John Murrell

Athletics Sports and Games

Democracy: ...One Whole Day Beside a Pond/a Play

Cyrano De Bergerac

The Faraway Nearby

Heroines: Three Plays

Carole Frechette: Two Plays John And Beatrice / Helen's Necklace

Carole Frechette: Three Plays

Farther West/New World

Cicero and the Roman Republic (Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts)

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Cicero was one of the greatest and most human men of antiquity. He was on the closest terms with political giants such as Pompeius and Caesar and far surpass...

The Life and Adventures of John A. Murrell, the Great Western Land Pirate

John Andrews Murrell (1806-1844) was a horse thief, a slave stealer, and a counterfeiter who was transformed into a legendary highway robber and murderous outlaw whose criminal exploits took him throughout the South in the 1820s and 1830s. Modern-day treasure hunters are still trying to find his sup...

History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate

Virgil A. Stewart happened to be in the right place at the right time. In January 1834, he offered to help a friend in Madison County, Tennessee track down two missing slaves who were believed to have been stolen by a local thief named John A. Murrell. Posing as a man looking for a lost horse, Stewa...

The Faraway Nearby

The enigmatic American artist Georgia O’Keeffe flourished in the desert solitude where her creativity and vision thrived and was challenged by its dangerous energies, its desolate and hard beauty. In John Murrell’s The Faraway Nearby, Georgia O’Keeffe resigns herself to an old age spent in the aubur...

Memoir

Famed for her "golden voice" and her highly emotional performances in tragic and melodramatic roles, French actress Sarah Bernheardt (1845-1923) was the foremost leading lady of her age. Legendary for her unconventionality and her extremes of passion, she counted among her triumphant performances as...

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of Yu

Two plays from the award-winning French Canadian playwright and her acclaimed translator. In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to a mysterious and forbidden room. Thinking of Yu follows a woman who becomes fascinated by a creative rebellion in Tiananmen ...

Cyrano de Bergerac

This beloved classic has fascinated and enchanted generations. Not since 1938 has there been a more readable or stageable prose translation. Its fast-paced plot and rich tapestry of gallant soldiers, starving poets, musketeers, marquises, and bluestockings delight, but at its heart is Cyrano: master...

Waiting for the Parade (Plays in print 1980)

Waiting for the Parade is John Murrell’s play, set in Calgary during World War II, in which five women gather to work for the war effort while their men are away. Waiting for the Parade was first performed by Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary. Subsequently, it has been performed by Northern Light Th...