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After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue
- Title
- After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue / George F. Walker ; introduction by Wesley Berger.
- Author
- Walker, George F.
- Publication
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Talonbooks, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 161 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In two new plays, Canada's king of black comedy takes on the failing education system. Both Parents Night and The Bigger Issue are set in public-school classrooms after hours and involve confrontations between stressed-out teachers and ticked-off parents. Both sympathize with embattled educators and evince Walker's trademark understanding of poverty and the working classes. In both, Walker's signature moves work: the audience feels simultaneously complicit in and righteously angry about injustice and inequity. Parents Night finds grade-three teacher Nicole caught in the crossfire between John, an arrogant executive dad, and Rosie, a ballsy, low-income mom. Both are meeting with Nicole to express concerns for their children, but class warfare quickly erupts, and the kids' behaviour turns out to be a reflection of their parents' messed-up lives. A harried Nicole is dealing with troubles of her own, but she makes a brave attempt to discipline these overgrown brats. The Bigger Issue covers the same ground but digs deeper. Suzy, a novice middle-school teacher, has been called onto the carpet by the principal, Irene, for physically accosting a violent student. But when the boy's parents show up, it becomes clear that Jack and Maggie are a middle-class couple reduced to abject poverty; the real problem isn't their son or the school but a dysfunctional society. Together, Parents Night and The Bigger Issue comprise the first installments in a projected play cycle similar to Walker's famous Suburban Motel. With an introduction by Toronto director Wesley Berger."--
- Uniform Title
- Plays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Plays.
- After class : 2 plays
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama.
- Contents
- Parents night -- The bigger issue.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5571
- ISBN
- 9781772011845
- 1772011843
- LCCN
- 2017491647
- OCLC
- 1017944077
- Author
- Walker, George F., author.
- Title
- After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue / George F. Walker ; introduction by Wesley Berger.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Talonbooks, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Cover Title
- After class : 2 plays
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5571