ArticlesVern Thiessen
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Drama
Playwrights float through time, illuminate Métis story from Laurence’s work
In The Diviners, adapted from Margaret Laurence’s classic Canadian novel, playwrights Vern Thiessen and Yvette Nolan focus on the adult Morag Gunn – a novelist with writer’s block who is estranged from her daughter, Pique, and who struggles with alcoholism.