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Playwrights Canada Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

The Virgin Trial by Kate Hennig
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Robert Chafe
Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa
1979 by Michael Healey
The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble by Beth Graham
carried away on the crest of a wave by David Yee
Oil and Water by Robert Chafe
Five @ Fifty by Brad Fraser
It is Solved by Walking by Catherine Banks
The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs/Thinking of Yu by Carole Fréchette
Penny Plain by Ronnie Burkett
Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess by Linda Griffiths
Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor
Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen
Living Curiosities or What You Will by Mary Vingoe
Gas Girls by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Outspoken by Susan G. Cole
Queer Theatre in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
The Nuttalls by Michael Healey
If We Were Birds by Erin Shields
So Many Doors by Celia McBride
Love + Relasianships Volume 1 by Nina Lee Aquino
Love + Relasianships Volume 2 by Nina Lee Aquino
A Woman's Comedy by Beth Herst
Theatre Histories by Alan Filewood
Design and Scenography by Natalie Rewa
Talk by Michael Nathanson
Courageous by Michael Healey
Canadian Shakespeare by Susan Knutson
Popular Political Theatre and Performance by Julie Salverson
Theatre in Atlantic Canada by Linda Burnett
Lesbian Plays: Coming of Age in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays by Sky Gilbert
Tellin' It Like It Is: A Compendium of African Canadian Monologues for Actors by Djanet Sears
Karla and Grif: A Play in Two Act by Vivienne Laxdal
I Have AIDS! by Sky Gilbert
Pyassa & Letters to My Grandma by Anusree Roy
lady in the red dress by David Yee
Such Creatures by Judith Thompson
Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy by Ronnie Burkett
While We're Young by Don Hannah
Toronto the Good by Andrew Moodie
The Gwendolyn Poems by Claudia Day
Angels & Anger: Five Acadian Plays by Glen Nichols
The Harps of God by Kent Stetson
Tideline by Wadji Mouawad and Shelley Tepperman
The Shakespeare's Mine by Ric Knowles
a nanking winter by Majorie Chan
Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume 1 by Sherrill Grace and Donna Coates
Shatter by Trina Davies
Vimy by Vern Thiessen
The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte
Palace of the End by Judith Thompson
Silverwing by Kim Selody
Dreams by Wajdi Mouawad and Linda Gaboriau
George F. Walker by Harry Lane
Anthology of Québec Women's Plays by Louise H. Forsyth
Space and the Geographies of Theatre by Michael McKinnie
Environmental and Site-Specific Theatre by Andrew Houston
Theatre in British Columbia by Ginny Ratsoy
Capture Me by Judith Thompson
The Real McCoy by Andrew Moodie
Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla
Last Romantics by Michael Lewis MacLennan
The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by Djanet Sears
The West of All Possible Worlds: Six Contemporary Canadian Plays by Moira Day
Snappy Shorts at Tarragon Theatre by Andy McKim
The Baron Bold and the Beauteous Maid: A Compact History of Canadian Theatre by Brian Kennedy
Belle Moral: A Natural History by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Half Life by John Mighton
Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume One by Cynthia Zimmerman
Monsieur d'Eon by Mark Brownell
The Shooting Stage by Michael Lewis MacLennan
Birthright by Constance Lindsay Skinner and Joan Bryans
Enoch Arden in the Hope Shelter by Judith Thompson
The Innocent Eye Test by Michael Healey
Cold Meat Party by Brad Fraser
Judith Thompson: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre. Volume Three by Ric Knowles
Chronic by Linda Griffiths
The Masks of Judith Thompson by Ric Knowles
Feminist Theatre and Performance by Susan Bennett
