High Sticking,a collection of four short plays about hockey, explores the Canadian passion for the sport É as well as some of our other national obsessions! In Coach Kingston Tells It Like It Is, the coach educates a minor hockey dad on the importance of anger, hatred, loathing, giving 115 percent, and the immortal soul. Eleanor, St. Etheldrum’s own 14–year–old field hockey goon, ruminates on the finer points of the game—and Karl Marx, Louis Vuitton bags and much more—from her vantage point in the penalty box. In Life Without Gretzky, an Edmonton performance artist mourns The Great One’s retirement. And Table Top features the first–ever table–top hockey brawl, as an Anglophone Leafs fan, a Francophone Habs fan, and an Amercian Rangers fan discover many points of contention ... along with an enduring love for the "Big Board."

Mark is a Toronto–based playwright and co–artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife and partner Sue Miner. Mark’s stage plays include: The Martha Stewart Projects, Playballs, The Blue Wall, Medici Slot Machine, and High Sticking. In 2001, Mark was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for his play Monsieur d’Eon. He also received a Dora Mavor Moore Award with Chan Ka Nin for the opera Iron Road. In 2006, Mark received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination for his play Medici Slot Machine. Other works include The Weaving Maiden (Soundstreams/Tafelmusik Choir), Ice Time (Tapestry Music/Opera to Go), The Chevalier St. George (Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble), and The Storyteller’s Bag (Mississauga Chamber Ensemble/Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People).

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