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Drama Canadian

The Drawer Boy

by (author) Michael Healey

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2005
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887548147
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $15.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887545689
    Publish Date
    May 1999
    List Price
    $14.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780369102652
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $12.99

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Description

A young actor from the big city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories about rural life. The farmers' lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.

About the author

Michael Healey trained as an actor at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties. He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, winning the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play. The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999, winning the Dora Award for best new play, the Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor General’s Literary Award (Canada’s highest literary honour). It has been translated into multiple languages and continues to be produced regularly across North America and internationally. Healey’s other works include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B, Rune Arlidge, The Innocent Eye Test, The Nuttalls, Are You Okay, and 1979. His trilogy focusing on Canadian values and politics—Generous, Courageous, and Proud—met with great critical success and have had multiple productions. In all, his plays have won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play five times. He has also adapted works by Chekhov, Molnar, Hecht and MacArthur, Dürrenmatt, and Shaw for the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, and Soulpepper. He continues to find work as an actor occasionally.

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Awards

  • Winner, Chalmers Canadian Play Award
  • Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
  • Winner, Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play