Pollock, Sharon

Blood Relations & Other Plays

A Voice of Her Own: Three Long Monologues

Includes, I Claudia, by Kristen Thomson-Claudia is an official pre-teen reeling from her parent's recent divorce. Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen-MacEwen, as invoked by playwright Linda Griffiths, returns to a modern world one night, bringing images and a prophetic warning; and Getting it Straight-speaking from a place where sanity and insanity are shuffled like a deck of cards. Sharon Pollock's Eme is determined to play her hand.

Doc

Doc Chalmers, now aging and in poor health after a serious heart attack, is having a hospital named for him to honour his lifetime of service. But dedication to career and community has come at a price. His wife Bob has ended her own life, as has his mother, and he has been distanced from his children. The play explores these family relationships through a variety of innovative techniques. The central character, DocÂ’s daughter Catherine, appears both as her mid-30's self on a visit home to see her father after his heart attack, and as her childhood self Katie. And Pollock has crafted a complex narrative structure that moves back and forth in time as it explores the ways in which different mental states may produce different versions of the same event.

Doc was first produced in 1984 at Theatre Calgary, and has since been produced widely elsewhere; the play received the Governor GeneralÂ’s Award for Drama. This Broadview edition includes a new introduction by the playwright.

Walsh

Heroines: Three Plays

Three of Canada's most distinguished playwrights-Michel Tremblay, Sharon Pollock and John Murrell-depict vivid manifestations of the feminine.

Sharon Pollock: Three Plays

Set in Vancouver circa 1914, End Dream follows the death of a young Scottish nanny employed by a member of the political and social elite of the era, a death which raises questions of murder and suicide. Moving Pictures is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman who as an actress sang, danced and hammed her way across North America in the early 1900s. Angel's Trumpet is a play about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Fair Liberty's Call

A United Empire Loyalist family flees from Boston to New Brunswick during the American Revolution. In late October, 1785, they host a reunion, and are joined by two veterans and a stranger whom they assume also to have been a former soldier on the Loyalist side. But the stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel seeking to avenge the death of his brother; at gunpoint he demands that the others choose one among them to be executed at first light. First performed by the Stratford Festival in 1993, Fair LibertyÂ’s Call has since been frequently produced across North America.

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works Volume Two

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works Volume Three: Volume Three

"Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre."-from the introduction by Cynthia Zimmerman

Includes among others Walsh; The Komagata Maru Incident; The Wreck of the National Line; Sweet Land of Liberty; Doc; Prairie Dragons; and Getting it Straight.

Six Canadian Plays