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  • Frances Koncan on How Playwrighting Gets Her "Closest to the Truth"
    Frances Koncan on How Playwrighting Gets Her "Closest to the Truth"
    May 19, 2022

    Frances Koncan on How Playwrighting Gets Her "Closest to the Truth"

    Frances Koncan's play, Women of the Fur Trade (Playwrights Canada Press) is the antidote to dull historical renditions of early Canada. Set in "eighteen hundred and something something", it follows three ...

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