About the Author
Erin Shields
Erin Shields is a Montreal-based playwright. Her adaptation of Paradise Lost premiered at the Stratford Festival and won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Playwriting Prize, and her play If We Were Birds, which premiered at Tarragon Theatre, won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award. Other theatre credits include Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre), The Lady from the Sea (Shaw Festival), The Millennial Malcontent and Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon Theatre) and Instant (Geordie Theatre). Upcoming projects include Queen Goneril for Soulpepper, Jane Eyre for the Citadel Theatre and Ransacking Troy for the Stratford Festival.
And just like that, it's all over! We won't spoil the winner of this year's Canada Reads bout in this header, but we will say we're thrilled about the book that lead this pack (WINK). Here's our pairings for the third and fourth books eliminated, and for the winner!
Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Drama, If We Were Birds is a re-imaging of Ovid's masterpiece “Tereus, Procne, and Philomela.” In this Greek tragedy, a chain of horrific events are set off when Procne begs her husband King Tereus to bring her beloved sister ... Read more
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