PreviewsMatthew MacKenzie

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  After the Fire & The Particulars

  Matthew MacKenzie

  Two dark comedies from the author of Bear portray, in very different ways, what people are capable of when pushed to their breaking point. After the Fire centres on two couples dealing with the ruin left by the 2016 fire in Fort McMurray. The Particulars shows how Gordon, despite following careful routines to control his everyday life, is unravelled by invaders in his garden and in his home.

  (Playwrights Canada Press, $21.95 Paperback, 112 pages, ISBN: 978-03-69104-09-0)  

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  Bears

  Matthew MacKenzie

  In this award-winning multidisciplinary play about the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Floyd is the prime suspect in a workplace accident, so he heads west from Edmonton to the Rockies, where he hopes to escape the RCMP and get some kind of work involving bears. Along the way, a mystical transformation takes place.

  (Playwrights Canada Press, $17.95 Paperback, 64 pages, ISBN: 978-03-69101-06-8)