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category: Drama
published: May 2015
ISBN:9781770912748
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Lion In The Streets

by Judith Thompson

tagged: canadian, women authors
Description

Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the tender age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible for her untimely death. But this time she’s powerful, having the ability to watch over the living, observe them, and sometimes interact with them. Isobel has been paying attention to her former neighbours, and it’s not long before she begins to suffer along with them during their dark and horrific private experiences. Will she finally get the peace she’s been yearning for? One of Judith Thompson’s most enduring plays, Lion in the Streets looks at the inner emotional turmoil in ordinary people and the ways in which they cope.

About the Author
Judith Thompson is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. She has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, and has been recognized with many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, The Epilepsy Ontario Award, the Dora, the Chalmers, the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award as well as many others. Her plays have been produced all over the world in many languages. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Toronto.
Editorial Reviews

“This script is so harsh that it makes you feel like you’ve been stripped, beaten, and abandoned, and so compassionate that it releases floods of grief and gratitude with its touch.”

— Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight

“Poetic, painful, powerful… Writing this strong is celebrated and revisted for a reason.” —Matt Tenbruggencate, Spectator Tribune

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