Write on

"In Rodeo Life, history too, runs through women. It is written in the nourishing blood of the womb and in the rush of milk to the breast; it is fashioned in ovens and at kitchen tables; it is woven on looms down through the centuries and can be read in quilt patterns and in the stitches of the bridal gown. History begins with the Mother." "In Prairie Tomten Laura, chastised by the Town Girls for helping out her neighbour Mr. Bitternose, and for feeding a half-wild cat named Badger, struggles to protect herself from these girl bullies who fear and despise all "weirdness." Laura derives strength from the tomten, a Scandinavian folk figure with a red cap who patrols the farm on snowy nights." "In Choices, thirty-odd years after an unidentified young man is found dead on the railway lines, a young woman tries to make sense of some papers left by her father, who has just died. She begins to see how the deaths of this unknown man and her father are entwined. A play about ambition, betrayal, selfishness, forgiveness and love." "In The Scarborough Four, four teenaged squeegee kinds from Scarborough find themselves arrested for horse stealing in a Saskatchewan town. The townsfolk trick the outsiders into providing free labour in place of a harsh sentence for their crime. Discovering that they've been duped, the teens take revenge by leading the local teenagers to rebel." "In The Armoured Heart, a cunning old woman and an erstwhile Church scribe are thrown into a dungeon in Rouen on the day Joan of Arc is burned at the stake. Was it a miracle or a legend that Joan's heart refused to be consumed by the flames sealing her martyrdom? And how does it touch on the relationship between the two prisoners?"--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

Playwrights Canada Press

Editions

1

Pages

287

ISBN

9780887547843

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