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Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, CAN >>>

1987

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Synopsis:
A young woman who dreams of escaping a small town in Northern Ontario is given the chance to leave one night when her terminally ill mother shows up at the bus station drunk&but the woman's brother and his wife will have none of it, and a family who is already broken breaks down completely.

Necessary Angel, Toronto, CAN >>>

1998

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Playwrights Canada Press

1999

If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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Synopsis:
Leona and Danny's young daughter, Amelia, is killed in a car crash. Paralyzed in the accident, Danny is spurned by Leona's accusations as she clings helplessly to a balloon containing Amelia's breath. Enter Lola, a pathological grief councilor. Daring and unsentimental, Beating Heart Cadaver travels though dark emotional territory, unearthing humor and forgiveness as Danny and Leona fight, trying to make sense of their tragedy as they struggle back to each other, and to life.

Alberta: Theatre Projects, Alberta, CAN >>>

2007

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Playwrights Canada Press

2007

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(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Synopsis:
A public tragedy shatters a working class family in Montréal. Struggling to survive the aftermath, Benoît and Kathleen do everything they can to help their beloved son Jean cope with guilt and rage. . .but will it be enough? This searing drama on courage, heroism, and despair explores the long public shadow that private family violence casts.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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8 actors play 19 parts.

Synopsis:
While overhearing his parents make love, 12 year old Nicolas thinks he sees a bat lying on the skylight in his room. His father tells him it is only a shadow but when Nicolas falls asleep a figure steps in through the skylight&and Nicolas slips into a dream. He dreams that his father dies in car accident, his grief-stricken mother turns to religion and that he, Nicolas, becomes the object of a lonely priest's misplaced love. Nicolas ages three years as he roams through the crowded landscape of his own nightmare, a landscape increasingly dominated by a desperate Father Duvalier who is being eaten alive by his own doubt. Hilarious, outrageous, and emotional.

Necessary Angel, Toronto, CAN >>>

2002

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Playwrights Canada Press

2003

If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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Play with Music

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This play also includes a chorus so the large cast is excellent for university productions.

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Synopsis:
Rats take many forms in the corporate democracy of Hameln where an orchestrated chaos reigns and ghosts of dead children mingle with the living. Ruled by the tyrannical Mayor Poppenheimer, the greedy Town Council holds him hostage with threats of immediate strikes while selling off essential services so that they can buy more casinos. A gang of Rats, led by Kingsley - who reads Nietzsche and longs to be human - bristle at being forced to do naughty jobs in exchange for leftovers. Enter the Piper, a meek musician whose silent flute plays on the deepest desires of all who hear it. He literally collides with the Mayor's daughter and they fall instantly in love. But when the body of the son of the Deputy Mayor is fished out of the river, moral outrage erupts, Kingsley is publicly tortured, and the Town Council declares war on the Rats. In the midst of the battle, the Piper plays and the Rats self-destruct, but the narcissistic adults refuse to pay&and the children of Hameln disappear, leaving nothing behind but ghosts. Beneath this boisterous comic-tragedy loosely based on the legend of the Pied Piper of Hameln, (but influenced by politics and Nietzsche), lies an astute meditation on the selfishness of modern society and the anguish of children clinging to the notion of unconditional love. A remarkably intelligent and hilarious re-telling, using vaudeville and slap-stick as stylistic launching pads, The Piper is not for a young audience, but for the adults who inexcusably betray children in pursuit of their own desires and concerns.