Waiting for the Parade: A Play by Murrell, John - 1986

Vancouver, British Columbia: Talonbooks Ltd. Very Good 1986. Paperback. Marfree, acidfree fresh 4th prtg; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Complete with Author's notes on staging & Appendices. First performed Canmore Opera H, Calgary, Alberta 1977. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 0.37 x 8.23 x 5.31; 101 pages; Original & absorbing, July 3, 2000 Reviewer: hannavas from Seattle, WA: Set in Calgary during World War II, these 24 scenes follow the experiences of 5 Canadian women who form an uneasy alliance born of loneliness and tumult during an edgy wait for the parade that will herald the end. There's Catherine, abandoned by her impulsively enlisted husband, Janet, a wartime dynamo conpensating for a secret shame, and Eve, a pacifist school-teacher hard hit by the concept of unquestioning patriotism. Fatalist Margaret, their senior by 20 years, has one enlisted son and one arrested for protesting. Marta, a German-born Canadian citizen, becomes a target of harassment and suspicion in her own community while her senile, Nazi-sympathizing father idles in prison growing steadily crazier. .