Write On! Theatre Saskatchewan Anthology by Theatre Saskatchewan
Voice of Her Own by Sherrill Grace and Angela Rebeiro
The Waterhead and Other Plays by Aaron Bushkowsky
The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) by Mieko Ouchi
Einstein's Gift by Vern Tiessen
Late 20th Century Plays, 1980 - 2000 by Judith Thompson
An Acre of Time: The Play by Jason Sherman
Colours in the Storm by Jim Betts
Flippin' In and Then and Now by Anne Chislett
Staging Alternative Albertas: Experimental Drama in Edmonton by Patricia Demers and Rosalind Kerr
7 Cannons by Martin Bragg, Per Brask and Roy Surette
Sled by Judith Thompson
Serpent Kills by Jim Millan and Blake Brooker
Claudius by Ken Gass
Singular Voices: Plays in Monologue Form by Tony Hamill
Colonial Tongues by Mansel Robinson
Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman
Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte
Questionable Activities: The Best by Judith Rudakoff
Alien Creature by Linda Griffiths
Perfect Pie by Judith Thompson
Staging the North: Twelve Canadian Plays by Sherrill Grace, Eve D'Aeth and Lisa Chalykoff
Taking the Stage: : Selections from Plays by Canadian Women by Cynthia Zimmerman
Homeward Bound by Elliot Hayes
Serpent in the Night Sky by Dianne Warren
The Gwendolyn Poems by Dorothy Shostak
Karla and Grif: A Play in Two Acts
Big Time Women from Way Back When. Jehanne of the Witches by Sally Clark
Wanna Play? Three Plays for High Schools by Tony Hamill
Taking Liberties & Into by Dave Carley
Yankee Notions by Anne Chislett
The Motor Trade & The Affections of May by Norm Foster
Bone Cage by Catherine Banks
The Saints and Apostles by Raymond Storey
The Bombay Plays: The Matka King, Bombay Black by Anosh Irani
Two Plays by Drew Carnwath
Angélique by Lorena Gale
Clever as Paint: The Rossettis in Love by Kim Morrissey
Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama Volume On by Djanet Sears
Kilt by Jonathan Wilson
Mad Boy Chronicle by Michael O'Brien
The Heart As It Lived by Mansel Robinson
Moo by Sally Clark
Toronto, Mississippi & Jewel by Joan MacLeod
Sacred Hearts by Colleen Curran
Scientific Americans by John Mighton
See Bob Run & Wild Abandon by Daniel Mcivor
Developing Nation by Bruce Barton
The Dressing Room by Sky Gilbert
Lilly, Alta by Dyba Kenneth
Lucky Strike by Hrant Alianak and Dorothy Parker
Rattle in the Dash by Peter Anderson
Skin and Liars by Dennis Foon
The East End Plays by George F. Walker
New Works I by Playwrights Canada
Jennie's Story & Under the Skin by Betty Lambert
Four New Comedies by Playwrights Canada
Prague by John Krizanc
Doc by Sharon Pollock
Escape Entertainment by Carol Bolt
Servant of Two Masters by Tom Cone
Ever Loving by Margaret Hollingsworth
Operators by Margaret Hollingsworth
Bushed by Margaret Hollingsworth
Black to Black by Greg Light
There Are No Dragons by Elinore Siminovitch
Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii by Allan Stratton
The Running of the Deer by Geoffrey Ursell
Escape Entertainment by Carol Bolt
Second Chance by Aviva Ravel
Alice by Warren Graves
The Crackwalker by Judith Thompson
The Ziggy Effect by Marc Diamond
The Next Move by George Szanto
Flytrap by David Freeman
Gossip by George F. Walker
Sight Unseen by Steve Petch
The Trojan Women by Gwendolyn MacEwen
Clouds of Glory by Betty Lambert
Blitzkrieg by Bryan Wade
A Certain William by Leanore Lieblein
Where is Kabuki? by Don Druick
Queer Theatre in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
Outspoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues by Susan G. Cole
The Nuttalls
Tonight at the Tarragon: A Critic’s Anthology by Kamal Al-Solaylee
Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen
Living Curiosities or What You Will by Mary Vingoe
Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor
Anthology of Québec Women’s Plays in English Translation: Volume III (1997-2009) by Louise H. Forsyth
Asian Canadian Theatre: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume One by Ric Knowles and Nina Lee Aquino
The Mommiad by Sky Gilbert