Three Martini Lunch
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2002
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889952256
- Publish Date
- Sep 2002
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2001
Well-known playwright Clem Martini whets the appetite for three one-act plays.
In "Conversations with My Neighbor's Pit Bull," Robert Teller tries to get along with his neighbor via his pit bull.
In "House of Glass" 12?year?old Ellen must make amends with her neighbor for stealing condoms from her store.
In "Up on the Roof" three characters are stranded on a rooftop and must comes to terms with their disintegrating lives and an uncertain future.
A Three Martini Lunch takes you on a culinary tour of urban angst.
Reviews
"In these three interrelated plays, Clem Martini's characters struggle with public and private dilemmas on lawns, bakyards and rooftops. Hilarious and poignant, the writing crackles with irony and wisdom"
-- Governor General's Award Committee
About the author
Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.
