After Class: Parents Night and The Bigger Issue
Autor George F. Walker Introducere de Wes Bergeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2017
These two plays take a hyper-critical view of the public education system. Parents Night is a scathing, bold look at the inside of an elementary school classroom. The Bigger Issue turns its eye towards the fragile ecosystem of junior high.
George F. Walker is one of Canada's most popular playwrights.
George F. Walker is one of Canada's most popular playwrights.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781772011845
ISBN-10: 1772011843
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Talon Books
Colecția Talonbooks
ISBN-10: 1772011843
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Talon Books
Colecția Talonbooks
Notă biografică
George F. Walker has been one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights since his career in theater began in the early 1970s. His first play, The Prince of Naples, premiered in 1972 at the newly opened Factory Theatre, a company that continues to produce his work. Since that time, he has written more than twenty plays and has created screenplays for several award-winning Canadian television series.
Part Kafka, part Lewis Carroll, Walker’s distinctive, gritty, fast-paced comedies satirize the selfishness, greed, and aggression of contemporary urban culture. Among his best-known plays are Gossip (1977); Zastrozzi, the Master of Discipline (1977); Criminals in Love (1984); Better Living (1986); Nothing Sacred (1988); Love and Anger (1989); Escape from Happiness (1991); Suburban Motel (1997, a series of six plays set in the same motel room); and Heaven (2000). Since the early 1980s, he has directed most of the premieres of his own plays.
Many of Walker’s plays have been presented across Canada and in more than five hundred productions internationally; they have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish, and Czechoslovakian.
During a ten-year absence, he mainly wrote for television, including the television series Due South, The Newsroom, This Is Wonderland, and The Line, as well as for the film Niagara Motel (based on three plays from his Suburban Motel series). Walker returned to the theatre with And So It Goes (2010).
Awards and honours include Member of the Order of Canada (2005); National Theatre School Gascon-Thomas Award (2002); two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama (for Criminals in Love and Nothing Sacred); five Dora Mavor Moore Awards; and eight Chalmers Canadian Play Awards.
Wes Berger was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. As a director, he is recognized for his direction of Rukmini's Gold (2015), Mamma's Boy (2010), and Larger Than Life: The Musical. As an actor, he is known for The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bridal Fever (2008), and Love You Like Christmas (2016).
Part Kafka, part Lewis Carroll, Walker’s distinctive, gritty, fast-paced comedies satirize the selfishness, greed, and aggression of contemporary urban culture. Among his best-known plays are Gossip (1977); Zastrozzi, the Master of Discipline (1977); Criminals in Love (1984); Better Living (1986); Nothing Sacred (1988); Love and Anger (1989); Escape from Happiness (1991); Suburban Motel (1997, a series of six plays set in the same motel room); and Heaven (2000). Since the early 1980s, he has directed most of the premieres of his own plays.
Many of Walker’s plays have been presented across Canada and in more than five hundred productions internationally; they have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish, and Czechoslovakian.
During a ten-year absence, he mainly wrote for television, including the television series Due South, The Newsroom, This Is Wonderland, and The Line, as well as for the film Niagara Motel (based on three plays from his Suburban Motel series). Walker returned to the theatre with And So It Goes (2010).
Awards and honours include Member of the Order of Canada (2005); National Theatre School Gascon-Thomas Award (2002); two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama (for Criminals in Love and Nothing Sacred); five Dora Mavor Moore Awards; and eight Chalmers Canadian Play Awards.
Wes Berger was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. As a director, he is recognized for his direction of Rukmini's Gold (2015), Mamma's Boy (2010), and Larger Than Life: The Musical. As an actor, he is known for The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bridal Fever (2008), and Love You Like Christmas (2016).
Descriere
The first two plays in George F. Walker’s new series, After Class, a hyper-critical view of the education system.