Summer of My Amazing Luck: The Play [Paperback]

Chris Craddock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2007

Summer of My Amazing Luck: The Play is the story of Lucy and Lish, two single mothers who live in the Winnipeg housing project, Have-a-Life. When her mother was murdered, Lucy "didn’t grieve properly," and tried to fill her emptiness with sexual encounters. When she became pregnant, she couldn’t really say who the father of her child was. Now Lucy and her infant son Dill are in Have-a-Life, trying to survive in the welfare system. Her best friend Lish has her own troubles. She pines for Gotcha, the street performer who stole her heart along with her wallet. So, Lucy decides to bring Gotcha back in a series of postcards. But maybe Lucy’s made it too real. When Lish gets a postcard telling her Gotcha is heading to Denver, she decides they have to find him. They set out in a borrowed, old, beat-up van, full of toys and kids. With all the humour, compassion, and intelligence of Miriam Toews’ novel, this inventive stage adaptation takes audiences on a hilarious and heartbreaking journey as Lucy discovers that this may be the summer when everything changes.

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About the Author

Chris Craddock graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program in 1996. He has acted for many theatres all over Canada, and is the author of several plays for audiences of many categories. These include SuperEd , Indulgences , The "Tranny" Trilogy (with Darrin Hagen), The Day Billy Lived , Wrecked , Do it Right , Making Out , Men Are Stupid, Women are Crazy, Ha! (with Wes Borg), PornStar , BoyGroove (songs and lyrics by Aaron Macri), 3...2...1 (with Nathan Cuckow), DreamLife , Moving Along (recently featured on Bravo), and this adaptation of the novel Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews. Chris is the former Artistic Director of Azimuth Theatre and the current Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre. He has been nominated for a total of 14 of Edmonton’s Sterling Awards and won four. His first film, Turnbuckle , was nominated for two Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association Awards. Chris is also the winner of the Alberta Book Award, the Embridge Award for Best Emerging Artist, and a 2005 Alberta Centennial Medal for his contribution to the arts in Alberta.

Product Details

• Paperback: 114 pages
• Publisher: Signature Editions (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1897109180
• ISBN-13: 978-1897109182
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,561,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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