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Mi última chance
Par Carlos Oliveira, Vanessa Sueroz. 2018
Igor está en el primer año de la facultad, pero en vez de concentrarse totalmente en los estudios, él no…
piensa en otra cosa que no sea una morena. Entre peleas y desencuentros su mejor amigo le propone una puesta que puede cambiar totalmente a su vida. ¿Será que él irá conquistar a su chica o la perderá para todo el siempre?The Oedipus Cycle
Par Sophocles. 2012
The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vibrant new translations by award-winning poet Robert Bagg Sophocles' three great masterpieces,…
gathered here in one volume, dramatize the inexplicable animosity directed at three generations of Thebes' royal family by Apollo, the inscrutable god who terrifies and deceives his victims into acts of incest, betrayal, and kin murder. These fifth-century BCE family dramas--Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone--are fraught with horrific crises, confrontations, and excruciating choices, all of which still rivet theatergoers and readers in the twenty-first century. Bagg's translations are modern in idiom while faithful to the Greek. They preserve the complexity of Sophocles' characters and their dialogue (whether searingly raw, subtly inflected, or infused with humor) and render Sophocles' choral odes in resonant poetry. The three plays of The Oedipus Cycle, already proven stageworthy, refresh and clarify Sophocles' narratives for a new generation about to discover timeless sources of pleasure and illumination in classical Greek drama. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]Paradise
Par Patti Flather. 2017
After a traumatic assault in Central America Rachel returns home but it isn t the reprieve…
she expected She comes back to turmoil between her parents and a part-time job in her dad s medical office Her father George full of endearing blunder tries unsuccessfully to connect with his daughter who seems to be reeling Her childhood friend Khalil isn t around to provide support He s in Afghanistan travelling and volunteering when he is wrongfully arrested On the periphery is Wally off work because of a logging injury who spends a great deal of time in George s office Wally struggles to buy food for his dog Lucky his rent payments are overdue and the ringing in his ears just won t stop He s looking for help in all the right places but nobody seems to notice he s deteriorating until it s too lateThe Invention of Romance
Par Conni Massing. 2016
Thirtysomething Kate has devoted much of her adult life to her career as a museum curator. She’s just been tasked…
with mounting an exhibit about the history of romance and love despite her own string of romantically unsuccessful relationships. Intent on better curating the show, Kate investigates love in books and on hilariously disastrous dates. As her love life enters a comical death spiral, her long-widowed mother rekindles an old romance with a man she co-starred with in a play sixty years ago. Finding the partial script of her mother’s play, yellow with age and dog-eared, Kate sets out to complete its missing ending.1979
Par Michael Healey. 2017
It s December 1979 and Clark s minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution…
before it has a chance to accomplish anything even pass a budget But Clark is young and idealistic resolute on making his mark in office When he steals a moment at his desk to make a crucial decision his colleagues including Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau take the opportunity to steer him in different directionsWatching Glory Die
Par Judith Thompson. 2016
Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who in her solitary prison cell is tormented by hallucinations While…
she battles the creature in her mind her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected to her daughter believing that she can sense Glory s feelings no matter the distance In the prison halls Gail a working-class guard glides between her conscience and her professional duties knowing her actions could ultimately lead to a tragic endI, Animal
Par Daniel Macivor. 2015
Man in Scrubs follows the story of a queer black nurse who is getting awfully tired of being put…
in a box He s queer not gay and he ll tell you the difference He s always been an outcast and constantly finds himself at the bottom of any and every hierarchy With his patience waning he confronts what it means to be an outsider and more importantly what it means to take charge of one s own identity Boy in Hoodie is the story of the Dead Cat Kid as he s known by his classmates He s fascinated by death curious about it in a philosophical sense but he s not morbid and he didn t kill a cat But which is more important the truth or perception Woman in Prada centres on an attractive middle-aged woman who enjoys the finer things in life And now that she s no longer a suburban housewife she s finally free to explore her own desires But what if they are leading her to be with a much younger man Can she choose to put social optics to the side and do what makes her happy for oncePunch Up
Par Kat Sandler Sandler. 2017
Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy leading a simple life while working at a bread factory …
Then he stumbles upon Brenda a sad young woman who s about to end her life Convinced he s fallen in love Duncan strikes up a desperate deal if he can get her to laugh she ll give life another shot but if she doesn t even giggle he ll help her go through with her plan There s just one catch Duncan isn t funny At all So he borrows Pat his second-favourite comedian to help him come up with the perfect routine But Pat is having a hard time mustering his sense of humour after a bad break-up and the last thing he wants to do is teach a lonely loser the difference between knock-knock jokes and schadenfreude while chained to a typewriter A tragicomedy of three misfits Punch Up navigates a hostage situation and a life-or-death comedy lesson to show just how far we ll go for a laughRedheaded Stepchild
Par Johnnie Walker. 2016
Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried This makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild Literally…
