It's All True
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2000
- Category
- Canadian, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887545948
- Publish Date
- Jul 2000
- List Price
- $14.95
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Where to buy it
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Description
The director, Orson Welles, marches the actors and most of the audience down 7th Avenue and finds another theatre, and in one brilliant stroke makes theatre history. As much a play for our times as it is about an historical event.Nominated for the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award.
About the author
Jason Sherman has written extensively for the stage, radio, and television. His plays include Remnants (A Fable); Itâ??s All True; Patience; Reading Hebron; The Retreat; The League of Nathans; An Acre of Time, and Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which won the Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award for Drama. He served as executive story editor and writer on the TV series ReGenesis, earning Gemini and Canadian Screenwriting Award nominations. For CBC Radio he wrote â??National Affairs,â?? â??Irving Invectus,â?? and â??Graf,â?? for which he received the Canadian Screenwriting Award for radio drama. He is currently working on several television, radio and film projects. He lives in Toronto.
Awards
- Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Literature- Outstanding New Play