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The Innocent Eye Test

by (author) Michael Healey

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2006
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887548604
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

When the money gets mixed up, it's up to Canadian art dealer and world-class innocent Samuel Kneck to sort it out. An old-fashioned farce about contemporary anxieties, from the author of the award- winning The Drawer Boy and Rune Arlidge.

About the author

Michael Healey trained as an actor at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties. He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, winning the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play. The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999, winning the Dora Award for best new play, the Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor General’s Literary Award (Canada’s highest literary honour). It has been translated into multiple languages and continues to be produced regularly across North America and internationally. Healey’s other works include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B, Rune Arlidge, The Innocent Eye Test, The Nuttalls, Are You Okay, and 1979. His trilogy focusing on Canadian values and politics—Generous, Courageous, and Proud—met with great critical success and have had multiple productions. In all, his plays have won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play five times. He has also adapted works by Chekhov, Molnar, Hecht and MacArthur, Dürrenmatt, and Shaw for the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, and Soulpepper. He continues to find work as an actor occasionally.

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Editorial Reviews

"Absolutely outstanding, sizzling comedy" —CBC Radio

"Hilarious! … fizzes over with laughs" —Winnipeg Free Press

"… a perfectly pleasing and politically biting new Canadian farce." —The Globe and Mail

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