If We Were Birds

by Erin Shields

Overview

Erin Shields' award-winning play is a shocking, uncompromising examination of the horrors of war, giving voice to a woman long ago forced into silence, and placing a spotlight on millions of female victims who have been silenced through violence, delivered through the lens of Greek tragedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770910126
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	01/16/2012
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

ERIN SHIELDS is a Toronto-based playwright and actor who trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London, England. She is a founding member of Groundwater Productions, through which she creates and develops most of her work. Other works include Montparnasse, winner of the Alberta Theatre Projects’s Enbridge Emerging Playwrights Award, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski, and Dance of the Red Skirts. Currently, Erin is also a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre.