Overshadowed by his older brother his entire life, Sid can't imagine a reason why he would ever want to go see him. That is, until a mysterious box of books filled with characters that seem based off... More > of people he knows arrives on his door step. Unfortunately for Sid, the only clue he has is a note telling him to go find his infamous brother… Too bad no one knows where he is. Now, aided by the van of the coolest gay rock band in town, an embarrassing blue rollie backpack, and his friends Peter, an aromatic asexual with a taste for mischief, Alice, his level-headed and fashion conscious best friend and Red, his pint-sized, weight lifting girlfriend - Sid plans to figure out the mystery behind the books and maybe, just maybe, break some rules for once, rock out, and live for a day.< Less
Overshadowed by his older brother his entire life, Sid can't imagine a reason why he would ever want to go see him. That is, until a mysterious box of books filled with characters that seem based off... More > of people he knows arrives on his door step. Unfortunately for Sid, the only clue he has is a note telling him to go find his infamous brother…
Too bad no one knows where he is.
Now, aided by the van of the coolest gay rock band in town, an embarrassing blue rollie backpack, and his friends Peter, an aromatic asexual with a taste for mischief, Alice, his level-headed and fashion conscious best friend and Red, his pint-sized, weight lifting girlfriend - Sid plans to figure out the mystery behind the books and maybe, just maybe, break some rules for one, rock out, and live for a day.< Less
Valerie Running Deer is a brash, brilliant neuroscience graduate student. Elizabeth Baldwin is her uptight, control-freak advisor. Elizabeth and Valerie's relationship has always been a battle of... More > wills, but when Elizabeth hands over one of Valerie's original research ideas to another student, Valerie fires the shot that turns their cold war into a hot one: she makes a pass at Elizabeth's daughter Lisa, a coy, impetuous teen who has been harboring a crush on her.
Valerie's spiteful impulse is diffused when she starts to fall for Lisa behind Elizabeth's back, but a confrontation is inevitable. Valerie's tumultuous journey towards it will entangle her in the circuitous dance of the relationships around her as friends, colleagues, and family struggle to balance need and trust, impulse and restraint.
Control freaks. Hot heads. Timid artists. Impulsive kids. Dis/inhibition explores the complications of self-control both outside and inside the scientific laboratory.< Less
Valerie Running Deer is a brash, brilliant neuroscience graduate student. Elizabeth Baldwin is her uptight, control-freak advisor. Elizabeth and Valerie's relationship has always been a battle of... More > wills, but when Elizabeth hands over one of Valerie's original research ideas to another student, Valerie fires the shot that turns their cold war into a hot one: she makes a pass at Elizabeth's daughter Lisa, a coy, impetuous teen who has been harboring a crush on her. Valerie's spiteful impulse is diffused when she starts to fall for Lisa behind Elizabeth's back, but a confrontation is inevitable. Valerie's tumultuous journey towards it will entangle her in the circuitous dance of the relationships around her as friends, colleagues, and family struggle to balance need and trust, impulse and restraint. Control freaks. Hot heads. Timid artists. Impulsive kids. Dis/inhibition explores the complications of self-control both outside and inside the scientific laboratory.< Less
A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing is a deepening novel of disclosure, a story of spiralling hide and seek, down into bare bones honesty... /// Shortlisted for The George Ryga Award and the... More > Re-Lit Award for Best Novel.< Less
Achilles and the Houseboy…
If Achilles, ancient hero of the Trojan War, had worn proper footwear then Gillibran Brown, modern hero of the Domestic Empire, would get into a lot less trouble,... More > or so he believes.
A kiss heralds the arrival of a most unwelcome and troublesome visitor who throws Gilli out of kilter with life and his men folk.
Take another journey with houseboy Gillibran Brown< Less
A laugh-out-loud collection of observational essays, combined with some poignant short stories, and a couple of travelogues. Ruth has a quirky sense of humor and this collection is guaranteed... More > (almost) to put a smile on your face!< Less
A laugh-out-loud collection of observational essays, combined with some poignant short stories, and a couple of travelogues. Ruth has a quirky sense of humor and this collection is guaranteed... More > (almost) to put a smile on your face!< Less
Happy Endings Are Extra involves a fateful love triangle between gay, bi-sexual and straight characters. With just the flick of its title, Ashraf Johaardien's oh-so-clever script funnels a Cape Town... More > subculture of open relationships and rent-boys through the hideous fatalism of Greek Tragedy.
– Peter Crawley (The Irish Times) –
This mature, considered, and highly enjoyable play is set in Cape Town. The design is well-suited to the material: a simple set presents the unfolding scenario by means of well-choreographed snapshots into the lives of the three characters. As the flashbulb clicks and the two-second black-outs splice one scene with the next we enter a world where the monotone of the missionary position in well-kept Cape Town suburbs is interrupted by the dazzling, unsleeping world of massage parlours, boys for rent and sex for cash.
– Deborah Seddon (LitNet, South Africa) –< Less
A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing is a deepening novel of disclosure, a story of spiralling hide and seek, down into bare bones honesty... // Shortlisted for The George Ryga Award and for the... More > Re-Lit Award for Best Novel. // Brian Dedora was born in Vernon, B.C., in 1946, and received his B.A. from the University of Victoria in 1970. A founding editor of Underwhich Editions, he is a writer and performance artist whose work has been anthologized and widely published in special and limited editions. He is also the author of A Few Sharp Sticks, White Light and With WK in the Workshop: A Memoir of William Kurelek (both The Mercury Press).< Less
