast of 2 men.
The Duchess and the Commoner
This third volume in the Chronicles of the Plateau _Mont-Royal_—an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay’s plays—deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay’s metaphor for the Québécois desire for a more glamorous identity on the world stage.
The Dunsmuirs: A Promise Kept
By Rod Langley
A dark family secret emerges in this second play about the wealthy and ill-fated Dunsmuir family. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
The Dunsmuirs: Alone at the Edge
By Rod Langley
The first of three plays in this saga of one of Canada’s wealthiest and most ruthless families. Cast of 2 women and 6 men.
The East End Plays: Part 1
Contains the Governor General’s Award-winning Criminals in Love (1984), Chalmers Award-winning Better Living (1986) and Escape from Happiness (1987). With an introduction by Jerry Wasserman.
The East End Plays: Part 2
Contains Beautiful City, Love and Anger and Tough.
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
By George Ryga
A lyric documentary about a young Indian girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row. Cast of 5 women and 15 men. Published in seven languages.
The Edward Curtis Project
By Marie Clements
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The Edward Curtis Project began when the Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis’ monumental but controversial achievement—to dramatize not only the creation of his photographic record of “the vanishing race of the North American Indian” and the enormous commitment, unwavering vision, sacrifice, poverty and ultimate disappointment it represented for the photographer, but also the devastating legacy that his often misrepresentative and imposed vision had on the lives of the people he touched.
The Empress Has No Closure
The Empress Has No Closure contains, as a centre-piece, the “Alefbet Transfers,” a meditative, spacial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.
The Ends of the Earth
Panych’s brilliant tale reminds us all that fear can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
The Execution
Two school boys plot and enact the murder of a classmate. Cast of 3 women and 17 men.
The Fairies Are Thirsty
Three women—a housewife, a whore and the Virgin Mary—fight to break out of the stereotypes in which they have been imprisoned for years. Cast of 3 women.
The Faraway Nearby
By John Murrell
Georgia O’Keeffe resigns herself to an old age spent alone in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains, in the desert’s dangerous energies, its desolate beauty, until a stranger enters her life. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant
Tremblay’s first novel is an affectionate and funny chronicle of the lives of a family in its community.
The Fighting Days
By Wendy Lill
The polarities of public and private lives, and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
The First Quarter Of The Moon
The fifth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal juxtaposes the childhood experiences of the fat woman’s son and his gifted cousin.
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky
August 1933: after weeks of tension, on a sweltering night at Christie Pitts field, four youths unfurl a white sheet emblazoned with a large black Swastika, lift their arms and shout, “Heil Hitler!” during a softball game. Within seconds, a group of Jewish youths charge in a struggle to capture the flag, setting off the largest race riot ever to occur in Toronto, involving fifteen thousand people and injuring hundreds.
Tulchinsky takes us inside the life of one immigrant Jewish family, from this pivotal moment, through the war years and into the early 1950s, creating a stunning fictional statement of a defining moment for a family, a city, and a continent struggling with ideas of freedom, tolerance, and identity in a world broken by war.
The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
By Wendy Lill
A story of the ill-fated love between a wandering musician social-idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
The Great Wave Of Civilization
The destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade in Alberta and Montana. Cast of 5 women and 13 men.
The Gull
Winner of the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize, The Gull is a play written in the classical Noh style. Set in 1950, when wartime restrictions on interned Japanese Canadians had finally been lifted, allowing them to return to the coast, it exquisitely dramatizes the historical link between the fishing town of Steveston, home to many Japanese Canadians, and Mio, the coastal village in Japan from which many of their ancestors originally emigrated. An international collaboration, The Gull featured: Noh master Akira Matsui, declared an Important Intangible Cultural Asset by Japan in 1998, as the main actor; music by American Noh expert Richard Emmert; masks by Wakayama artist Hakuzan Kubo; and a troupe of professional Noh musicians from Japan.
The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories
A hilarious yet compassionate look at the new male consciousness taking shape in a “post-feminist” world by a witty, articulate raconteur.
The Heart Laid Bare
A fusty academic has fallen in love with a young actor who works as a salesman while waiting for his big break; however, the academic must learn to make room in his life for the actor’s four-year-old son.
