Footprints on the Moon
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1988
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921368076
- Publish Date
- Jan 1988
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Description
Footprints on the Moon (finalist for the GovernorGeneral's Award and winner of the Labatt Award for BestCanadian Play) tells the story of a woman's attempt to preventher teenage daughter from leaving home and escalates into a struggleto understand the loves and losses that have shaped her life.(Footprints on the Moon is included in the collectionMaureenHunter: Three Plays, 1-896239-99-4.
About the author
Maureen Hunter is one of CanadaÂ?s most accomplished playwrights. Her work has been produced extensively on CanadaÂ?s major stages, as well as in Britain and the U.S. and has been nominated for two Governor General*#146;s Awards, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Outstanding New Play) and the Elinor and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Her plays include Atlantis, premiered in English by Manitoba Theatre Centre/Theatre Calgary in 1996 and in French by Theatre de la Manufacture, Montreal, in 1999, and Transit of Venus, which received its Canadian premiere at MTC in 1992 and in 1993 became the first Canadian play ever staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Britain. It received its U.S. premiere in 1998 at the Bershire Festival, Stockbridge, Mass. Other plays include Vinci, Footprints on the Moon, Beautiful Lake Winnipeg, and I Met A Bully on the Hill (coâ??written with Martha Brooks). Maureen lives in Winnipeg, where she is currently at work on a new play, Wild Mouth, set in Saskatchewan in 1917, and a libretto of Transit of Venus for Manitoba Opera.
