From the author of Glenn and Inexpressible Island comes this scathing satiric play about sex, power and the Canadian newspaper industry. Lionel K. Biggar, newspaper baron, aspiring English Lord and megalo-maniac, and Trent, a burnt-out liberal journalist formerly in Biggar's employ, are kidnapped from a shareholder's meeting by Eve, shape-shifting terrorist and nemesis. Chained back to back in a dungeon cell, the two men find themselves in a nebulous zone where ideological mind games are the or...
These four plays White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad and Over written by Darren O'Donnell for his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, will challenge your politics, your ontology and everything you hold to be safe, stable and sacrosanct.
Set on a mountain, in an anonymous village along the Trans-Canada highway, "Caribou "is a stark, unrelenting character study of two hunters in a savage October of the heart. Louis, a construction worker and husband, must negotiate his brother-in-law Duncan, mentally deficient since birth and dependent on him and his wife, Anne. One day, he and Duncan embark on a hunting trip. It is a last chance for both men, driven to the limit by love, each willing to kill for their right to exist.
Set in 18th century France, Monsieur D'Eon-courtier, soldier, spy and intellect-keeps his (or her) secret for 60 years. A gender-bending, swash-buckling, biting comedy with all the right elements for an adventure story, it nonetheless makes some interesting observations about gender and class, both in 18th century France and today.
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
by Hannah Moscovitch, Ben Caplan, and Christian Barry
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The Gay Heritage Project
by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir