A Study Guide for Sharon Pollock's "Blood Relations"

A Study Guide for Sharon Pollock's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 30
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410341658

A Study Guide for Sharon Pollock's "Blood Relations," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock
Author: Anne F. Nothof
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781550711080

This collection of essays is the first book on Sharon Pollock's work, a career which spans over thirty years and several cities. Essays by Anne F. Nothof, Malcolm Page, Robert Nunn, Diane Bessai, Susan Stratton, Heidi Holder, Craig Stewart Walker, and Kathy Chung. Sharon Pollock became the most controversial playwright in Canada with her plays.

What Waits in the Woods

What Waits in the Woods
Author: Kieran Scott
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545691125

Seeing things. You were just seeing things. For city girl Callie Velasquez, nothing sounds more terrifying than a night out in the wilderness. But, wanting to bond with her popular new friends, Lissa and Penelope, she agrees to join them on a camping trip. At least Callie's sweet new boyfriend, Jeremy, will be coming too. But nothing goes as planned. The group loses half their food supply. Then they lose their way. And with strange sounds all around her--the snap of a twig, a sinister laugh--Callie wonders if she's losing her mind. Tensions swirl among the group, with dark secrets suddenly revealed. And then, things take a fatal turn: Callie stumbles upon a cold dead body in the woods. Is the murderer close by, watching them? Callie has to figure out where she can turn and who she can trust, before her own life is at stake. Kieran Scott weaves a thrilling mystery that explores love, loyalty--and the dangerous decisions we make in order to survive.

Fair Liberty's Call

Fair Liberty's Call
Author: Sharon Pollock
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2002-09-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781551115139

A United Empire Loyalist family flees from Boston to New Brunswick during the American Revolution. In late October, 1785, they host a reunion, and are joined by two veterans and a stranger whom they assume also to have been a former soldier on the Loyalist side. But the stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel seeking to avenge the death of his brother; at gunpoint he demands that the others choose one among them to be executed at first light. First performed by the Stratford Festival in 1993, Fair Liberty’s Call has since been frequently produced across North America.

Making Theatre

Making Theatre
Author: Sherrill Grace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The story of Pollock's life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright.

Walsh

Walsh
Author: Sharon Pollock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780889222151

A historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after Little Big Horn. Cast of 3 women and 11 men.

Doc

Doc
Author: Sharon Pollock
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2003-04-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781551115252

When Catherine returns home on the eve of ceremonies honouring her physician father, she unleashes a kaleidoscope of memories as father and daughter attempt to lay old ghosts to rest. While public service has been the keynote of Doc’s life it has covered the private anguish of a family in crisis. Interacting with figures from the past (including wife and mother Bob, best friend Oscar, and Catherine herself as the young child Katie), the characters retrace and relive past triumphs and tragedies, culminating in Bob’s death. Humour leavens this drama of a father and daughter’s struggle to love, to forgive, and to understand in order to go on. Doc was first produced in 1984 at Theatre Calgary and has since been produced widely elsewhere. The play received the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1986.

Dead Woman Walking

Dead Woman Walking
Author: Sharon Bolton
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250103452

In Dead Woman Walking, from master of suspense Sharon Bolton, the sole survivor of a hot-air balloon crash witnesses a murder as the balloon is falling. Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor. She’s seen the killer’s face – but he’s also seen hers. And he won’t rest until he’s eliminated the only witness to his crime. Alone, scared, trusting no one, she’s running to where she feels safe – but it could be the most dangerous place of all...