Witness to a Conga and Other Plays

By (author): Stewart Lemoine

The Sterling Award-winning author of At the Zenith of the Empire and A Teatro Trilogy returns with a new collection of charming, heart-warming comedies. Originally written for the Edmonton Fringe Festival, these three plays combine Lemoine’s trademark sparkling banter and fanciful settings with often unexpectedly emotional explorations of marriage, love, and family. In Happy Toes, a husband’s faith is tested when he begins to suspect his wife is having an affair with a close friend; in The Oculist’s Holiday, a World War I widow falls in love with an American eye doctor on vacation in the small Swiss city of Lausanne; and in Witness to a Conga, a young man’s impending marriage stirs up memories of his troubled relationship with his father, his parents’ divorce, and the woman who never knew she was the great love of his life.

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Stewart Lemoine

Stewart Lemoine was born in Winnipeg, MB. Since 1982, he has been the artistic director of the Edmonton theatre company, Teatro La Quindicina, with whom he has premiered over fifty plays. In addition, Lemoine has taught playwriting for Edmonton Public Schools and Theatre Alberta, and has written and directed works for young performers at the Citadel Theatre, the University of Alberta’s Drama Department, and Grant MacEwan Community College Theatre Arts. Other published works by Lemoine include Cocktails at Pam’s and Evelyn Strange (0-88754-539-4), and A Teatro Trilogy (1-896300-80-4). Lemoine is a five-time winner of Edmonton’s Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for playwriting (most recently for At the Zenith of the Empire). He has also won Toronto’s Dora Moore Award and is the recipient of a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.


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The Sterling Award-winning author of At the Zenith of the Empire and A Teatro Trilogy returns with a new collection of charming, heart-warming comedies. Originally written for the Edmonton Fringe Festival, these three plays combine Lemoine’s trademark sparkling banter and fanciful settings with often unexpectedly emotional explorations of marriage, love, and family. In Happy Toes, a husband’s faith is tested when he begins to suspect his wife is having an affair with a close friend; in The Oculist’s Holiday, a World War I widow falls in love with an American eye doctor on vacation in the small Swiss city of Lausanne; and in Witness to a Conga, a young man’s impending marriage stirs up memories of his troubled relationship with his father, his parents’ divorce, and the woman who never knew she was the great love of his life.

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Dimensions:

192 Pages
9in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

July 15, 2011

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

NeWest Press

ISBN:

9781897126868

Book Subjects:

DRAMA / General

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Language:

eng

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