Carole Fréchette: Two Plays - Softcover

Fréchette, Carole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887545017 ISBN 13: 9780887545016

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2007

Synopsis

In John and Beatrice, Beatrice waits for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. A play about the difficulty of connection and the meaning of love. In Helen’s Necklace, Helen wanders through a Middle Eastern city looking for a lost pearl necklace. Helen comes into contact with a series of people, and she is irrevocably changed by her search for a trinket.

About this title

About the Author:

Carole Fréchette was born in Montréal and is a graduate of the National Theatre School. She is the author of fifteen plays, which have been translated into twenty languages and staged all over the world. Fréchette was awarded the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2002, and has received the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Language Drama twice, for Le Quatre Morts de Marie in 1995 and for Small Talk in 2014. Her plays are published in French by Leméac/Actes-Sud Papiers. John Murrell is one of Canada’s most frequently produced playwrights, whose work has been translated into numerous languages and presented throughout the world. He is also a translator of Chekhov and Ibsen, among others, and of eight plays by Carole Fréchette, all of which have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. Murrell is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

Review:

"John and Beatrice is, quite simply, exquisite: it should be savoured." —Le Soir, Brussels

"A pearl of a play... riveting!" —NOW Magazine, Toronto

About this edition

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0887545017
• ISBN 13: 9780887545016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112