Borealis Press logo
Borealis Press Home | Index by Author | Index by Title | Search | View Cart

Colonial Era

Confederation Era

Modern Era

eBooks

Children

Young Adult

Novels

General Works

Drama

Poetry

Criticism and Biography/Autobiography

Canadian Critical Editions

Journal of Canadian Poetry

Native

Heritage Books of Canada

How Parliament Works

Canadian Parliamentary Handbook

Fiction

Short Stories

Prose

Canadian Writers

Multi-Cultural

Early Canadian Woman Writers

Canadian Native Subjects

History

Medicine

Abuse of Power

Aussie Six

Canadian Critical Edition

Early Canadian Women Writers Series

Greenhouse Kids

Hockey Family

Journal of Canadian Poetry

Mighty Orion

New Canadian Drama

Other Side

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Quickbeam Chronicles

René

Silly Sally

Tales of the Shining Mountains

The Stry-Ker Family Saga

Trudzik


Gwen Pharis Ringwood


Biography

Gwen Pharis Ringwood (1910-1984) was an early prairie Canadian playwright. Her writing also included short stories, poems, novels, radio dramas, musicals, and children's plays. When she was young, her family moved from Washington State to Alberta, which became her home. She pioneered in community and educational theatre in western Canada; her one-act folk tragedy, "Still Stands the House" (1938), cemented her reputation. "The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood" (1982 Borealis).


Books by Gwen Pharis Ringwood
New Canadian Drama Vol. 2: Mirage, Pogie, The Dollar Woman

Edited by
Patrick B. O'Neill
Written by
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Christopher Heide, Al MacDonald, Alden Nowlan, Walter Learning


Cover of New Canadian Drama Vol. 2
165 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 9780888870728
$19.95 CA





167 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780888870704
$32.95 CA



About the Book

New Canadian Drama - Volume 2, edited by Patrick B. O´Neill. "Through a skillful combination of comedy and pathos, mime and music, poetry and prose, Mirage chronicles seventy-five years of Saskatchewan life. The three generations of Rylands experience two World Wars, drought and Depression, Tommy Douglas and John Diefenbaker against the continuing claim of their ancestral farm." "Pogie has none of the bitterness one might expect to find in a look at the breakdown of family life wrought by chronic unemployment. Heide has captured the flavour of Maritime humour and mounted it in a cabaret display case." "The Dollar Woman carries us further back in time to the late nineteenth century, but the disturbing ulcer on our history which it reveals forces the audience to reconsider its current attitudes to social welfare in general ... the masterful characterization, the rich and vigorous dialogue, and the sustained theatrical awareness of Nowlan and Learning´s script make The Dollar Woman come alive on stage."

E-mail:drt@borealispress.com
Post: 8 Mohawk Crescent, Nepean, Ontario, Canada, K2H 7G6
Telephone: (613) 829-0150
Facsimile: (613) 829-7783
Toll Free: (877) 829-9989
Copyright © by Borealis Press Ltd., 2002.
Updated: August 5, 2002

  top   home