num_pages: 200
description: This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades, among them, the first ever Governor General’s Award for Drama for Blood Relations in 1981. Her characters are the oppressed, from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play, Blood Relations, to the prisoners of One Tiger to a Hill, to Leah, &amp;quotchosen&amp;quot daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr. Big in Whiskey Six Cadenza.
language: English
title: Blood Relations and Other Plays (REV Ed)
titlecomplete: Blood Relations and Other Plays (REV Ed) (Prairie Play)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Drama, Feminism, Canadian Literature
ratings_count: 280
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Drama
publisher: NeWest Press