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Michael Redhill

MICHAEL REDHILL

  (1966 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Michael Redhill is the publisher and one of the editors of Brick, a journal of things literary. His most recent books are Fidelity, a collection of short fiction; Martin Sloane, a novel that was nominated for the Giller Prize, the Trillium Award, the Torgi Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Books in Canada/Amazon Best First Novel Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book; Light-crossing, a collection of poetry; and Building Jerusalem, a play, which won a Dora for Best New Play and a Chalmers Award for Playwriting and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. He lives with his partner and two sons in Toronto.

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below is a list of Michael Redhill's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Be Frank         Building Jerusalem         Goodness         Hanging Gardens of Willowdale         Heretics         Information for Visitors to Warsaw         Monkey Cage         Suspension

Be Frank

Synopsis:
Two men sit in a basement with no exit.One is a killer and one is a captive. Are they brothers, lovers or strangers?

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1st Produced:
Toronto Fringe Festival    1991

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One act

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Building Jerusalem

Building Jerusalem
New Year's Eve 1899. Four people have been invited to the Grange in Toronto. When their host does not show up - his niece entertains them

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-0887546105

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Goodness

Synopsis:
Our hero, the recently divorced Michael Redhill, goes to Poland to get away from his life and to do some research on the Holocaust. Thwarted by witnesses unwilling to talk, he returns home via England, but in London is introduced to someone who can tell him a real story of evil, and genocide. Through the memory of the storyteller, who served as a prison guard, he encounters an alleged war criminal with Alzheimers who is about to be put on trial, along with the mans beautiful daughter and an attorney who is eerily similar to the criminal hes prosecuting. But has the old mans guilt dissolved with his memory? Could he be pretending to be ill in order to escape punishment? Who do we believe? A prison guard still wounded by history? A writer suffering from heartache? A dying war criminal? Who does memory serve? Did the past really happen? And if it did, who has a claim on it? Goodness is a morality tale for the modern age. This remarkable play, by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll: concentric stories enveloping each other, inhabiting the gaps between experiencing, telling and hearing.

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Coach House Books, Toronto, 2005   -

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Hanging Gardens of Willowdale

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1st Produced:
Traragon Spring Arts Fair    1992

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Snappy Shorts At the Tarragon" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2005   978-0887547508

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Heretics

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New Ideas Festival, Alumni Theatre, Toronto    1992

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Information for Visitors to Warsaw

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1st Produced:
Tarragon Spring Arts Fair    1993

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Snappy Shorts At the Tarragon" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2005   978-0887547508

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Monkey Cage

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Suspension

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