The Big League
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2005
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920486849
- Publish Date
- Mar 2005
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
The Big League stick–handles Canadas national pastime from a kids point of view. Four characters experience the pressures kids face to participate in hockey for reasons other than purely fun. Any child or adult who has ever struggled with extracurricular activitiesbe it music lessons or water polowill identify.
About the author
James Durham has worked primarily as an actor in theatre for young people, performing to over a half a million children in Manitoba in various productions over the last 20 years, including eight years with Mimeworks Mime and Story Theatre Troupe. His other plays include Franklin, My Old Man, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment. The Big League is his first play for young audiences. He is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg with a B.A. in Theatre.