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Drama Canadian

Three Plays

by (author) Michael Cook

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Mar 1996
Category
Canadian
  • Spiral bound

    ISBN
    9780919948303
    Publish Date
    Mar 1996
    List Price
    $14.95

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The plays in this book confirm that Mike Cook is one of Canad's leading dramatists.

About the author

Michael Cook
Originally from London, England, Michael Cook began writing plays during the 1950s while serving in the British army in Europe and the Far East. He studied teaching and drama at Nottingham University in the early 1960s and emigrated to St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 1965 where he began directing plays and teaching at Memorial University. He has written more than 50 plays, many of them exploring Newfoundland’s history and culture?the most notable of which, Jacob’s Wake, was published in 1975. After moving to remote outport of Random Island, Cook wrote the one-act dramas collected in Tiln & Other Plays (1976). In the 1980s, Cook divided his time between Newfoundland and Stratford, Ontario, where he was playwright-in-residence in 1987. Michael Cook moved back to St. John’s shortly before his death in 1994 at the age of 61.

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