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Visa, MasterCard, and international money orders are accepted. Cheques must be drawn on a Canadian or US bank. IN THE UNITED STATES Theatre Communications Group 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, New York, USA 10018-4156 p: 212.609.5900 | f: 212.609.5901 | e: [email protected] IN EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND Nick Hern Books The Glass House, 49a Goldhawk Road, London, England W12 8QP p: 020.8749.4953 | f: 020.8735.0250 | e: [email protected] BOTTICELLI IN THE FIRE & SUNDAY IN SODOM JORDAN TANNAHILL Award-winning playwright Jordan Tannahill is back with modern-day queer and feminist retellings of two momentous events—one historic, one mythic. Botticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter of The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, as an irrepress- ible seeker of love and pleasure caught between the powerful Medici family, the firebrand teachings of a zealot friar, and his young lover, Leonardo da Vinci. Entangled in sexual and political brinkmanship, Botticelli must choose between art and survival. In Sunday in Sodom, Lot’s wife Edith tells of the Biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but set in the present day. American troops obliterate her sur- SEPTEMBER | $18.95 roundings with drone strikes and villagers turn against 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" | 144 pages | 9781770919174 each other, but Edith’s still focused on protecting her DRA017000 | DRA013000 2f, 4m | premiered in April 2016 at the family, finally giving an answer as to why, when told Berkeley Street Theatre, Toronto, in to run and never look back, she looked back. a production by the Canadian Stage Company JORDAN TANNAHILL is a play- “Tannahill’s work is witty, sexy, and auda- wright, author, and filmmaker. cious, with a strong emotional core.” Jordan’s plays have been trans- —Martin Morrow, Torontoist lated into multiple languages and honoured with various “Jordan Tannahill’s bracingly fresh dou- prizes, including the Governor ble bill takes fragments of stories from the historical record and turns them into General’s Literary Award for plays for today, damning more than a few Drama, the John Hirsch Prize, and multiple Dora torpedoes as he goes.” Mavor Moore Awards. In the last year, Jordan’s play —Karen Fricker, Toronto Star Late Company transferred to London’s West End; his virtual-reality piece Draw Me Close premiered ALSO AVAILABLE: Age of Minority: at the Venice Biennale; his debut novel Liminal was Three Solo Plays | Concord Floral | Late Company published by House of Anansi; he premiered his play Declarations at Canadian Stage; and he collaborat- YOU MAY LIKE: The Gay Heritage ed with Akram Khan on Xenos, currently touring Project by Damien Atkins, Andrew internationally. Kushnir, and Paul Dunn New Titles / 3 MUSTARD KAT SANDLER “I took the liberty of turning something that makes you sad into something that will make you laugh.” Mustard shouldn’t still be here, but he is. Imaginary friends don’t normally stay with their person until that person is a teenager. Imaginary friends don’t sud- denly become visible to their person’s mom and then go on a date with them, either. But when those peo- ple—such as the troubled Thai and her dangerously upset mother, Sadie—need help, they’re lucky that Mustard’s there with a goofy smile on his face. But Mustard has his own peculiar problems. Since he’s still around, he has to abide by some rules enforced by unsavoury characters. And, oh yeah, he’s falling in love with Sadie, who doesn’t believe he’s real. For someone whose purpose was once so simple, Mustard NOVEMBER | $17.95 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" | 96 pages | 9781770919211 sure has a lot to deal with. DRA019000 | DRA013000 This darkly comedic bedtime story by Canadian 2f, 4m | premiered in February 2015 at theatre’s indie darling blurs imagination with reality Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, with upcom- in order to save a family from its own destruction. ing productions at the Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver and the Belfry Theatre, Victoria KAT SANDLER is a writer, di- Mustard is loosely based on a personal rector, and Artistic Director of experience between Sandler and her own Theatre Brouhaha, where she imaginary friend. has directed twelve of her orig- inal plays in the last six years, While not meant for children, Mustard will appease everyone’s inner child. including Toronto Best of Fringe hits Bright Lights and Punch Up. “Kat Sandler writes such incongruous, funny She was a member of the 2014 Tarragon Playwrights dialogue.” —Lynn Slotkin, The Slotkin Letter Unit, where she developed Mustard, which won the 2016 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding “The delight of Sandler’s work comes from both her fanciful scenarios and her New Play (General Division). She was the 2015 re- playfulness with language, and both of cipient of NOW Magazine’s Audience Choice Award these are present in abundance.” for Best Director and Best Playwright. Kat is a grad- —Ilana Lucas, Mooney on Theatre uate of the Queen’s University drama program. She ALSO AVAILABLE: Punch Up lives in Toronto, Ontario. YOU MAY LIKE: Redheaded Stepchild by Johnnie Walker 4 / New Titles BUNNY HANNAH MOSCOVITCH “In one school year she kissed nineteen boys and won all the science awards.” From one of Canada’s boldest playwrights comes an intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles with the power of her desires. Sorrel grew up with professor parents, where car- ob was dessert, reading passages of Canadian poetry aloud was entertainment, and canoeing was the only sport encouraged. No one really noticed the studious Sorrel until she turned seventeen, when late puber- ty suddenly transformed her into a hot dork. Boys wanted her and girls loathed her, and all at once Sorrel discovered the joys of sexuality and the pain of social rejection. Sorrel enters college as a self-proclaimed loser with no NOVEMBER | $17.95 female friends, but then she meets Maggie. Maggie’s un- 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" | 144 pages | 9781770919259 wavering friendship helps her shed her inhibitions and DRA019000 | DRA013000 become more truly herself. The two women grow older, 3f, 4m | premiered in August 2016 at the but when Maggie is diagnosed with cancer, Sorrel must Stratford Festival choose between raw feeling and devotion. “This story of desire, morality and con- nection is hard not to fall in love with.” HANNAH MOSCOVITCH is an —Carly Maga, Toronto Star internationally acclaimed play- wright whose work has been “One of Canada’s finest playwrights.” —Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine produced across Canada as well as in the United States, “If women’s sexuality is typically played Britain, Ireland, Greece, Japan, out in romantic canopy beds or pitch- Germany, Austria, and Australia. black bedrooms, Moscovitch places it Hannah has been the recipient of numerous awards unabashedly under flickering fluorescent lights in a bar bathroom.” for her work, including the Trillium Book Award, the —Laura Cudworth, Stratford Beacon Herald Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Toronto Critics Award, the SummerWorks ALSO AVAILABLE: East of Berlin | Infinity Prize for Production, both the Scotsman Fringe | Little One and Other Plays | The Mill | This Is War First and the Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell YOU MAY LIKE: The Last Wife by Kate Prize administered by Yale University. She is a play- Hennig wright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. New Titles / 5 MISTATIM / INSTANT ERIN SHIELDS In these two plays for young audiences, award-win- ning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of communication and friendship. In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year- olds strike up an unlikely friendship at the fence between one’s reservation and the other’s ranch. On Speck’s side, she’s carved names of family members into the wooden posts as she tries to piece together her identity. On Calvin’s, he’s trying to train a horse in order to prove himself to his father.