The Waterhead and Other Plays
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2004
- Category
- Canadian, Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887547188
- Publish Date
- Feb 2004
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
The Big Blue Bird"A ride filled with pain and love." —The Vancouver Province"Bushkowsky's Blue Bird soars" —The Vancouver CourierThe WaterheadWinner of the 2000-2001 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Play"The Waterhead is a bitter but lyrical, bitingly honest tale." —The Vancouver Courier"...one affecting evening." —The Vancouver SunBetween Mothers" Darkly emotional and poetically rich." —Georgia Straight"Between Mothers validates the Solo Collective conceit that the one-act, one-person show is a form capable of delivering full theatrical impact." —The Vancouver Sun
About the author
Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright with publications and productions across several genres, including film, theatre, prose, poetry, and non-fiction. His first collection of short fiction, The Vanishing Man, was published by Cormorant Books in 2005, and his two collections of poetry, ed and mabel go to the moon and Mars Is For Poems, are available through Oolichan Books. Aaronâ??s plays, Strangers Among Us and The Waterhead and Other Plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. His plays have been nominated for Jessie Richardson Awards several times, winning twice. He teaches film and playwriting at several institutions, including Langara College, Studio 58, Kwantlen University, and Vancouver Film School. He also helps run Solo Collective Theatre, a professional mid-sized theatre in Vancouver that produces original plays by Western Canadian playwrights. Aaron is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.