The Dunsmuirs - A Promise kept
Rod Langley
Talon Books
6 Male 3 Female
A dark family secret emerges in this second play about the wealthy and ill-fated Dunsmuir family
$19.99
Plays by Publisher - Talon Books
Local Boy Makes Good - Three Musicals - 18 Wheels & Rock and Roll & Don Messer's Jubilee
John Gray
Talon Books
"18 Wheels is a high-speed delight - rollicking country music of great charm, characterisations of great wit - a totally successful musical entertainment on a wholly Canadian theme" ~ Vancouver Rovince "...
$19.99
Lost Souls and Missing Persons
Sally Clark
Talon Books
3 Male 3 Female
Hannah, wife and mother of two teenagers, vacationing with her husband Lyle in New York, wakes up in the middle of the night and looks at the man sleeping in the bed next to her and screams She does not ...
$19.99
Paradise by the River
Vittorio Rossi
Talon Books
3 Female
Canada. 1940. In a time and country fraught with the uncertainties of war, Prime Minister MacKenzie King calls for the destruction of any "subversive elements" on the nation's soil The Act is supported ...
$19.99
Life Without Instruction
Sally Clark
Talon Books
5 Male 3 Female
Based on a true story and a real trial, this presents a woman's struggle for freedom, identity and dignity Artemisia Fentileshi's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusua...
$19.99
The Real World?
Michel Tremblay
Talon Books
3 Male 4 Female
A play within a play. A young playwright draws on his family as the raw material for his first work "It is Tremblay's triumph that The Real World finds interesting new ways of expressing and illuminatin...
$19.99
The Fairies are Thirsty
Denise Boucher
Talon Books
0 Male 3 Female
Three women - a housewife, a whore, and the Virgin Mary - fight to break out of the stereotypes in which they've been imprisoned for years "A powerful script and an important play" ~ Montreal Gazette
$19.99
Forever Yours Mary-Lou
Michel Tremblay
Talon Books
2 Male 2 Female
In his brilliantly insightful, uncompromising drama Forever Yours, Mary-Lou, Michel Tremblay brings one family's awful past and haunted present together in mortal combat over a kitchen table" ~ The Detroit...
$19.99
Whale Riding Weather
Bryden MacDonald
Talon Books
3 Male 0 Female
A love story in which a faded old queen finds his life slipping away from him along with his young lover, who meets a new, younger man Bryden MacDonald says: "One day when I was sitting in a tiny little ...
$12.99
Balconville
David Fennario
Talon Books
6 Male 3 Female
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal Winner of the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play, 1979 "Balconville is a work of genius. It's angry bitter, cruel and f...
$19.99
bpNichol - What History Teaches
Stephen Scobie
Talon Books
Scobie illuminates Nichol's relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol's importance as a writer of fiction
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Corker
Wendy Lill
Talon Books
3 Male 3 Female
Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state Opening with the extended family's awkward attendance at "Se...
$19.99
Walsh
Sharon Pollock
Talon Books
3 Female
A historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn The play examines Sitting Bull's relationship with superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted ...
$19.99
Joe Beef - A History of Pointe Saint Charles
David Fennario
Talon Books
5 Male 5 Female
Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal's legendary barkeeper extrordinaire, Joe Beef "An evening of political theatre with both guts and skill is a rare commodity these days" ~ Montreal Ga...
$19.99
Nothing to Lose
David Fennario
Talon Books
3 Male 3 Female
In a tavern in the Point Saint Charles district of Montreal, three friends gather on their lunch hour to reminisce An old friend turned radical playwright shows up at the bar When one of the men challen...
$19.99
Les Canadiens
Rick Salutin with Ken Dryden
Talon Books
6 Male 1 Female
A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor Winner of the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play, 1977 "An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well" ~ Montreal Gazette
$19.99
Two Plays - The Island of Demons & Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted
George Woodcock
Talon Books
Two Canadian unique stories of exile drawn from legend ... "Voices from the past that haunt us still" ~ Essays in Canadian Writing
$19.99
The Death of Renia Liavesque
David Fennario
Talon Books
3 Male 3 Female
In taking on "The Matter of Quebec," David Fennario provides audiences and readers with an abiding critique of the notion that history is created around "great causes" by "great men" Given the recent re...
$19.99
Hosanna
Michel Tremblay
Talon Books
2 Male 0 Female
Claude Lemieux is the misfit farm boy from Ste. Eutache who flees to Montreal where he becomes a fashionable hairdresser by day and "a woman of the world by night". He is "Hosanna", a drag queen with the big...
$12.99
2000
Joan MacLeod
Talon Books
3 Male 2 Female
The play 2000 grew out of a story Joan MacLeod read about a cougar that had wandered into a sports arena in Vancouver, B.C "I was intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city invad...
$19.99