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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 t: 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 t: 020.8749.4953 | f: 020.8735.0250 | e: [email protected] TRACE JEFF HO “I support you when you need, so that you sup- port me when I need.” An elegant and sweeping story of a Chinese family’s history, trace follows the footsteps of four generations as their homes and identities are challenged. Jeff Ho brings life to his great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother through considerate storytelling as they recount their pasts, leading to a paralleled present. Great-grandmother fled the Japanese during World War II by escaping China into Hong Kong, a traumatic effect that’s rippled down the family line. Grandmother married into the family after a childhood of poverty that will always stay with her. Mother decided to leave Hong Kong for Canada with her two sons, pursuing more opportunities, though dissatisfied with her son’s desire to focus on the pi- OCTOBER | $17.95 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" 96 pages 9780369100566 ano rather than math. Though pain is a constant, | | DRA013000 there are plenty of wisecracks, games of Mahjong, 1m | premiered in November 2017 at and familiar family anecdotes swirling through Ho’s Factory Theatre, Toronto, in association genealogical journey of survival. with b current performing arts “Ho’s Chinese-Canadian immigration saga will resonate YOU MAY LIKE: acquiesce by David Yee with anyone whose family has been forced to relocate, and How Black Mothers Say I Love You by conveying universal themes of hardship, escape and hope Trey Anthony distilled through the anxiety of defying great expectations to chart one’s own course.” —Jordan Bimm, NOW Magazine trace is performed with two pianos; they stand in for any male dialogue. Their lines are revealed in the book. JEFF HO is a Toronto-based theatre artist, originally from Hong Kong. As a playwright, his works include the critically-acclaimed Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land); Antigone: 方; and trace. He has held res- idencies with the Stratford Festival, Nightswimming, Cahoots, the Banff Playwrights Lab, and Factory Theatre, and is a Bulmash-Siegel Playwright- in-Residence with Tarragon Theatre. Jeff has been twice nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for performance, has been awarded a Harold Award, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School. New Titles / 3 CYRANO DE BERGERAC KATE HENNIG “I, whose nose precedes me everywhere by a quarter of an hour . I love—I’m forced to love—the most beautiful woman of all.” From the acclaimed author of The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial comes a new adaptation of one of the finest love stories ever told. Cyrano de Bergerac is a swashbuckling seventeenth- century swordsman who can do anything . ex- cept tell Roxane, the woman he loves, how he feels. He’s just too self-conscious about his unusually large nose. Roxane finds romance in words, and Cyrano is full of them, so when he sees the chance to ghostwrite love letters to her from an inarticu- late, love-struck cadet, he takes it—but can he ever AUGUST | $17.95 reveal himself? Could she ever love him for who 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" | 144 pages | 9780369100153 he is? In turns funny, tender, and self-aware, this DRA019000 | DRA013000 7f, 7m | premiered in July 2019 at the Shaw classic tale about the exquisite distress of loving Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario from afar will find its way into the hearts of even the most skeptical. YOU MAY LIKE: Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill and Paradise Lost by Erin Shields KATE HENNIG is a playwright, actor, teacher, and director. Her In Hennig’s adaptation, 14 actors can play play The Last Wife premiered 25 characters (the original has over 60 at the Stratford Festival in 2015 characters), and she has brought more of and has since had more than ten Roxane’s perspective to light. productions across Canada and She has also written in prose rather than the United States, and will pre- verse, retaining much of Rostand’s original miere in Sydney, Australia, in September 2019. The poetry while allowing the text to be ac- Virgin Trial won the 2017 Carol Bolt Award for Best cessible to the contemporary reader. New Play, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, and has had several sub- sequent regional productions. For the Shaw Festival, Kate has translated and adapted Cyrano de Bergerac and Oscar Wilde’s stories for children, Wilde Tales. Kate is Associate Artistic Director at the Shaw Festival and resides in Stratford, Ontario. 4 / New Titles MOTHER’S DAUGHTER KATE HENNIG “Now, you listen to me, young lady: you did not MOTHER’S become the first queen of England just so they DAUGHTER could run you off a cliff.” In this stunning third part of Kate Hennig’s power- fully reimagined Queenmaker series, England’s first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, reli- gious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the power struggle that dubs her Bloody Mary. Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty- eight-year-old princess Mary—daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon—wrests the throne from Edward’s deemed heir. But Mary’s mother ap- pears from the vaults of memory, and adamantly questions the motives of Mary’s cousin Jane and her half-sister Bess, despite Mary’s affection for them both. As the kingdom splits along Roman Catholic JUNE | $17.95 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" 144 pages 9780369100115 and Protestant lines, Mary walks a gauntlet of squab- | | DRA019000 | DRA013000 bling ethics and politics, and is forced to make some 6f, 1m | premiered in May 2019 at the tough decisions. Should she execute her opponents Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario before it’s too late, the way her father did? Should she scramble to find a husband who can give her a ALSO AVAILABLE: The Last Wife | rightful heir? And can she trust her mother, her sis- The Virgin Trial ter, or even herself? YOU MAY LIKE: Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch and Hedda Gabbler and While part of a series, Mother’s Daughter can be read as a Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia by stand-alone play. Judith Thompson This play examines the challenges facing women who have cracked the glass ceiling and are trying to lead within a system that constantly threatens to push them out of power. “Hennig upends the usual narrative of patriarchal bloodlines by giving voice to some of the era’s intrepid women.” —Debbie Fein-Goldbach, NOW Magazine “Hennig’s genius lies in taking us on a historical journey with the added bliss of some sharp right—and left—turns of her own devising.” —Laurie Fyffe, Capital Critics’ Circle New Titles / 5 BLACK BOYS VIRGILIA GRIFFITH, STEPHEN JACKMAN-TORKOFF, TAWIAH M’CARTHY, THOMAS ANTONY OLAJIDE, AND JONATHAN SEINEN “We need to heal.” In a society where the Black male body is both vili- fied and sexualized,Black Boys uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black male experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vul- BLACK BOYS nerability of three very different Black men who seek VIRGILIA GRIFFITH, STEPHEN JACKMAN- TORKOFF, TAWIAH M’CARTHY, THOMAS ANTONY a deeper understanding of themselves, each other, and OLAJIDE, AND JONATHAN SEINEN of how they encounter the world. As they explore their unique identities, their performances rigorously OCTOBER | $18.95 interrogate and playfully subvert the ways in which 5 3/8" x 8 3/8" | 144 pages | 9780369100474 DRA017000 | DRA013000 gender, sexuality, and race are read and performed.