Maureen Hunter

A passionate encounter between a grieving mother and a troubled soldier just back from France illuminates Wild Mouth, a new play by Maureen Hunter. Anna is a British-born immigrant who returns to her brother's prairie farm in 1917 to help with the harvest and to try to heal. There she meets Bohdan, a young man of Ukrainian descent who changed his name to Smith in order to get to the Front. Anna's desperation to understand her son's death propels both of them to the edge of an abyss. This seven-character play explores the enduring connections between love and war, beauty and horror, creation and destruction.

Wild Mouth

Per K. Brask

Martin Bragg

Roy Surette

A collection of plays by Canada's leading women playwrights. Includes: "Lion in the Streets" by Judith Thompson; "The Darling Family" by Linda Griffiths; "The Monument" by Colleen Wagner; "The Glace Bay Miner's Museum" by Wendy Lill; "Transit of Venus" by Maureen Hunter; "The Hope Slide" by Joan MacLeod; and "Sky" by Connie Gault.

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7 Cannons

Obsessions and lifelong loves permeate Maureen Hunter's Transit of Venus as the eighteenth-century astronomer, Le Gentil, charts the heavens for Venus and the realm of his heart for his young fiancee. Le Gentil puts off marrying the young and wilful Celeste as he travels around the world in his attempts to plot the course of Venus across the sky, only to be undone at every turn by weather, war, and misfortune, and to find upon his final return a woman undone by his absence and ready to set her own course. Spanning eleven years in the lives of Le Gentil and Celeste, Hunter's play explores issues of faith, solitude, and the human spirit.

Maureen Hunter

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