The Book Company: New Products - Canadian

WILDWOMAN

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:34:48 +0000

As the young newlywed of King Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici thought her life at court would be a fascinating forum of political discourse. Instead, the palace is a cruel and disturbing place where her singular function is to be a baby-making machine for male heirs. Even the other wome..

Price: $18.95

Stars on Her Shoulders

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:41:48 +0000

Le Tréport, France. June 1918. In a Canadian Army hospital behind the lines, two convalescing nursing sisters – the clever Emma and the acerbic Helen – struggle with their unaccustomed idleness and take it upon themselves to educate Enid, the naive young nurse assigned to look after them. When ..

Price: $19.95

Batman in the Park & Death by Horoscope

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:41:42 +0000

**Two absurdist coming-of-age comedies **

Batman in the Park recognizes the superhero in us all. As the play opens, we find a broke and unhoused actor who once played Batman attempting to resuscitate his failing career with Hamlet in Shakespeare in the Park. Like the famous melan..

Price: $21.95

Thy Woman's Weeds

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:34:44 +0000

“Frailty, thy name is man.”

Lady Capulet wants to look younger, while Goneril longs to play Lear. Viola is weary of her “woman’s weeds,” and Desdemona needs an intimacy coach. As a director tells Lady Macbeth to sexualize her unsexing, Ophelia stages her death to escape Denmark—a..

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Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:34:38 +0000

“The more you take away, the bigger I become.”

As a stifling heat wave descends upon the city, a mischievous sinkhole cracks open in the back courtyard of an apartment building and fourteen-year-old Benita is the only one who seems alarmed; her other neighbors are too busy with p..

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The Orphan of Chao

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:34:32 +0000

“An astonishing feat of compelling, economical storytelling.” —Toronto Star

The Kingdom of Jin, 612 BCE. The ruthless court minister Tu-An Ku orchestrates the annihilation of his rival, Chao Tun, and nine generations of his family. Only one survives: Chao Tun’s newborn grandson, ..

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Kisapmata

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:34:26 +0000

Winner of the 2024 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play

When two Filipinx women meet at work, it’s instant butterflies. A is a loud and proud queer femme, born in Canada and longing to connect with her culture, while B is an astute, enigmatic intern from the Philippines,..

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The King James Bible Play

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:34:20 +0000

“History has as much to do with imagination as anything else.”

In the early 1600s, a modest crew of male scholars and clergymen are working for King James to produce a new English translation of the Bible that will bring unity through God’s words. Their idiosyncratic and interper..

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Ismene & Nassara

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:34:14 +0000

Who wants peace? Really?

Iconic Québécoise playwright Carole Fréchette brings to life two searing tales of women caught between preserving peace and provoking disruption.

In Ismene, the overlooked sister of the heroic Antigone delivers a lecture recounting her fami..

Price: $22.95

(Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them)

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:33:56 +0000

"Cardinal spins an absurdist tale of self-acceptance singed with cigarette butts, a cocaine-fueled fever dream with an acid wit." —Intermission Magazine

Robert is cursed. The moment he falls in love with someone, they’re struck by a fatal illness, mangled in a bungee-jumpi..

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