Edited and contextualized by Denyse Lynde, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays Volume Three offers a rich and varied collection of dramatic works by some of Newfoundland's best playwrights. Included in the volume are Robert Chafe's Belly Up, a funny, poignant story about a blind man torn between his sense of fear and responsibility; Aiden Flynn's The Monk, a thoughtful tale of an ancient Norse town in the throes of ideological upheaval; Andy Jones's Albert, a captivating play about an eccentric man and the curse on his love life; Lisa Moore's February, a haunting story of a woman shattered by her husband's death; Edward Riche's Hail, a riveting play about four friends who reunite over a past that threatens to come back to haunt them; and Berni Stapleton's A Rum for the Money, a funny, moving story of three rum-runners questioning their lives as they encounter inexplicable scenarios in a dory in the North Atlantic. Book jacket.
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Volume Three