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Drama
Karen Hines
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Description for Drama
Paperback. Written by a Second City alum, this genre-bending, multi-character comic play is part graphic novel, part Japanese horror film. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 185.
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Drama Penelope Douglas is an ex--forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her sleek bathroom and her oil-wife friend pronounces Penelope her baby's godmother. Will she be able to find heart in this wild and soulless landscape? Will she have to smudge her lipstick to "cowboy up"? Drama, a new play by the master of edgy dark humor, has all the answers. Karen Hines is the author of Hello ...Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The ... Read more
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Drama Penelope Douglas is an ex--forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her sleek bathroom and her oil-wife friend pronounces Penelope her baby's godmother. Will she be able to find heart in this wild and soulless landscape? Will she have to smudge her lipstick to "cowboy up"? Drama, a new play by the master of edgy dark humor, has all the answers. Karen Hines is the author of Hello ...Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452561
SKU
V9781552452561
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99-15
About Karen Hines
Karen Hines is the author of Hello...Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The Pochsy Plays, both published by Coach House Books. Her plays and short films featuring her character Pochsy have been presented internationally and have won many production and literary awards and nominations including finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama. A Second City alumna, Karen has also appeared ... Read more
Reviews for Drama
'A very clever, cautionary play-with-epilogue about becoming the medium for what we watch on television and being what we consume ... a magnificent play.'
Calgary Herald 'Hines is nothing, if not an original.'
Globe and Mail 'Some scenes in [Drama] are so electric that, if this were television instead of stage, you'd want to grab your remote and ... Read more
Calgary Herald 'Hines is nothing, if not an original.'
Globe and Mail 'Some scenes in [Drama] are so electric that, if this were television instead of stage, you'd want to grab your remote and ... Read more