Synopses & Reviews
Where is the East End? Its where the sun comes up and where you bury the dead. Its where George Walker set six of his plays. Its the East End of Toronto; the Lower East Side of New York; down by the East River; East L.A.; East Vancouver. Its where you get down to the basics of beginnings and endings, and how you get from each of those ends to the other. Its where Walkers settings have come home.” From his offer of tenuous hope to the denizens of a city salvaged from the powerful and the greedy in Beautiful City (1987); to his championing of women in Love and Anger (1989); to his explorations of sex and gender issues among three young people in Tough! (1993), Walker continues his explorations of characters living in extremity in the arena of a political comedy uniquely his own.
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"Walker writes with unprecedented directness
[His] characters think and feel out loud in a perpetual present-tense fever because life, and often more, is on the line."
Village Voice
Synopsis
Drama. From his offer of tenuous hope to the denizens of a city salvaged from the powerful and the greedy in Beautiful City to his championing of women in Love and Anger to his explorations of sex and gender issues in Tough!, Walker continues his explorations of characters living in extremity in the arena of a political comedy uniquely his own. Walker has an eye for the ridiculous and an imagination that packs his plays with action - New York Times.
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Includes
Beautiful City, Love and Anger and
Tough.
Synopsis
Three plays exploring characters living in extremity include
Beautiful City,
Love and Anger and
Tough!About the Author
George F. WalkerGeorge F. Walker is one of Canadas most prolific and widely produced playwrights. His work has been honoured with eight Chalmers Awards and five Dora Awards. His plays Criminals in Love and Nothing Sacred each won Governor Generals Awards for Drama. In 1999 Talonbooks released The East End Plays: Part One (which includes Criminals in Love, the Chalmers Award-winning Better Living, and Escape from Happiness) and The Power Plays (a collection containing Gossip, Filthy Rich, and The Art of War).