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Drama / lm, 1f / Interior Trying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during 1967-1968 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle had been Attorney General of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. After the war, President Truman named him Chief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The play is about a young Canadian girl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, "trying" to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the
THE STORY: The scene is the Morley farm, in the prairie country of Saskatchewan, Canada. Margaret and Walter Morley have been estranged for fourteen years, ever since his encounter with a water witch resulted in the arrival of his illegitimate da
The decline and fall of an alcoholic's family. Cam, a dynamic and successful salesman on the prairie, loses his lucrative job. After a downward spiral, which includes threatening the very lives of his. wife and daughter, he finally leaves from the house in order to assure their survival. The newest work from the multi-award-winning playwright.
'Gorgeously written ... It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH 'Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn't put it down. A masterpiece' POPPY DELEVINGNE Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies. Laura needs a rest. When she sleeps, she dreams of drowning; when she wakes, she can't remember getting home. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, with a message, or a warning. 'Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... Glass's battlefield prose calls to mind the literature of the trenches. This, though, is a trauma-generating wa...
Woman Wanted is the story of a Boston Irish lass who moves to New Haven to housekeep for a widowed Yale professor and his troubled son. "A spunky tale recounted with high good humor", Publisher's Weekly. "A steadily amusing muddle of collisions and cross-purposes." The Atlantic Monthly. The 1999 film stars Holly Hunter, Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Moriarity.
"Scenes from Canadian plays for two to six actors. Thirty-two excellent opportunities for young thespians these are texts which I would certainly use with my own senior students of dramatic arts." Reviewing Librarian
Tells how to match wines with foods, and describes the characteristics of wines from around the world.
A deliciously gothic story of wishes and curses – a new dark fairy tale set against a Victorian backdrop full of lace and smoke. ‘Deliciously dark’ Woman Magazine
Gerda has heard her grandmother's stories of magic and adventure all her life. But neither she nor her best friend Kay believe in them . . . until Kay is infected with slivers of snow dust and the Snow Queen arrives to claim them. When Kay disappears, everyone believes he is dead. Except Gerda.When an accident lands her on the road to the fabled Ice Palace, Gerda's choice is simple: run back to the comfort of her home, or venture into the unknown to find Kay. And with the ice burrowing deeper into Kay's heart, Gerda is running out of time.New friends, new enemies, and constant danger await Gerda on the road north, and she will have plenty of chances to turn back. When all seems lost, will she persevere? Or will the Snow Queen win Kay's loyalty-and his life?(A middle grade retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale, The Snow Queen.)
THE STORY: Two grandmothers, a daughter, and a granddaughter gather on the deck of a beach house in Connecticut. One grandmother has flown, for the first time, from the Canadian prairie. She is an illiterate woman whose parents were homesteading pi