Blood Relations and Other Plays (REV ED)

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Blood Relations and Other Plays (REV ED)

Edited by: Anne Nothof, Diane Bessai

This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades&#44 among them&#44 the first ever Governor General&#146s Award for Drama for Blood Relations in 1981&#46 Her characters are the oppressed&#44 from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play&#44 Blood Relations&#44 to the prisoners of One Tiger to a Hill&#44 to Leah&#44 &quotchosen&quot daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr&#46 Big in Whiskey Six Cadenza&#46

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Anne Nothof

Anne Nothof is Professor of English at Athabasca University in Alberta where she has developed and taught undergraduate and post-graduate distance education courses in literature and drama. She has published critical essays on British and Canadian theatre in journals and books, and edited collections of essays and plays for Guernica, NeWest, and Playwrights Canada Press. She is a board member at NeWest Press and Athabasca University Press, and past president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. For twelve years she hosted a weekly radio program on drama, and developed a television series on world theatre. More recently she has assumed the editorial responsibility for the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.

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