| Cold Comfort: A Play of Love & Bondage Contributor(s): Garrard, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889222010 ISBN-13: 9780889222014 Publisher: Talonbooks OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1982 Annotation: A complex relationship of three characters -- set in Saskatchewan, the geographic centre of Canada. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men. "A remarkable achievement...a solid and memorable show". -- Toronto Star |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Canadian |
| Dewey: 812 |
| LCCN: 83091003 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.49" W x 8.46" (0.33 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cold Comfort is the third in a quartet of plays that Jim Garrard calls "Bondage Plays for My Country." The play could take place anywhere along the Trans-Canada Highway, but it happens to be set in Saskatchewan, the geographic centre of the country. There are three characters in the play: Dolores, a fifteen-year-old girl who wants to know more about the world than what the window and the household TV can tell her; Floyd, her father, with whom she lives in an abandoned service station, whose paternal misdeeds form the sinister backdrop for the play's action; and Stephen, the proverbial travelling salesman, who unwittingly stumbles into this complex relationship and finally becomes victim to it. Cold Comfort was first produced by 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon; then at the Salon Theatre at the Toronto Theatre Festival. It was revived in Toronto by Theatre Passe Muraille; and has been produced in Vancouver at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. |