After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue / George F. Walker ; introduction by Wesley Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, George F., author.

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian drama--21st century.

Canadian drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

161 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

After class : 2 plays

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, British Columbia : Talonbooks, [2017]

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Parents night

The bigger issue.

Contains:

Walker, George F. Parents night.

Walker, George F. Bigger issue.

Parents night.

Bigger issue.

ISBN:

9781772011845

1772011843

OCLC:

1017944077