Drama

The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway

The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway

The Rez Sisters launched Highway’s career as a notable and influential playwright in Canada, and earned him a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1987. The play was initially performed only in Indigenous communities, but then moved to major stages across the country.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s widely produced play, and winner of the 1990 Governor General’s Award for Drama, presents Constance Ledbelly, an academic who is sucked into and disrupts the story-worlds of two Shakespearean plays, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.