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Chris Johnson
Essays on George F. Walker’s brash, assertive, perceptive, genuinely perverse, often wonky, and very, very funny plays.
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George F Walker
People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada’s king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General’s Literary Awards for…
Orphans for the Czar ruefully exposes the duplicity, revenge, and self-interest at the core of a culture about to go up in flames. Suggested by Gorsky's novel The Life of…
George F. Walker
Six plays that take place in the same hotel room, including Problem Child, Risk Everything,The End of Civilization and others.
Includes Governor General’s Award-winning Criminals in Love (1984), Chalmers Award-winning Better Living (1986) and Escape from Happiness (1987).
Contains Gossip (1977), Filthy Rich (1979) and The Art of War (1983), three plays that showcase Walker’s film noir style.
Recognizable characters play out their coincidental relationships in a city park. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
An allegory of our post-9/11 lives, but also a paean to the will that carries us through our darkest hours.
Slink through 1920s NYC with master criminals and corrupt bankers. Cast of 13 men and 5 women.
Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new works that excoriate political culture, individualism and the accompanying moral depravity.
Canada’s top playwright takes on teen pregnancy in two thought-provoking comic dramas for young people’s theater.
Three plays exploring characters living in extremity include Beautiful City, Love and Anger and Tough!
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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Canada’s master playwright applies his trademark black humor and incredibly crisp dialogue to the family and politically correct multiculturalism.
The first two plays in George F. Walker’s new series, After Class, a hyper-critical view of the education system.
George Walker,J F Schiereck
Recent advances suggest that the concept of information might hold the key to unravelling the mystery of life’s origins. This book provides fresh insights from experts in philosophy, biology, chemistry…