The Heretic
By John Murphy
“If there is a God, why would He create us? If He’s perfect, all-knowing, there’s nothing he can gain from us.” Murphy’s play, centred around the playwright’s assumed persona of “Jesus Murphy,” opens up a discourse where creation interrogates religion; atheists engage believers; and secularists confront theists. Cast of 1 man.
The Hope Slide / Little Sister
By Joan MacLeod
Two plays by Joan MacLeod: the Chalmers Award-winning The Hope Slide, and MacLeod’s first play for young audiences, Little Sister.
The House that Hijack Built
Explores the possibilities of meaning production when language is pushed to its limits of normative semantic patterns. Includes a homolinguistic “trans’elation” of the Sefer Yetzirah.
The Hunting Ground
Remarkably engaging stories recounted by different residents of a northern Canadian village facing a gradual but devastating transformation.
The Impromptu of Outremont
Three sisters have an “impromptu” and re-examine their personal and social problems. Cast of 4 women.
The Invisibility Exhibit
Murakami’s first book of poetry, written in the political and emotional wake of Vancouver’s “Missing Women,” this project investigates the troubled relationship between a marginalized neighbourhood’s “invisible” populations and the city that surrounds them.
The Lady Smith
Rather than confront her husband when she sees him with another woman, a blues singer follows the woman and insinuates herself into the other woman’s life. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
The Leisure Society
A dark and thoroughly contemporary comedy. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
The Madonna Painter
At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local virgin to serve as a model, and the frighteningly strange nature of his work will upset the lives and change the fate of the entire community.
The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr
Marchessault evokes the doubts, the trials and the joys of this singular existence. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
The Medusa Head
By Mary Meigs
A sensitive psychological portrait of a stormy three-way lesbian relationship.
The Moustache
Bowering and Greg Curnoe became friends when their art was in its youth, and for 26 years they grew up parallel, inside each other’s work.
The New Long Poem Anthology
Features the work of Blaser, Bowering, Brand, Carson, Derksen, Dudek, Dewdney, Friesen, Hartog, Kiyooka, Kroetsch, Marlatt, McCaffery, McFadden, McKay, McKinnon, Mouré, Nichol, Ondaatje, Robertson, Stanley, Tostevin, Villemaire, Wah and Webb.
The Noam Chomsky Lectures
By Daniel Brooks & Guillermo Verdecchia
An innovative, multi-layered deconstruction of mass media and politics. Cast of 2 men.
The Occupation of Heather Rose
By Wendy Lill
Young, naïve and inadequately trained nurse Heather Rose arrives in a remote Native community hoping to improve the lives of its residents, but ends up utterly disillusioned by the impotence of her interventions. Cast of 1 woman.
The Pagan Wall
Written in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Manuel Puig, The Pagan Wall is a first novel by one of Canada’s master storytellers.
The Painter's Wife
An extraordinary novel about art and passion inspired by the lives of two great artists, Evelyn Rowat and René Marcil.
The Pleasure of the Crown
By Dara Culhane
An in-depth analysis of the 130-year history of the Aboriginal title issue in BC, focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case.
The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories
By Henry Tate
Henry W. Tate, who died in 1914, was an important Tsimshian informant to ethnographer Franz Boas.
The Power Plays
First published as a trilogy in 1986, The Power Plays contains Gossip (1977), Filthy Rich (1979) and The Art of War (1983). These three plays showcase the development and the culmination of Walker’s film noir style.
The Queens
The shifting passions and ambitions of six women drawn from Shakespeare’s theatre. Cast of 6 women.
The Rain Barrel
Ten years in the making, these stories display Bowering’s meticulous attention to the details of his craft.
The Rap Canterbury Tales
Hip-hop artist Brinkman resurrects Chaucer’s brilliant stories into visible and audible contemporary forms.
The Real World?
In The Real World?, Michel Tremblay returns to the very source of creative work, that notorious first play which supposedly contains the scenes of everything yet to come. And ultimately, he finds “himself” confronted with the same fundamental question over time. Did he have the right? Does he still have the right?
Cast of 4 women and 3 men.
The Recovery of the Public World
A collection of texts and talks which address the work of poet Robin Blaser.