And tomorrow at lunch the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up he even made a Facebook event about it Should Nicholas skip school His new stepmom a chain-smoking ex-Jehovah s Witness golf pro named Mary-Anne doesn t want him playing hooky His secret alter ego the fabulous and charismatic Rufus Vermilion thinks his ginger genetics will doom him either way But when events in the schoolyard leave both Mary-Anne and Rufus speechless it s up to Nicholas to pick up the pieces and do some serious growing upI Am For You
Par Mieko Ouchi. 2016
Fighting words Lainie and Mariam have it out for each other so…
it s no surprise when they finally come to violent blows in the middle of their high school s drama room That s when Caddell Morris an ex-professional actor and newly minted student teacher steps in By teaching the girls the art of stage combat he hopes to help them understand more about the roots and costs of violence But when he convinces the drama teacher to let them play Mercutio and Tybalt in their school production of Romeo and Juliet swords words and egos battle and clash Can they find a way to work togetherThe Making of St. Jerome
Par Marie Beath Badian. 2017
When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled…
with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty of racial profiling? Was he an innocent bystander or someone other than his family’s shining star? Internalizing his survivor’s guilt while reflecting on their strained relationship, Jason’s quest for truth and justice is tainted as he discovers there are no simple answers.Sultans of the Street
Par Anusree Roy. 2016
When young orphans Mala and Chun Chun encounter brothers Prakash and Ojha on the busy streets of Kolkata, they are…
immediately at odds. The brothers come from a lower-middle-class family and spend their time flying kites instead of attending class, while Mala and Chun Chun can only dream of going to school, a goal Aunty promises will be fulfilled if they beg for money from passersby. After a petty fruit-stall heist lands Ojha in Aunty’s cunning hands, the brothers are blackmailed into begging alongside Mala and Chun Chun, forcing the children to interact. Though they find each other nuisances at first, the kids soon realize their strength in numbers as Aunty’s scheming is slowly revealed.Mahmoud
Par Tara Grammy, Tom Arthur Davis. 2015
Mahmoud is an exuberant, if overwhelmingly passionate, Iranian engineer-cum-taxi driver who relishes the chance to regale his passengers with his…
love of Persian culture. Emanuelos, a fabulously gay Spanish perfume salesman, can talk a mile-a-minute about his boyfriend, Behnam. And then there's Tara, an awkwardly charming Iranian Canadian preteen who just wants to be "normal," whatever that means. When the three strangers find themselves crossing paths in the busy streets of Toronto, their experiences with racism, sexism, homophobia, homesickness, and everything in between become intertwined in unexpected ways.Yukonstyle
Par Sarah Berthiaume, Nadine Desrochers. 2014
Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a run-down East Vancouver neighbourhood. And now that the Robert…
Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First Nations woman, could be one of the unidentified victims. His ailing father isn't forthcoming with answers, and Garin's suspicions are at an all-time high. In the midst of all this, his roommate Yuko has taken in Kate, a young pregnant hitchhiker who unintentionally wreaks havoc on their friendship. But when Garin's father is hospitalized, nothing else matters but finally determining the truth about his mother. In this deftly written play, the characters grapple with the harsh Yukon winter within a world of racism, addiction, and loneliness.White Biting Dog and Other Plays
Par Judith Thompson. 2014
This book collects some of Judith Thompson s earlier hard-to-find plays including White Biting Dog …
a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor Street Viaduct until he encounters a small dog who sets him on a different path I Am Yours a harrowing story about a group of characters on the brink of despair as each tries to escape what haunts them the most and Pink a moving monologue set in 1970s South Africa that centres on a young girl s surprising reaction after her nanny is murdered during a protestOn a First Name Basis
Par Norm Foster. 2014
David a successful novelist with writer s block has received some devastating news he s kept to himself…
Lucy his housekeeper of twenty-eight years has her own secret that she s afraid to admit As Lucy is getting ready to end her shift David invites her to stay and have a drink curious about the woman who s been tending to his house all these years But as the night sets in and the drinks start to flow secrets reveal themselves for better or worseGood Mother
Par Damien Atkins. 2009
The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother leaving them to care…
for her as she fights to regain her memory Touching and powerful Good Mother examines the ties that hold a family together and the crises that draw them apart A compelling drama by one of Canada s most promising young playwrights Winner of the 2001 Prism UBC Creative Writing Department AwardThe Last Dog of War
Par Linda Griffiths. 2016
In 2005 Linda made a trip with her father to the last reunion of his RAF comrades the 49th…
Squadron Bomber Command Intertwining her father s experiences of a long-ago war with the war between a father and daughter Linda Griffiths unveils an emotional chronicle of a family navigating a familiar yet foreign relationshipTry: Communion/Was Spring/Small Things
Par Daniel Macivor. 2016
In Communion, a recovering alcoholic and her estranged daughter try to negotiate a new relationship in spite of vastly different…
lifestyles; Was Spring tells the story of three women who suffered a tragic accident years ago; and Small Things explores how the little differences keep us from understanding each other.Of Human Bondage
Par Vern Thiessen. 2016
When Philip meets Mildred a disarming tea-shop waitress he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by…
his intense attraction to her Mildred for all her teasing isn t all that interested in Philip but rather in flattery possessions and security Yet Philip in a powerful haze of passion and pride obsessively pursues Mildred despite the anguish and emotional carnage that repels and binds them at all costs Of Human Bondage is a grand story of lust unrequited love and the pursuit of beauty