Bag Babies
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1997
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887545238
- Publish Date
- May 1997
- List Price
- $12.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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About the author
Allan Stratton
est l'auteur de renommée internationale du roman Le secret de Chanda, un livre sur la liste d'honneur Michael L.
Printz. Son adaptation cinématographique, Life Above All, a
remporté le prix François Chalais au Festival de Cannes. Son dernier roman
thriller pour jeunes adultes, Les chiens, a gagné le prix Red
Maple de l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques et a été mis en
nomination pour le prix Arthur Ellis et le prix Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz.
Allan habite à Toronto, en Ontario.
Allan Stratton is an acclaimed playwright and author, who began his career acting at the Stratford Festival and regional theaters across Canada. His plays include "Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii" and "Rexy!," winner of a Chalmers Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award. Leslie's Journal is Allan's first novel for teens. Allan now lives in Toronto with his partner, a dog, three cats and any number of fish.
Editorial Reviews
"A brilliant, funny satire about urban hunger and homelessness, about the parvenu rich, about the wretched pomposity of the news media and â??greed without guilt.â?? Bag Babies blackly transforms the international foster parentsâ?? plan into a scheme â?? tax deductible â?? by which the wealthy adopt street people to improve the public image of the rich. Stratton has reached back to earlier models of English drama to put poetry â?? in the form of rhymed couplets â?? into the mouths of the rich and powerful, while the poor speak in prose. [This is theatre very much at the centre of life.â??
â?? Michael Valpy, The Globe and Mail
â??Bag Babies takes no prisoners â?? but itâ??s done in such a splendidly creative and humorous way that the victims will chortle all the way to the figurative guillotine ... A hugely imaginative onslaught on comfortable assumptions.â?? â?? Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star
â??Very clever, satiric couplets worthy of Alexander Pope ... A Brechtian theatre ... [Stratton is a consummate craftsman.â?? â?? Mark Czarnecki, CBC Radio
