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category: Drama
published: Dec 2020
ISBN:9781771666220
publisher: Book*hug Press

Trapsongs

Three Plays

by Shannon Bramer, introduction by Sara Tilley

tagged: canadian, women authors
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With an introduction by Sara Tilley

From playwright and poet Shannon Bramer comes Trapsongs, a collection of three dark comedies that navigate the realm of the surreal and absurd.

In "Monarita," an intimate friendship between Mona, a frazzled new mother, and Rita, her beloved, estranged friend, is explored. Their interaction is a dance—part ballet, part mud-fight. In "The Collectors," Hanna Parson is being harassed by three ghastly collection agents who force her to confront her debt and isolation as she struggles to create meaningful art in her dishevelled apartment. And in the tragicomedy "The Hungriest Woman in the World," Aimee, a former artist, invites her preoccupied, workaholic husband, Robert, to the theatre to see a play about a sad octopus. His refusal sends her on a dark and playful journey into the topsy-turvy world of theatre itself.

Trapsongs is by turns comedic, grotesque, and profane, but is all the while a tender exploration of the human condition in all its hilarious and humbling glory. Although each of these plays is a discrete creation, they contain and hold each other like a Matryoshka doll; all of the main characters are trapped within the song of their own lives.

About the Authors

Shannon Bramer was born in Hamilton. She is the author of two previous collections, scarf and suitcases and other poems, which won the Hamilton and Region Arts Council Book Award. She teaches contemporary poetry to intermediate students and is currently developing a program for specialÂ?needs and ESL students of all ages. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.


SARA TILLEY is a multidisciplinary artist living on traditional Beothuk territory in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Editorial Review

"Bramer’s work is littered with subtexts…fossils to unearth; the optics of beauty, sex work, mental health, and mothering are all here." —Lyndsay Kirkham, Writer/Teacher/Activist

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