Background
Walker was born in Toronto, Ontario on August 23, 1947 to Florence and Malcolm Walker.
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Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor, examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan. In The Ravine, a mayoral candidate learns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. The Burden of Self-Awareness has money at the centre of a dramatic conflict of values. Each of the three plays is populated by characters trying to navigate the increasingly blurred lines of what’s right and wrong trying to always stay informed, alert, and ready to act for the common good. Or just to get even.
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First published as a trilogy in 1986, The Power Plays contain Gossip (1977), Filthy Rich (1979), and The Art of War (1983). Completely revised and updated for this new Talonbooks edition, these three plays showcase both the development and the culmination of Walker’s engagement with the film noir style.
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Walker was born in Toronto, Ontario on August 23, 1947 to Florence and Malcolm Walker.
He attended Riverdale Collegiate but did not graduate from high school.
He is one of Canada"s most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally. He was raised in the east end of Toronto, which was considered a working-class neighbourhood. This neighbourhood is what made him loyal to the city lifestyle, which is shown in his work later on in life.
After he dropped out of high school he worked a variety of different jobs, and while doing these jobs he had been writing many stories and poems.
When working at a job as a taxi driver he saw a pamphlet from the Factory Theatre Laboratory inviting scripts to be submitted. Walker has written over 30 stage scripts and has also written many television shows, radio shows, and also some movies.
Some of the television shows that he had written for were Due South, The Newsroom, This is Wonderland, The Lincolnshire and Living in Your Carolina, and the film Niagara Motel. Most of his screen projects are cowritten with Dani Romain.
Walker was first known for his playwriting.
In 1997, he published a cycle of six new plays, all of which took place in the same suburban motel room. He wrote plays for most of his career but since 2000 he has worked more in television and film. King of Thieves.
( Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new d...)
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(Book by Walker, George F.)
(Book by Walker, George F.)
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