Sharon Pollock: Collected Works Volume Two

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.

Sharon Pollock is one of Canada's best-known women playwrights. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage to onstage, from front of house to director's chair, from actor to author, from teacher and mentor to artistic director of venues both large and small, Sharon Pollock remains an active, controversial and prolific participant in the Canadian theatre scene. Three volumes of her collected works were compiled by editor Cynthia Zimmerman and are available from Playwrights Canada Press.

Cynthia Zimmerman has been a highly regarded commentator on Canadian playwriting and on the voice of women on the Canadian stage for her whole career at Glendon College, York University, where she is a professor in the English department. Previously book review editor of the international journal Modern Drama and a member of its advisory board, Zimmerman has authored or co-authored a number of books, including Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada. She has produced many articles, chapters, and public papers. She also edited the successful anthology, Taking the Stage, for Playwrights Canada Press.