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  • Banner image of playwright Michael Healey standing outside in a Toronto laneway. Text read interview with Michael Healey, Write contradictory behaviour, write good jokes, put characters in as much trouble as possible. Open Book logo bottom left
    Banner image of playwright Michael Healey standing outside in a Toronto laneway. Text read interview with Michael Healey, Write contradictory behaviour, write good jokes, put characters in as much trouble as possible. Open Book logo bottom left
    September 08, 2023

    Michael Healey on Exploring Toronto's Quashed "Smart City" Google Collaboration in His Hilarious New Play

    The year was 2017 and Toronto was poised on the precipice of one of the biggest municipal partnerships in history – a project to create a "smart city", coordinated between Waterfront Toronto and Google's ...

  • Fairy Tale Lovers' Delight: Read an Excerpt from Kat Sandler's Dark & Funny Play, Yaga
    Fairy Tale Lovers' Delight: Read an Excerpt from Kat Sandler's Dark & Funny Play, Yaga
    February 02, 2022

    Fairy Tale Lovers' Delight: Read an Excerpt from Kat Sandler's Dark & Funny Play, Yaga

    The story of Baba Yaga, the forest-dwelling witch who grinds bones in her chicken-legged house, is one of the most enduring, strange, and iconic images from world folklore, and that's saying a lot. So ...

  • Michael Grant on His (Naked) New Play & Creating a Fictional Small Town Across His Works
    Michael Grant on His (Naked) New Play & Creating a Fictional Small Town Across His Works
    February 02, 2021

    Michael Grant on His (Naked) New Play & Creating a Fictional Small Town Across His Works

    Norm and Ruth were just trying to get their marriage back on track. A simple idea: to head back to a place they knew they'd been happy and see if they can re-capture the spark there. But the struggling ...

  • CBC's 22 Minutes Pokes Fun at CanLit in the Cold
    CBC's 22 Minutes Pokes Fun at CanLit in the Cold
    January 21, 2019

    CBC's 22 Minutes Pokes Fun at CanLit in the Cold

    Given our frozen Monday weather here in Ontario, we wanted to share this video from CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes that is on-theme and will hopefully warm you up with a laugh, especially if you've ever ...

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