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Cat on a hot tin roof
Par Tennessee Williams. 1986
Maggie the Cat fights for the lives of her damaged and drinking husband Brick, herself, and their unborn children in…
the revised version of the dramatization of Big Daddy's birthday and deathday party and family gathering. Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for drama.Les belles-soeurs (Collection Théâtre canadien ; #26)
Par Michel Tremblay, Alain Pontaut. 1972
Germaine Lauzon, ménagère de Montréal, a gagné un million de timbres-primes. Une bonne occasion pour inviter parentes et amies à…
une soirée de "collage de timbres". Mais les 15 femmes entassées dans la cuisine n'en restent pas longtemps aux civilités : jalousies, vengeances et haines personnelles éclatent, venant gâcher la fête. [1972]Home truths: a play
Par David Lodge. 1999
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path.…
His university friend Sam Sharp, a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a dreadful profile of him in a Sunday newspaper. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer, though Adrian is risking what he values most - his privacy. 1999.Your rights (H wise guides)
Par Anita Naik. 1999
This guide tells children what rights they do and don't have in common situations. It covers laws relating to health,…
education, family, sex, work, the police and leisure. It also contains detailed contact addresses for getting further information and help in the UK and Republic of Ireland. For junior high readers.The hollow: a play : from The mousetrap and selected plays
Par Agatha Christie. 1993
With malice aforethought: six spectacular Canadian trials
Par David R Williams. 1993
Beginning with the 1868 shooting of politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Williams chronologically examines it and the trials of Louis Riel…
in 1885, Ernest Chenoweth in 1900, Wilbert Coffin in 1953, Steven Truscott in 1959, and Peter Demeter in 1974. Williams concludes that there is no reason to doubt the justice of the verdict in any of the six cases. 1993.Without feathers
Par Woody Allen. 1975
Wilhelm Tell (German literary classics in translation)
Par Friedrich Schiller, William Faulkner Mainland. 1972
This classic in German literature, first published in 1805, became popular after Rossini used it as a libretto for an…
opera. The legend is based on the Swiss liberation movement. The hero is a quiet man, who is respected for his ability with a bow and arrow by the more militant elements of the politically active rebels. 1972. Uniform title: Wilhelm Tell.When freedoms collide: the case for our civil liberties
Par A. Alan Borovoy. 1988
Discusses some of the civil liberty and human rights issues with which Canadians are faced, including pornography, hate literature, affirmative…
action employment practices, police powers, right to privacy, the protection of minorities, and the rights of strikers, welfare recipients, and the mentally ill. 1988.Waiting for Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts
Par Samuel Beckett. 1965
In this version of the play, the character's names are read out each time they speak. The play is a…
comment on the absurdity of man's hope and importance. Two old tramps sit by the side of the road, waiting for their friend Godot, only to be repeatedly told that Godot will not come today, he will come tomorrow, and so they engage in endless conversation as they wait patiently. 1965. Uniform title: En attendant Godot.Until you are dead: Steven Truscott's long ride into history
Par Julian Sher. 2001
In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper near Clinton, Ontario. Though sentenced to…
death, Truscott's sentence was eventually commuted and he was released ten years later, all the while maintaining his innocence. This account details the case, trial, and Truscott's new appeal to have the case reopened. 2001.Two plays for voices
Par Neil Gaiman. 2002
Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and Seeing Ear Theatre, these two plays are adapted for voice by Neil Gaiman from…
two of his short stories. 2002. Snow glass apples -- Murder mysteries.Twelfth night (SmartPass)
Par William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner, Jools Viner. 2006
The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The…
Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia. Olivia becomes smitten with the young man Viola impersonates, and all careens to a happy resolution by the play's end. For senior high readers. 2006.Three plays: The white devil, The Duchess of Malfi [and] The devil's law-case (English Library)
Par John Webster, D. C Gunby. 1972
In his introduction to the first of these early-seventeenth-century dramas, The White Devil, Webster predicted his tragedy would endure through…
the ages. In the late twentieth century, it is still performed, together with The Duchess of Malfi. The Devil's Law-Case, a tragicomedy, may be based on Webster's flirtation with law before he took up literature. 1972.Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird Of Youth; The Rose Tattoo; The Night Of The Iguana
Par Tennessee Williams. 1976
Three classic plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist. In "Sweet Bird of Youth" a gigolo returns to his southern hometown.…
"The Night of the Iguana" is set in a run-down Mexican tourist hotel. In "The Rose Tattoo" a Sicilian widow finds love. Some violence and some strong language. 1976. Uniform title: Plays.This is war
Par Hannah Moscovitch. 2013
In this play, Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through…
an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. As each of them is interviewed by an unseen broadcasting organization, they recount their version of events leading up to the horrific incident with painful, relenting replies. What begins to form is a picture of the effects of guilt and the psychological toll of violence in a war where the enemy is sometimes indiscernible. c2013.The winter's tale
Par William Shakespeare. 1996
King Leontes of Sicilia becomes unjustifiably jealous of his wife, Hermione. The disgraced queen is banished for her attention towards…
Leontes' honourable friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia. Leontes' lack of trust creates disaster in both households, and costs him sixteen years of mourning before things are resolved happily for all. 1996. Written circa 1611.The vagina monologues
Par Eve Ensler. 2001
These monologues are a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a…
new generation of women, it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world, and has inspired a grassroots movement, V-Day, to stop violence against women. Descriptions of sex. 2001.The trials of Ezra Pound
Par Timothy Findley. 1995
In 1945, American poet Ezra Pound was accused of treason because of broadcasts made on Italian Radio during World War…
II. Findley's play is about the hearings to establish Pound's mental fitness to stand trial, and is based on transcripts of those hearings. Some strong language. 1995.The tragedy of Richard II (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Par William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A Mowat. 1962
Historical tragedy and study of kingship first performed in the 1590s. Richard II, a weak and ineffectual king, settles a…
quarrel and exiles Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, for ten years. He then seizes Henry's property to finance the Irish wars. Henry returns to claim his inheritance, murders the king's supporters, and imprisons Richard. Henry usurps the throne, but lives in fear until the deposed Richard is no more. 1962. Uniform title: King Richard II