The Red Notebook
The second in the Notebook trilogy follows Céline Poulin as she becomes hostess in a transvestite bordello. Tremblay celebrates how it is possible for Céline to embrace her difference and to flourish in solidarity with a community of others with transcendent eloquence and compassion.
The Refugee Hotel
Laid bare in the fictionalized autobiographical details of The Refugee Hotel are the universal truths both the victims and the survivors of political oppression continue to experience everywhere: the terror of persecution, arrest, and torture; the exhausted elation of escape; the trauma of learning to live again with the losses, betrayals, and agonies of the past; the irrational guilt of the survivor—even the tragedy of surviving the nightmares of the past only to have them return to challenge any hope of a future free of fear. More than a dark comedy about a group of Chilean refugees who arrive in Vancouver in 1974 after Pinochet’s coup, this play is Carmen Aguirre’s attempt to give voice to refugee communities from all corners of the globe.
The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh
By rob mclennan
Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of television and film, mclennan’s language casts a deceptively familiar veil over the breadth and depth of reading which inform this
work.
The Riddle of the World
By David French
A stockbroker and an ex-priest get together to console themselves after being abandoned by their mates and are forced to come to terms with their fragile natures as men. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
The Salish People: Volume I
The first volume of a four-volume set rich in stories and factual information on the Salish people of the Pacific Northwest.
The Salish People: Volume II
Includes the Origin Myth as recounted by a storyteller whose mother saw Captain Vancouver sail into Howe Sound in 1792.
The Salish People: Volume III
Stories of the people of the Fraser Valley from Vancouver to Chilliwack, with the earliest account of BC archaeological sites.
The Salish People: Volume IV
This volume deals with the Sechelt and the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island and includes a bio-bibliography of Charles Hill-Tout, as well as miscellaneous short pieces of special interest, such as letters and a review of Franz Boas’ book about Bella Coola.
The Satchmo' Suite
By Hans Böggild & Doug Innis
A black cellist, on tour with a classical symphony orchestra, invokes the ghost of Louis Armstrong to help him with a difficult passage from Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello. The highly mythologized spirit of “the father of jazz himself” takes form in the cellist’s hotel room, where the lives of the characters intertwine and begin to play off each other, and issues of class, hope, courage, family, and race emerge in a lively and powerful struggle between head and heart, intellect and intuition. Ultimately, the drama resolves with the cellist’s beautiful rendition of the Bach piece. Full of great jazz and classical music, but using none of Satchmo’s own compositions, the play incorporates nine original jazz songs, co-written by the author-musicians, into the action.
The School-Marm Tree
A novel about mountains by one of Canada’s greatest writers on nature, depicting the “presence” in mountains and the heart’s desire to go beyond mountains.
The Seagull
A revitalization of a Russian theatre classic. Cast of 5 women and 8 men.
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
An industrial biography that investigates personal myths and the great “machines” that drive the world to the abyss of development.
The Shape of a Girl / Jewel
By Joan MacLeod
The Shape of a Girl examines the code of silence and tacit complicity which surrounded the sensationalized murder of Reena Virk by school-aged bullies in 1997. Jewel is based on the real-life catastrophe of the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland, in 1982.
The Shovel
By Colin Browne
In this extraordinary book, Colin Browne inverts the traditional ways we define and privilege forms of the English language; self-expression becomes prosaic, the recording of history poetic.
The Singer's Broken Throat
By Des Walsh
The Singer’s Broken Throat is a collection of poems that trace a path through both physical and emotional landscapes. Each step of the narrative way is marked by an event of the heart, each image is a map of person and place. Des Walsh’s fourth book of poetry echoes his extensive film and theatre work: the voices here are always dramatic and present, not passive and absent, even when the poems are elegiac in form and substance, even when their subject is historic. These poems disclose the fragility and wonderment of relationships, as well as remind us that we are all alive to each other inextricable from our frames in both time and space.
The Strange Truth About Us
This tell-all book by M.A.C. Farrant is a three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark, comedic and lyrical, it attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures for our garrisoned world.
The Tale of Teeka
A play set in rural Quebec in the ’50s in which a battered child, Maurice, seeks refuge in a fantasy world. Cast of 1 man and 1 male child.
