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George F. Walker
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George F. Walker
General Editor, Ric Knowles Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada. Book jacket.
Essays on George F. Walker
Essays on George F. Walker's brash, assertive, perceptive, genuinely perverse, often "wonky," and very, very funny plays.
Dead Metaphor
Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor, examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan. In The Ravine, a mayoral candidate learns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. The Burden of Self-Awareness has money at the centre of a dramatic conflict of values. Each of the three plays is populated by characters trying to navigate the increasingly blurred lines of what’s right and wrong - trying to always stay informed, alert, and ready to act for the common good. Or just to get even.
Suburban Motel
"[A] group of plays, all set in the same slightly rundown motel room, each play made to stand on its own."--Table of contents page.
The Power Plays
First published as a trilogy in 1986, The Power Playscontain Gossip(1977), Filthy Rich(1979), and The Art of War(1983). Completely revised and updated for this new Talonbooks edition, these three plays showcase both the development and the culmination of Walker's engagement with the film noir style.
Escape from Happiness
Escape from Happiness takes place in the kitchen of an old, slightly rundown house in a not-so-classy section of a large city. It's home to Nora, a good-natured, slow-moving, fairly batty middle-aged woman; her daughter Gail, who is tough, sensible, and a little high-strung; Gail's husband Junior, an affable but rather dim fellow. Also living here is Tom, who is dying of some unspecified disease; Tom is, according to Nora, a stranger who looks exactly like (and coincidentally has the same name as) her husband, who deserted the family ten years ago after trying to burn down the house.
Somewhere Else
Contains Walker's own selection of his early plays: Beyond Mozambique, Zastrozzi, Theatre of the Film Noir and Nothing Sacred.
The East End Plays
Includes "Beautiful City," "Love and Anger" and "Tough."
