Blowfish
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2006
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887547089
- Publish Date
- Jan 2006
- List Price
- $11.00
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About the authors
Vern Thiessen is one of Canada’s most produced playwrights. His plays have been translated into five languages and have been seen around the world. Vern is the recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards for Outstanding New Play, the Carol Bolt Award, the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Canada’s highest honour for a playwright. He has served as president of both the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta and was artistic director of Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre for six seasons. He is married to acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Susie Moloney.
John Murrell is one of the most frequently produced Canadian playwrights. His plays have been translated into fifteen different languages and performed internationally. His work for the stage includes Waiting for the Parade, a Canadian classic; Memoir, which has been produced world-wide; Chalmers Best Canadian Play Award winners Farther West and The Faraway Nearby; and the libretto for the acclaimed opera Filumena. As a translator, he has created frequently revived versions of Chekhovâ??s Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard; Ibsenâ??s The Doll House; Rostandâ??s Cyrano de Bergerac; and The Four Lives of Marie, Elisaâ??s Skin, and Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse, all by Carole Fréchette.
Other titles by
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The Big Secret Book
An Intense Guide for Creating Performance Theatre
Big Secret Book
An Intense Guide for Creating Performance Theatre
Small Talk
Waiting for the Parade
The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of Yu
Carole Fréchette: Two Plays
Helen's Necklace and John and Beatrice
Cyrano de Bergerac
A New Prose Translation by John Murell
The Faraway Nearby
Democracy
One Whole Day beside a Pond
"And do you have anything else?"
Audition Pieces from Canadian Plays