Search results for ""Author Nicolas Billon""
Coach House Books Butcher
An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police station-he won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who they seem and the Balkan wars' traumas continue to play out. The "It Kid" of Canadian theater, award-winning playwright Nicolas Billon, returns with a devastating parable. Nicolas Billon's plays and translations have been produced at the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, and Canadian Stage. Fault Lines won the Governor General's Award, and his first play, The Elephant Song, is being developed into a film starring Catherine Keener.
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Coach House Books Treasure Island
When Jim Hawkins finds the map to a legendary treasure, he embarks on a perilous voyage to claim it. His journey leads him to uncover a pirate mutiny, a chance meeting with a marooned misfit, and, ultimately, to the discovery of what kind of person he wants to be.Nicolas Billon's plays have been produced in Stratford, and across Canada, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. His first play, The Elephant Song, was made into a feature film.
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Coach House Books Fault Lines: Greenland Iceland Faroe Islands
Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Award for Drama "Iceland is a beautifully structured and extremely powerful play that haunts the mind. Billon is an original and exciting voice."--Atom Egoyan Nicolas Billon's acclaimed trilogy of plays tackles, with wit and dark humor, the banking crisis, the whale hunt, and a real estate deal gone horribly awry. Told through interwoven monologues, the plays in Fault Lines are a surprising hybrid of Wallace Shawn and Neil Labute. Nicolas Billon's plays and translations have been produced at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, and the Canadian Stage.
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