The Terror of the Coast
By Chris Arnett
An extensively detailed reconstruction of the war between the First Nations and Vancouver Island’s colonial government.
The Time Being
By Mary Meigs
An affair born of a correspondence with a distant admirer leads the lovers to an arranged meeting in Australia.
The Trespassers
When inspector Milton shows up in a town in the middle of nowhere to investigate a mysterious murder, fifteen year-old Lowell’s skills at shaping the truth to protect both himself and those he cares about are put to the ultimate test: shall he plea bargain, or stick to the truth as he understands it? As Hardy once pointed out to him, “There’s something in between lying and not lying. It’s called a story.”
The Trial of Judith K.
By Sally Clark
Roughly based on The Trial by Franz Kafka, this black comedy changes the lead character to a modem business woman who finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The more she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare the more her ordered, little world unravels and the more she is entangled in the increasingly obscure process.
The Trigger
Based on the author’s own experience as a victim of the Paper Bag Rapist, The Trigger is a play written for anyone who has ever dealt with sexual violation and who continues to live with it at their core. Cast of 5 women.
The Unnatural and Accidental Women
A surrealist dramatization of a notorious 30-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the “Skid Row” area of Vancouver. Cast of 11 women and 2 men.
The Ventriloquist
Theatre of innovation. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
The Vic
The Vic creates an ensemble of eight ethnically diverse women ranging in age from their teens to their fifties, each of them eager to claim the entitlement they feel their status as victim has “naturally” conferred upon them. Cast of 8 women.
The Weekend Healer
The disappearance of a young man acts as a catalyst for a drama that questions the nature of family and “traditional values.” Cast of 2 women and 1 man.
Theatre and AutoBiography
This groundbreaking exploration of an increasingly prominent interdisciplinary realm draws on a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights. The breadth of styles and performances discussed here is extraordinary.
Theme for Diverse Instruments
By Jane Rule
Jane Rule’s first collection of short stories.
Then We Were One
By Fred A. Reed
Shocked by the death of his younger brother, Fred Reed sets out on a series of journeys of discovery and understanding. By way of Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution; the Anatolian highlands of the mystic Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; in pursuit of ancient and modern iconoclasts in Syria and Lebanon; he comes under the spell of Islam. In its embrace he finds a renewed brotherhood; in its discipline, liberation.
There'll Be Another
Three books in one: Heavy-Hearted in Havana, Sex with a Sixteen Year Old and Anonymity Suite Part II.
Thérèse and Pierette and the Little Hanging Angel
In this second Plateau Mont-Royal novel, three schoolgirls live the mysteries of their rites of passage.
They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever
By Annie York & Chris Arnett & Richard Daly
’Nlaka’pamux elder Annie York explains the red ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley. Readings of these inscriptions-the lasting written record of the dreams and visions experienced by both neophyte hunters and practiced shamans-open a discussion of some of the issues in rock art research that relate to ‘notating’ and ‘writing’ on the landscape, around the world and through the millenia. A landmark publication on the evolution of writing.
This Is My Own (hardcover)
Letters written following the uprooting of the Japanese-Canadian community in late 1941.
This Tremor Love Is
This Tremor Love Is is a memory book—an album of love poems spanning twenty-five years, from Marlatt’s first writing of what was to become the opening section, A Lost Book, to its latest, most recent sequences.
ths is erth thees ar peopul
By bill bissett
The quest in this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition outside the perpetual terror of the 21st century.
Tiln & Other Plays
By Michael Cook
Three short plays by Cook: Tiln, Quiller and Therese’s Creed.
time
By bill bissett
_time_ is reelee abt how evreething is fleeting n how we deel with that n how deeplee we undrstand that awareness th jewels shine as our undrstandings th layrs n openings apertures n iris lens in or not n how manee narrativs reveel our paradoxikul n continualee shifting minds … a storee is what time is it … 4 ourselvs n our specees n how timeless th breth uv th galaxee n oftn ourselvs tho agen fleeting lyrik song chant philosophikal theologikul prsonal propheseez vizual n tanguld tangos … with th invisibul dansrs … n th 4tune tellrs shuffuling theyr decks how we yern 4 n letting go uv our games finding love n th chancs 4 savin th environment n our selvs [bill bissett]
Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism
Investigates the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Timothy Findley’s novels.
