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Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who's had to fight for everything.Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But he didn't expect to actually make friends. He just hopes he's accepted for how he looks.When Dom and Fred meet on a hill overlooking a bridge that connects Not-The-City to The City, a place where anyone can be anything they want, the two find a refuge in one another and make a pact: they'll cross the bridge at the end of the school year. They'll be free.

Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc's internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d'Annunzio waits in his opulent villa - a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence - for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state.

Depuis leur village du Nunavik, dans la cuisine de leur petite maison, Hannah et Niap écoutent la radio. Source ininterrompue de musique, d'information et de lien social entre les membres de la communauté, la voix des ondes est le personnage principal de la pièce. C'est d'elle que proviennent les témoignages de cinq jeunes femmes, dont la vie est partagée entre le sud du Québec et le Grand Nord.

A Love Letter to Emily C, by Sheri-D Wilson, explores the life, times and milestones of Canadian icon and artist Emily Carr. Humorous and moving, this play is a dialogue between Carr and her monkey Woo, as Carr unravels her life.

A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn't expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start, while her best friend Lily is eager for them to reconnect. Lily throws a last-minute party fuelled by alcohol and Instagram, which leads to a long-awaited encounter between Emma and Lily's older brother Chris. But the next day Emma feels that something went terribly wrong.

When Laura finds a familiar book of poems in her estranged twin Lizzie's bedroom, the sisters are dragged through a turbulent past, reliving their complicated history in order to make sense of their present.

I wish only that both the audiences who have followed MacIvor and those who have never heard of him to see this play and marvel at a voice maturing into a new form of greatness.

Donald Wellner knew success when he wrote a hit play thirty-five years ago, but now he's recently separated, living in a small apartment, and promising that he's trying to start a new script. His fortysomething son Blake is a travel writer with commitment issues who pops by between trips to try to hold his family together and prove his worth. Over seven years, Donald experiences the onset of dementia, and father and son become both closer and farther apart.

It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple languages. At nineteen, she married a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell and became the most significant influence in his life.This is Mabel's story, offering the unique perspective of a woman whose remarkable life was forever connected to her famous, distracted husband.

There's a great deal of rage underlying [Beautiful Man], but also many humorous elements, and so many things to admire about Shields's acute observations and inversions of expectation . . . Every new play from her is a challenge, and a treat.