Jennie’s Story & Under the Skin

By (author): Betty Lambert

Introduction by: Pamela Hawthorn

Winner of the 1983 Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Jennie’s Story is set in the late 1930s on the Canadian prairies. It concerns the Sexual Sterilization Act that was enacted in 1928, allowing a sterilization procedure to be performed without consent on individuals that were deemed to be unfit or mentally challenged. Jennie McGrane takes the title role, and her discovery of what the priest Father Fabrizeau has done to her is the central drama of the play. Believing she had an appendectomy when she was a teenager, the truth is revealed when she’s unable to conceive.In Under the Skin, Emma, the twelve-year-old daughter of Maggie Benton, has disappeared. John and Renee Gifford, Maggie’s neighbours and friends, attempt to console her, but their own ominous behaviour makes this a cold comfort.

AUTHOR

Betty Lambert

Betty Lambert was a renowned Canadian playwright and English professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her most famous works were the children’s play The Riddle Machine, the radio play Grasshopper Hill, the comedy Sqrieux-de-Dieu, and the dramas Under the Skin and Jennie’s Story, which was adapted into the film Heart of the Sun in 1999. Betty Lambert passed away in 1983.

AUTHOR

Pamela Hawthorn

Betty Lambert was a renowned Canadian playwright and English professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her most famous works were the children’s play The Riddle Machine, the radio play Grasshopper Hill, the comedy Sqrieux-de-Dieu, and the dramas Under the Skin and Jennie’s Story, which was adapted into the film Heart of the Sun in 1999. Betty Lambert passed away in 1983.

Awards

  • Chalmers Canadian Play Award 1983, Winner
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    Dimensions:

    194 Pages
    8.37in * 5.37in * .52in
    244.00gr

    Published:

    November 01, 1987

    ISBN:

    9780887544620

    Book Subjects:

    DRAMA / Canadian

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    eng

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