Too Good to Be True
Examines the question of who is to control North America’s vital water and power resources in the 21st century.
Toronto, Mississippi
By Joan MacLeod
Drawing from MacLeod’s experience working with mentally handicapped adults and children, this play celebrates the personal challenges of both self-destruction and self-affirmation so vital to the process of identity creation. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
Tracing The Paths
By Roy Miki
A wide spectrum of readings of bpNichol’s challenging and innovative long poem.
Transmission Difficulties
By Ralph Maud
Ralph Maud delves into the mystery of Boas’s alleged “translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate.
Transnational Muscle Cars
By Jeff Derksen
Written over the last ten years in a quartet of cities: Calgary, Toronto, New York and Vienna, Transnational Muscle Cars is the second book in Jeff Derksen’s trilogy addressing place, culture and capital, and draws on a wide array of North American post-war poetics—the declarative aspects of New American Poetry, the pop cultural details of the New York School, the reflexive politics of the Language Poets, the personal politics of the Kootenay School of Writing—and on contemporary cultural and political theory, critical geography, urban theory, and architectural concepts.
Trees are Lonely Company
This collection of O’Hagan’s short fiction includes stories spanning the decades of his experience as mountain guide, gentleman adventurer and storyteller.
Triage
In a world where the corporate iron fist clad in the velvet glove of the state has appropriated all that is authentic and authoritative in language, there seems little left for us to say to each other. Yet against the determination of borders, capital, criminalization and violence, stigmatized bodies also remember patterns, history, possibility and solidarity. Triage attempts an ordered, critical response to the surges of overlapping manufactured crises that perpetuate the conditions and symptoms of our public and private disentitlements.
Truth or Death
In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, “the story of the West” that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, “the story of the West” does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts—from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes—can bring it alive.
Tsubaki
A story of betrayal and vengeance set against the nuclear blast that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945.
Twelve Opening Acts
An account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre, from his first recognition at the age of six of how the imagination is actually a public construct, to his winning of a drama competition with his first play.
Twenty Years at Play
This collection of eight of the finest plays produced by Vancouver’s New Play Centre marks the company’s 20th year.
Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand
By Chris Arnett & Beryl Mildred Cryer
A vital collection of writings collected during the Depression, first published in Victoria’s oldest newspaper.
Two Plays
This volume contains two uniquely Canadian stories of exile: The Island of Demons and Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted.
Unity (1918)
By Kevin Kerr
In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague. As fear of the dreaded “Spanish” flu begins to fill the town of Unity with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. Cast of 6 women and 3 men.
Vancouver
This stunning full-colour historical atlas brings alive Vancouver’s first 14 decades.
Vancouver Anthology
By Stan Douglas
First published in 1991, this larger format, new edition coincides with a renewal of the Or Gallery’s mandate to incite and promote critical discourse both within and outside of the Vancouver art community.
Vermeer's Light
This much anticipated volume is now available in paperback.
Vigil
An extremely self-centred and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life-and-death situation. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Waiting for the Parade
By John Murrell
Waiting for the Parade is set in Calgary during World War II, in which five women gather to work for the war effort while their men are away. Cast of 5 women.
Walsh
A historical documentary of Sitting Bull’s exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn. Cast of 3 women and 11 men.
Wanted
By Sally Clark
Set during the Klondike gold rush, Wanted is a celebration of one woman’s determination to triumph over all who seek to possess her in a harsh social climate of chaos, opportunism, raw desire, greed and lust. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
Warriors
Warriors enters the world of advertising where even if the product is war, it is still a product that can be sold. Cast of 2 men.
WASPS
By Sally Clark
A play about the elements of our constructed tribal identities: incest, fashion, fetishism, style, populist art, amateur psychobabble and a fascination with the other. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
Westray
By Chris O’Neill & Ken Schwatrz
Although the Westray mine is dangerously mismanaged, a young father descends under the ground again to support his family. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
Whale Riding Weather
A faded old man finds his life slipping away from him along with his young male lover, who meets a new, younger man. Cast of 3 men.
