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category: Drama
published: Nov 2009
ISBN:9780887548772
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

While We're Young

by Don Hannah

tagged: canadian
Description

A young soldier goes to Afghanistan, another to Passchendaele. A family splits in two when a Protestant falls in love with a Catholic; one hundred and twenty years later, it could happen all over again for a whole new set of reasons.

From the University of Alberta’s inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence.

About the Author

Don Hannah's plays include The Wedding Script, In the Lobster Capital of the World, and The Wooden Hill. His novel, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, has been published by Knopf Canada and by Granta in the U.K. He has been writer in residence at the Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the University of New Brunswick, and for the Yukon Public Library System. He has twice been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.

Contributor Notes

Don Hannah is a playwright and novelist who lives in Toronto and Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. He was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta where he wrote While We’re Young. In 2008, he directed his play There is a Land of Pure Delight at Live Bait Theatre in New Brunswick. As a dramaturge, he has worked with playwrights from across the country, and for five years was on the faculty of the Banff Playwrights Colony. His books include Shoreline, a collection of his plays, and the novel, Ragged Islands, which received the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.

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