The Circle
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2017
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927922347
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $15.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990737756
- Publish Date
- Jul 2022
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
It's a high-school garage party. Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn't know what he's doing there. Everyone's a bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It's an explosive combination, but it's better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia. Youth is a dangerous time. Everyone's just looking for a place to belong. How far will things stretch without breaking? This remarkable debut by Calgary playwright Geoffrey Simon Brown is an explosive SOS from an orphaned generation desperately looking for a place to belong.
About the author
Geoffrey Simon Brown is a playwright, director, and actor born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is a co-creator of the Major Matt Mason Collective, a theatre company dedicated to creating intimate, visceral, experimental theatre about and for Calgary's younger generation. Since 2010 he has worked with the collective to produce emerging and established scripts as well as collaboratively devised work. Geoffrey is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada's playwriting program and Mount Royal College's now-defunct theatre performance program. He is the winner of two Betty Mitchell Awards, Theatre Calgary's Stephen Hair Emerging Actor Award, the Playwrights Guild of Canada's Post-Secondary Playwriting Competition, and Tarragon's RBC Emerging Playwright Award. He is currently the playwright-in-residence at Theatre Junction GRAND where he is writing a play for an ensemble of Calgary teenagers. His other plays include Michael Mysterious, Still Still Still, Time, Control, Air, and Destroy.