What Lies Before Us
Two–time Governor General’s Award–winning playwright Panych has turned Waiting for Godot into a comedy while simultaneously heightening the profound existential questions it asks. Cast of 3 men.
what's left
By rob mclennan
Presents us with cues and clues to the poet’s compositional strategies.
Where the Blood Mixes
By Kevin Loring
Can a person survive their past; can a people survive their history? Irreverently funny and brutally honest, this play about loss and redemption takes us to the bottom of a river, to the heart of a People. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
Whereverville
On the evening of Loam Bay’s vote on resettlement, schoolteacher Abby Shea, herself “from away,” must struggle with her own phantom attachment to the community before casting her deciding vote. Cast of 1 woman and 4 men.
White Pebbles in the Dark Forests
Volume three of her autobiographical trilogy: a reconciliation between women and men, children and parents, animals and humans.
Willful Acts
An expanded and updated collection of Margaret Hollingsworth’s best known and most popular plays, including The Apple in the Eye, Everloving, Diving, Islands, War Babies and Commonwealth Games.
With Bated Breath
With Bated Breath is a poignant look at the disappearance of a shy, young gay man who leaves his community behind to start a new life in the big city. There, hopelessly awkward and naïve, caught in the cynical and brutalizing cash-economy of the city’s red light district, he retreats ever further into a world of fantasy and anonymity. Though his self-appointed, new-found, and worldly-wise mentor cautions him: “There’s nothing safe. We’re never safe. If you ever thought you were, you were in denial,” it’s too late for this dreamer who ignored the best advice he ever got from those who cared for him: “You just don’t find a soul mate—you have to invent them. Cuz love at first sight sure don’t last.”
Women in a World at War
Madeline Gagnon asks why women have not found a way to put an end to war, why they continue, from generation to generation, to raise sons who make war and oppress women, and what stake women themselves might have in war.
Write It on Your Heart
Write It on Your Heart features stories collected over a ten-year period: true stories about the origin of the world; the creation of human beings; the coming of the white man; and what really happened in the post contact world of North America. This critically acclaimed collection, newly reformatted as the first of an ongoing three-part series, stands as a monument to the epic world of Harry Robinson.
Written on Water
A group of seniors struggles to rescue and rewrite their memories when torrential rains wash away all records of their past. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
Thursday May 10, 2012 in Meta-Talon
A Conversation with Martine Desjardins
A Conversation with Martine Desjardins about her novel Maleficium:
Maleficium is a shift for me, because I have left that realm to venture a little more toward the unreal. Thus the main female character has physical attributes that make her appear foreign, almost monstrous and alien. She has a harelip, but is also described as having a long tail, vulvar stamens, perfumed earwax, thorns growing from her scalp; she is seen carrying a larva in her navel, shedding tortoiseshell tears, extracting iridescent oil from her skin.
Thursday May 10, 2012 in Meta-Talon
The Long Goodbye: A Review of Morris Panych's Vigil
Morris Panych’s Vigil is reviewed by James MacKillop:
Once playwright Panych has won us over with the audacity of his concept, Kemp’s outrageous lack of compassion, he has given himself the problem of making this increasingly interesting for nearly two hours. Ratcheting up the zingers works for a start: “I’m concerned about your health these past few days: It seems to be improving.” This escalates until Kemp introduces a do-it-yourself suicide machine, with a lethal brick and an electrocutionist’s helmet.
Wednesday May 9, 2012 in Meta-Talon
Do You Pass the Empathy Test for Conceptual Writing?
Does Adeena Karasick consider herself a “conceptual” writer? Here is her response:
So, in asking “Do you consider yourself a Conceptual Poet”, one has to ask – where do the aesthetics begin and the friendships end? How do you continuously (contiguously) belong without belonging in an ever-widening circle of language, production, filiation, power and desire.
Monday May 7, 2012 in Meta-Talon
“Living the Border” with Guillermo Verdecchia
Steve Fisher interviews Guillermo Verdecchia about returning to Fronteras Americanas:
It’s a deeply Canadian play, and while I think it makes sense in other places—you could take this play to Mexico, or Argentina, or anywhere, because these borders and bi-cultural negotiations take place all over the world—it’s of ongoing interest to Canadians. It’s another way of looking at our nation; there are plays that have been produced in Canada that hold up an image that I don’t believe ever existed, but we like to think did…
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